2017 年 5 月 12 日，Ghadde 先生在 Rosso 发生交通事故后被宪兵逮捕。尽管受到议会豁免权的保护，他还是被拘留并随后被捕。来文方称，Ghadde 先生那次被捕前后受到监视，侵犯了他的隐私和通信的保密性。宪兵在没收他的个人电话后，仔细检查了所有信息，包括与参议院成员的交流和私人短信。当 Ghadde 先生第一次出现在检察官面前时，他试图对宪兵队队长提出申诉，指控他探查了他的电话并侵犯了他通信的机密性；公共检察官拒绝登记申诉。案件移交法院后，Ghadde 先生要求归还他被没收的物品，包括电话。法院和上诉法院都作出了有利于他的裁决，除电话外的所有物品也归还给他。来文方称，尽管法院下达了命令，公共检察官办公室仍拒绝归还。此外，据来文方称，在他的电话被没收后，Ghadde 先生的一些通信内容开始遭到系统性的公开。信息泄漏发生在 2017 年 7月 19 日至 23 日。根据一个新闻网站称，国家宪兵队是泄密的源头。
source claims that Mr. Ghadde was spied on around the time of that arrest, in violation of his privacy and the confidentiality of his correspondence. After confiscating his personal telephones, the gendarmerie combed through all the messages, including exchanges with members of the Senate and personal messages. When he appeared before the public prosecutor for the first time, Mr. Ghadde attempted to lodge a complaint against the chief of the gendarmerie unit for probing his telephones and violating the confidentiality of his correspondence; the public prosecutor refused to register the complaint. After the case was transferred to the court, Mr. Ghadde requested that the confiscated items, including the telephones, be returned to him. The court and the appeals court both ruled in his favour and all the items were returned to him, except the telephones. The source claims that the public prosecutor’s office refused to return them despite the court order. In addition, according to the source, after the telephones were confiscated, some of Mr. Ghadde’s correspondence began to be systematically made public. The leaks took place between 19 and 23 July 2017. According to a news website, the national gendarmerie was the source of the leaks.