Four arrests for the theft of medicines at the Maggiore Hospital in Trieste
The measurements were carried out in Naples. Medicines stolen in 2019 were sold in Egypt, France and Türkiye
by Anna Vitaliani – TGR RAI Friuli Venezia Giulia – 10 August 2020
He defines it without hesitation as a heinous crime because it is to the detriment of public health, of the most seriously ill. The police commissioner of Trieste Giuseppe Petronzi in defining the joint operation of the police mobile team and the investigative unit of the carabinieri which led to the arrest in Naples of four people - 3 men and a woman all responsible for the theft of drugs in February 2019 at the pharmacy of the Ospedale Maggiore in Trieste. 291 packs of cancer medicines stolen for a value of 400 thousand euros.
The investigators started from the frames of the surveillance cameras, when two hooded people entered the hospital, forced the fire door and took away the goods aboard a car that was rented for the coup.
The instigators are a criminal company from the Neapolitan area, among the four arrested one of them, a 38-year-old man. In Lombardy, on the other hand, the group of fencers - of Egyptian nationality - who took the drugs to sell them in Egypt, France and Turkey were based. The Cremona prosecutor's office was already investigating them. Again for drug theft.
The facts took place in February 2019. It is SC, born in 1981, residing in Naples, considered one of the leading elements of the criminal organization, who had dealt with the organization of the theft, delegating the material execution of the crime to AS, born in 1956, residing in Melito di Napoli; PAL, class of '79, resident in Naples; arrested last July 15th as well as of BG, class 56, resident in Melito di Naples, arrested during the morning of July 27th 2020: all burdened by precedents for crimes against property.
The checks on motorway transits and the acquisition of video surveillance footage made it possible to trace a Fiat Punto registered to a rental company, a vehicle which, coming from Naples, had also reached Trieste on the previous 31 January and 5 - 6 February 2019 , dates of probable site inspections in anticipation of the theft.
At the same time, an accurate analysis of the telephone records was carried out, an activity which initially made it possible to identify the mobile radio users used to commit the theft of February 12, 2019. Despite the complexity of the investigation, a group of Egyptian origin was also identified based in Lombardy, responsible for the receipt of medicines outside the national borders (Egypt, France and Turkey).
