The Italian courts decided this Thursday, the 26th, to extradite the former federal deputy. Carla Zambelli For Brazil. The former parliamentarian has been imprisoned in Rome since July of last year, and the Brazilian government has already received notification of the judicial decision.
The trial at the Rome Court of Appeals ended in February. Zambelli was sentenced in May 2025 to ten years in prison and the loss of her mandate for her involvement in the hacking of the National Council of Justice (CNJ) system.
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The former congresswoman fled Brazil after her conviction, but was captured by Italian authorities. According to a statement from the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Itamaraty), the Brazilian Embassy in Rome was informed of the decision by her lawyers. The case is still subject to appeal within the judicial system.
After all legal appeals have been exhausted, the final decision on extradition will rest with the Italian government. In December 2025, Zambelli resigned from her post after the Supreme Federal Court (STF) upheld the revocation of her mandate.
The former parliamentarian's defense team is attempting to obtain authorization for her to await the remainder of the proceedings in freedom or under house arrest. The lawyers cite health issues to support the request. So far, the defense has not officially commented on the new decision.
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Mario
March 27, 2026 at 10:48 pm
If she had an Italian passport and wasn't yet on Interpol's red list, why didn't the "clever" woman just hide somewhere else in Europe? Did she go straight to Rome thinking the Pope would help her under his cassock?