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ROME (AP) — Fifty-five employees at a Naples public hospital, including doctors and nurses, were recently put under house arrest for allegedly clocking in, then disappearing from their posts.
One of the accused doctors was allegedly spotted hopping a cab to play tennis. another suspect allegedly worked as a hotel chef while on duty at the hospital, and others slipped off to go shopping.
Carabinieri police said that 94 Loreto Mare hospital employees were being investigated in the fraud probe. Over two years, police trailed suspects and filmed them, including one worker who swiped the electronic badges of as many as 20 other no-show colleagues to make it appear they were at work.
Previously, workers elsewhere successfully challenged in court the government’s vow to fire goldbrickers.