Marianna Tschoell, 60, was arrested for putting them in touch with two doctors, Roberto Mandredi, 64, and Domenico Bossio, 38, who are being investigated for allegedly writing the certificates for €3,000 (£2,000) each.
Exploiting a provision which bars gays from military service, more than 150 men are thought to have paid two doctors for certificates diagnosing them as suffering from 'sexual anxieties' and being 'incompatible' with the stress of living together in dormitories and using communal bathrooms.ĭoctors at Padua military hospital rumbled the scam when they noticed the unusual number of gay men coming from a small area in northern Italy in the Alto Adige region, near the Austrian border.Ī police investigation found that several of them had girlfriends or wives.
