A sentence of one year and four months has been requested for the former extraordinary commissioner for the Covid emergency Domenico Arcuri .
The request is from the Rome Prosecutor's Office as part of an abbreviated trial on a supply of masks from China commissioned in the first phase of the emergency , the most acute.
Arcuri is accused of abuse of office , the prosecutors have also requested around ten indictments for the defendants who have chosen to be tried with the ordinary procedure.
The defendants, according to what emerges, exploited "in competition" personal and hidden relationships with the former commissioner Arcuri, obtaining that the latter ensured the partners of the entrepreneur Mario Benotti (later deceased) de facto exclusivity in brokerage of supplies of surgical masks and personal protective equipment ".
(Unioneonline/L)
