Along with Siemens Italia SpA president Giorgio Scanavacca, Italian legal authorities arrested Davide Giacalone, former advisor to Oscar Mammi, former minister of post and telecom, on bribery charges: Giacalone is charged with having accepted $5.3m from Giuseppe Parrella, former managing director of ASST, Azienda Telefonica dello Stato SpA, in the minister’s study; Giacalone has already told the police that he passed the money on to representatives of the Republican party; for his part, the former PTT minister declared his innocence: That I was involved in a history of billion-lire bribes is as unfounded as it is untrue – at whatever moment the magistrates tell me it is necessary to investigate my accounts, I will liberate myself immediately from parliamentary immunity, he said.
