MILAN – Twenty-one arrests, among them that of Fabio Rizzi, former senator and governor Roberto Maroni of the right arm, and a charge heavy as a boulder: conspiracy to money laundering, corruption and bid rigging to win the tenders of dental services banned from several hospitals in Lombardy.
a new scandal shakes the world of health ‘, the investigations of the Prosecutor’s Office of Monza have revealed the “deleterious effects of the continuing enslavement of the officers and agents of public infidels public services to private interests, “showing as” not only violated the cardinal principles of transparency, impartiality, legality, indispensable for good government, but it is determined the provision of poor services with repercussions, economic and no, both on public bodies on patients. “
FAVORS AND HAMMERS
The two top names involved in the investigation are to Fabio Rizzi and Mario Longo – the first in the role of counselor of the Lombardy Region and president of the Health as the second component of the Rizzi staff – that would have been paid by a business group of Arcore: the Plenipotentiary of Maroni would be paid a finaziamento for the election campaign of regional of February 2013, both would also benefited from payments including a bribe of 50,000 Euros (paid in cash through the intermediary of a person accused of laundering) and a number consulting fake, to 5,000 euro per month, billed by the wife of Longo. The investigation started in the fall of 2013, he says the investigtori, rebuilt as in previous years, the multiplication of the races, “is paid the birth and consolidation of a substantial monopoly position of a business group based in Arcore ( Odontoquality), winner of substantially all of the contracts. ” It ‘been cosi’scoperchiato what investigators call a “criminal circuit oriented to influence (through the disruption of the invitations to tender organized) the dynamics of this particular area.” Interfering on three different floors. Administrative: public officials from different hospitals would have been corrupted by the suppliers of health services and in return would make it illegal favors in case management within their competence. Entrepreneurship: the corrupters who would benefit the award of major public contracts rigged or other illegal performance would hogged proceeds of a turnover estimated at around 400 million euro since 2004. And above all there is the seal of politics: a counselor of the Lombardy Region and a member of his staff would ensure, with their strategic support, the conditions to perpetuate the existence of the patronage system.
UNION BETWEEN BUSINESS AND POLICY
A focusing mechanism, allegedly, around the figure of Maria Paola Canegari, administrator of the overall corporate system which, over the years, to be procured “through auction disturbance, bribery of members Longo and Rizzi and corruption of officials public concerned in the management of dental services in the service entrusted to private by the individual hospitals and supplies the same services, the conclusion of advantageous contracts for the above mentioned companies, as well as, again through the corruption of Longo and Rizzi, the stipulation of advantageous contracts with private hospitals and affiliated. “the two men in the region, for their part,” abusing their roles and powers “, would have caused” public officials responsible for the management of dental services and dental supplies dell’aziende the hospital region, as well as the directors of private and affiliated structures of the region, to foster indiction of tenders or in the selection of the private contractor due to Canegrati society “. The necessary “political cover” by the entrepreneur, the investigators point out, they are things translated on an affected union between business and political levels, “creating a criminal organization responsible for the commission of multiple crimes against the public administration to . “
Rizzi and Longo would have favored Canegrati in the performance of two tenders by Hospitals” Institutes Clinical Improvement “(2015, 45 million euro) and” Circle Hospital Busto Arsizio “(2014, 10 million euro), would help to attract new contracts and to prevent abrupt termination of contracts already in place, it would support its expansionist aims outside Lombardy.
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