"The death of Gardini is the real, great regret I have about the Mani Pulite season. For two reasons. The first: on July 23, Gardini was supposed to tell me everything: who he had given the billion lire he had brought to Botteghe Oscure, the headquarters of the Italian Communist Party, to; who the corrupt economic journalists were, in addition to those already revealed by Sama; and who the beneficiaries of the bulk of the Enimont bribe, safely stored in the Ior, were. The second reason: I could save Gardini. On the evening of the 22nd, shortly before midnight, the Carabinieri called me at my home in Curno to inform me that Gardini had arrived at his home in Piazza Belgioioso in Milan and asked me, “Doctor, what shall we do, shall we arrest him?” But I had given my word to the lawyers that he would arrive at the prosecutor's office on his own two feet the next morning. So I told them to let it go. If I had had him arrested immediately, he would still be here with us. :*, July 21, 2013."
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Antonio Di Pietro (born October 2, 1950) is an Italian politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament, an Italian Senator, and Minister of the Prodi Government.
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