He produced a report from a psychologist to exonerate himself during the Intesa audit. But he lied at least several times. The three databases and account statements. And access to the mother's data
He said he suffered from mixed adjustment disorder. And being a control freak. To prove it before the disciplinary commission of Banca Intesa, Vincenzo Coviello produced a psychological report. But the spy banker who penetrated the accounts of politicians, institutions and personalities neither stored nor downloaded any data. And he claims he did all this out of curiosity. But there is a problem. During the audit before the dismissal, he definitely lied. Because he says he stopped accessing databases and databases in October 2023, after the first warning from the director of his agency in Bisceglie. Instead, recorded accesses appear until April 2024. This is why the prosecution now wants to see things clearly. And look for accomplices and instigators.
Databases and credit cards
Coviello, explains Republictypically queried three databases. The first provides access to summary information such as the presence of loans, financing and movable assets. And this also concerned non-customers of Intesa San Paolo. The second is account statements. The third concerns credit cards. With details of all operations. And the possibility of mapping the position of the person spied on almost in real time. It should be noted that many accesses came at the same time or immediately after the newspapers reported on the subject. This happened in the case of anti-mafia prosecutor Giovanni Melillo and General Commander of the Guardia di Finanza Andrea De Gennaro. This could be a clue that he was simply motivated by curiosity or voyeurism. And this is what the investigation led by prosecutor Roberto Rossi and deputy Giuseppe Maralfa will ultimately have to determine.
The director
Because there is a fact that contradicts this perspective. And this concerns Defense Minister Guido Crosetto. The accounts of his wife Graziana Saponaro were also spied on. And Coviello did it when no one was talking about her yet. Of course, the wife-husband pairing is among the easiest to find in searches. But it is such circumstances that make the prosecution think that there could be an instigator behind the bank employee. “Maybe he wanted to get something out of it. Or spread them on the dark web”, is another hypothesis. Which will be verified through the analysis of contacts on your devices. During the internal audit, Intesa recorded 6,637 unauthorized accesses to the data of 3,572 customers in 460 days between February 21, 2022 and April 24, 2024. But there could be many more Because the portal does not keep track of those before the survey date.
Who is the accountant Coviello
According to those who knew him at school, he was “a very honest and very polite boy”. Son of a tailor from Bitonto, said the Corriere della Serahad a particularity: “He always asked for information about others. In a classic and curious way. Which, however, revealed nothing other than curiosity.” After his dismissal, he returned to his job as an accountant. Married and father of two children, until a few days ago, he went every morning at the newsstand to read Corriere and Il Sole 24 Ore His lawyers come from the Polis law firm in Bari. Among the founding partners is the former center-left candidate for mayor Michele Laforgia. meeting with the lawyers, precisely because there were too many journalists so no one was able to take at least one photo of him.
Defense
In his defense, Coviello explained that the first unauthorized access, that of his brother-in-law's wife, was made because she had made a typing error “in the context of checking the credit limit of the customer card”. “I respected all the rules of confidentiality,” he added. And he moved “without any personal interest or purpose.” In May, he changed his version. Claiming to have acted out of “simple curiosity”. He then produced the psychologist's report attesting to his mixed adjustment disorder. That is to say emotional and behavioral disorders. Coviello made 310 accesses to a peer of the same age. Then he said he didn't know him and didn't remember the reason. Then he linked up with someone who had the same name as him and searched the account of a head doctor at the Bari polyclinic who denounced him and opened the investigation.
I told his mother
Coviello registered the current accounts of Giorgia and Arianna Meloni, Andrea Giambruno and the ministers and judges. But among the subjects spied on, there is also his mother. Whose reports were continually questioned without having delegations. Meanwhile, his lawyers Antonio Arzano, Luigi Milani, Domenica Lenato and Federico Straziota have appealed the dismissal. He said he deleted all the documents he had downloaded. Even though he previously said no. Another lie in a story that still remains to be elucidated.
