A scam
€ 5 million meals 'served' to non-existent patients
article from Repubblica.it
ROME - The meals were 'served' to non-existent patients, the laundry service worked well for patients who have long had returned home. Instead of releasing them, plus the 'outputs' attendance, thus distorting the real facts of the costs and earning large sums of money to the detriment of the public. A long and complicated investigation that led to the discovery of a dense web of corruption, one carried out by police investigating the Core of Rome, which have arrested nine people accused of corruption in various ways, ideological falsehood, fraud against the Regional Health Service and abetting.
a scam by € 5 million
The scam on which is fact light amounts to about five million euro. The money was subtracted from the regional health system by the nine arrested in the operation carried out by the Carabinieri in Rome.
to pull the strings of the scam, in place since 2002, was the administrative director of the hospital Santa Maria Addolorata (part of the Hospital S. Giovanni), Franco Cerretti, 70. In cahoots with the entrepreneur Ferdinando Morabito, who was also arrested, the owner of companies operating in the fields of catering and laundry room, had set up a complex system that swelled the numbers of patients hospitalized for more money from the coffers of the Lazio Region.
To encourage the entrepreneur friend, Cerretti imponeva tangenti da centinaia di migliaia di euro. Tra gli arrestati figurano anche la figlia di Cerretti, Francesca, accusata di favoreggiamento, un altro imprenditore, Emilio Innocenzi, e Francesco Pacilio dell'ufficio tecnico dell'Asl Roma C.
Cinque persone in carcere
"Una ragnatela" di corruzione, come l'ha definita il procuratore aggiunto Giancarlo Capaldo che ha coordinato l'inchiesta con i sostituti Giovanni Bombardieri e Maria Cristina Palaia.
Finora cinque cinque persone sono state rinchiuse in carcere, quattro sono ai domiciliari e altre tre sono indagate a piede libero. Nessun medico coinvolto.
Il direttore amministrativo del "Santa Maria Addolorata" Cerretti è stato svegliato by soldiers in the house they found during a search of 40 000 € in cash.
two-year survey
The investigation started two years ago when the police arrested a contractor to tender for a contract for internal security paid a bribe of 20 000 €. From the fact that the police were able to shed light on the management of the canteen and laundry. For years, in agreement with the owners and representatives of two companies providing this service, the Administrative Director would have received bribes, and favorite - as explained by the greater Lawrence Sabatino, commander of the Carabinieri Nucleo investigation during a press conference - "the use of a counting method that stays totally wrong in fact systematically generate a substantial increase, and does not meet the reality of the number of people were allowed to board and subject to hospitalization, resulting in rising exploitation of data for the provision of services meals and laundry and the amounts paid by the public to the private companies running the services. "
Turnover
According to an estimate made by an internal committee, the Company between 2003 and 2006 he spent approximately 3.2 million euro in more than necessary. Other irregularities were found for the award of a contract to € 2.8 million to a cooperative that provides Istituto Zooprofilattico services for the region of Lazio and Tuscany, and in relation to the management of some contracts at the hospitals "Eugene" and the "CTO".
Involved robbed and killed the cyclist
Of the system of corruption and fraud, as established by the men of the Force, was also part Moriccioli Louis, the cyclist attacked and killed during a robbery in the summer of 2007 while cycling in the bike path in the Ostiense district, near the Tor di Valle hippodrome in Rome.
The man was an employee of St. Mary of Sorrows, a close associate of Cerretti. Moriccioli was robbed and beaten with sticks by a Rumanian 17 August 2007 as he walked the path. Hospitalized in critical condition in hospital, died in early October.
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