The Belgian Attorney General is investigating the case News leaks out as part of the investigation Qatargate. “Leaks to the press could jeopardize the case, which is why we are launching an investigation breach of professional secrecy‘ said a spokesman for the Belgian judiciary. Fates are now divided in Italy Maria Dolores Colleoni and Silvia Panzeri, and the wife and daughter of Antonio Panzeri, the former MEP imprisoned in Brussels on charges by the Belgian judiciary of a round of bribery to improve the civil rights profile of Morocco and Qatar. For the first, extradition to the Belgian authorities has been ordered and there are “serious indications”, for the second a stay for “find out about the conditions in prisons in Belgium“. The two women are being investigated for aiding and abetting criminal organisations, corruption and money laundering. Colleoni and Silvia Panzeri were arrested on a European warrant and accused of “… being fully aware of the activities” of the “husband/father” and apparently “even involved in the transport of ‘gifts’ given to AA to Morocco The European Arrest Warrant was executed last December 9th by the Carabinieri at the Panzeri family home in Calusco d’Adda (Bergamo), where the subsequent search made it possible to find him 17,000 euros and valuable watches. After the arrest, the investigating judge confirmed the precautionary measure of house arrest. The suspect’s defense now has five days in cassation to block today’s decision and prevent the 67-year-old from being transferred to a prison in Belgium.
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For the time being, Silvia Panzeri’s legal path is a different one that another college has chosen. “We are satisfied, the judges of the second section of the Brescia Court of Appeal granted our request and granted a stay until January 3,” says Angelo De Riso, who, together with lawyer Nicola Colli, is defending Silvia Panzeri. The judges – in the surrender hearing to Belgium – dismissed the “The Ministry of Justice must investigate to obtain documents to ensure compliance with the regulations in force in Italy‘ adds the defender. And what will be acquired in the next few days will be decided by the court in the hearing scheduled for January 3, 2023. Today’s decision could also affect Monday’s decision for Colleoni. “The appeal to cassation is now appropriate because today one of our convictions was followed, that we will continue to plead,” says Angelo De Riso, defender of Maria Dolores Colleoni and Silvia Panzeri. Now the defense has four days to write the appeal and present it to the Supreme Court suspending the transfer of the accused who would otherwise end up in prison.
Meanwhile, the judges’ motives regarding Colleoni’s position have been revealed. For the judges, there is “serious evidence of guilt”. The panel, unlike today’s, also rejected the defense’s request to review treatment in Belgian prisons because “No serious and ongoing problems of penal system malfunction have been alleged“. The premise of the provision is that “the assessment of the point entrusted to the Italian judicial authority must be limited to verifying whether the arrest warrant issued abroad is based on its actual content and on the other elements gathered during the investigative and procedural phases Compendium of circumstantial evidence seriously reminiscent of an actual fact by the issuing judicial authority“. In addition to stating that “there are no impediments”, the Court responded to the exceptions put forward by the defence: Regarding a possible double investigation, it responded that “There are no ongoing investigations in Italy‘, while referring to the hypothesis of violation of human rights, he stressed that these are ‘independent assessments of the Belgian authority (in which there is a legal system that guarantees a double assessment of all extremes in any case)’ and that Colleoni, who in rejected all accusations in his spontaneous statements, he will have the opportunity to put forward his questions in this forum. “The 100,000-euro leave (which is referred to in an interception, editor’s note) was never taken. I didn’t know anything about my husband’s business either,” Colleoni said in the courtroom.
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