• Naples, investigation of Covid hospitals: investigations and searches

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05 August 2020 The police have carried out a search in the zooprophylactic institute (Izsm) of Portici (Naples) which is among the structures to which the execution of swabs for the detection of coronavirus has been delegated by the Campania Region.

The military of the weapon carried out a search decree issued by the Neapolitan investigative office (prosecutor Di Mauro and De Roxas) in the context of one of the lines of the investigation with which the Naples prosecutor's office is investigating any liability (administrative or penalties) on the management of contracts for the management of the emergency triggered by the pandemic.

The search decree concerns the director of the facility, Antonio Limone, who is under investigation. According to what is learned also in this case the prosecutors contest the offense of auction disturbance.

The carabinieri also carried out searches in the offices of Ames di Casalnuovo, an instrumental polydiagnostic center located in the province of Naples: it is a private facility to which the Zooprophylactic Institute of Portici referred for the analysis of swabs. The top of the private structure is also investigated.

The Public Prosecutor of Naples is trying to shed light on the relations between the institute and the analysis center in the context of the line that refers to the supplies of the investigation on the management of contracts for the coronavirus emergency in Campania.