Vannoni detained in new Stamina probe (2)

(ANSA) - Turin, April 26 - 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".