Ten people have been referred to the judicial authority as part of an investigation by the Milan Forestry Carabinieri into illegal management, cross-border shipment, and organized trafficking of waste.
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The officers of the Environmental, Agri-food and Forestry Police Investigative Unit, coordinated by the Milan Anti-Mafia District Directorate, carried out six searches against five car dismantlers from the provinces of Milan and Monza and Brianza and a Senegalese citizen who owns a sole proprietorship.
The investigation also concerned a shipment bound for Senegal. According to the findings, the Senegalese entrepreneur had declared in the customs documentation the export of food products, while inside the container dozens of motorcycle carcasses and car engines had been loaded.
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The carcasses, according to the investigators of the Carabinieri, came from car dismantlers in the Milan hinterland who had formally declared their deregistration from circulation.
The container also contained dozens of engines not properly decontaminated and classified as hazardous waste, as well as WEEE waste.
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