Palermo, omitted accounting irregularities in exchange for hiring family members: Sicilian transport company in chaos
Corruption and crimes against the public administration in the management of a company owned by the Sicilian Region, theSicilian transport company. Run 9 precautionary measures that deal a severe blow to the top of society. It was named “Smooth tires” the operation of the financiers of the Provincial Command of Palermo who carried out the order issued by the investigating judge at the request of the prosecutor against 9 people.
At the center of the system there would be, according to those who investigate, the general manager of the company, Andrea Fiduccia, ended up under house arrest. Another eight people are the recipients of disqualifications lasting one year (suspension from the exercise of a public office or service and ban on contracting with the public administration). The under investigation, in total 16are suspected for various reasons of corruption offenses for an act contrary to official duties, troubled freedom of enchantmentsdisturbed freedom of the procedure for choosing the contractor, ideological falsity in public deed, fraud in public supplies e fraud aggravated to the detriment of the state.
The investigations, conducted by the specialists of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Palermo – Gruppo Tutela Spesa Pubblica, concerned the company wholly owned by the Sicilian Region which carries out the local public transport service, both at urban and interurban level.
Investigators hypothesize one private corporate management by the top management they would have violated the rules of public transparency and colluded with the representatives of some companies, disturbing various procurement procedures, including those for the purchase of tires, to the detriment of other possible suppliers; the procurement of company buses, through the artificial representation of the conditions justifying the use of the negotiated procedure; the assignment of the auditor service and the provision of services for the start-up phases of an airline.
In the course of the investigations, moreover, corrupt conduct would emerge against the general manager of the company, who, according to what hypothesized, would have illegally conferred the role of auditor to a professional, who, in exchange, would have omitted the detection of accounting irregularities capable of affecting the reliability of the financial statements of the public company; in exchange for benefits, including the promise ofhiring family membersallegedly committed acts contrary to the duties of his office, including the preparation of a tender procedure for the provision of services for the startup of an airline, worth € 2.15 million, in order to allow the award to a company specifically identified thanks to “tailor-made” requirements.
Finally, during the investigations, a hypothesis of aggravated fraud to the detriment of the public company commissioned by the contact persons of the company awarded the electronic ticketing service, of total value of 3.2 million euros, through the use of false documentation in order to simulate the possession of the requirements set out in the announcement; fraud in public supplies in the provision of temporary workers by the temporary employment agency awarded the contract of the total value of 6 million euros, as the assumptions would have been influenced by logic of a political nature rather than by actual company needs.
And in that moment, God send us good.
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