The ruling on one of the strands of a major investigation by the Prosecutor's Office triggered by the complaints of the senator who survived Auschwitz.
He guaranteed returns linked to sports betting and many entrusted him with large sums of money, which the leader of the Popolo della Famiglia used for luxury personal expenses.
Piras was filmed several times during his meetings in the park or at the bar with Moscow's agent: they had agreed on a price of 4 thousand euros for each secret information on Italian intelligence and armaments.
Gavino Raoul Piras, 59, has a background in the secret services, like his colleague who was arrested on the same charge: passing classified information to a contact in Moscow. Four others are under investigation.
In the house where he lived with his father in Conegliano, papers were seized on which he had written his intention to "commit violent acts with the use of knives or blades."
![Milano (foto Ansa)](https://immagini.unionesarda.it/version/c:NzZhOGE3MTMtYmNkNy00:N2ZiMmExNmYtYmMzNS00/image.webp?f=3%3A2&q=0.75&w=3840 ""What are you looking at? I'm a man and a Muslim," then he disfigures her face: a girl attacked in Milan.")
![Valter Lavitola in procura a Roma (Ansa)](https://immagini.unionesarda.it/version/c:Mzk0MmM5NTQtN2I1ZS00:NWVmMDkzYjMtOWYxNC00/image.webp?f=3%3A2&q=0.75&w=3840 "Ranucci attack: Lavitola defends himself: "It wasn't me."")
![Il leader del Popolo della Famiglia Mario Adinolfi e l'influencer Simone Carabella, durante la manifestazione ''Soldati di Cristo contro il pericolo Islam’’, in occasione della solennita' dei Santi Pietro e Paolo, a Torre Argentina, Roma, 29 giugno 2026. ANSA/ANGELO CARCONI](https://immagini.unionesarda.it/version/c:NTgzNmRlM2QtZWZmNC00:YzUyNGY0MDYtMjZjYi00/image.webp?f=3%3A2&q=0.75&w=3840 "Mario Adinolfi under house arrest: multi-million dollar scam involving a "collective betting" scheme.")
![Lamin Saidilly, 22 anni, accusato del tentato omicidio di un 55enne che sabato mattina è stato accoltellato dal giovane in un bar in via Capecelatro a Milano. ANSA + NO SALES - EDITORIAL USE ONLY + NPK](https://immagini.unionesarda.it/version/c:ZGM1MTdhNmQtNWI4Ni00:ZjE1YzBhNTYtZDYzNy00/image.webp?f=3%3A2&q=0.75&w=3840 "The Milan stabber remains in prison, while his WhatsApp photo is being examined: "The profile of an Islamic guerrilla."")
