Criminal association, forgery, receiving stolen goods, fraud and corruption, disturbed freedom of auctions, illicit influence peddling.
These are the main charges for which the NAS Carabinieri executed a precautionary custody order against 18 people (of which 12 under house arrest and 6 recipients of interdictory measures), resident in the province of Caserta. The core of the proceedings of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Naples North is a vast round of bribes and favors within the public health system of Campania. In this context, the military also executed a preventive seizure order of assets, for a total sum of approximately 1.580.000,00 Euro, against 48 suspects.
The investigation - it is explained in a note - was prompted by a report regarding anomalies in the use of the internal IT system for managing attendance, by an employee who had access to it for his role as company administrative coordinator. The first investigative activities - it is added - have allowed us to collect serious evidence, also thanks to the results of the complex technical activities, as well as detect a series of illicit removals from service by 22 individuals, employees of the ASL of Caserta, for whom, on 25.11.2020, a precautionary order has already been executed for the application of interdiction measures, for fraud against the health service.
Other wiretaps of telephone and environmental conversations, as well as the acquisition and analysis of thousands of company documents and accredited companies - have allowed 79 people to be implicated for the crimes of disturbed freedom of auctions through: the assignment to a few compliant companies of works of adaptation and renovation of company premises managed directly by the DSM, in exchange for sums of money and various gifts; and a series of false and abuses, in order to manage patients with psychiatric pathologies who were entrusted to external contracted structures (co-managers) without any evaluation of the rehabilitation therapeutic plan by the competent specialist body (UVI), subjecting the burden of hospitalization, from the sum of several thousand euros for each patient, to the charge of the ASL of Caserta.
It was then ascertained that the emergency transport services (118) were entrusted to a voluntary association whose leaders, in exchange, paid one of the members of the awarding commission and other compliant employees of the ASL, gifts or other advantages such as hiring their own family members. The corruption was attributable to the managers of the rehabilitation facilities that had an agreement with the association, who, in exchange for the direct assignment of patients and the omission of control activity on rehabilitation plans, periodically paid sums of money and other gifts to public officials who were responsible for the protection and correct recovery activity of psychiatric patients.
Furthermore, the covert management by some ASL officials, under the fictitious ownership of compliant individuals, of private contracted facilities to which patients were sent, entrusted with a fee paid by the ASL (daily allowance of approximately 88 euros), directly by the same officials; such as the creation of projects aimed at treating patients of the so-called "weaker groups", which were never actually implemented and therefore intended only for the division of the sums of public money invested, among the associates employed by the DSM; the controlled assignment of legal positions and maintenance of top management positions within the ASL, through illicit influence peddling; the purchase of instrumental goods for private use with the public funds of the ASL; the illicit removal from service, by some ASL employees, in order to carry out personal and family matters.
Article published on 22 February 2021 - 07:42
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