28 September 2006

Telecom Italia and the intercepts

Today the President of the Council, Romano Prodi, will update Parliament about Telecom Italia. It is good that Prodi is talking publicly about the biggest company in the country and how the Government values it.
Telecom is at the centre of the investigation into intercepts. There have been numerous arrests including the arrest of Giuliano Tavaroli, a man trusted by Marco Tronchetti Provera and the former head of security at Telecom.
It seems that the illegal intercepts have been carried out for years in the worlds of economics, industry, politics and the media. If this is true, then they are, right now, an absolute risk for democracy. The media talked extensively about this in the early days but now it seems that, for them, it has become a topic of less importance.
Obviously it is important and the journalists should know this.
Tavaroli has told the magistrates that he was reporting to Telecom's CEO, Carlo Buora. I don't want to express any judgement about complicity or guilt, but I believe that it would be appreciated if Carlo Buora were to step back from his responsibilities in Telecom for the time needed to establish any responsibility that he may have had.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Justice