ROME - Six policemen and an employee of the public prosecutor’s office have been arrested on account of “corruption and revealing confidential information” on Tuesday.

 They have been accused of various corruption offences against the rights and duties of the office and using governmental powers to hack into database systems to reveal confidential information.

 The arrests were carried out by the Carabinieri and the Questura of Rome, on the orders of the Roman tribunal, Gip.

 Eight in total have been sent to prison: six police officers, one prosecutor’s office employee and a previous offender. One other police officer has also been disqualified from the profession, but without receiving a prison sentence.

The public prosecutor’s office employee, Simona Amadio, was the 2016 Us with Salvini candidate who said: “I want to get everywhere without anyone telling me that I can’t.”

Those involved were leaking police information to businessman Carlo D’Aguano, owner of bars and amusement arcades on which the Capitoline officials were investigating his ties with the Camorra. In the warrant given by Cinzia Parasporo from the Gip, a dialogue between Amadio and Angelo Nalci was cited which “recounts a conversation had with D’Aguano who needed someone to provide him with the record of existence of criminal proceedings on the account.”

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