Mexico Expels to Italy Person Wanted For Bankruptcy Fraud

On December 7, 2002, the Mexican Government expelled Italian national Giulio Semino to Italy in response to requests for his arrest made by the Italian Government to serve a five year prison sentence after his conviction for aggravated fraudulent bankruptcy. According to the press release of the Mexican Office of the Attorney General, investigations by the Federal Investigations Agency ascertained that the Mexican National Immigration Institute ordered his expulsion based in part on the arrest warrant issued on March 25, 2002 by the Italian court in Spezia, Italy, which found Mr. Semio guilty of aggravated fraudulent bankruptcy and sentenced him to five years imprisonment. According to the Italian authorities, Mr. Semino perpetrated a scheme whereby he would purchase merchandise on credit and keep the profits until the fraud was uncovered. Once Semino realized the authorities were investigating him, he fled from Italy to Mexico with several million liras, two company cars, and other company assets worth approximately 12 million liras. As a result of the expulsion order, Mexican authorities transferred Semino to Mexico City’s International Airport, where he boarded a flight to Rome. Once in Rome, Italian authorities put transferred him in custody for a rendezvous with the sam judge who had sentenced him.