Massimo Galli, the infectious disease specialist who was on the front lines during the most dramatic phases of the Covid pandemic and former head physician of the Sacco hospital, now retired, was sentenced in Milan to 1 year and 4 months for forgery, with a suspended sentence and no mention. Galli, on the other hand, was acquitted acquitted of the charge of bid-rigging or abuse of office
The decision was made by the tenth criminal section of the Court, which instead acquitted Agostino Riva, his close collaborator at the time. The trial for bid-rigging – or alternatively abuse of office – and forgery concerns a branch of the Milan investigation into alleged rigged competitions for professor and researcher positions at the Faculty of Medicine of the State University of Milan.
“About the fake, the only thing I feel like admitting is that I forgot to correct a time.” Thus Galli, commenting on the sentence. . The professor, who said he was “absolutely serene”, added: “if to close the matter it was necessary to have a conviction for something, evidently the only possibility left was the possibility of falsehood”. The infectious disease specialist announced that he will appeal.
The judges acquitted Galli and Riva of the charges of bid-rigging or alternatively abuse of office because “the fact does not exist”, that is, for the main part of the investigation by the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office, namely the hypothesis that the tender was rigged. Only the infectious disease specialist was instead held responsible for forgery of a public document for a report, number 2 of February 14, which was ordered to be destroyed, in which he had “forgotten”, as he himself stated, to correct a timetable. In essence, even if they will explain the reasons later – they will be filed in 90 days – the panel did not agree with the accusatory system. The investigation by prosecutors Carlo Scalas and Bianca Maria Eugenia Baj Macario, who inherited it from his colleague Luigi Furno now at the Council of State, focuses on the procedures for the positions of professor and researcher at the Faculty of Medicine of the State University and was against 25 people, including teachers and collaborators. The case that was brought to trial today is the one involving Galli and his close collaborator and is limited to just one episode. It concerns a competition held four years ago in which Riva, who has always dealt with issues such as HIV and immunocompromised people, the focus of the competition, was the winning candidate for the role of associate professor in skin, infectious and digestive diseases. For the Prosecutor’s Office, which had requested sentences of one year and 10 months for the professor and one year and a half for his former ‘right-hand man’ with the recognition of mitigating circumstances, that was not “a real competition”: as it believes emerged from the wiretaps, it was “tailor-made”, with the evaluation criteria predefined in favor of Riva. Who since 2012 at Sacco had held the role of first-level medical director. A reconstruction that the Court, acquitting on the main charges, is presumed not to have accepted.
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2024-07-16 15:09:00
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