(ANSA) - PERUGIA, 17 JAN - The preliminary investigation before the Court of Appeal of Perugia reopens for the second degree trial relating to the repatriation of Alma Shalabayeva, the wife of the Kazakh dissident Mukhtar Ablyazov, expelled to Kazakhstan in 2013 together with her daughter Alua .
The Court accepted the defense's request to call and testify in the courtroom the former Rome prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone, the prosecutor Eugenio Albanonte and the then deputy prosecutor Nello Rossi.
The judges, on the other hand, did not accept the request of one of the defenses to hear the former councilor of the CSM LucaPalamara as a witness. Not even the College accepted the defense's request to record the parliamentary questions on the matter and the relative answers, including that of the deputy of the Pd Carmelo Miceli to which the Undersecretary of the Interior Nicola Molteni replied.
"We take note of the Court's decision and we cannot respect it. We will then evaluate the witness statements," said Maurizio Improta's lawyer, lawyer Ali AbukarHayo.
"We are satisfied that the Court of Appeal has realized the importance of listening to these witnesses", the comment of the lawyer Ester Molinari who defends Renato Cortese. (HANDLE).
