Milan, 14 Sept. (AdnKronos) - The Guardia di Finanza of the provincial command of Milan is carrying out the order of precautionary measures issued by the investigating judge of Monza against 21 persons under investigation 
for various reasons for unlawful conduct in the health sector.
The investigation, carried out by the Milan tax police unit and coordinated by the Monza prosecutor's office, made it possible to discover a system of corruption, conceived and implemented by representatives of a prosthesis manufacturing company, with the involvement of several orthopedic surgeons. , operating in private health facilities accredited with the national health system, present throughout the country, and general practitioners.
House searches are also being carried out.
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Arrests Prosthesis Doctors Monza | Which hospitals involved
Twenty-one people under investigation including representatives, general practitioners and surgeons, over twenty searches in progress and one hundred men from the Guardia di Finanza engaged in Monza, Milan, Lecco, Como, Bergamo, Varese, Turin, Bologna, Rimini and Salerno.
The investigation, called "Disturbo" from the code name with which the representatives of a Monza-based company that markets prostheses, Ceraver Italia, called the money paid to the doctors or orthopedists involved to obtain favoritism in the purchase of products, led to the execution of twenty-one precautionary measures. Five people, including three orthopedic surgeons, a sales manager of the company and an area agent, were placed in pre-trial detention in prison and are being investigated for various reasons for criminal association, corruption and false ideological acts public.
Nine other people, six surgeons and three general practitioners affiliated with the National Health System, were subjected to house arrest, another six general practitioners appear to have been suspended from activity and an intermediary Ceraver sales agent was affected by the provision of compulsory residence in the municipality of residence.“ Thanks to telephone and environmental interceptions and to observation and shadowing services, the investigators managed to reconstruct the illegal activity involving the representatives, the surgeons and general practitioners.
Among the surgeons arrested are two doctors working for the Monza Polyclinic and the Zucchi Clinic. The family doctors who placed their medical practices at the disposal of the orthopedic surgeons identified by the vendors for their own clinics, in addition to obtaining a fixed fee from the vendors of approximately 300 euros per month, obtained from the orthopedic surgeons a sum equal to approximately 20 percent of paid by the patient.
