The managing director of a
Tuscany waste treatment authority was arrested Wednesday for
corruption and bid-tampering over a 3.5-billion-euro, 20-year
public contract covering Arezzo, Grosseto and Siena provinces.
Investigators say Andrea Corti, 50, conspired with other
suspects to steer the bid to a six-company consortium led by
Sienambiente SpA, while also discouraging potential competitors
with "unfair clauses".
The tender offer was made in 2010 and Sienambiente won the
contract in 2013.
Investigators say Corti - an engineer who is also a Siena
University professor - made over 380,000 euros in kickbacks from
the deal.
Corti's "unscrupulousness and greed for money
are...embarrassing," wrote the judge who signed the bench
warrant for his arrest. He was "the driver and the promoter of
the illicit activity" and "sold off his powers as a public
official, bending them to private needs for reasons of personal
prestige and most importantly, for profit".
The investigation was sparked in 2014 by an anonymous tip
to finance police, prosecutors, and the Audit Court.
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