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Belluno, “Plastic Connection” operation: trafficking of waste and false invoices, 14 arrests and seizures worth millions of euros

Belluno, in the early hours of today, the Carabinieri of the local Provincial Command, in collaboration with those of the local Forestry Group, following a prolonged investigative activity directed by the Anti-Mafia District Attorney's Office of Venice and conventionally called "PLASTIC CONNECTION”, carried out a precautionary custody order against 12 Italian citizens: 11 in prison and 1 under house arrest.

Serious indications have emerged regarding those arrested regarding their participation, in various capacities, in a criminal association aimed at the illicit trafficking of waste and issuing invoices for non-existent operations. The operation was extended to the provinces of Belluno, Treviso, Padua, Vicenza, Naples, Avellino and Pisa.

The investigation directed by the District Prosecutor's Office and delegated to the Carabinieri of Belluno, starting from a prodromal investigative activity coordinated by the District Public Prosecutor's Office relating to an important waste company, has made it possible to acquire concrete elements that unscrupulous fixers have brought entrepreneurs into contact from the north, owners of activities specialized or similar to waste disposal, with others from the south, included in the plastic processing chain, allowing the latter to dispose of their waste, including special waste, through the introduction of companies in the north or setting them aside in improvised storage places, adjacent to the companies themselves. The investigative activity, also conducted through technical investigations and countless observation, shadowing and control services, gathered elements which were the basis of the seizure decree of 3 factories operating in the specific sector, as well as movable and immovable assets, current accounts such as to cover the sum of 1.500.000 euros, established by the investigating judge in the preventive seizure decree for equivalent purposes aimed at confiscation.

Further investigations also made it possible to acquire concrete elements relating to the production of irregular tax documents to create fictitious commercial relationships and related invoicing in order to hide the undue profit of the main activity.

Also under investigation are 10 perpetrators responsible for similar but less serious conduct.

Investigative evidence acquired such as to suggest the diversion of approximately two million euros to foreign accounts, or the illicit disposal of 22.000 tons of waste comparable to a 7 km long column of trucks or filling a surface such as Piazza San Marco with a layer of 5 meters of waste.

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