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The Italian justice system has closed the case against Alex Saab and his wife Camila Fabri, who had faced accusations of money laundering for more than six years, following their acquisition of a property in Rome. This is based on information from El Tiempo.
The document issued by the Rome Prosecutor’s Office clarifies that the agreement does not imply a formal acknowledgment of guilt.
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A source familiar with the case stated that «years of persecution left the Italian Prosecutor’s Office no choice but to declare them innocent.»
On her X account, Camila Fabri expressed on Wednesday: «After 6 and a half years of persecution, an absurd and deeply politicized case has closed in Italy.
There was no trial, admission of guilt, nor any verdict, and certainly no conviction.
The truth is documented and signed by the Prosecutor’s Office.
The rest is media falsehood. We hold onto the truth and our innocence.
Always».
Text of the letter
PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE OF THE REPUBLIC before the COURT of ROME The Prosecutor
CERTIFICATION
The Chief Prosecutor of the Republic before the Court of Rome;
Having reviewed the proceedings of criminal case No. 43829/2019 Rgnr- 26767/2019 Rg Gip against, among others, Alex Nain Saab Moran and Camilla Fabri, for crimes committed up until 2020;
Considering that in the aforementioned proceedings, an agreement has been reached between the accused and this Prosecutor’s Office, according to art. 444 of the criminal procedural code, thus no trial will take place before the Court of Rome;
That Mr. Saab and Ms. Fabri have made the above-mentioned request, which does not involve any acknowledgment of responsibility, as they have both pleaded not guilty, a request that has been accepted by this Prosecutor’s Office under the rules of the criminal procedural code;
For all these reasons, we confirm the preceding information and allow Mr. Saab and Fabri to use this document for any purposes they deem necessary.
At the beginning of January, the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, reported that both Saab and Fabri reached an agreement with the Italian justice and received a sentence of more than one year.