Fourteen investigated For crimes of criminal association, aggravated fraud against the state, abusive access to computer or electronic system, material falsehood committed by the public official in certificates or administrative authorizations, embezzlement, false certificate of presence in service, issue and use of invoices for non -existent operations, recycling and self -laundering.
To carry out the provision – issued by the investigating judge of Catanzaro at the request of the local Prosecutor’s office – the soldiers of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Catanzaro and the Anti -Sofistication and Health Unit of the Carabinieri. These are 13 personal precautionary measures and 9 real precautionary measures. In detail: For 5 medical managers, 3 nurses and 2 employees of the Alps Office (freelance professional activity) of the “Renato Dulbecco”, as well as for an entrepreneur operating in the sector of the sale of medical devices The measure of the house arrest; towards a former medical director of the Oou “Renato Dulbecco” for facts committed when he was still on duty The non -detention measure of the obligation to submit to the judicial police has been applied; For another medical director, the non -holding precautionary measure of the prohibition of residence in the municipality of Catanzaro has been applied.
With the same provision, the investigating judge ordered the seizure of about one million euros a total of 8 medical managers and an entrepreneuras it was considered profit of some of the contested crimes.
The investigations – carried out by the Economic -Financial Police Unit/Catanzaro Protection Protection Group of the Guardia di Finanza and by the NAS of the Carabinieri of Catanzaro – which were also divided into interception and searches, have made it possible to detect how The 8 medical managers of the Oou “Renato Dulbecco”with the complicity of the Alps office, have systematically carried out over the years, extended intramoenia activity (i.e. in private studies, sites outside the hospital premises) in violation of the sector legislation, that is, by managing the visits independently, collecting from the patients – rigorously in cash – the consideration for the services provided and providing to pour them into the coffers of the hospital to belong only to a minimum partin order to disagree the illegality of the perpetrated conduct.
This mechanism was made possible by systematic and “organized” contribution of the two officials and the manager (today in retirement) and the Alps officewho, well aware of the illegal activity carried out by professionals, have provided them concrete help to complete the criminal intentions, and by providing to access the IT system of the hospital in order to record ex post, with fictitious dates, the reservations of the few visits that were “regularized” by professionals, both directing the patients intent on the latter to make use of intramoenia health services.
In some cases, it was noted that the doctors carried out intramoenia activities, always with the complicity of the members of the Alps office, during the ordinary service hours, thus helping not to dispose of the waiting lists which, notoriously, are characterized by being extremely long. In addition, it was detected how Two of the doctors involved systematically used, in carrying out their illegal intramoenia activity, of nurses employees of the Hospital of belongingwhich were fully involved in the illegal activity, facilitating it with specific autonomous conduct, such as, for example, the collection – in cash – by the patients of the money relating to the health services rendered by professionals.
Investigators also found how one of their doctors has also carried out over time Abusive cataract interventionsboth at a private clinic – whose administrators were well aware of the illicitity of the doctor’s conduct, linked by bond of exclusivity to the Oou Dulbecco – both at his private study. In the face of these interventions, when the patients required invoice, he provided to make it issue by the accomplices of the Alps office, making them report, however, a different performance, since surgical interventions could not have been carried out in an intramural regime.
Furthermore, always the same medical manager – already drawn as a precautionary order in January of 2024 – with the complicity of two dependent nurses of his own company and an entrepreneur from Cosenza, also drawn by the same order, has systematically employed – as well as another of the medical managers involved – part of the money deemed to be the proceeds of crime in his professional activity, mostly thanks to a sophisticated system of issue of invoices non -existent.
The 2 capital companies, which have allowed the doctor to perpetrate a scam against the ea of belonging and, one of them, also to reuse the money from the criminal activity, are currently investigated for administrative responsibility of the entities dependent on crime. Given the elements collected, it was possible to hypothesize, against 6 of the medical managers involved, the existence of an associative constraint that binds the same with the members of the Alps Office, as well as with the nurses who used by them for carrying out the “extended” intramural professional activity.
Finally, it emerged that one of the medical managers, former director of the Alps office of the Aou “Renato Dulbecco”, who currently carried out and currently carries out the doping control officer and Blood Control officer on behalf of the Italian sports federation, on 46 occasions, produced documentation (invoices for meals, hotels and travel expenses), completely fictitious, in order to obtain indiBi reimbursements from the aforementioned federation. Likewise, on numerous occasions, he has falsely attested his presence on duty, thus procuring an unfair profit.