Fugitive Brazilian banker
Henrique Pizzolato is to be extradited to Brazil, a Brazilian
government lawyer told ANSA Friday. Pizzolato, marketing
director of Banco do Brazil, had been condemned in Brazil to 12
years and seven months in prison in the Mensalao political
bribery case. He fled to Italy, where he has citizenship, and
was arrested one year ago with a fake passport but released
after a lower court refused extradition requests, saying his
safety was not assured in a Brazilian jail. He was rearrested on
the orders of the Cassation Court in February.
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