Italian court publishes decision on Zambelli's acquittal and says that Moraes was 'victim' and 'judge' in the case

Italian justice denies extradition of Carla Zambelli, and former deputy is released
The Supreme Court of Cassation of Italy released, this Friday (12), the reasons that led to the decision to annul, on May 22, the extradition of former deputy Carla Zambelli to Brazil.
The Italian determination concerns the extradition request made by Brazil against the former parliamentarian, conducted based on the process in which Zambelli was convicted of hacking into the systems of the National Council of Justice (CNJ) and inserting false decisions signed by Moraes.
There is also a second extradition process running in the Italian courts, related to the conviction of the former deputy for the crime of illegal possession of weapons and threatening with a firearm (remember below).
In the decision, the Italian magistrates considered that there was an accumulation of functions on the part of minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF).
According to them, Moraes participated in different phases of the process, which, in the assessment of the Italian Court, goes against the principles of impartiality and judicial independence.
"As well as insufficiency and illogicality of the reasoning in relation to the accumulation of the functions of victim, judge of first instance, judge of second instance and judge of execution in the person of M.A.D.M. [Minister Alexandre de Moraes], member of the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil, in violation of the principle of impartiality and independence of the judge", it says the decision, published in Italian.
File photo from 15/05/2025 of federal deputy Carla Zambelli (PL-SP) during a press conference at her party headquarters in the neighborhood of Moema, in the south zone of the city of São Paulo.
Felipe Rau/Estadão Conteúdo
Understand the case
Zambelli was sentenced by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to 10 years in prison under a closed regime for hiring hacker Walter Delgatti to invade the Judiciary systems and include false documents.
➡One of them would be an arrest warrant against Moraes signed by himself, and an order to break the minister's banking secrecy.
➡For the PGR, the invasion aimed to discredit the Judiciary, responsible for the electoral process, and generate an environment favorable to an institutional rupture to keep former president Jair Bolsonaro in power (PL).
The decision of the Supreme Court of Cassations - the last instance of Italian Justice - revoked the previous sentence, of the Italian Court of Appeals. As a result, Zambelli was released at the end of last month.
- This report is being updated.

Source: G1