Italian police raided the home and office of an adviser to Europe’s top justice official last week as part of an investigation into the alleged misuse of €200m of public money.
The caribinieri seized a computer, CD-Roms and documents from Walter Cretella-Lombardo, a general in the Italian financial police. He runs the Guardia di Finanza’s training school for officers and advises Franco Frattini, the EU justice commissioner, on cross-border co-operation between judicial and customs authorities. He was named as an adviser to the former foreign minister from Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party as the Commission published its secret list of outside advisers for the first time.
According to judicial sources, Mr Cretella-Lombardo, was notified by prosecutors in Calabria, Italy’s southernmost region, last week that he was under investigation for suspected involvement in a fraud case involving 200m of public money destined for the regional water purification sector.
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