ROMA (ITALPRESS) – In the provinces of Brindisi, Bari, Salerno and Sofia (Bulgaria), the Carabinieri of the group for the Protection of the Environment and Energy Security of Naples have carried out an order of precautionary custody against 6 subjects (4 arrests in prison and 2 house arrests), held responsible for various reasons of the offence of association inquere activities organized for illegal trafficking The precautionary order issued by the GIP of the Court of Lecce in connection with the request deposited by the local Antimafia District Direction refers to a series of unlawful conduct found during the investigation carried out by the Carabinieri del N.O.E. of Lecce, which began in January 2024 and lasted for several months, affecting Bulgaria, Greece and the province of Brindisi, area of origin of the waste.
The investigation, conducted also with the aid of technical activities such as interceptions of conversations, video shootings and pawnings, writes the carabinieri in a note, has allowed to disarticular “a dangerous criminal association dedicated to the fulfillment of repeated actions aimed at illicit activities of disposal special non-dangerous waste – in prevalence discarded from the treatment of special/industrial wastes, textile waste and fraction The criminal activity allowed the inquiries to introduce an illicit profit of approximately 300 thousand euros, sum of which the seizure was arranged by equivalent. During the aforementioned operation, 2 companies and 44 vehicles were also seized.
The investigations, also carried out in collaboration with the Bulgarian Police Authorities, through international cooperation activities, have allowed to analyze the illicit mechanisms of such traffics, according to tried procedures, based on the “fictification of waste by the production plant, with false documentation, including test reports containing the results of analysis to be carried out on samples related to the transported waste and of non-hazardous declarations of The waste, on the other hand, consists mainly of fractions of waste from industrial origin CER 191212 (paper from the activity of treatment of industrial waste constituted from calcinacci, wood, insulated panels, sheaths, clothing and other textile materials), were abandoned, partly also on agricultural land. Specifically, the vehicles, “directed towards the port, where they were then boarded, with the pleasure of shippers, employees of colluse society, with destination Greece and Bulgaria. Once the waste was reached, the subject of unlawful shipments, instead of being subjected to the planned and declared activities of treatment, were stored and abandoned within abandoned industrial warehouses.”.
The “abuseful nature” of the disposal activity was evident from the very nature of the waste treated since 2020. Significant that until 2019 the company “had declared large quantities of mixed waste deriving from mechanical treatment correctly cataloged with the corresponding EER code 191212 (about 143.275 kg in 2019) and then cease to treat them almost entirely (0 kg in 2020) precisely in conjunction with the identification of foreign channels of disposal (first Greece, then Bulgaria), with unbroken context of export of recoverable waste (R1 and/or R12). EER 191204. So much he had allowed, through the artifact attribution of this last code, the passage to the less expensive disposal procedure”.
The seizure of three vehicles of the company, which took place on 15 May 2024 then provided direct evidence of the difformity between the documentation relating to the waste from the same transported (despite that the load was constituted only by mixed plastics) and the real nature of the same, that the Carabinieri of the NOE had found “often constituted by a mix of plastics and numerous other impurities: in particular some balls of waste were found material The analyses subsequently carried out have confirmed the very considerable presence of inerts (such as paper, cardboard, textiles, wood, glass, iron, rubber, inerts, etc.) in percentages greater than 60%. A type of waste that can be recovered. In total there are 14 people surveyed by the NOE Carabinieri in the context of the complex investigation. The application of the precautionary measure, which came after the foreseen preventive interrogations prepared by the Judge for preliminary investigations for inquiries, drivers, transport organizers, intermediaries and formal and factual managers of the responsible companies, is aimed at preventing the re-entry of criminal activity, through further illicit refusals and to avoid the alteration of test sources through the predisposition of documentation aimed at demonstrating the disposal of waste.
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