After the acquittal in the first instance, handed down in July two years ago, there is also an acquittal in the appeal. The leaders of Sol et Salus, an accredited private hospital in the Rimini area, were on trial for aggravated and repeated fraud against the National Health System and the Romagna Local Health Authority, for facts dating back to the period 2007-2012 which were investigated by the Guardia di Finanza.
According to the accusatory theorem, people from outside the Province and outside the Region were admitted to the clinic and subjected to intensive rehabilitation therapies, instead of extensive maintenance therapies which could be practiced at home or in the clinic. Hospitalizations which were then reimbursed by the Local Health Authority. This had earned Sol et Salus a profit of over 6 million: sums that had first been seized, then released following the first instance verdict. On appeal, the Court of Auditors had also annulled the compensation of 6 million ordered in the first instance by the regional section of the same state control body, recognizing the non-existence of administrative responsibility on the part of the clinic or its managers.
The lawyers Gian Paolo Colosimo of the Rimini Court and Marco Martines of the Forlì Court underline that the acquittal attests to the fact that Sol et Salus “has, as always in its historic corporate activity in private healthcare, operated with absolute legality and transparency, having in this case communicated to the public supervisory bodies, at the time of invoicing of each disputed episode, truthful and aligned information on the tariffs actually in force and therefore due as remuneration for the rehabilitation activity performed, guaranteeing a flow of transmission of certain and irrefutable data”.
Lawyer Colosimo specifies “that the motivation of the acquittal sentence, correctly expressed in the terms for which the fact does not exist, clearly certifies that there has never been any alteration of reality on the part of the assisted company, nor deception, since the information provided by the accredited private hospital to the counterparties Local health authority and region were always substantially and formally correct”.
