InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/05/12
Four Italian businessmen and an Indian citizen were convicted and sentenced to prison in Calabria for facilitating undocumented migration. The group allegedly brought non-EU citizens to Italy on fake job contracts.
The Court of Assizes in Reggio Calabria on Monday, May 10 sentenced Antonio Scimone, charged with facilitating undocumented migration, to four years and two months in jail. An additional charge of association to commit a crime didn t hold up because of the statute of limitations.
The sentence came at the conclusion of a trial in which Judge Ornella Pastore upheld appeals by public prosecutor Sara Amerio. Judge Pastore also convicted Domenico Cosmo, Paolo Perre and Carlo Lombardo, and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from three years and nine months to four years and eight months.