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Garbage mafia: how an 'illiterate crook' ripped off waste industry giants

2024-01-30T17:08:42.624Z

Highlights: Garbage mafia: how an 'illiterate crook' ripped off waste industry giants. Nine people were sentenced this Tuesday, January 30 to sentences of up to 5 years in prison in a gigantic waste trade. Six unloadings of waste transported and dumped by entire skips on the Suez Environnement site in Petit-Quevilly (Seine-Maritime) at the start of 2020, in total 49 tonnes. The waste indicated as coming from a demolition site was in fact a cocktail of rubble, but also the contents of family trash.


Nine people were sentenced this Tuesday, January 30 to sentences of up to 5 years in prison in a gigantic waste trade between


Six unloadings of waste transported and dumped by entire skips on the Suez Environnement site in Petit-Quevilly (Seine-Maritime) at the start of 2020, in total 49 tonnes.

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Except that everything was fraudulent: the waste indicated as coming from a demolition site was in fact a cocktail of rubble, but also the contents of family trash, the transporter supposedly specializing in garbage was a fake company... And of course, the bill of around 7,000 euros was never paid.

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On the “way notes”, a sort of identity papers for the cargo, appeared the name of David Demeter.

Waste professionals could have raised eyebrows: Fnade, the professional union, had alerted its members the previous year to a scam set up by another Mr. Demeter, Johnny by his first name.

“The subsidiaries of the Veolia group processed the waste brought by the companies Dem Industries and GD Industrie, without being aware that they were fictitious companies, without activity and created with a fraudulent objective”, we recognize today at Veolia.

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Source: leparis

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