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Grueling shifts of 14 mineral of work, a fixed salary of 4 or 5 euros an hour. So threats crimes and beatings. So more than 150 employees, especially non-community citizens since Bengali were exploited by an organization operating in the luxury yacht shipyards a spice. The Guardia di Finanza, coordinated by the prosecutor Antonio Patrono, accomplished 8 precautionary orders, seven in prison and an ai domiciliary, and seized in advance too 900 thousand euro between La Spezia, Savona, Ancona and Carrara. Based on some anomalies, identified and reported by Prefecture of La Spezia, the financiers have acquired business hours Entry ed Departure at work, testimonials of workers, wiretapping the phone line and environmental, which confirmed the serious conditions of exploitation to which the workers were subjected, sometimes with threats and violence, achieved by a group of corporeal, composed of other compatriots and an Italian.
The “bosses”, taking advantage of the state of necessity, little paid workers with a fixed salary of 4 or 5 euros per hour, employing them in work activities heavy and also dangerous, such as solder, grout and painting of large yachts. The workers had exhausting shifts, up to 14 hours a day without permits and breaks, watched by corporals and often threatened, offended and beaten. The workers accepted submission for the you don’t need to lose your job, the only way to support families and the only way to have a residence permit in Italy.
“One hundred male, I am very sick, I have the temperature stop ”, are the words of a worker in a telephone interception. “Ah, are you sick? And you Come the same … meanwhile you have to come to to work”, is the operator’s response. If they were absent from work due to illness, even if they were positive in COVID-19, workers did not receive any payment, losing the only source of income. There have also been cases where, after an injury on the job, workers were forced to provide a false statement to the emergency room, being careful not to refer to the work performed.
The yellow flames have played numerous bank inquiries its current accounts and on papers postepay on behalf of the workers who allowed to reveal the system used by the corporals. Everybody payment receipts and the related payments resulted, in a first check, obedient. The workers’ job position was in perfect rule and everything was accounted for (permits, shifts Holidays, working hours and Bank transfers for wages). But in reality, after making the transfers, the corporals demanded, even with the use of violence and with threats, the return in cash of part of the sum.
The mechanism had been studied by a member of the organization, a labor consultant from Ancona, what did you prepare false buste pays with the minimum of social security contributions, which allows the company to apparently be in rule to receive substantial orders and login in ai shipyards La Spezia. At the end of the investigations, at the proposal of the Prosecutor’s Office, the gip ordered the precautionary custody of the eight members of the criminal gang and the seizure of assets attributable to them, for a value of around 1 million euros, between company shares, property and cars. The precautionary measure of “Judicial control” towards the company that exploited the workers, which makes it possible to eliminate the conditions of exploitation and at the same time safeguard the Work position from the workers.
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