Delmastro under investigation for disclosure of secrets in the Cospito case. «He asked the report to the Dap»- Corriere.it

Undersecretary of Justice Andrea Delmastro
Of the Widows investigated For disclosure of official secrecy in the investigation by the Rome prosecutor’s office into the conversations overheard in prison between the anarchist Alfred Cospito and a couple of organized crime bosses, locked up like him in the hard prison in the Sassari penitentiary.

The turning point came with the sending of theinvitation to appear for questioningaccompanied by a lawyer, by the prosecutors coordinated by the prosecutor Franco Lo Voi and the deputy Paolo Ielo.

The name of Delmaster ended up on the register of suspects for the story of the speech given in the Chamber of Deputies by his party colleague (Fratelli d’Italia)
John Donzelli who last January 31 revealed the content of the dialogues between Cospito and the two colleagues of 41 bis, to attack the deputies of the Democratic Party who had gone to visit the anarchist in the same days.

On that occasion Donzelli revealed in detail the sentences pronounced by Cospito with the Camorra Francesco Di Maio and the ‘Ndrangheta Francesco Presta
about the anarchist’s hunger strike and his protest against the 41 bis, which was to become a battle for everyone, including prisoners of organized crime.

Those bSome of the conversations were contained in a report by the penitentiary police to the Dap (Department of Prison Administration) then delivered to Undersecretary Delmastro. Who made Donzelli participate in it, as he publicly admitted.

Despite the statements of the Minister of Justice Charles Nordio on the fact that that document was not secret or classified according to other standards of confidentiality
but only of limited disclosure, according to the prosecution hypothesis of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, its dissemination still constitutes a violation of official secrecy.

In fact, the cards sent to the Dap had to remain in the narrow ministerial sphere and they were not intended for the outside; least of all for the purpose of political use.

In the investigation Donzelli’s position remains – for now – that of a person informed about the factswho will be heard as a witness.

Before summoning the Undersecretary as a suspect, the Public Prosecutor’s Office carried out a rapid but in-depth activity, acquiring documents and questioning other protagonists of the affair.

Among these the director of the Dap Giovanni Russo, who explained to the prosecutors a detail considered important by the investigators: the prison police report was not sent to Delmastro for official reasons, but because the undersecretary himself asked for it.

Delmastro will be asked why, as well as other details that the prosecutors have already reconstructed but on which they need to gather the politician’s version. With the guarantees due to a person under investigation, accused of a crime.