ROME - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is being investigated by Rome prosecutors for complicity and breach of trust in connection with the deportation of Osama Njeem Almasri, the chief of the Libyan judicial police subject to an ICC arrest.

Meloni said that she was suspected by prosecutors of embezzlement and aiding and abetting a crime in connection with the case.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, along with her justice and interior ministers, is under judicial investigation over Italy’s unexpected decision to release Libyan national Najeem Osema Almasri Habish.