Two Italian prosecutors convicted for hiding documents in Eni-Shell Nigeria trial
MILAN, Oct 8 (Reuters) -An Italian court sentenced on Tuesday two Milan prosecutors to eight months in prison for failing to file documents that would have supported energy group Eni's position in an international corruption case.
Eni ENI.MI, Shell SHEL.L, and all the defendants were nevertheless acquitted by a court in Milan in March 2021 in what came to be known as the industry's biggest corruption case, which revolved around the $1.3 billion acquisition of a Nigerian oilfield a decade ago.
Judges in a court in the northern city of Brescia ruled that Milan prosecutors Fabio De Pasquale and Sergio Spadaro had a legal obligation to file documents that could have helped the defence team in that trial.
The Brescia court has jurisdiction over judges and prosecutors in the nearby city of Milan.
The Milan court that acquitted all the defendants in the Eni Shell trial criticised the way the prosecutors had carried out their work, saying they had failed to file among the trial documents a video shot by a former Eni external lawyer, which they said was relevant to the case.
The Brescia court issued the eight-month sentence that had been requested by prosecutors who said De Pasquale and Spadaro had hidden elements in favour of the defendants in the Eni-Shell trial, infringing their rights.
A lawyer for the two men had asked the court for a full acquittal, arguing there was no rule that immediately and directly required prosecutors to file documents in a trial. The lawyer had no immediate comment on the conviction.
The government and the interior ministry, which are liable to pay possible damages, had also called for the prosecutors' acquittal.
Reporting by Emilio Parodi, editing by Keith Weir, Gavin Jones and Emelia Sithole-Matarise
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