He'll leave prison at 7 a.m. to go to work and return at the end of the day. This marks the beginning of a new life for Giulio Lolli, who could be released permanently at the end of next year.

The Bertinoro entrepreneur, founder of Rimini Yacht, nicknamed "the pirate" for his daring escape on a luxury yacht across the Mediterranean, has been released on parole.

Lolli has been in prison since 2019, when he was extradited from Libya, first to Rome and then to Bologna. He is serving final sentences, but under day release he will be able to work for a logistics and marketing company. The benefit was granted by the Bologna Surveillance Court.

"He had an excellent experience in prison," explained his lawyer, Claudia Serafini . "He collaborates with socio-cultural and journalistic activities, has held conferences in prison, and is pursuing university courses."

The lawyer also explains that a book about her life, entitled "Il confine" (The Border), by Bolognese writer Michele Mengoli, is about to be published, due for sale in 2026.

The troubles for the "pirate," now 60, began in 2010 when he was investigated by Rimini's deputy prosecutor, Davide Ercolani, for fraud following several "anomalous" reports of theft and embezzlement involving 86 luxury yachts. Among Lolli's clients at the time were high-profile entrepreneurs and merchants, and even the fixer Flavio Carboni. Lolli allegedly gave Carboni the use of a luxurious Aston Martin purchased under an unpaid lease in San Marino. The car was later found abandoned by the Carabinieri after Lolli fled the scene at Cagliari airport.

Lolli had gone into hiding with the very boat Carboni intended to purchase, an expensive Bertram 570, landing in Tunisia and then Tripoli. Untraceable since May 2010, he conducted his scams in Italy through the company "Rimini Yacht," reselling the luxury vessels twice.

During his years as a fugitive, Lolli converted to Islam, married, and became a rebel among the groups against Gaddafi and his regime. But investigators, led by prosecutor Ercolani, never lost sight of him. At dawn on December 1, 2019, he was extradited and handed over to the Carabinieri Special Operations Unit (ROS) in Rome.

In Libya, the entrepreneur himself recently recounted, he had witnessed the torture at the hands of Almasri Osama Najeen and had expressed outrage at his release.

Returning to Italy was a stroke of luck for Lolli, who in 2017 had been arrested by Al Rada special forces on very serious charges. Sentenced in the first and second instance trials to four years and six months for criminal conspiracy in Rimini and five years for a series of tax crimes in Bologna, Lolli was later acquitted on appeal of the terrorism charge, but sentenced to five years for international arms trafficking.

(Unioneonline)

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