Arrest warrant for Italian in Libya (2)

(ANSA) - Ascoli Piceno, August 30 - A preliminary investigations judge in the Marche city of Ascoli Piceno on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for an Italian man and two Libyan nationals on suspicion of international arms trafficking.
    Ascoli Piceno native Franco Giorgi, 73, is presently in Libya, where he has been detained since March 2015. His two Libyan alleged accomplices are being sought. Earlier on Tuesday, Carabinieri police arrested an Egyptian national in the Abruzzo town of Ancarano as part of the same investigation. He is accused of being an international arms and weapons of war broker.
    The investigation was sparked when Giorgi's family reported him missing last year.
    Sources say the Ascoli Piceno native is being held in Libya by an unspecified organization for accepting a monetary advance on a shipment of weapons that failed to materialize.
    The investigation is being carried out in cooperation with British and Slovenian police, sources said.