Overview
- The Rome anti-mafia office seized Mauro Caroccia’s phone on Tuesday to examine chats, messages, and files on the creation and management of Le 5 Forchette and its Bisteccheria d’Italia restaurant.
- Caroccia, who is serving four years for crimes linked to the Senese clan, and his daughter Miriam are under investigation for money laundering and using a false name to hide ownership tied to the company.
- Investigators have already heard the daughter and questioned the wife, who had kept using the device for restaurant bookings, and they are reviewing a reported group chat about the restaurant that included political shareholders.
- Former justice undersecretary Andrea Delmastro previously held shares, resigned after the case surfaced, is not under investigation, and is described by the Caroccia family as having invested about €45,000 before giving up his stake.
- The phone analysis aims to reconstruct contacts and funding before the company’s formation at a Biella notary on December 16, 2024, and to test prosecutors’ claim that Senese-clan proceeds were funneled into the venture that also drew other Fratelli d’Italia figures as early shareholders.