Upon payment of a few thousand euros, the phones were delivered to the prisoners of the high and medium security department, without going to the scrutiny scanner, which were not working, then hidden in double potted funds
Maxi operation in prison La Dogaia di Prato. On the order of the Prato prosecutor, led by Luca Tescaroli, they were taken 127 searches in the high and media security departmentswhere 111 people are detained for crimes of mafia association and drug trafficking.
Three prison police officers between 29 and 32 years accused of corruption searched and investigated. According to what emerged from the investigation that started a year ago, in the Prato prison the prisoners would have had the availability of latest generation cell phones, micro -sides, smartwatches and telephone cards, as well as cocaine and hashish.
The investigations highlighted that in the departments they circulated telephone cards with fictitious holders, Activated in Rome and Naples telephony stores, cell phones connected to the telephone and internet network, which served to prisoners to communicate with the outside. The devices, according to what was ascertained, arrived in the penitentiary institute with the delivery of the packages intended for prisoners or by mail.
Under payment of a few thousand euros, the phones were then delivered to the prisoners, Without going to the scrutiny scanner, which were not working. In some cases the packages were launched with the slingshots or inside balls launched from the outside. The phones were then hidden in double funds created in the pots, refrigerators, in the bathrooms of the bathroom, under the toilets or in the feet of the tables.
During the investigations they were 34 telephone devices also seized also with the use of electromagnetic wave detectors. In one day, 11 smartphones were found on 11 January. Ten prisoners investigated for the use of telephone devices. Also seized several doses of cocaine and hashish, brought by family members during the interviews. Identified a plant in Prato, where the prisoners authorized to leave the prison were supplied.
The searches – explains the prosecutor Tescaroli – are conducted by 263 people between the regional investigative unit of the penitentiary and Gom, the special group that deals with prisoners at 41 bis, mobile team, operating department of the carabinieri and finance guard, with thehelp of 60 police officers to face the danger of riots, Since there are 596 prisoners of various ethnic groups within the prison (285 Italians).
The investigations were carried out unbeknownst to the top of the institute, Stability for a long time, and the same staff of the prison police in order not to prejudice the investigation.
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