On Wednesday, 21 October 2026, Rome’s public prosecutor’s office instructed the Carabinieri ROS to serve an order to produce documents on the Infrastructure Ministry (MIT), DIPE/CIPESS, the company Ponte sullo Stretto and the Eurolink consortium. The prosecutors’ note, carried by Il Sole 24 Ore: the papers prepared and sent to the Court of Auditors, for the check on CIPESS resolution no. 61/2025 and decree no. 190 of 1 August 2025. A document grab, not a conviction.

The inquiry is for corruption, opened at Piazzale Clodio. It follows the searches of 9 June, when papers and phones were taken from the people under investigation. Another episode, the same case. Today’s note does not cancel the bridge.

La Repubblica: three people, for an alleged attempt to condition the Court of Auditors’ judgment on the CIPESS resolution. Il Fatto: Tommaso Miele, a former deputy president of the Court, the lawyer Giacomo Saccomanno and the businessman Vincenzo Virgiglio. They are under investigation, not convicted. Presumption of innocence.

The accusation as reported in June: an approach to the magistrate to influence the legality check on the project. Saccomanno rejected it then: a “political” reconstruction, to hit Salvini. His reply, not a verdict.

CIPESS is the inter-ministerial economic-planning committee, not the Court of Auditors. Two bodies. The Court’s check on a resolution is not a criminal sentence and not today’s decree. The MIT, cited by Il Fatto: the offices made themselves available at once. Pietro Ciucci, head of Stretto di Messina: they are handing over the papers; the company is a stranger to the facts under inquiry. Positions, not sentences. Dump La Repubblica. The rewrite rests on Il Sole 24 Ore and Il Fatto.

Image: the Strait of Messina and Messina, seen from Reggio Calabria, 2 November 2010, Drtrotsky, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The strait, not the Rome file.

Sources consulted: Ponte sullo Stretto: Procura Roma, acquisiti documenti Mit e Cipess — Il Sole 24 Ore; Ponte sullo Stretto, acquisiti documenti da ministero e società — Il Fatto Quotidiano.