Milanese trader in prison in Abu Dhabi for over 3 months

Andrea Giuseppe Costantino, 49, a Milanese oil trader, has been in prison in Abu Dhabi for three and a half months

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His lawyers and family - as can be read on the Milanese pages of Corriere della Sera - denounce that at the time of his arrest he was not charged with any crime.

The man was reportedly neither subjected to questioning nor given judicial documents.

At the time of the arrest, his wife was present at the hotel and is the only witness to the affair.

As reported by the Corriere, Costantino would still not have allowed to speak with a defender. 

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, Andrea's wife.

"More than an arrest, it seemed like a kidnapping," Stefania Giudice told ANSA. Costantino was picked up on March 21 in Dubai: "I was on the beach with the little girl and the concierge - Stefania remembers - asks me to follow him to the hotel, he takes me to a small room where I see Andrea surrounded by 8 people, some in white uniforms , the child jumps on him and he says 'they take me to Abu Dhabi and I don't know why, call the embassy.' From there he disappeared into a black hole as if he had been kidnapped by aliens, I immediately called the embassy and the lawyer who has been following Andrea for years, then I found the room completely turned upside down, with the mattresses turned upside down, clothes scattered everywhere, blisters of medicine opened, a delusional thing that made my daughter burst into tears ". From that moment, "we did not know anything until March 25, when the embassy told us that Andrea was detained in Abu Dhabi but we did not know why, just as we do not know now ".

"It's all a violation. When they arrested him, a warrant was not presented that we still do not have and that perhaps has never existed. The anomalies in this affair are so many and such as to suggest that there is no fact attributed or attributable to Andrea Giuseppe Costantino but something of another nature and caliber ". To explain it is the lawyer Cinzia Fuggetti, lawyer of the Milanese trader. Room turned upside down due to the search that took place before the man was taken to prison in Abu Dhabi. "I immediately alerted the crisis unit of the Farnesina, the cabinet of the minister and, among others, also the ambassador to the Emirates - continued the lawyer -. But since then almost nothing is known, let alone the reason. for which he was arrested:we do not have a head of blame and Costantino could not even appoint a defender. "The entrepreneur," the only concession ", feels irregularly, and only for" a couple of minutes "by phone, with his partner Stefania Giudice. In addition to weight loss, "he is very tired and stressed," he added. He struggles to understand the reason for this situation and how to get out of it. "" At this point I believe that only politics can unlock the case. added the lawyer -. I wrote to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and to the Prime Minister Mario Draghi and now I appeal to anyone who is able to provide news. From the moment the accusation becomes known and if it is related to my client's commercial activity,I am ready to take the first flight to personally deliver all the necessary documents to my colleague from the United Arab Emirates "who, despite not having a formal mandate yet, defends him." At the moment we have no news - says Cinzia Fuggetti -. procedural view, and I'm referring to the Emirati code, it's all a violation. "