Overview
- Milan’s appellate prosecutors, who said Monday they are assessing interrogations abroad, received Justice Ministry clearance to use rogatory channels, which are formal legal requests to take testimony in another country, for new checks tied to Nicole Minetti’s clemency.
- The latest step follows reports by Il Fatto Quotidiano that carried testimony from former Cipriani employee Graciela Mabel De Los Santos Torres about escort parties at the Punta del Este estate.
- Torres says she is willing to confirm her account before Milan authorities if she is granted protection because she fears for her safety.
- Lawyers for Minetti and entrepreneur Giuseppe Cipriani deny the allegations as false and say they will pursue legal action against those behind the coverage.
- President Sergio Mattarella granted Minetti a pardon earlier this year after favorable opinions from the Justice Ministry and Milan’s Procura generale, and the new inquiry could test the basis for that decision.