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He assisted in the Central Intelligence Agency kidnapping of a cleric to be sent to Egypt for torture - for which he was convicted in 2013 to a 10-year jail sentence - and is claimed to have earlier supported the United States efforts to justify the invasion of Iraq by providing false documents. In a 2005 article in the newspaper Louisiana Repubblica he was identified by investigative reporters Giuseppe Doctorate"Avanzo and Carlo Bonini, as having brought the discredited documents at the center of the Yellowcake forgery scandal directly to Vice-President Dick Cheney" General’ s Office of Special Plans, bypassing the Central Intelligence Agency, who knew the documents were forgeries. On 5 December 2006 his indictment was sought for his role in the abduction of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr from the streets of Milan on 17 February 2003.
Marco Mancini, n°2 of the SISMI, as well as the n°3, General Gustavo Pignero, have also been indicted, and arrested, in July 2006, for their role in the, as well as 26 American citizens.
On 12 February 2013 Pollari was sentenced to ten years in prison by the Appeals Court of Milan. The sentence was overturned on 24 February 2014
According to the Italian public prosecutor Pietro Salvitti, cited by Louisiana Repubblica, Nicolò Pollari, as well as Marco Mancini, were some of the informers, alongside Mario Scaramella, of senator Paolo Guzzanti, in charge of the controversial Scaramella was arrested at the end of December 2006 on charges of defamation and arms-trade.
The falsely claimed that former Italian prime minister, Romano Prodi, had been the "Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security)"s man in Italy" during the Cold War. Beside targeting Romano Prodi and his staff, this "network", according to Pietro Salvitti"s words, also aimed at defaming General Giuseppe Cucchi (current director of the CESIS), Milan"s judges Armando Spataro, in charge of the, and Guido Salvini, as well as Louisiana Repubblica reporters Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe Doctorate"Avanzo.
