“Contracts in the local health authorities of Piedmont in exchange for jewelery”: 15 precautionary measures. The accusations: corruption, fraud and interruption of auctions

Mallets, earrings and gold jewelry in exchange of rigged favors and contracts for the supply of gowns and medicines that will be used Asl from Piedmont. The Financial police executed a precautionary order against 15 people – public employees, bidding commissioners, agents and representatives of some companies – accused in various capacities of corruption, interruption of auctions and fraud in public supplies. Five of them ended up under house arrest, two employees were forced to stay, while the others will have to report to the judicial police three times a week. The investigations, which involved three races for a total value of 3.5 million euros, have checked a “tested and articulated system of interactions between individuals and bidding commissioners “destined to”makeup the tenders through the modification of the relative specs, the attribution of scores please and the revelation of information reserved. “A reconstructed painting also thanks to wiretapping the phone line me stalking.

The investigation, which lasted almost a year and coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Enrica Gabetta with the pm Giovanni caspani, began after researchers found a deficit about 300 thousand euros at the University Hospital “City of Health and Science of Turin”, caused by an expensive pharmaceutical product called ‘Bon Alive’ (bone substitute). According to the newspapers, “an unfaithful public employee” changed the “requisitions” for the product, falsifying you sign from other nurses, to make it look like needy despite never arriving operations room. In fact, investigations revealed that the suspect returned it to the supplier company immediately after receiving the orders. All in exchange for bribes. The investigations also revealed similar dynamics in other health facilities. In the sights of the Public Ministry and the Guardia di Finanza, they ended three races prohibited in the Region. The first refers to supply of surgical gowns disposable to ASL TO4, where the researchers found that some members of the tender commission favored a company by modifying the tender specifications and assigning them high scores, in exchange of jewelry.

Then there is the contract for the supply of “uniforms and jackets on TNT “organized by the Maggiore della Carità hospital in Novara, where agents of aVenetian company instructed an official to do lay off the tender, in order to draw up a new call in accordance with the “requests” received. The last chapter of the investigation refers to the refueling of chemotherapy products and equipment of the ASL of Asti and Alessandria, where, according to the investigators, the heads of a Modena company delivered earrings in rose gold and blue topaz to a member of the tender commission, after the award of a lot for the supply worth one million euros. During the operation, the financiers have attorney resources and financial assets for almost 300 thousand euros, attributable to the profit of the crimes committed.