Mahdi Rahimian is the name of the man who was taken from a hut on the Costa Smeralda this night and transferred to the prison in Sassari.
The entrepreneur, 40 years old, born in Tehran, had rented a house in the countryside to spend the holidays with his family. It was the Digos agents of the Sassari Police Headquarters who executed an order of "provisional arrest for extradition purposes".
The wife, desperate, witnessed her husband's arrest. Mahdi Rahimian was notified of an act addressed to the Italian authorities by the magistrates of the ferocious Iranian regime, for an unspecified crime of fraud . The procedure started by the Ayatollahs' regime has opened the extradition process, the Court of Appeal of Sassari will be invested with the case and will have the final say.
Lawyer Alberto Sechi has accepted the task of assisting the Iranian businessman with dual citizenship (Iranian and Dutch).
Sechi says: «I am very worried, if the extradition were to be accepted, my client risks his life. This regardless of the nature of the charges. We are working on this point. The desperation of his wife and family is absolutely well-founded. This person was taken in the middle of the night from a home, in our country. Now we await the hearing before the Court of Appeal of Sassari».
