Investigation in Liguria and chaos over the Genoa dam
Dear dam, how much do you cost us? Defined as “the mother of all works” of Pnrr with a total investment of 1.3 billion euros, the Genoa dam it finds itself at the center of a legal and financial tangle that threatens to make Italians pay the price twice, representing a possible blow to citizens.
From the beginning, the infrastructure has had to contend with a series of legal and administrative problems that have cast many shadows on its future. The cancellation of the manufacturer’s tender award WeBuild by the Tar of Liguria in fact, shortly before the official start of the works, it triggered a chain of events that could increase costs and threaten the completion of the work itself.
And on the sidelines of the corruption-based chaos that is engulfing “Superb” Genoa, as Petrarca would call it, Webuild is observing everything carefully, also because – according to what Affaritaliani.it is able to reveal- “the Anac affair is totally unrelated to the corruption case”. The hope obviously is that things “will move forward and that the work will not come to a halt”.
The cancellation of the tender did not in fact lead to the suspension of the works thanks to the effect of the “shield” of the financing through the resources of the PNRR (around 500 million euros). However, this situation has created a legal tangle in which the contracting authority risks paying not only the consortium initially awarded the construction contract, but also the company that lost the tender and which in the meantime has requested compensation. This is money that the State will have to pay extra for.
Furthermore, the Anac has identified several irregularities, such as the use of the negotiated procedure instead of the tender. Furthermore, among the complaints of the National Anti-Corruption Authority, the alteration of the contractual conditions in order to protect WeBuild and pass the buck of the possible geological risks deriving from the mammoth works directly on the State.
But that’s not all, the company led by the CEO Pietro Salini has included clauses regarding price revisions. Second the ANAC, this means that there could be considerable additional costs, borne by the State. The possibility of a increase in costs also emerges from some wiretaps published by Everyday occurrence: the conversation took place shortly after the Draghi government approved the Aid decreewhich foresees increases of up to 20% in raw material costs.
But for the CEO of WeBuild the decree just issued is not yet enough to feel protected, as the governor of Liguria explained John Toti to Paolo Emilio Gentlementhe former president of the Port System Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea, now CEO of Iren, in the widespread interceptions: “I haven’t seen him particularly hostile, he knows they have to do it, but someone tells him stuff, according to me, partially true to cover one’s ass, in the sense he says ‘…no but that is a contract after the… redevelopment of the Draghi decree, so they can’t even add 20 percent… then that Decree doesn’t have multi-year coverage so if anything we only have 20 percent for the first year… eeh… we need to understand, because otherwise what do we do? … ‘… well so… he should be at least reassured”.
The estimate of these “additional costs” is to be quantified at approximately 400 million euros more. It is always revealed Gentlemen, who in another wiretap explains that it is Salini himself who has done the calculations. The cost of the contract thus reaches one billion and 450 million, half a billion more than the initial value.
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