The offended parties, i.e. the exploited riders, are 49 in the judicial documents. Italians, mostly university students and young unemployed people, who were notified via WhatsApp chat and paid less than three euros per delivery, between 2.40 and 2.99 euros. This is the theorem of accusation of the Prosecutor’s Office which in recent months investigated for gangmastering the sole director and two collaborators of a company operating in the food delivery sector, “Mylillo Srl” of Messina.
Now, after the closure of the preliminary investigations, the presentation of the defense arguments and the request for indictment by the prosecutor Marco Accolla, who at the time led the investigations, the preliminary hearing has been set for the first real confrontation between the prosecution and the defense. It will open on December 15th in front of the gup Alessia Smedile.
The entrepreneur Gianluca Penna and his collaborators Giuseppe Intelisano and Silvio La Rosa are involved in the proceedings. The company “Mylillo Srl” of Messina is also accused as a legal person. They are assisted by lawyers Salvatore Silvestro, Filippo Pagano, Stefano Olivo and Nino Cacia.
The operation was conducted at the time by the Carabinieri of the Labor Inspectorate Unit (Nil) of Messina, assisted by the group for the Protection of Labor of Palermo, and the investigation was followed by the deputy prosecutor of the DDA Marco Accolla.
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