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«I have all of Africo and all of Platì». The database of the ex-policeman and the data on the 'ndrangheta stolen from the Germans
The confessions of the former inspector Gallo intercepted while talking to his associates. «I photographed, I photocopied, I took everything». «I have the entire map of the Calabrian families in Germany»
Published: 2024-10-28 – 17:47
LAMEZIA TERME "Malerba is coming here on Friday, because I put a lawyer for him, I'll pay him...". "Then we'll sort it out with Salvatore somehow... no problem." This is how Carmine Gallo, the former super-cop who ended up under house arrest in the investigation by the Milan Anti-Mafia District, expressed himself to his partner Calamucci. He was referring to his former colleague at the Rho-Pero police station, for whom the investigating judge has ordered a 6-month suspension from public office.
At the center of the investigation is an alleged group dedicated to the trade in private investigation services, implemented however through "illegal conduct of abusive access to computer systems used by the Ministry of the Interior and the police force." For the Milanese Anti-Mafia District, one of the pillars of the association and undisputed "boss" «is undoubtedly Carmine Gallo», former Inspector of the State Police, with an important role in the management of some of the most well-known collaborators of justice who have contributed to reconstructing the criminal dynamics of dangerous mafia groups operating in Lombardy. Gallo ended up under house arrest as did Nunzio Samuele Calamucci, Giulio Cornelli and Massimiliano Camponovo.
«All of Africo and all of Platì»
And it is Gallo himself who, in a wiretap on July 18, 2023, informs the partners Calamucci and Cornelli "about the extent of the data in their possession" and the illicit acquisition, at least in part. And Gallo's reference is also to Calabria. "I have almost fifteen, sixteen thousand personal files of individuals, but not mafia individuals, even non-mafia individuals, name, surname, where they were born, who they are connected to, who their family is, who their relatives are..." confesses Gallo who further explains: "All the cards of the Municipality of Piatì! All the registry cards of the Municipality of Africo...". In the wiretapped conversation, in fact, the former policeman refers to the period in which he went down to Calabria for some checks carried out, presumably linked to the investigations into the 'ndrangheta in the municipalities of Africo and Platì. "(...) because at the time when I was down in Calabria... because we went down to Calabria and carried out the Municipality's checks, we sent the employees away!" Gallo explains to the partners. "(…) I told the employees, go get a coffee, I'll see you in half an hour..." he continues. "I closed the doors and everything, everything that was there, I photographed, I photocopied, I took everything... the CDs, I copied everything that was there, I took it and took it away!".
Data stolen obviously in a completely illegal way, part of a very rich archive built by the ex-policeman Gallo, to be exploited eventually through "Equalize srl". The company, in fact, would have been used to then try to "legalize" the illegally acquired information, attributing, at least apparently, a legal origin, "artfully camouflaging the actual origin of the information" the prosecutors note, "to be able to provide third parties with "usable" information in any place".
«I have all the kidnappings»
And Gallo, speaking of the municipalities of Platì and Africo, would have left nothing to chance. «(…) what I managed to take away, I took away…» he confesses to his associates, «All of Piatì yes, all of Africo yes… and then a lot of material. For example, I have another database that no one else has… all the kidnappings, the attempted kidnappings from the sixties to today, with all those arrested for that kidnapping, how long the kidnapping lasted, where he was kidnapped, where he was released, the Judicial Authority that dealt with it, the Police or Carabinieri, who were the investigators, who was arrested, the ransom in what way, how it was paid, whether it was paid or not… all / kidnappings, all…».
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The huge database and the idea of ??a newspaper
The intention of the Campania policeman was to, one day, leave his “assets” – enormous – to the organization, although Calamucci had confirmed that «their association was also in possession of a very large amount of SDI data» of illegal exfiltration, from national strategic databases, of confidential and protected information, «for a total of more than 350,000», the prosecutors note. «How many more years can I work?» Gallo asks. «After that, what do I do with this material? Do I eat it? Do I keep it? What do I need it for? Do you understand?! And therefore, it belongs to everyone, to society, to everyone!». A huge amount of data, therefore, whose importance was well known to those under investigation. To the point that Gallo himself, still speaking with his associates, had also hypothesized creating a journalistic structure to «make travel together with Equalize», aware however of the risks and, above all, of the limits. «(…) obviously that is also incompatible, we are journalists and we are an investigative agency… and that is not good either!».
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The Duisburg massacre
Australia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Families in Germany
Also because, as the former policeman himself also says in the intercepted conversation, he has data that also concern analyses of all operations against organised crime in Italy, but not only that. «I also have data from operations located in other continents, in Australia, in Vietnam, in everything, in Cambodia, of all the family units that have left the 'ndrangheta and are in these places ...». And Gallo also refers to his old role. In the very long curriculum of the Campania policeman there is also the role of Italian contact for the German police who on 15 August 2007 discovered the terrorism of the 'ndrangheta clans with the bloody and terrible massacre in Duisburg. And, as reported by the prosecutors, the former policeman still confesses to his associates: «The other time he had to give a conference on Italian crime that had moved to Australia and he couldn't find anything ... I gave him twenty pages of notes of mine, all these things I had, old investigations put together, stuff he says in Australia, in America, in Germany ...». And he says: «I have the entire map of the Calabrian families in Germany that I took from the Germans when I went there for Duisburg, they got distracted for a moment…». «(…) I took everything with me and therefore, all the maps, nobody has this one!». ( g.curcio@corrierecal.it )
