A prelinianry hearings
judge on Friday indicted suspended Palermo judge Silvana Saguto
and other suspects charged with wrongdoing in the handling of
seized Mafia assets.
Saguto is accused by prosecutors in Caltanissetta of alleged
corruption and abuse of office in collusion with judicial
administrative staff and family members.
In October last year prosecutors ordered the urgent
precautionary seizure of money and property allegedly deriving
from crimes attributed to Saguto and her alleged accomplices.
Saguto was suspended by the Supreme Council of Magistrates
(CSM), which is the judiciary's self-governing body, late in
2015 on the request of Justice Minister Andrea Orlando and
Supreme Court Prosecutor Pasquale Ciccolo.
The "gravity" of her alleged behaviour has led to an
"irreparable loss of prestige", the CSM said at the time.
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