He was alleged to have operated inappropriately on three folks between 2011 and 2014. He denied any legal wrongdoing.
All three sufferers later died, however Maccharini was not accused of killing them.
Macchiarini risked 5 years in jail if the Solna District Court docket had adopted the prosecutor’s request.
“We’ve judged that these interventions haven’t taken place in accordance with science and confirmed expertise. Then again, we consider that two of the interventions have however been considered justifiable, however not the third,” decide Björn Skaensberg mentioned, cited by the Swedish public broadcaster SVT.
In December 2018, Sweden determined to reopen a beforehand discontinued investigation into the three circumstances. Further written proof was obtained, and extra interviews have been held with people in Sweden, Belgium, Britain, america and Spain.
Macchiarini was fired from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute in March 2016 for breaching medical ethics after being accused of falsifying his resume and misrepresenting his work.
