Souped-up tender: arrested the director of the authority of the waste – Corriere della Sera

FLORENCE – the amount of The tender for the management to twenty years of waste in the south of Tuscany was a mind-boggling 3.5 billion and truccarla would have given it the super tangent. Thus, according to the prosecutor’s office of Florence, the director of the Ato Toscana (the authority for the service of integrated waste management for the Municipalities of the provinces of Arezzo, Siena and Grosseto), and other professionals would have made up our mind to try to get the maximum personal profit. House arrest is finished Andrea Corti, 50 years, director of the Ato, while the prosecutor’s office has ordered the disqualification from profession for the lawyer Valerio Menalda (he would to the accusation prepared the tender) to, the accountant Eros Organni, ceo of Six Tuscan (which has been awarded the contract) and the chief executive officer of Siena Ambiente, Marco Buzzichelli. Six other people have been investigated.

fake Accounts

The offences are not all the same and range from corruption, bid rigging, and in one case to extortion by induction. According to the investigations of the Guardia di finanza, which have been presented during a press conference with the public prosecutor of Florence Antonio Creazzo, the illegal gains of which would have benefited from the director of the Ato Andrea Corti “were quantified in total more than 380 thousand euros”, explained the investigators, “who were justified in the accounts by the entrepreneurs who were awarded the contract by making them appear such as the costs incurred (fictitiously) for assignments of performance of professional work or for collaboration or advice”. According to the attorney Creazzo, the director of the Courts would “trafficking of its own public functions in order to facilitate the weaving of understandings really disconcerting for the benefit of the successful bidder and to reap person al benefits”.

Inquiry match from the anonymous letter

“He acted in spite of the incompatibility of the functional,” explained the prosecutor, “and therefore checked and the controllers were acting together to achieve a common result to get the contract to a specific grouping of companies”. As later revealed, the prosecutor added, Rodrigo Merlo, the investigation started two years ago by an anonymous letter addressed to the public prosecutor of Florence, the Gdf and the Court of auditors. “Often these writings do not go beyond the gossip,” said the magistrate, “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 way to investigations. And so it emerged that the contract has led to the private part of a public reality when, instead, would be the criteria of impartiality to prevent commingling and conflicts of interest”.

November 9, 2016 (change the 9 November 2016 | 14:51)

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