Gabriela Mabel De Los Santos, the Uruguayan masseuse who claimed to have witnessed the alleged parties at Giuseppe Cipriani and Nicole Minetti's ranch in Punta del Este, was portrayed.
The woman changed her story before a notary in Uruguay with a sworn statement, claiming that she knew nothing about what was happening on the estate.
News of the formal act, according to Il Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica, reached the Milan Prosecutor's Office after the investigation was concluded. Between Friday afternoon and yesterday morning , the statements were transmitted from Uruguay to Milanese magistrates and immediately forwarded to the Quirinale Palace.
A few days ago, the pardon granted to Silvio Berlusconi's former dental hygienist, convicted in Italy for aiding and abetting prostitution and embezzlement, was confirmed by President Sergio Mattarella. After carefully studying the "voluminous" investigation file sent to him by the Milan Prosecutor's Office, the Quirinale ruled that there were no grounds to review the clemency order signed last February 18th and called into question following the journalistic investigation by Il Fatto Quotidiano.
The president's signature on the decree was made public in April through an exclusive on "Mi manda Rai 3." Then came the Fatto investigation, which sparked a sea of controversy and venom. The main one, which targeted the Quirinale, was that the pardon had been kept secret from a controversial figure. This accusation was immediately informally rejected by the Quirinale, which preferred to refute it more clearly in a statement. "For the pardon decree in question, the Quirinale did not deviate from its usual practices, without any unusual secrecy: in most cases of pardons, the Quirinale does not issue a statement due to the presence of sensitive information—illnesses, family matters and relationships, involvement of children, and other sensitive aspects—which must be duly protected from disclosure."
(Unioneonline/D)