were designed by Duilio Poggiolini Pierr and his wife Di Maria, him masterminding the procedures, while the latter proceeded to collect the fees. The defense asked for the application of mitigation, because the search of riches for Poggiolini was a "morbid condition" that was not accepted by the judges. In a closed session c, on 21 July 2000, Poggiolani was condemned to seven and a half years in prison and his wife four years, excluding the offense of criminal conspiracy. Of the 40 incidents of alleged kickbacks, twenty were confirmed. An appeal reduced the sentence to four years and four months, and the verdict was confirmed by the Supreme Court, which ordered the seizure of assets for 39 billion (29 for him, 10 for her). The sentence has been served by Duilio Poggiolini mainly as house arrest and work in social services, and with shorter sentences for Pierr Di Maria. On 30 August 2006 Poggiolini was pardoned, seeing the sentence reduced to two years. At the same time his wife had returned to live in his villa in the neighborhood of Rome together with his son, who suffers from a brain disease. She would die on October 30, 2007. Poggiolini has published a memoir, Nothing but the Truth: The Drugs in Italy, My Struggles, My Mistakes, but the edition was withdrawn and later matriculated. The Supreme Court laid down a final ruling in April 2012, confirming the judgment of the Court of Auditors of April 2011, fining Poggiolini 5,164,569 euros to compensate the State for offenses of corruption or bribery "ascribed to agreed that in the years 1982-1992, respectively, in positions covered under the government, had received money from several pharmaceutical companies, resulting in a loss of revenue derived from the unjustified rise of total pharmaceutical expenditure". Francesco De Lorenzo was involved in the same judgment, with both being charged in part for damaging the image of the government. Honors The awards received by him were revoked in the aftermath of the previously mentioned scandal, by decree from the president, on November 26, 2014. Infected blood products Duilio Poggiolini was also investigated by the Prosecutor of Trento following a series of infections with HIV and hepatitis C occurred in the early 1990s through the transfusion of pockets of plasma that had not been adequately controlled, provided by the Marcucci property group of Guelph Marcucci. Between 1985 and 2008 2605 victims