It ended with two convictions And three acquittals the legal case related to masks sold at their weight in gold during the pandemic from COVID-19.
At the end of the first degree trial, the single judge of the Bari court sentenced the entrepreneurs to 1 year and 6 months in prison Gaetano and Vito Davide Patrizio Canosinolegal representatives respectively of the companies 3MC spa And Penta srl Of Bariwho will also have to pay a fine of 10 thousand euros.
The two, like the other defendant entrepreneurs (Matteo Fumagalli, Massimiliano Aniello De Marco and Elio Rubino) were acquitted of the other charges.
The prosecution, supported by chief prosecutor Roberto Rossi, believes that the Canosinos had done so speculation on important goods such as masks in times of emergency.
Hospital services: «Our extraneousness has been confirmed»
The ruling of the Court of Bari «confirmed that the company has never supplied FFP2 filtering face masks to the ASL Ba and has consequently never carried out any speculative maneuver on them, nor has it ever carried out attempts at fraud or fraud in public supplies”, underlines the Hospital Services spaa company belonging to the Rekeep group of Bologna, after the full acquittal («because the fact does not exist») of its president and legal representative Massimiliano De Marco in the trial on the supply of Ffp2 filtering face masks to the local health authority of Bari.
«It is, therefore, finally ascertained by the Court of Bari – it is said in a note – complete strangeness with respect to any hypothesis of crime by the company and its legal representative, always absolutely certain of the correctness of their behavior and of the erroneousness and unfoundedness of their involvement in the investigation initiated by the Prosecutor’s Office”.
