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In the last five months, in Sicily, the data of the infections would have grown several times in a worrying way, nobody ever knew it. These alarming data were allegedly hidden from the heads of the Health Department. Altering the number of positives and buffers, to keep the index below guard levels. The accusation made by the Trapani Prosecutor’s Office is harsh: this morning, the carabinieri of the provincial command and Nas notified three house arrest warrants to a general manager of the Region and two of his collaborators. Commissioner Ruggero Razza received a guarantee notice and an invitation to appear for questioning. All are accused of various episodes of false material and ideology committed by a public official in a public act. Forty episodes are disputed, the last one dates back to March 19.
María Letizia Di Liberti, general director of the Department of Health Activities and Epidemiological Observatory, right hand of Councilor Razza, attended the house; Salvatore Cusimano, regional official and Emilio Madonia, employee of a company that manages the IT flows of the department.
To request the measure were the acting prosecutor of Trapani Maurizio Agnello and the alternates Sara Morri and Francesca Urbani. The precautionary custody order is from the Trapani investigating judge Caterina Brignone, who recognized the validity of the reconstruction of the prosecutors and the need to intervene urgently, but later declared herself incompetent – as reported by the prosecutor – sending the documents to Palermo . According to the investigating judge, we are facing “a perverse political plan to which the president of the Musumeci Region seems alien, who indeed – writes the investigating judge – seems to have been deceived by the false information that is reported to him.”
Councilor Razza’s deputy chief of staff is also investigated in the investigation, Ferdinando Croce and Mario Palermo, director of Service 4 of the Department in charge of Maria Letizia Di Liberti.
Coronavirus, falsified data: the investigation
The investigation that is now shaking Sicily was born by chance. Last year, the carabinieri investigated a laboratory in Alcamo that would have released hundreds of incorrect swabs: negative instead of positive. Prosecutors have decided to investigate the regional health department, activating some wiretapping. And the first suspicious conversations emerged in which there was talk of changing daily infection and tampon data. Conversations that would be repeated at a worrying rate. The management of the data was in charge of María Letizia Di Liberti, one of the historical faces of the regional bureaucracy, in service since 1992, estimated by the various majorities and oppositions that have succeeded each other over time due to her technical role, unique shadow on it. I ran an embezzlement investigation in 2018, for some undue compensation.
Coronavirus, falsified data: the executive
In the most intense months of the pandemic, CEO Maria Letizia Di Liberti had launched a battle to bring order to the prevailing chaos in collecting data on infections and tampons. In November, he had written a peremptory note to all health agencies. It began like this: “The omission or incomplete registration of data on the computer platform by the parties involved in the process of execution and / or analysis of the swabs, constitutes a serious infraction that runs the risk of compromising the quality of the analysis and evaluations on the trend of the epidemic and, consequently, induce decision makers to implement containment measures that are not proportional to the real epidemiological picture. ”And now, she is accused of omitting and altering that data. What would he do? For some personal or professional interest? To please his councilor? To cover up some glaring flaws in the Sicilian health organization?
The magistrates have ordered the acquisition of cell phones, computers, and servers from the department. Of course, a copy. The complex machinery of health cannot be stopped at this time of health emergency. But you need to understand what happened. And most importantly, find out what data has been hidden. The investigation is just beginning.
