A prelate and three finance police
officers on Wednesday were sentenced to prison terms for
kidnapping and corruption.
Father Renato Salvatore was found guilty of paying three
officers 96,000 euros to summon the victims - Fathers Rosario
Messina and Antonio Puca - to the police station on a pretext
and to hold them there for six hours on May 13, 2013.
The objective was to prevent them from voting in a general
assembly of the Camillian religious order, which was choosing
its new general superior on that day.
The incumbent, Salvatore, was re-elected. The court
sentenced him to three years in prison.
Finance police officers Alessandro Di Marco and Mario
Norgini were sentenced to seven years each. Fellow officer
Danilo Bianchi was sentenced to five years for corruption.
The Camillians or Clerics Regular, Ministers to the Sick,
are a Roman Catholic religious order founded in 1582 by St.
Camillus de Lellis (1550-1614).
A large red cross was chosen by the founder as the
distinguishing badge for the members of the order to wear on
their black cassocks, and this was later adopted as the
international symbol of medical care.
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