Contracts rigged from North to South, and from the high-speed rail to highways. A joint operation of the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Finanza returned to painting an Italy in which the undergrowth of corruption alongside all the great works. The people involved are at least 21 and in the various regions, with allegations ranging, in various ways, from corruption to attempted extortion, until the criminal association.
The investigators speculate, “conduct of corrupt to obtain contracts for subcontracting” in the work of a section of the Tav Milan-Genoa, 6° Macrolotto of the A3 Salerno-Reggio Calabria and of the People Mover di Pisa, a cable system, which connects to the Galileo Galilei airport with the central station of the city.
The investigation, called “Amalgam”, has triggered arrests in Lazio, Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria, Tuscany, Abruzzo, Umbria and Calabria. The survey – explain the sources of the investigators – has reconstructed the alleged misconduct of a group of persons formed, organized and promoted by the person, until 2015, has been the director of the work in the context of the three public works concerned and by his partner of the fact, an entrepreneur of the calabrian branch of road construction, with the help of 9 other people, including some officials of the consorzio Cociv.
The works involved. The tav-Genova-Milan is a work that is worth 6.2 billion and has the objective to strengthen the connections of the port system in Liguria with the main railway lines of northern Italy and the rest of Europe. Develops along 53 kilometres, of which 37 are in the gallery. Cipe has fixed a limit of expenditure of € 6.2 billion for the consortium Cociv – a colossus of which they are part of Salini Impregilo, the Conduct and the Civ – which is to build the six lots.
The I Macrolotto of the A3 Salerno-Reggio Calabria was on the stretch between the junction of Scilla and the junction of Campo Calabro, where there were 32 bridges and viaducts (total length of 3 kilometres), eight galleries natural and 1 artificial tunnel (Scilla) of 155 metres. In addition, the works related to the modernization of four junctions (Scilla, Santa Trada, Villa San Giovanni and Campo Calabro).
investigations. The front of the genoese in the survey, conducted by the Military of the core tax police of Genoa and coordinated by the genoese, has reconstructed the episodes of corruption, bribery and bid rigging on orders for a total value of over 324 million euros.
In particular, explain the investigators, “suggest that in the occasion of the celebration of the tenders issued by the General Contractor, some of the leaders responsible for the performance of the same, to steer the allocation of batches to certain companies and exclude others, they have done so, in some cases, that offers ‘abnormal’ become regular in violation to the principles of the par condicio”), and, in others, have availed themselves of the willingness of competitors to comfortable, not really interested in the award of the tender, to address directly the assignment at only competitor concerned. In a circumstance that the disturbance was accompanied by the payment of a sum of money”.
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