Acquitted after ten years of trial, and the hearing of 125 witnesses, because the fact does not exist.
Yesterday in court in Sassari the end of the legal case for Antonio Nieddu, at the time of the facts - in 2013 - director of the UVA, a facility for Alzheimer's patients of the Sassari Polyclinic.
Acquittal also for the neurologist Concetta Salvo, the secretary of Nieddu Carmela Lostia and the then president of the Policlinico Pietro Bua.
Dr. Nieddu was accused of complicity in forgery, aggravated fraud against the ASL, extortion and, in conjunction with Salvo, complicity in fraud in public supplies and aggravated fraud, while with Lostia in complicity in forgery.
The charges against the professional, which led to house arrest in 2014, referred to alleged payments demanded despite the free services provided by the Policlinico, certified visits to the UVA when they were supposed to have been done elsewhere, hospitalizations in the acute care unit despite the absence of acute conditions, and visits directed to his private practice with the assurance of greater accuracy.
All charges that even the prosecutor Lara Senatore did not consider supported by any evidence, leading her to request acquittal, and in any case denied by the various witnesses heard in the hearing. The charge against Bua was of interruption of public exercise and fraud in public supplies for having closed the geriatrics department in the months of August from 2011 to 2014.
This charge was also dropped in the final decision of the panel presided over by judge Giancosimo Mura, with Monia Adami and Sara Pelicci on his sides.
"Now we will ask for damages for the unjust detention of Dr. Nieddu - says Pietrina Putzolu, the lawyer who defended him with the lawyer Gabriele Satta - in addition to compensation for damages for economic, moral and professional damages, and for the other defendants all the economic and moral damages suffered in these 10 years". The lawyer Putzolu also defends Concetta Salvo and Carmela Lostia.