Mafia accused of using Naples hospital for fraud and illegal transport of corpses

Italian police arrest four over alleged plot to infiltrate the hospital and fraud including staging fake crashes for insurance payouts

Members of the Guardia di Finanza, one of the police agencies combatting organised crime in Italy who investigated the alleged Camorra activities in the San Giovanni Bosco hospital in Naples. Picture: iStock

Italian police on Wednesday arrested four people over an alleged Camorra plot to infiltrate a Naples hospital, stage fake crashes for insurance payouts, and spirit corpses away on oxygen-masked stretchers to profit from private ambulance transfers.

The investigation, prompted by the testimony of a state witness, uncovered a web of lucrative criminal activity allegedly carried out by members of the Contini clan of the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, inside San Giovanni Bosco hospital.