ROME, Jan 15 (Reuters) – Italian finance police searched the headquarters of the country’s data protection agency on Thursday as part of an investigation into possible corruption and embezzlement, a judicial source said.
Rome prosecutors are investigating the agency’s president, Pasquale Stanzione, and three other board members over alleged excessive spending and possible corruption behind its decisions, Italian news agencies including ANSA as well as the judicial source, who did not wish to be named, said.
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Stanzione, when asked by reporters to comment on the investigation, said he was
Italy’s privacy watchdog, scourge of US big tech, hit by corruption probe
