Data altered on viruses to modify measures, investigation on the Sicily Region
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April 18, 2021 The Gip of the court of Palermo Cristina Lo Bue revoked the house arrest for the three suspects, sanctioning the significant downsizing of the investigation that started from Trapani and which, in recent days, had led to the zeroing of the Sicilian health leaders.
The councilor for health, Ruggero Razza, under investigation for forgery, had also resigned, because he was overwhelmed by the controversy over the falsified data that would have kept a Sicily from red zone to orange zone. The director of Dasoe, Letizia Di Liberti, responsible for the transmission of this information, relating to the infections in Rome, ended up under arrest at home. Di Liberti now returns to freedom, even if she remains suspended from service, as well as the other public employee arrested, Salvatore Cusimano (he also leaves home), an official of the regional health department. Free also Emilio Madonia, who works for a company that deals with the IT management of data.
The data deemed false on the progress of the pandemic, communicated to the Higher Institute of Health, had caused a very important scandal throughout Italy. The Prosecutor of Trapani (which then sent the papers to Palermo, due to territorial incompetence) had hypothesized 36 provisional charges, now reduced to 7 by the investigators of the pool coordinated by the deputy prosecutor of the Sicilian capital, Sergio Demontis.
Right after the transfer of the investigation from Trapani to the capital of the island, judge Lo Bue was called to decide on the renewal of the precautionary measure. The clues of some accusations remain, but the Palermo prosecutors themselves had believed that there were not many of the fakes in the public documents contested by their colleagues in Trapani. In particular, the daily bulletins (which spoke of deaths on which Councilor Razza himself said "let's spread them a little") according to the investigations carried out by the Carabinieri of the Nas of Palermo, had "proved to have a purely informative function, therefore not being able be considered public acts ".