The director of the State Police Giuseppe Cannizzaro, current extraordinary government commissioner for missing persons and former police commissioner of Cosenza until December 2025, is under investigation for revealing official secrets, for having revealed to the president of the Calabria Region, Roberto Occhiuto, details on the investigations into the Iacchité blog and its director Gabriele Carchidi. Il Fatto Quotidiano broke the news.
The disputed episode dates back to the spring of 2025 when Finance and the Catanzaro Prosecutor’s Office activated environmental and telephone interceptions against the governor investigated for alleged corruption. Those bugs would have picked up a conversation between Cannizzaro and Occhiuto. In that dialogue, according to the prosecution hypothesis, the director of the State Police would have shared with the president of the regional council information covered by investigative secrecy relating to a parallel file, managed by the Cosenza Prosecutor’s Office, concerning the activity of the journalist Carchidi and his blog. According to the prosecutors in charge of the file, Cannizzaro did not have any formal right to take an interest in those investigations and, even more so, to discuss them with Occhiuto, who figures in the affair as a mere recipient of the confidences and not as an instigator, consequently remaining excluded from the register of suspects. The Cosenza judiciary, also following complaints from President Occhiuto, had seized and obscured the Iacchité blog last February, recognizing that it had exceeded the limits of formal continence and the use of a linguistic register deemed harmful to the politician’s personal reputation. The preventive seizure measure was subsequently overturned by the Cosenza Review Court, presided over by magistrate Marco Bilotta. Accepting the appeal presented by Carchidi’s defender, the lawyer Nicola Mondelli, the judging panel ordered the release of the portal on 21 March 2026.
Cannizzaro, who boasts a long career in complex areas of fighting organized crime, received an invitation to appear from the Catanzaro Prosecutor’s Office last December. On that occasion he would have decided to make use of the right not to respond. The file is still open and entrusted to the deputy prosecutor Stefania Caldarelli and the deputy Giulia Pantano. Further evaluations are awaited; naturally, the presumption of innocence remains with respect to the State representative until a possible definitive ruling.
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