(CNN) Iranian businessman Mohammad Abedini, who was detained in Italy at the request of the United States following a drone attack that killed three Americans, has been released.
Abedini, 38, was arrested in Milan in December on a warrant issued by the US and charged in connection with a drone strike that killed three US Army soldiers and injured dozens more in Jordan last year.
The US Justice Department had charged Abedini and Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi, 42, with conspiring to export the drone technology from the US to Iran.
Italy’s Justice Minister Carlo Nordio on Sunday made a request to Milan’s court of appeal to cancel Abedini’s arrest, saying that Italy could not extradite Abedini to the US because “only crimes punishable under the laws of both (countries)” could lead to extradition.
