Sixteen arrests in the investigation of the prosecution of alleged procurement of Florence rigged Trenitalia

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This morning, 16 arrests were made as part of Operation Espresso conducted by the prosecutor of Florence over alleged rigged contracts Trenitalia. The investigation - said the police station in Florence - involved in various capacities, "a large group of officials and employees of public companies (such as Trenitalia Spa and sepsis) and competing entrepreneurs, bound together to form a real organization aimed to falsify tenders. "

The group, the Italian State Railways (FS), in connection with this investigation, has announced that it has long been initiated activity of deep verification of processes, especially those relating to the award of contracts, and that the activity conducted has uncovered irregularities in procurement procedures for which back in February 2007 the first director of Trenitalia has been removed from society.

The group also noted that the activities of transparency have in fact started in 2009 led to the dissolution dell'Ucrifer (Union of Builders and Repairers Rail), which is the association representing suppliers to the railway sector, and that during these years Thanks to this occurs in the deep areas of procurement and maintenance, with 39 officers were dismissed and 10 paintings by Trenitalia and about 100 companies were removed from the qualification system.

Italian State Railways has stressed that every effort was therefore devoted to avoid the brokerage contracts, the participation has been limited to racing only to enterprises directly producing goods and services and since 2009 has been barred access to all intermediaries .

The rail group has already stated that on February 15, 2010 security structures and audit of the company had formally reported, in strict confidentiality, the Railway Police of Florence came to be aware of alleged illegal activities conducted by its staff in entrusting procurement and management, while ensuring availability and all cooperate in an investigation, and that the subsequent February 17, during a meeting, the group's managing director, Mauro Moretti, had publicly denounced the lack of transparency in the activities of the technical structure of Trenitalia in Florence Avenue Lavagnini speaking specifically of a "cancer to be eradicated."