Key legal question
Whether the delay and evolving allegations in the Italian request made assistance inadmissible under fair-trial and AIMP grounds
Extracted holding
No. The later complements merely refined and completed the original request as investigations progressed; the appellant also could not rely on third parties’ rights or show a concrete serious risk of ECHR/UN Covenant violations.
Extracted reasoning
The Court held the criticism was generic and unsubstantiated. The request was not rendered obsolete by the passage of time, and the foreign proceedings were still pending.