THEThe Economic-Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Foggia examined the procedures for awarding the local public waste collection and disposal services of 54 local public bodies.
In this context, particular attention was paid to the contributions recognized and provided by the national Corepla supply chain consortium as part of the framework agreement for the recycling of plastic packaging.
The analysis of the administrative acts issued for the awarding of services has made it possible to identify various hypotheses of fiscal damage quantified in total at 5,154,130 euros deriving from the failure to adopt “competitive” procedures in the assignment of services and the failure to receive contributions from local authorities.
In fact, from the analysis of the assignment procedures adopted, the following emerged constant direct assignment of services through “contingent and urgent” extensions in place of “competitive” procedures for choosing the contractor or the use of “below threshold” assignments without guaranteeing compliance with the principles of free competition, non-splitting of contracts and the obligation to rotate contractors ; the assignment according to “in house” methods in the absence of demonstration of an economic advantage for the institution.
At the end of the investigations, the following were reported to the Regional Prosecutor’s Office of the Court of Auditors at the Jurisdictional Section for Puglia: 60 technical managers of the 54 municipalities inspected.
