Overview
- Investigators returned to Sant’Eugenio hospital to collect documents on patient transfers to private clinics and took medical charts for case‑by‑case review.
- Fourteen suspects had their phones seized as police map communications and money flows tied to the alleged steering of dialysis patients.
- Prosecutors will examine whether all dialysis prescriptions were necessary and whether any patients deteriorated or died after being moved.
- Chief nephrologist Roberto Palumbo was previously arrested on corruption allegations, with Dialeur owner Maurizio Terra also under arrest after a €3,000 cash handoff linked to a transfer.
- Intercepts cited by prosecutors describe systematic allocation of patients to Dialeur, Diaverum, Madonna della Fiducia and Rome American Hospital, with roles attributed to Paola Tatangelo and Annalisa Pipicelli and partial admissions by Palumbo about monthly earnings and a September cash payment.