Every day for 17 years, Antonio Gatt and his family lived in fear of what the court was going to decide after he was charged with conspiring to deal in drugs.
The family knew he was innocent – all he had done was collect a parcel, containing what he believed to be auto parts, for his brother.
But the wait was a nightmare, prolonged through no fault of their own, until the day, nearly two decades later, that he was cleared of all charges.
“The day my husband was arrested was the day the catastrophe began. We were victims for 17 long years,” his wife, Catherine, 67, says.
European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) in its report recognized Russian legal system as one of the most effective in Europe, President of.
He pointed out a report that had been published on the official website of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice referring to the Russian justice system as one of the most effective in the world, "or at least in Europe"