According to a note published on the website of the newspaper Corriere della Sera, Bonelli told the media that he had already filed a request to the Italian Parliament for the country’s justice system to “execute the Interpol arrest request, issued with a red notice.”

Carla Zambelli, a former Brazilian congresswoman and member of the Liberal Party and close collaborator of former President Jair Bolsonaro, was sentenced in mid-May to 10 years in prison by the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court for the crimes of ideological falsehood and computer piracy, committed alongside cyber hacker Walter Delgatti.

The former parliamentarian, as the investigation showed, played an essential role in this criminal act and is identified as the mastermind of a cyberattack against the Brazilian National Council of Justice. She was found guilty and sentenced, but fled Brazil using her Italian citizenship.

Bonelli, along with other Italian parliamentarians, is now demanding that the government take an immediate stand and implement a treaty signed in 1989 between his country and Brazil, which allows the extradition of fugitives from justice with dual citizenship.

The legislator demanded Zambelli’s location and arrest and stated that, although “the police say they don’t know where she is, the secret services do, and the confidential information I have is that she is in Veneto,” the northern region of the country where her mother was born.

The former Brazilian parliamentarian announced from the US city of Miami her intention to fly to Rome because, she asserted, “I have an Italian passport, and I am untouchable in Italy,” and “they cannot extradite me from a country of which I am a citizen,” without considering the possible application of the current extradition treaty.

Some analysts cite precedents such as those of banker Salvatore Cacciola and manager Henrique Pizzolato, who arrived in Italy thanks to their dual nationality but were extradited to Brazil, based on the treaty in force between the two nations.

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