The President of the VII criminal section of the Court of Naples, Panel C, Dr. Marta Di Stefano, on 18 May 2022 revoked the precautionary measure of house arrest for Raffaele Tortoriello, former acting Chief Physician of thePascale National Cancer Institute of Naples.
The doctor had been involved in the legal case dating back to November 2020, for which he is accused of the crimes of extortion and forgery, as the Demand believes that he convinced some patients of the aforementioned Institute to undergo surgery at the “Posillipo” Clinic.
The lawyer Antonio Masullo, as the sole defender of Tortoriello, in completely overturning the previous line of defense, he is continuing to highlight the various flaws in the judicial affair.
The lawyer states: “The provision came in partial acceptance of the request for revocation of house arrest that I presented a few days ago.”
The request highlighted how the risk of tampering with evidence, which motivated the restrictive measure ordered at the time by the GIP of the Court of Naples, had disappeared for two reasons.
First of all because the subjects indicated in the previous document had not been included in the list of witnesses for the prosecution and the defence. Tortoriello, nor by the other parties to the proceedings, as can be verified by reading the lists of witnesses included in the case file and admitted by the Court.
Secondly, because the relevance of the precautionary danger situation, in reality, was objectively different from that of 12 January 2021, also because the trial that is being held has reached an adequate level of debate, such as to eliminate the aforementioned precautionary needs.

This is an important first result in the direction of clarifying my Client's position, also aided by what I consider to be an exemplary, due process conduct of the Judging Panel.
Although Dr. Tortoriello's judicial journey is still long, to adequately shed light on his real conduct, I have absolute confidence in the work of the judging magistrates, aimed solely at the emergence of the truth of the facts".
Article published on May 25, 2022 - 10:15 pm