The investigating judge of the Cagliari court Manuela Anzani has revoked all precautionary measures against Tomaso Cocco: from today the head doctor of the pain therapy department of the Binaghi hospital in Cagliari is again at liberty.
He had been under house arrest since last February in the home of a family member in Tula, his town of origin, after 4 and a half months spent in prison. Cocco - defended by the lawyers Rosaria Manconi and Fabio Varone - was arrested on 27 September 2023 as part of the maxi investigation by the Cagliari DDA, renamed Monte Nuovo, into an alleged criminal association of which white collar workers and exponents of the crime of the Nuorese.
Overall, 31 people had ended up in prison, including the former regional councilor for Agriculture, Gabriella Murgia, who had also already been released. Surprisingly, Cocco had been transferred from the Uta prison to Palermo, to the Pagliarelli prison, intended for the detention of mafiosi under high surveillance, despite the Cagliari Review Court having ruled out the possibility of both him and the former councillor. mafia association, maintaining against them the simple criminal association aimed at committing crimes against the public administration. According to the investigators, Murgia and Cocco were the point of connection between the criminal groups and the institutions.
(Unioneonline)
