
A fugitive politician fleeing from Italian justice said he has no interest in returning to Italy but will remain in Dubai, according to an interview published Monday,reports ansa news
Amedeo Matacena, a former member of parliament who went on the lam after being convicted of collusion with the mafia, said in an interview with newspaper Corriere della Sera, that he feels safe in Dubai because it has no extradition treaty with Italy.
“I am staying in Dubai, I have no desire to return to Italy, even though I know that for this reason all my family is angry with me,” he told the newspaper
He also maintained that his beautiful wife Chiara Rizzo, who was extradited
last month to Italy from France, for allegedly listing bogus assets, was not cheating on him with former Interior minister Claudio Scajolm
Scajolm was arrested for allegedly helping Matacena escape arrest, and he is facing a prosecutors probe for suspected ties to the Calabrian mafia