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Trial on university competition at the State University in Milan, Massimo Galli acquitted on appeal

The Court of Appeal of Milan overturned the first instance sentence, acquitting the infectious disease specialist and his former collaborator Agostino Riva.

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The infectious disease specialist Massimo Galli was definitively acquitted by the Court of Appeal of Milan on the charge of forgery.
The proceeding concerned alleged competitions piloted at the State University of Milan.
Acquittal for bid rigging confirmed.

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Massimo Galli had been sentenced at first instance to 1 year and 4 months for forgery in relation to alleged competitions held at the State University of Milan.

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Massimo Galli, the infectious disease specialist who ended up on trial for the alleged competitions held at the Faculty of Medicine of the State University of Milan, has been definitively acquitted. The doctor, now retired former director of the infectious diseases department of the Sacco hospital in Milan and on the front line during the Covid-19 pandemic, was sentenced by the judges of Milan to 1 year and 4 months for forgery in the first instance trial. The Court of Appeal, two years later, overturned the sentence and closed the trial with a full acquittal for Galli and his former collaborator Agostino Riva. The crime of forgery, charged against the two due to a report containing an incorrect timetable, "does not exist" according to the judges of the Fourth Court of Appeal of Milan.

Definitely acquitted

At first instance, Massimo Galli was declared innocent of the charge of bid rigging in favor of the candidate and his student Agostino Riva but not of the false ideological crime. Today the Court of Appeal confirmed the first acquittal regarding the disturbance and also acquitted the infectious disease specialist for the second charge, eliminating the one year and four month sentence. "I'm shocked, I've consumed so much of that adrenaline that I'll have to fill up again," commented Massimo Galli, 75, with Adnkronos Salute. "It has been five years of useless suffering, certainly not a walk in health."

"Satisfied" lawyers

"We are satisfied that the work carried out has led to the verification of the non-existence of all the crimes that had been hypothesized. The Court of Appeal's decision has freed Professor Galli, who dedicated his life to medicine, research and the training of other doctors, from an accusation that weighed heavily on him", commented Galli's lawyers, Giacomo Gualtieri and Roberto Rigoni Stern. "This proceeding shouldn't even have started. Today justice has been done", declared Luca Troyer, Riva's lawyer.