Italy’s police is investigating the employee of the Catanzaro city hospital in Calabria in the south of the country that did not appear at work for 15 years, but continued to receive salary.
The Russian BBC Service writes that a man whose name and specialty are not yet called, was enrolled in the hospital staff in 2005 and the same year stopped coming to work. His salary for all these years amounted to 538 thousand euros. It is known that he was civil servants, it means that money was paid to him from the budget of the country.
Police managed to establish that he intimidated his immediate boss, which at the very beginning wanted to attract it to disciplinary recovery. The manager soon quit, and not giving the case, and her successor did not notice the inconsistencies between the list of employees and the actual number of personnel. Did not pay attention to this and the department of personnel hospital.
The man was charged with fraud, extortion and abuse of official position.
Systematic gossip of civil servants with salary preservation and abuse of the situation is not uncommon in Italy, the publication notes. However, the police admit that with such a large-scale fraud of the length of 15 years they have not come across.