(ANSA) - BRESCIA, JANUARY 26 - Maria Dolores Colleoni and Silvia Panzeri, wife and daughter of former MEP Antonio Panzeri, are back free.
This was decided by the Brescia Court of Appeal by revoking the precautionary measures of the house arrest after the Belgian magistrates investigating Qatargate renounced the delivery of the two women.
The two criminal sections of the Brescia Court of Appeal, writes the President of the Court Claudio Castelli, "have taken note of the note from the Brussels Education Office received yesterday afternoon which renounces the surrender procedure and have revoked the precautionary measure of house arrest against Silvia Panzeri and of Colleoni Maria Dolores".
For the rest, "the proceedings are currently before the Court of Cassation, where the delivery orders had been challenged, which will therefore be able to provide for the delivery".
In other words, the two appeals of the defense will no longer be discussed, because even in that session it will be necessary to take note of the waiver of delivery.
The Brescian Court therefore effectively annulled the pronouncement with which in recent weeks it had given the go-ahead for the transfer of the two women, under house arrest since December, to a prison in Belgium.
Judge MichelClaise's move to renounce delivery is the consequence of the agreement reached with Antonio Panzeri.
The former EU parliamentarian has given his willingness to collaborate, in exchange for a year's imprisonment and the confiscation of one million euros, more or less the sum of the money found in his home in Brussels, in the family home in Calusco D'Adda, in the Bergamo, and on current accounts held by him and his daughter.
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