Italian finance police on
Thursday busted an alleged corruption ring concerning artificial
limbs and involving family doctors and surgeons.
Five suspects were taken to jail and another 16 people who
are being probed were either put under house arrest or suspended
from their professions.
Doctors were allegedly bribed with money, gifts, trips and
dinners to facilitate the acquisition of the protheses, which
according to a wiretap involving suspects, were "crap".
Investigators also suspect that in some cases patients
underwent unnecessary operations as part of the racket, which
was based in the northern city of Monza.
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