Rome, Jan. 31 (LaPresse) – The Gup of Rome has acquitted the former extraordinary commissioner for the Covid -19 health emergency, Domenico Arcuri, of the charge of abuse of office because the fact is no longer provided for by law as a crime. The former commissioner was a defendant in the trial on masks imported from China, the order for which was placed at the start of the pandemic in March 2020, with a supply of more than 800 million masks that, according to the prosecution, cost the state coffers more than EUR 1.2 billion. For the other 10 defendants, who chose the ordinary rite, the Gup, accepting the requests of the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office, forwarded the acts to the Constitutional Court by raising the question of constitutionality related to the current ‘formulation of trafficking in unlawful influence’.