A Prosecutor of the National Unit for Domain Extinction Right and against Money Laundering brought charges against Giorgio Sale for his alleged responsibility for the offence of aggravated money-laundering.
In the same prosecution, the examining prosecutor concluded the investigation for the offence of drug trafficking to Sale, considering that he served sentence for the same facts in Italy.
Prosecution against Sale relates to his alleged involvement in money-laundering from Colombia self-defense group (AUC), particularly from Salvatore Mancuso Gómez, who would have invested money cash in the Italian citizen´s companies. Also, he presumably acts as intermediary in business of goods abroad.
Given various defense petitions, the prosecutor´s office denied the stay of preventive detention, as well as the substitution for house arrest and kept a remand in custody without benefit of release.