Rigged races in the Piedmontese ASL, 15 precautionary measures

Rigged tenders, fraud in public supplies and corruption within the Piedmontese ASL.

This was discovered by the financial police, who carried out 15 pre-trial detention orders, dismantling a real criminal association.

The investigations coordinated by the deputy prosecutor, Enrica Gabetta, and directed by the prosecutor Giovanni Caspani concerned in particular three tenders, for a total value of 3.5 million euros, banned by Asl To4, AOU Maggiore della Carità di Novara, Asl di Asti and Alessandria, as well as by the Alessandria Hospital.

As part of the 'Molosso' operation, the precautionary measures were carried out against public employees, tender commissioners, agents and representatives of some companies accused, for various reasons, of corruption, auction disruption and fraud in public supplies .

The investigations began following the assessment of a shortage at the University Hospital "City of Health and Science of Turin", for a value of about three hundred thousand euros, of an expensive pharmaceutical product, called 'Bon Alive '(bone substitute) caused by the fraudulent conduct of a person in charge of a Turin company who used the "collaboration" of an unfaithful public employee who falsified administrative documentation in exchange for generous bribes.

During the operation, the financiers also seized financial resources and assets for almost € 300,000, attributable to the profit of the criminal offenses committed.

The operation brought out a "tested and articulated system of interactions between private parties and tender commissioners aimed at rigging the tenders by modifying the relative specifications, assigning favorable scores and disclosing confidential information" .

A picture, also reconstructed thanks to the telephone interception and shadowing activities, which led to the execution of precautionary measures against public employees, tender commissioners and agents and representatives of some companies accused, in various capacities, of corruption, disturbance auction and fraud in public supplies.