In the courtroom in Nuoro, this morning, the turning point was announced in the trial in which Marco Palumbo – father of Paolo, the 24-year-old from Oristano suffering from ALS – accused of continued fraud for having started a fundraising deemed “ misleading" and having scraped together around 150,000 euros in an account in his son's name for experimental treatments that would never have been carried out.
Once the first doubts about the real use emerged, the family immediately said they would return the funds.
Marco Palumbo provided for the reparation of the damage against the three people who sued him, and one of these withdrew the lawsuit.
The defendants of the defendant, Gianfranco Siuni and Mario Gusi, now trust that the restorative conduct adopted by their client will convince the judge Luisa Rosetti to decide for the non-suit.
He returns to court on March 31 next.
It all started with the complaint of the neurologist Vincenzo Mascia who followed the patient. Paolo's father would have led the professional to believe that the Israeli doctor Dimitrios Karoussis would have placed his son in an experimental treatment. Very expensive genetic therapy which, according to Marco Palumbo, was around one million euros, for this reason the parent had opened the subscription by inducing several people to make large donations.
Between 2019 and 2020, Paolo's human story had traveled around the world, both for his presence in Sanremo and for the meeting with the Pope and the president Sergio Mattarella, and for the many initiatives he had set up, including face-to-face at the Expo with Barack Obama.
(Unioneonline/ss)
