The traffic police of Paola, delegated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, executed a preventive seizure decree relating to a commercial activity operating in the field of roadside assistance and in the custody of seized vehiclesbased in Paola, whose owner had been referred to the judicial authorities.
The position of the suspect is being examined by magistrates for environmental crimes, in this case illicit management and disposal of dangerous waste, spillage of industrial waste water onto the ground, uncontrolled storage of waste as well as carrying out unauthorized car demolition activities, and forgery.
The investigation is inspired by the verification activity carried out by the Paola traffic police and other bodies in charge, in relation to the request made by the suspect to the local prefecture, to be included in the guards’ lists.
In the verification activities carried out on behalf of the AG, the operators of the Paola traffic police with ARPACAL personnel and municipal technicians found, after excavations carried out in the square, underground tanks used to dispose of waste water coming from the industrial plant and were also discovered, at downstream of the square, other industrial waste water collection tanks, spilling through an unauthorized pipe, the sewage directly onto the ground into a discharge channel that led to the sea.
During the complex and detailed investigations, it was also possible to ascertain the presence of an unauthorized activity of car demolition and management of the related waste, which was disposed of or accumulated irregularly with obvious irregularities in the keeping of registers and in the declarations to be presented annually to the Chamber. of Commerce of Cosenza.