They were respectively convicted to life imprisonment and 10 years for shipwreck and murder.
The two human smugglers were arrested in connection with the May 12, 2014 shipwreck when the bodies of 17 migrants were recovered at about forty miles off the Libyan coast but a case study by expert says their could be roughly 200 or more people killed.
The judge accepted the requests of the pm and stresses that "this is a judgment of great importance that rewards the determination of the office of the pm in punishing those who bring deliberately and endangered the lives of migrants."
With this judgement Italy confirmed for the first time the existence of the Italian jurisdictions on shipwrecks, murder and even crimes committed on the international waters."
The judgment came a year after complex investigations by the Italian authorities.