The president of the Senate Health Commission, Antonio Tomassini (PDL), is under investigation as part of the investigation into the agreements granted by the Lombardy Region to some private health facilities. A guarantee notice was sent to Tomassini, according to what is learned from qualified sources. Even the director general of health of Lombardy Carlo Lucchina is under investigation. The Guardia di Finanza, according to what is learned, would have carried out a series of searches this morning in his home and offices in Milan. The alleged crimes against the various suspects are, for various reasons, extortion and corruption.
In particular, the investigators hypothesize these crimes, committed by entrepreneurs who manage nursing homes in Varese and its province, aimed at obtaining agreements with the Pirellone for the exercise of healthcare activities. Among the suspects, in addition to the heads of Lombard health, consultants and trusted reference persons of politicians who intermediated between private clinics and the local body, as well as the de facto administrators of the clinics concerned.
The investigations that led to today's searches, from what has been learned, stem from the collapse of the group of health entrepreneurs from Varese, the Polita brothers. The prosecutor Agostino Abate (owner of the investigation that led to today's measures) was already in charge of the investigation into the bankruptcy of some Polita companies, in particular the story of the purchase of the private clinic La Quiete.
The latest Polita company to be declared bankrupt is Ansafin, owner of a hotel built before the cycling world championships, an industrial warehouse in Induno Olona and the buildings where the La Quiete private clinic is located. Senator Antonio Tomassini was also present at the inauguration of the Capolago hotel, built for the cycling world championships.
"I learned from the press that I am being investigated as part of an investigation into agreements granted by the Lombardy Region to some private structures," Tomassini writes in a note. «I am serene and I look forward to being heard as soon as possible by the judiciary in order to clarify my position and demonstrate my non-involvement. From now on you will be my lawyer, the lawyer
