The Customs Agency and the Financial Police of Genoa have donated over 600 gardening items of various kinds to the Ollignan Foundation of Quart (Aosta), which manages an agricultural center for disabled people, for charitable purposes.
The material had been seized in the port of the Ligurian capital as part of an operation to combat smuggling.
The products donated to the non-profit organization will allow the carrying out of employment and educational activities for people with disabilities, for the purpose of their employment.
The products, regularly imported, had been seized because they were used as a "cover" load to hide a consignment of over eight tons of smuggled foreign manufactured tobacco.
Following the destruction and disposal of the confiscated tobacco, the yellow flames and the customs officers proposed to the judicial authority to evaluate, instead of destroying the cover load, its donation for charitable purposes.
The favorable opinion of the Genoa court thus allowed the items to be donated to the agricultural center of Quart.
The items were delivered at the PSA terminal in Genoa - Pra' in the presence of representatives of the Ollignan Foundation, Ezio De Vecchis of the Customs and Monopolies Agency and Lieutenant Colonel Massimiliano Zechender, commander of the II Group of the Genoa Financial Police .
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