(ANSA) - Trani, March 30 - A Trani court on Thursday
acquitted Fitch analyst David Michael Willmoth Riley, at the
time head of the London office of the Fitch ratings agency, os
market manipulation in downgrading Italy's sovereign debt.
Prosecutors had asked for a prison term of nine months. "The
charges have been recognised as groundless," Fitch said in a
statement.
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