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How a private agency traded in the secrets of Italy and what the heir to the Luxottica empire had to do with it.
Italian police are investigating a case of illegal access to public databases in which four people have been placed under house arrest and dozens of people are being investigated, including Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, son of the founder of Luxottica.
A source told Reuters that the investigation revealed illegal transactions with confidential information, during which data was allegedly sold to customers or used to blackmail businessmen and politicians.
Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, son of billionaire Leonardo Del Vecchio, who founded the well-known Ray-Ban brand, is being treated as a victim, based on the initial charges and the results of a search that did not confirm the defendant's guilt. Maria Del Vecchio is now awaiting the completion of the preliminary investigation in order to prove her innocence together with her lawyers.
According to the investigation, the illegal access was carried out through a private intelligence agency headed by a former police officer. The agency's employees allegedly had access to key databases, including a financial monitoring system, a tax database with transactions, utility bills and income tax returns, as well as a police database with investigation files. As noted in the documents, the agency actively used these bases from 2019 until March 2024.
The prosecutor's office stressed that the case demonstrated the scale of the market for confidential information, which "has acquired an almost commercial dimension." The department noted that the situation raises serious concerns, since access to personal data has become a source of shadow income, and also showed gaps in the protection of information in government systems.
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Italian police are investigating a case of illegal access to public databases in which four people have been placed under house arrest and dozens of people are being investigated, including Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, son of the founder of Luxottica.
A source told Reuters that the investigation revealed illegal transactions with confidential information, during which data was allegedly sold to customers or used to blackmail businessmen and politicians.
Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, son of billionaire Leonardo Del Vecchio, who founded the well-known Ray-Ban brand, is being treated as a victim, based on the initial charges and the results of a search that did not confirm the defendant's guilt. Maria Del Vecchio is now awaiting the completion of the preliminary investigation in order to prove her innocence together with her lawyers.
According to the investigation, the illegal access was carried out through a private intelligence agency headed by a former police officer. The agency's employees allegedly had access to key databases, including a financial monitoring system, a tax database with transactions, utility bills and income tax returns, as well as a police database with investigation files. As noted in the documents, the agency actively used these bases from 2019 until March 2024.
The prosecutor's office stressed that the case demonstrated the scale of the market for confidential information, which "has acquired an almost commercial dimension." The department noted that the situation raises serious concerns, since access to personal data has become a source of shadow income, and also showed gaps in the protection of information in government systems.
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