Italy - Milan magistrates have arrested four Telecom Italia SpA employees for alleged illegal espionage activities...
The suspects were identified as Fabio Ghioni, the head of information security at Telecom Italia, his assistant Rocco Lucia, and Guglielmo Sasinini, a former journalist who had been hired by the company to conduct country risk analyses for the Middle East region...
A fourth warrant was served in prison on Giuliano Tavaroli, the former head of security at Telecom Italia, who had already been incarcerated on illegal espionage charges as a result of a separate investigation.
The four men are accused of using Telecom Italia’s resources to spy on Vittorio Colao, the former executive chief executive officer of the Rizzoli Corriere della Sera (RCS) SpA publishing group and on Massimo Mucchetti, the deputy director of the Corriere della Sera newspaper, as part of an elaborate intelligence operation that has all the hallmarks of a spy thriller...
...his former boss Tavaroli, allegedly rose to the top of Telecom Italia’s security department after engineering the discovery of an electronic bug planted in the Telecom Italia chief executive officer’s car in 2001. The then head of security at Telecom Italia was fired for the lapse and Tavaroli was able to take his place.
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