Career
He was then indicted a second time on December 13, 2006, for his role in the SISMI-Telecom scandal. On February 12, 2013 he was sentenced to a 9 year jail term by the Milano Court of Appeals. Mancini previously led the anti-terrorist division of the Italian secret service.
Mancini was arrested, as well as his superior, General Gustavo Pignero, on July 5, 2006.
The investigations directed by Milan"s public prosecutor, Armando Spataro, have demonstrated that Mancini proposed himself to the Central Intelligence Agency as a "double agent." According to Colonel Stefano Doctorate"Ambrosio"s testimony to the Italian justice, the Central Intelligence Agency refused because they considered him too "venal." But his demand "left traces in the computer" of the United States intelligence. All SISMI testimonies concur in saying that Mancini owed his dazzling career (he was a non-commissioned officer) to his "privileged relations with the Central Intelligence Agency." According to SISMI testimony, after the 17 February 2003 kidnapping of the Hassan Mustafa Nasr, then Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet sent a letter to SISMI General Nicolò Pollari in August 2003, to which he would owe, according to SISMI testimony, the real reasons of his promotion.