Operation "Freedom" - "corporal" arrested by the carabinieri. He recruited compatriots to exploit them

He recruited compatriots and then exploited them in the fields dedicated to the cultivation of agricultural products in the province of Rome. For this reason, the Carabinieri of the Compagnia di Colleferro, with the collaboration of the colleagues of the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Labor of Rome, have notified an order for custody in custody against a Bengali citizen of 46 years, in order with the permit of stay and with precedents, because he is accused of the crime of illicit brokering and exploitation of labor.

The information assets of the Carabinieri of the Valmontone Station, together with the specific skills of the Carabinieri of the Rome Labor Inspection Unit, in line with the Rome Territorial Labor Inspectorate, under the direction of the Velletri Public Prosecutor's Office, was placed in being a painstaking investigative activity that allowed us to discover how the "corporal", after having recruited four of his countrymen, from the 24 to the 51 years and all in order with the residence permit and census, used them on agricultural land entrusted in concession to the company of which he was a de facto administrator, subjecting them to exploitative conditions, taking advantage of the state of need in which they arose.

The information collected by the Carabinieri of the Valmontone Station allowed to carry out an inspection activity in the Roman town where, in a 25000 square meter plot dedicated to the cultivation of mixed vegetables and Indian hemp, the military seized two dilapidated artifacts, without paving, where the four Bengali laborers were forced to stay without water and light and the most basic conditions of hygiene and safety.

Thanks to long stalking, by day and by night, to pedestrians, to the exhortation of witnesses, the Carabinieri have shown how, for more than a year, the "corporal" as well as using them in "black" paying them with a cash consideration clearly different from the salary provided for by the national collective labor agreement, it violates the rules on labor and weekly rest periods, as well as on workplace safety and hygiene, in fact distorting the market in general and competition in the sector.

The Carabinieri of Valmontone and of the Labor Inspectorate Unit specifically certified that the laborers were in fact employed for eleven consecutive hours a day and for seven days a week without taking the expected weekly rest with a fee of less than twenty euros per day, as well as they were subjected to the scheduled preventive medical examination at work. The inhumane conditions in which the farmers were shown have been amply demonstrated by the Carabinieri who have certified that the same, during the cold season, took refuge at the neighboring bar to be able to "feed" warm until the end of the exercise and to obtain supplies. of water for the first necessities both food and hygiene, as an alternative they were forced to use that of the stream adjacent to the dilapidated "shack" where they lived.

These tests were followed by those of a specific nature. With regard to the agricultural company that failed to adopt suitable organizational and management models and that unduly received undeniable economic benefits, the Carabinieri seized current accounts for the value of 73.500 euro.

For the corporal the doors of the Velletri prison have been opened, where it remains at the disposal of the judicial authorities.

Operation "Freedom" - "corporal" arrested by the carabinieri. He recruited compatriots to exploit them