Corruption, arrested the director of the Ato Toscana sud – LOOP.it

house Arrest to the director of the Ato southern Tuscany, the authority for the service of integrated waste management for the municipalities of the provinces of Arezzo, Siena and Grosseto, and disqualification from public offices for three professionals tuscan: these are the precautionary measures carried out this morning by the guardia di finanza of Florence for an investigation of the prosecutor of the tuscan capital to bid rigging and corruption. ‘Clean city’ the name of the operation.

Relates to a contract of twenty years for a total of about 3.5 billion and the investigation of the prosecutor of Florence and of the Gdf, with which is was arrested the director of the Ato Toscana sud and have been banned 3 professionals. The race was on for the complete management of the cycle of waste in the provinces of Arezzo, Siena and Grosseto. For the investigation the call was structured to favour a group of companies headed by the Siena Environment.

According to the investigations of the Fiamme gialle has emerged a system of “mingling” between controllers and controlled, for which the suspects had agreed in advance, in spite of the distinct roles and incompatible with each other, the details of the award procedure, as well as to the material drafting of the documents. So, in a press conference, the investigators explained that the tender was structured “tailor-made” for the grouping headed by the Siena Environment and to discourage any other competitors by entering into the same contract clauses are particularly unfair. The contract in 2013 was actually awarded to Siena Environment with a consortium of 6 companies. For the investigations, the director-general of the Ato Tuscany, the south would have obtained illegal gains of over 380mila euro, by fees which have been included as advice, performance of work of the professional or other costs type of expense reimbursement. The survey, as they have highli ghted the prosecutor Giuseppe Creazzo and the deputy attorney Rodrigo Merlo, originated from a anonymous reporting is very detailed, “with details that could not be overlooked.”

“This is another step in the attempt to fight corruption in the public sphere, a phenomenon from which it seems that not even Tuscany is not immune to”: is the comment of the public prosecutor of Florence, Giuseppe Creazzo in the investigation on the maxi contract to be € 3.5 billion for waste management to Arezzo, Siena and Grosseto, which has led to the arrest of the general director of the Ato Toscana sud and disqualification from public office of 3 professionals, including a lawyer in florence. “The director-general of the Ato Toscana sud – explained Creazzo – has made trafficking its functions are public in order to promote an interweaving of arrangements really disconcerting for the benefit of the successful bidder and to reap personal benefits. He acted in spite of the incompatibility of the functional. Controlled and controllers acted together to achieve the common result to get the contract to a specific grouping of compani es”. The deputy prosecutor of Florence, Rodrigo Merlo, speaking of the investigations of the guardia di finanza has reported that “the investigation is started from the note of an anonymous addressed to this power of attorney, the Gdf and the Court of auditors. These are writings that often do not go very far beyond the gossip of the anonymous ones, but this time there were details that we could not ignore. So the guardia di finanza, starting from open sources, from materials found on the Internet, has given the way to the investigation”, which began in 2014, while the tender had been banned in 2010, and awarded in 2013. “It emerged that the contract has led to the private part of a public reality – added Blackbird – when would be the criteria of impartiality to prevent commingling and conflicts of interest”.