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Jul
20
2022
By The African Mirror
Italy prosecutors abandon $1.3 billion Eni Nigeria graft appeal

Italy prosecutors abandon $1.3 billion Eni Nigeria graft appeal

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EMILIO PARODI ITALIAN prosecutors dropped criminal proceedings over a $1.3 billion Nigerian oilfield deal, clearing energy majors Eni and Shell, as well as managers including Eni Chief Executive Claudio Descalzi. Attorney General Celestina Gravina signalled the prosecution did not plan to pursue the case at the start of an appeal hearing into one of the oil industry's biggest ever corruption cases. "This case must finish today because it has no basis, in fact, it should have finished earlier," Gravina told the court. The Appeal Court formally took note of the decision, meaning the criminal case will be closed and the acquittal…
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Jun
10
2021
By The African Mirror
U.N. staffer probed over death of ambassador

U.N. staffer probed over death of ambassador

NEWS
A United Nations employee has been placed under investigation by Italian prosecutors looking into the murder of Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and two other people, a judicial source has disclosed. The unidentified employee is a Congolese citizen and works for the U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP). He is under investigation for allegedly failing to take sufficient precautions to prevent the fatal attack on Feb. 22. Ambassador Luca Attanasio, his bodyguard Vittorio Iacovacci and their WFP driver Mustapha Milambo were all killed during a botched kidnapping on a road in eastern Congo, as they were heading…
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Apr
30
2021
By The African Mirror
Italian prosecutors ask judge to try Egyptian officers over Regeni murder

Italian prosecutors ask judge to try Egyptian officers over Regeni murder

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CRISPIAN BALMER ITALIAN prosecutors asked a judge on Thursday to have four senior members of Egypt's security services sent for trial over their suspected role in the disappearance and murder of student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016. Regeni, a postgraduate student at Britain's Cambridge University, disappeared in the Egyptian capital in January 2016. His body was found almost a week later and a post mortem examination showed he had been tortured before his death. Italian and Egyptian prosecutors investigated the case together, but the two sides later fell out and came to very different conclusions. The Rome prosecutors have…
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Dec
16
2020
By The African Mirror
Trial for Regeni murder will reach ‘shocking’ truth, says Italian prime minister

Trial for Regeni murder will reach ‘shocking’ truth, says Italian prime minister

NEWS
A trial over the disappearance and murder of student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016 is "an instrument to reach the truth, which is expected to be shocking," the Italian prime minister said in an interview published on Tuesday. Italian prosecutors said on Thursday they planned to charge four senior members of Egypt's security services over their alleged role in the case of the 28-year old postgraduate student at Cambridge University, vanished in Cairo in January 2016. "This story makes us grieve, but now a trial by our judicial authorities will start... a true, serious and credible trial. This trial…
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Dec
11
2020
By The African Mirror
Italian prosecutors seek trial for four Egyptians over Regeni murder

Italian prosecutors seek trial for four Egyptians over Regeni murder

NEWS
CRISPIAN BALMER and DOMENICO LUSI ITALIAN prosecutors plan to charge four senior members of Egypt's security services over their alleged role in the disappearance and murder of student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016. In a statement, the prosecutors said all four were suspected of taking part in the "aggravated kidnapping" of Regeni. It said one of them, a major in Egypt's general intelligence, also faced charges of "conspiracy to commit aggravated murder". The prosecutors gave the four men 20 days to respond to the charges after which, they said, they would ask a judge to indict them. "We have…
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