In 2023, there will be 1,830 suspects in the Armed Forces, an increase of 17% compared to the last five years. The phenomenon of hazing "has long since ceased, fortunately, to concern our armed forces" The documents covered by NATO secrecy copied by the naval officer, Walter Biot "could not fail to concern security profiles also of the Italian State", says the president of the military appeals court Giuseppe Mazzi.
Biot, accused of espionage, was sentenced to 29 years and two months in prison.