A real “parallel” electricity grid, hidden under the ground and illegally connected to the public line: This is what the Carabinieri of the Cardeto station (RC) discovered during a control service of the territory, aimed at preventing and contrasting illegal activities, with particular attention to crimes against assets.
During the checks, the military of the weapon – suspicious of some abnormal signals detected in a land adjacent to a private home – checked in depth, with the support of specialized technical staff. Precisely in that area, hidden under several centimeters of land, it was A decorticated network cable was found, placed sub -trace, which led directly to the home of a local citizen.
The subsequent inspection made it possible to ascertain that The electric meter, regularly registered to man, was tampered with, altering real energy consumption. Not only that: two additional abusive cables were also discovered which, by completely bypassing the measurement systems, directly fed a warehouse and a deposit adjacent to the house, subtracting electricity in a fraudulent way.
The man was arrested in the act of crime for aggravated theft of electricity. At the end of the formalities of the ritual, at the disposal of the judicial authority, it was released in freedom pending the evolution of the criminal proceeding.