Seven people, five in prison and two under house arrest, were arrested in execution of a pretrial detention order from the investigating judge in the capital of Ambria at the request of the Anti-Mafia Directorate and measures were imposed against 17 others, while 71 companies were reported, and 12 companies in the waste recovery sector were seized with a value of about 40 million euros between movable and immovable property.
Criminal organizations between charges of organized activities of illegal waste trafficking to illegal waste management, illegal waste trafficking to self-recycling, forgery, alteration, or use of trademarks or distinctive marks
The investigation revealed that the suspects have collected off-duty (but still relatively functional) solar panels, and once the solar panels reach these companies, they make false statements testifying to their destruction and disposal as waste, and hand over the documents to the original producers of the panels or solar energy companies.
In the meantime, the suspected organization carried out certificates proving that the paintings were technologically outdated but operated regularly (originally European as a term used in Syria), thus succeeding – once again – in circumventing the disposal systems.
Waste in the EU, a mechanism that guaranteed them a three-fold gain as the suspected organization first introduced large amounts of waste collection from producers, then got rid of the costs they had to incur to reprocess them, and finally sold solar panels in developing countries such as Syria, Turkey, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Morocco, MauritaniaReceive money instead of waste disposal costs.
