Rigged competitions at the State University, virologist Massimo Galli sentenced –

The Milan court has sentenced Professor Massimo Galli to 1 year and 4 months for forgery in the trial on the alleged rigged competitions for professors and researchers at the State University of Milan to the advantage of his collaborator Agostino Riva (acquitted for not having committed the crime) and disadvantaging the head of Niguarda, Massimo Puoti. The infectious disease specialist, former head of the Sacco hospital now retired and among the most well-known professors during the Covid pandemic, was, however, acquitted of the (alternative) charges of bid-rigging and abuse of office on the competitions because the fact does not exist. Reasons in 90 days. The conviction concerns a single “falsehood”, said the panel in the courtroom, of a single report dated February 14, 2020. “I forgot to correct a date”, Galli said immediately following the fact.

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The trial was born from one of the strands of the “concorsopoli” investigation by Milan prosecutors Carlo Scalas and Eugenia Baj Macario into the alleged rigged selections for professor and researcher positions at the Faculty of Medicine of the State University of Milan. The commission of which Galli was a member in 2020, in addition to being a member of the University interested in the advertised position, would have preferred Riva to Puoti with a score of 69.9 once morest 67.4. The prosecutors had asked to sentence the 73-year-old to 1 year and 10 months and his collaborator Riva to 1 year and 6 months.