The owner has been charged with receiving stolen goods. Oxygen tanks were also found. The man justified himself by saying that they were bequests from the relatives of the deceased, but he did not convince the police
16 DECEMBER 2016 – Meridione News
Medicines, wheelchairs, oxygen cylinders and more. This is what the police found inside afuneral home Of Victory. According to the first findings, the goods would have been stolen fromAsp 7 of Ragusa. The owner of the agency, MS, has been sued for recipe.
At the sight of the agents, the man at first was unable to explain the origin of the material. However, the persons in charge of the provincial health authority confirmed the hospital origin of the goods. The hypothesis of the investigators is that the agency also offered home care servicesand for this it was equipped with medicines and sanitary equipment. In the face of these accusations, the owner attempted to defend himself by declaring that the goods were a legacy of relatives of some deceased: justification, however, implausible since the medical material, once used by the patient, remains owned of the Asp.
The value of the goods that would have been stolen has been quantified in approx 30 thousand euros. He is now in judicial custody at the Vittoria hospital.
