(22.04) In the wiretaps, former interior minister Nicola Mancino appears to have discussed with a senior official the possibility of getting Italy‘s chief anti-mafia prosecutor to intervene in his case according to extracts from a transcript of a phone-call he made to Napolitano that was leaked to Italian media last July.

Palermo prosecutors refused to destroy the wiretaps, prompting Italy‘s Attorney General to lodge a case with the Constitutional Court on 30 July 2012 claiming they had „harmed the prerogatives of the head of state“ by authorising the phonetaps and refusing to destroy them.