A cardiologist, serving in a hospital in Benevento, and a lawyer and honorary deputy prosecutor, serving at the Lecce Prosecutor's Office at the time of the events, ended up under house arrest on charges of group sexual violence aggravated by the circumstance of have been carried out by a public official in the exercise of his functions.
According to what was ascertained by the Guardia di Finanza, during apparent medical visits the two allegedly abused some unsuspecting patients and then filmed everything with photos and videos.
The financiers of the Economic and Financial Police Unit-Gico of Lecce have executed an order issued by the Court of Review of Naples, upon appeal lodged by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Benevento, confirmed by the Court of Cassation following a declaration of inadmissibility of the appeal brought by the interested parties.
The suspects are the lawyer Antonio Zito, 58 years old, and the cardiologist Giovanni Vetrone, 60 years old.
The precautionary measures arise from a ruling by the Court of Cassation which declared the decision of the review court last February accepting the appeal of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Benevento to be enforceable.
The unsuspecting patients, according to investigations by the Fiamme Gialle, would have been anesthetized and subjected to abuse before being filmed by the two men in turn. The images were also distributed on a Whatsapp group: for this reason the two arrested must also answer for the illicit diffusion of sexually suggestive images and videos.
The modus operandi was more or less always the same: Vetrone scheduled the visits and contacted his lawyer friend, who left for Benevento to take part wearing a white coat and also pretending to be a doctor. For him, therefore, the accusation is also of abusive practice of the medical profession.
Further elements of guilt would have emerged from the mobile phones and telematic devices seized by the financiers of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Lecce (who were investigating Zito for other alleged crimes).
After learning of the investigation, Zito suspended himself, while Vetrone regularly carried out his duties in the hospital.
(Unioneonline)