ROME: A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station chief in Milan, sentenced to nine years in jail for the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian imam, has been arrested in Panama, the Italian justice ministry said on Thursday (Friday in Manila).

Justice Minister Anna Maria Cancellieri asked for the former CIA agent—Bob Seldon Lady or “Mister Bob”—to be held in Panama and now has two months to request his extradition.

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