Investigation in Liguria and chaos over the Genoa dam
Dear dam, how a lot do you price us? Defined as “the mom of all works” of Pnrr with a complete funding of 1.3 billion euros, the Genoa dam it finds itself on the heart of a authorized and monetary tangle that threatens to make Italians pay the worth twice, representing a potential blow to residents.
From the start, the infrastructure has needed to take care of a sequence of authorized and administrative issues which have forged many shadows on its future. The cancellation of the producer’s tender award WeBuild by the Tar of Liguria in truth, shortly earlier than the official begin of the works, it triggered a sequence of occasions that would improve prices and threaten the completion of the work itself.
And on the sidelines of the corruption-based chaos that’s engulfing “Superb” Genoa, as Petrarca would name it, Webuild is observing the whole lot fastidiously, additionally as a result of – based on what Affaritaliani.it is ready to reveal- “the Anac affair is completely unrelated to the corruption case”. The hope clearly is that issues “will transfer ahead and that the work is not going to come to a halt”.
The cancellation of the tender didn’t in truth result in the suspension of the works due to the impact of the “protect” of the financing via the sources of the PNRR (round 500 million euros). However, this case has created a authorized tangle through which the contracting authority dangers paying not solely the consortium initially awarded the development contract, but additionally the corporate that misplaced the tender and which within the meantime has requested compensation. This is cash that the State must pay further for.
Furthermore, l’Anac has recognized a number of irregularities, such because the use of the negotiated process as a substitute of the tender. Furthermore, among the many complaints of the National Anti-Corruption Authority, the alteration of the contractual circumstances with a view to shield WeBuild and cross the buck of the potential geological dangers deriving from the mammoth works straight on the State.
But that is not all, the corporate led by the CEO Pietro Salini has included clauses concerning worth revisions. Second l’ANAC, because of this there could possibly be appreciable further prices, borne by the State. The risk of a improve in prices additionally emerges from some wiretaps revealed by Everyday prevalence: the dialog happened shortly after the Draghi authorities permitted the Aid decreewhich foresees will increase of as much as 20% in uncooked materials prices.
But for the CEO of WeBuild the decree simply issued isn’t but sufficient to really feel protected, because the governor of Liguria defined Giovanni All a Paolo Emilio Gentlementhe previous president of the Port System Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea, now CEO of Iren, within the widespread interceptions: “I have never seen him notably hostile, he is aware of they must do it, however somebody tells him stuff, based on me, partially true to cowl one’s ass, within the sense he says ‘…no however that may be a contract after the… redevelopment of the Draghi decree, to allow them to’t even add 20 %… then that Decree does not have multi-year protection so if something we solely have 20 % for the primary yr… eeh… we have to perceive, as a result of in any other case what can we do? … ‘… properly so… he needs to be not less than reassured”.
The estimate of those “further prices” is to be quantified at roughly 400 million euros extra. It is at all times revealed Gentlemen, who in one other wiretap explains that it’s Salini himself who has accomplished the calculations. The price of the contract thus reaches one billion and 450 million, half a billion greater than the preliminary worth.