All 10 defendants in a trail into
tainted blood that allegedly caused a string of deaths in the
1990s were acquitted by a Naples court on Monday.
The defendants include former health minister Duilio
Poggiolini, at the time director general of the health
ministry's pharmaceutical service, and the former managers and
technicians of the Marcucci Group.
Former health minister Poggiolini was among those on trial in
connection with the distribution of infected blood from which
hundreds of people contracted AIDS and hepatitis in the '80s and
'90s.
Poggiolini, one of the protagonists of the Clean Hands
corruption probes at the beginning of the 90s, was accused along
with the executives of the Marcucci group and other defendants
of criminal negligence in allowing tainted blood into the
national blood transfusion circuit.
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