NINE house arrest, with a preventive seizure of four companies, the preventive seizure of profits amounting to approximately two and a half million euros and 41 suspects (as well as nine legal entities) in various regions of Italy, for crimes of criminal association aimed at the illicit trafficking of waste, organized activities for the illicit trafficking of waste, illicit cross-border trafficking of waste, illicit disposal of waste, impersonation and fraudulent transfer of values.
This is the balance of the operation of the flying squad of the Frosinone Police Headquarters and the investigative unit of the environmental, agri-food and forestry police of the Frosinone Forestry Carabinieri Group who executed an order for the application of precautionary measures, issued by the investigating judge at the court of Rome at the request of the competent Prosecutor’s Office – Dda. Four companies were seized. It all started with the fire at Mecoris, which was so large and violent that in 2019 it led the mayor of Frosinone to order the closing of windows, the blocking of traffic and the possibility of evacuating the area.
The investigations have led to the hypothesis that hidden administrators who received waste from companies in Campania were behind the plant set on fire in Ciociaria. The waste from Campania passed the controls by changing its identification code (Eer): in this way the urban waste was reclassified as special, making it disposable outside the region. All with a double profit: for those who disposed of the waste (and were paid for the disposal), but in reality they only changed the code, and for those who received it with the new code ‘Cer 19 12 12’ which indicates waste that is very difficult to manage and expensive to dispose of. And he was paid for this when in reality it was normal municipal waste.
