VARESE – It closed without a culprit the long process for the alleged Eastern European carer racket for which the activity of three social cooperativeswho worked between Gavirate and Azzate between 2009 and 2014.
The sentence
Criminal association and labor exploitation were the crimes charged a 68-year-old Italian and a 48-year-old Romanian woman. But today, Tuesday 21 May, the Court of Varese pronounced a ruling not to proceed with the first accusation, which was dropped due to the statute of limitations, and acquitted the defendants of the second, because “the fact does not exist”.
The other positions
A plea deal and an acquittalin other procedural lines, added to the death of a defendant, complete the picture of the affair, which involved about thirty carers as offended people, three of whom also became civil parties in the trial which ended today. For women, assisted by a lawyer Andrea Toppino compensation.
Precarious conditions
Forced to sleep up to ten people with only one bed available, in an apartment in Varese; put to work in the homes of non-self-sufficient elderly people without having signed a real contract of work, and obliged to respect strict rules which, for example, did not provide for the possibility of taking days off or leave to return home and visit relatives. This the context that emerged from the testimonies of carers before the judges of the college. A context in which, in an accusatory way, the lack of correspondence between the names of the carers and the information contained in the INPS portal and other portals had also had an impact. A circumstance which, after the analysis of the material collected during the investigations, by seizing documents and computer equipment in the offices of the cooperatives, had strengthened the thesis of the illegal work tour fueled by the defendants.
The prosecutor’s requests
Defendants who, however, emerged “clean” from the trial. For the two, defended by lawyers Fabrizio Piarulli and Irene Viscontithe prosecutor had asked 5 years and 6 years and 8 months imprisonmentas well as fines totaling almost 70 thousand euros.
varese carers’ racket – MALPENSA24
