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The Sofa of Gold: How Italy's Drug Czar Hid Millions While Patients Bled
The Sofa of Gold: How Italy's Drug Czar Hid Millions While Patients Bled
Greed hid in plain sight: investigators cataloged gold ingots, Krugerrand coins and Tsarist rubles beneath sofa cushions and inside mattresses for twelve hours, while Italy’s top pharmaceutical official had already fled to Switzerland. How did one inspector amass more than fifteen billion lire and wield the power to decide which drugs Italians received?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that led from a prestigious medical career to a sprawling corruption case and a hidden fortune, and ask how institutional…
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