Garlasco, former prosecutor Venditti summoned as a witness: investigation into the Sempios' 45 thousand euros

The former assistant prosecutor of Pavia Mario Venditti is heard today, 11 November, by the Pavia prosecutors as part of the investigation into the alleged corruption in judicial documents linked to the first investigation into Andrea Sempio, today at the center of the latest judicial line on the Garlasco crime, for which the Prosecutor's Office has requested the trial for the aggravated murder of Chiara Poggi.

The Pavia magistrates are therefore continuing their investigations into the alleged transfer of money (we are talking about 45 thousand euros) with which - according to the investigators - Giuseppe Sempio, Andrea's father, favored the dismissal of his son in the 2016-2017 investigation. Venditti, who had handled the proceedings, was summoned as a person informed of the facts, after his position was dismissed by the investigating judge of Brescia.

Venditti had come under investigation and was subjected to searches in September 2025. The Brescia investigating judge subsequently dismissed his position, clarifying that no evidence had emerged against him in relation to the alleged corruption.

At the center of the investigations were some suspicious movements of cash by the Sempio family, for a total sum of around 45 thousand euros, dating back to eleven years ago. The family had claimed that the money was intended to pay the lawyers. In the dismissal order, the Brescia investigating judge had taken into consideration two possible alternative reconstructions: a possible agreement placed at the level of the judicial police or a hypothesis of boasted credit to the detriment of the Sempios themselves. None of these reconstructions led to complaints against Venditti.

The position of Giuseppe Sempio is different, as he still remains under investigation for corruption in judicial documents. The Pavia Prosecutor's Office is still investigating the hypothesis of a transfer of money aimed at obtaining the dismissal of her son Andrea in the first investigation into Chiara Poggi's crime.

The investigations also concern other subjects: three former lawyers of Andrea Sempio, including the lawyer Massimo Lovati, and four carabinieri, including Giuseppe Spoto and Silvio Sapone. At the moment, for Andrea Sempio the Prosecutor's Office has not provided information on the possible registration in the register of suspects relating to this line of investigation, responding to the defense request with the formula "no registration susceptible to communication".

Among the dark points of the 2017 investigation there are incompletely transcribed wiretaps, irregular contacts between those Carabinieri of the judicial police and Sempio and omissions on the records. In November 2025, the 38-year-old, intercepted, said: "I really don't want Soldani (former lawyer) to have had any contact with Sapone beyond what I know of, I don't want him to have actually recovered some papers, something...".

The legal qualification of the facts could also change: among the hypotheses under consideration would be the transition from the charge of corruption to that of undue inducement (the old crime of extortion).

The investigators are also working on another front, relating to alleged omissions and errors in the activities of the Carabinieri RIS carried out almost twenty years ago and which could have damaged Alberto Stasi, definitively convicted of the murder. The defense of Chiara Poggi's ex-boyfriend is preparing to ask for a review of the sentence.