The Carabinieri of the Bagheria company carried out five precautionary measures, issued by the Palermo investigating judge, at the request of the DDA, against as many suspects accused of organized illicit trafficking of waste. House arrest for entrepreneurs Salvatore Testaaged 37 and Pasquale Testa31 years old, both from Bagheria.
Obligation to report to the police station for drivers Silvio Lanza59 years old, Andrea Sciortino 50 years old both from Bagheria, and Nunzio Pompili, 36 years old from Casteldaccia. The same measure ordered the seizure of some land, seven Iveco and Man trucks and two mini excavators.
The investigations
The investigations began in 2022 and ended in February 2023 and shed light, according to the prosecution, on a company that should have dealt exclusively with construction and the transport of non-hazardous special waste produced by third parties, but which instead on the land of his property he had established a real illegal landfill. In just 2 months of monitoring, at least 280 discharges of chemical waste were documented, with an average of 7 per day carried out without interruption, for a total of approximately 1,400 tons of inert material. The cost required by the company to dispose of each single load ranged from 70 to 100 euros for a profit of approximately 15,000 euros per month.
