investigation order

Slightly before that, on 6 April 2011, the Competition Commission released their investigation order designed to prevent mis-selling in the future.

Judicial sources said that on Friday, Judge Rosa Maria Maggi issued a "wide investigation order" to detectives trying to find who sent a letter believed to have been laced with the bacteria to a doctor in Santiago.

But their investigation order today required him to post bail of 5 million francs, about $833,000, by the end of May and barred him from traveling to Switzerland and other financial havens where Mrs. Deviers-Joncour is alleged to have had bank accounts.

Mr. de Michelis said in a statement that although he had received no official word of the inquiry, "I understand that the magistrates in Venice who are investigating presumed episodes of corruption relating to public works in the Veneto region are said to have issued an investigation order."