The Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Reggio Calabria has performed an order for pre -trial detention of house arrest against two basic doctors operating in the territory of Locride, which were investigated – together with another 142 people and for different entitled – for false public deed committed by a public official and scam against the state.
The aforementioned restrictive provision of personal freedom – issued by the judge for preliminary investigations at the Court of Locri, at the request of the local Public Prosecutor’s Office directed by Dr. Giuseppe Casciaro – constitutes the result of a complex investigative activity, which was started following the presentation of a complaint by a private citizen and was conducted by the Group of the Guardia di Finanza of Locri, also with the appeal to voluminous documentary acquisitions telephone and environmental interception activities.
In particular, at the state of the procedure and subsequent assessments regarding the actual and definitive assessment of the specific responsibilities, an “alarming scenario” emerged in which the aforementioned basic doctors proceeded, in a “unscrupulous” and “casual” way, to the issue of numerous certificates of illness in favor of beneficiary subjects – mostly agricultural laborers – attesting to the infirmity of infirmity. long lasting, often as the continuation of previous certifications, without making any medical examination.
These conduct of “distorted exercise of the medical profession” would have allowed the recipients of the false certifications to unduly benefit from numerous absences in the workplace and the parasitic illegal perception of the related illness allowances, by the INPS, for a total amount of almost 70 thousand euros.
In this regard, it should be noted that the seasonal workers of the agricultural sector are entitled to the aforementioned allowance to the maximum extent of 180 days per year if enrolled in the appropriate list and in the event that in the previous year or in the current year they carried out at least 51 working days (in the circumstance in which the worker has carried out a lower number of days, the maximum limit of days of compensable illness decreases in proportion).
More in detail, the investigations carried out have made it possible to deceive serial illegal conduct, characterized by the “cyclostile” release of false health certifications, in extremely rapid times, sometimes based on simple conversations through telephone messaging platforms or by demanding the withdrawal of already pre -filled certificates to third parties.
It was even that sometimes the duration of the disease was decided at the moment, even independently by the patients themselves, coming to certify the same diagnosis for patients belonging to the same family unit (pathology to the arm and anxiety disorders) for the same time period.
The case of a certification for “anxious depressive syndrome” with a 20 -day prognosis withdrawn at the study of one of the two doctors investigated on a summer morning by the mother of the interested party, a young agricultural laborer, which at the time of the certification of the disease was “far from sick but serenely in bed”, after having made “the small hours the previous night, was emblematic.
The result was a dangerous “context of widespread illegality” to the detriment of public spending – being exploited fundamental protections provided for by the law in the illegal source of enrichment to which to unduely draw – on which the attention of the Public Prosecutor of Locri and the Guardia di Finanza of Reggio Calabria is systematic and high.