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01 April 2021 "I am dazed and disoriented but ready to clarify my position". This is what Walter Biot stated before the Rome investigating judge in justifying the decision to make use of the right not to answer. The soldier, defended by the lawyer Roberto De Vita, contested the reconstruction of the affair but "asked for time to gather ideas" and therefore be able to face the interrogation with the investigators who accuse him of espionage.
They are Alexey Nemudrov, naval and aeronautical attaché of the Russian embassy in Rome, and Dmitri Ostroukhov, employed in the same office of the diplomatic headquarters, the two Russian officials expelled from Italy after the espionage case involving the Navy frigate captain Walter Biot. It is learned from authoritative sources.