(ANSA) - GIOIA TAURO, 04 MAR - The police, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Palmi, carried out 9 precautionary custody orders - three in prison and six under house arrest - issued against as many subjects of the Piana di Gioia Tauro held responsible, at various title - as employers, corporals and fixers - of illicit intermediation and exploitation of labor and fictitious title of assets.
The investigators of the Reggio Calabria Mobile Squad and the Gioia Tauro Commissariat, assisted by the Caserta Mobile Squad and the crews of the Crime Prevention Department, are also carrying out house searches against the suspects.
A farm also seized.
80 men and women of the police are employed in the operation.
With the "Rasoterra" investigation, the ReggioCalabria mobile team and the Gioia Tauro police station have made full light on some incidents of severe labor exploitation in the countryside of the Plain of numerous immigrants of sub-Saharan origins housed in the San Ferdinando slum, dismantled in March 2019. The investigation refers to several episodes related to the phenomenon of gang-ganging which took place between June 2018 and June 2019. From the control activities of the companies and citrus crops in which immigrants worked as laborers, from the depositions of some hibernators subjected to exploitation and finally thanks to telephone interceptions, a context of absolute criminal importance emerged characterized by the continuous occurrence of criminal conduct carried out by employers, corporals and fixers.
It was they, according to the investigators, who recruited, used, hired and employed low-cost non-EU workers.
Taking advantage of their state of extreme economic need, the suspects assigned them to work in the fields in conditions of exploitation.
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