Maria Rosaria Boccia, a key figure in the affair that culminated in recent months with Gennaro Sangiuliano's resignation as Minister of Culture, is at the center of a new investigation. The Rome Prosecutor's Office has charged her with unlawful interference in private life—in collusion with an online journalist—which has recently led the investigating judge to issue a precautionary seizure order and remove the audio file of a private conversation between Sangiuliano and his wife from the Pompeii entrepreneur's social media profiles and from the pages of the Campania-based online newspaper "Anteprima24."
The Carabinieri conducted the investigation as part of a new proceeding initiated after a complaint from the former minister and RAI journalist. "Last night, I was subjected to yet another aggressive act from the system," Boccia commented. "For the second time, the messages Sangiuliano sent me and the recordings of his conversations, which he authorized me to listen to and record after calling me with his phone, were seized. All material useful for my defense against the Sangiuliano 'family.' This material is so hot today," he attacked, " only because the former minister fears the truth ." He then added: "And as the investigations seem to reveal, in the last few hours he has been applying pressure to continue casting me in a bad light." For his part, Sangiuliano "has faith in the judiciary."
Meanwhile, "Anteprima24" reports that the audio of the conversation "is a Report report aired last year" and that the journalist under investigation, Carlo Tarallo, "never had possession of the fragment broadcast during the interview ." "I'm stunned," says the person concerned.
Meanwhile, the hearing in the case against Boccia, which accuses him of stalking, assault, unlawful interference with private life, and defamation, has been scheduled for February 9th, following another complaint filed by the journalist.
Following the investigation's conclusion last July, Rome prosecutors, coordinated by Deputy Prosecutor Giuseppe Cascini, formalized the request for indictment. One chapter also concerns false statements in Boccia's CV for organizing certain events. The injured parties in the proceedings include Sangiuliano, his wife, and the ministry's former chief of staff, Francesco Gilioli. The proceedings were initiated following a complaint filed a few weeks after the controversy erupted over the failed appointment of the businesswoman as a member of the MIC (Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism). This earthquake cost Sangiuliano his position following accusations of embezzlement and disclosure of official secrets, which were later dismissed.
(Unioneonline)