The Record reports:
Four people were arrested in Italy on Friday, with dozens more under investigation, in connection with an alleged conspiracy that links current and former officials in the country’s security services to a private intelligence agency for the purposes of building illegal dossiers.
The alleged creation of such dossiers has been a growing scandal in Italy, with reported victims including senior politicians, business figures, footballers and the current Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who described the practice as “intolerable” and a threat to democracy.
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At the center of the arrests is a business intelligence company called Equalize, led by the former “super cop” Carmine Gallo, accused of hacking sensitive government and police databases to create dossiers for its clients.
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