An Italian Appeal Court has upheld an eight-month prison sentence for two Milan prosecutors, Fabio De Pasquale and Sergio Spadaro, for failing to file documents that would have supported energy group, Eni’s position in an international corruption case.
Reuters reported that Judges in the northern city of Brescia upheld the verdict handed down last year, which ruled that prosecutors, De Pasquale and Spadaro, failed in their legal obligation to file documents that could have helped the defence.
Before the verdict, Spadaro read a lengthy statement to the court in which he said “there was no refusal, there was no omission,” and that the prosecutors had acted “according to conscience and law”.