Davide Vannoni was detained by
Carabinieri police on Wednesday in relation to a new probe into
his discredited Stamina stem-cell treatment, sources said.
Vannoni is under investigation in Turin for alleged criminal
association.
In October 2015 a Turin judge ruled that the statute of
limitations had been exceeded in the fraud case against Vannoni,
president of the Stamina Foundation, who was accused of trying
to defraud the northern Piedmont regional health agency of
500,000 euros with his project.
In June 2015, a Turin judge called the Stamina stem cell
treatment, invented by Vannoni and now banned in Italy, "an
enormous scientific fraud", and Italy's supreme Cassation Court
said the Stamina treatment "has no scientific validity".
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