Lazio, the governor Zingaretti appoints a defendant for abuse of office director of the ASL Rome 5. The reply: "Everything in order"

The new director of ASL Roma 5 di Tivoli is charged to Catania for abuse of office. Giorgio Giulio Santonocito, just resigned as extraordinary commissioner of the ASP of Agrigento, was appointed October 22 by the president of the Lazio Region, Nicola Zingaretti, and on 7 November – as confirmed by the manager himself a ilfattoquotidiano.it – signed the contract that makes his appointment operational. However, between these two dates, last November 1, Santonocito was sent for trial in the proceeding that saw him investigated with the accusation of having conferred, as general manager of the hospital "G. Garibaldi"Of Catania, a job for 40 thousand euros as external doctor to Valentina Scialfa. The appointment dates back to 2015 and at that time Scialfa was commissioner for the school by the then mayor of the Etna municipality, Enzo Bianco, of the Pd. The general manager opted for the abbreviated judgment and will be judged on April 1, 2020. It was the Codacons, which became a civil party, to denounce in 2016 the violation of the rules for access to professional assignments in the public administration through a complaint to the prosecutor's office of Catania, from which the trial started, and to the ANAC, the Anti-Corruption Authority.

The announcement and the "delayed" appointment – Santonocito participated in a tender launched by the Lazio junta on December 28, 2018 and his name was formally chosen by Zingaretti on September 2 last year, in a shortlist of 17 candidates. As far as could be learned, the nomination decree has been postponed in an unusual way for over 6 weeks just to allow the regional law firm to deepen the criminal profile of Dr. Santonocito. In this time frame, explain the Lazio Region, the health manager has obtained from the Court of Auditors absolution in another proceeding. Legislative Decree 502/92, which regulates the appointment of general managers, seems to save – at least so far – the position of the Sicilian manager, excluding from the lot "those who have been convicted, even not definitive (…) to imprisonment of no less than six months for a negligent crime committed as a public official or with abuse of powers "and" those who are subjected to criminal proceedings for a crime for which it is envisaged mandatory arrest in flagrante delicto". If the second case does not concern the offense for which the manager is accused, in the first case it will obviously be necessary to wait until April 2020 to know the outcome of the process. "I chose the abbreviated because I am serene and convinced that the appointment was absolutely legitimate", Explains Santonocito reached by ilfattoquotidiano.it.

The manager defends himself: "Politics does not enter" – During these years, in Sicily, Santonocito worked in administrations led by members of right and of left, including those of Nello Musumeci is Crocetta Rosary. "The doctor Scialfa was one of the eight hundred doctors of the" Garibaldi "- says the manager – I had no particular relationship with her or even with Enzo Bianco, contrary to what someone would have us believe." And according to Santonocito politics would not have played any role even in his appointment with ASL Roma 5. "I did a competition – he says – and it went well. I had tried the selections also in other regions. Mine is a personal, family and professional choice. And I leave Sicily also with a little bit of regret, since I've been working in the Sicilian public administration for about 20 years ". With Zingaretti who for months now has concretely left the helm of the Lazio Region to its vice president, Daniele Leodori, the appointment was de facto wanted by the Councilor for Health, Alessio D’Amato: “The profile of dr. Santonocito is perfectly in line with the requirements of the call, "explains its press office.

In Lazio, the third "foreign" health manager – Giorgio Giulio Santonocito is the third director of ASL appointed by the Lazio Region in 2019 which comes from other regions of Italy. In the summer there had been tasks given to Massimo Annicchiarico, emiliano, director of the San Giovanni hospital, e Adriano Marcolongo, veneto, new dg of Sant’Andrea. "We are waiting for it to prove the facts, the judicial issues are of little interest to us", says the Roman secretary of the CISL Fp, Roberto Chierchia.

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