On December 6, the Ministry of Justice replied to a letter from the US Justice Department dated November 29, which had highlighted the risk that the Russian entrepreneur Artem Uss, for whom house arrest had been decided on November 25, could flee, and in the response clarified that the decision on the most suitable measure was the exclusive responsibility of the Court of Appeal of Milan.
And he specified that the decided measure had been made safer with the application of the electronic bracelet.
It emerges from the answer, through a report and attachments, provided by the Court of Appeal to the Ministry after requests for clarification.
The Court of Appeal of Milan, after having decided the house arrest for Artem Uss (carried out on 2 December, when the electronic bracelet was found
), could not ex officio aggravate the precautionary measure except in the case of violations of the house arrest, but the Attorney General could appeal asking for prison and also the Ministry of Justice, according to the rules, could ask at any time for the measure to be aggravated, i.e. imprisonment.
It is a passage, from what has been learned, of the clarifications provided in a report by the
Milan Court of Appeal to the ministry on the case of the escape of the 40-year-old Russian.