To dispel the shadows on the scandal of the espionage of the Apulian banker Vincenzo Coviello, already fired in August by the bank, on the current accounts of thousands of illustrious and non-illustrious clients, the CEO of Intesa Sanpaolo, Charles Messina, is determined to intervene quickly. At next week's meeting of the bank's Board of Directors, Carlo Messina will propose the appointment of the General of the Carabinieri Corps, Antonio De Vita, in the role of Chief Security Officer of the Group, a new area reporting to the CEO with responsibility for Cyber Security and Security. The General, before retiring in July, held responsibility for the regions of Puglia, Campania, Abruzzo and Molise and knows the area where the spy banker operated very closely. Since September 1, De Vita has been hired by Messina in his staff as a senior advisor for security and cyber.
Intesa Sanpaolo will also have to respond to the Prosecutor of Bari, Bank of Italy and Privacy guarantor on the methods of the unfaithful banker's behavior and on the timing of the bank's communication to the supervisory authorities. In the meantime, it was discovered that Coviello was spying not only on current accounts, including those of the Intesa branch in Montecitorio, but also the customers' credit cards. The investigations are at the beginning and one of the first points to clarify is whether Coviello acted alone or had some principals.
Yesterday evening, Intesa Sanpaolo issued a press release to reconstruct the turbulent events of a dishonest employee's spying on customers' current accounts and apologized, reiterating that "what happened must never happen again" and apologizing to everyone.
