The police of the Judicial Police Team of the “Piemonte e Valle d'Aosta” Traffic Police Department of Turin, carried out 12 precautionary measures against Maghreb, Romanian and Italian citizens dedicated to receiving and recycling high and medium range cars ( FIAT, AUDI, MERCEDES, BMW and JEEP).
The stolen cars were dismantled in pieces by some car wreckers gravitating in the Turin hinterland who then sold them to Maghreb body builders who, through special trucks and containers, sent them illegally to Morocco, feeding the black market of spare parts in that country.
The investigations started at the end of January 2019 when, within an abusive car demolition in Turin, the agents had found a JEEP Grand Cherokee 3.0 V6 completely disassembled and torn to pieces, with a commercial value of about 70 thousand Euro, new, still to be registered, found stolen a few days earlier in Cuneo against a dealership. The engine and the various body parts had in fact already been loaded, together with other parts of an AUDI A4 car, also stolen a few days earlier in Turin, inside an Iveco Daily truck owned by the Maghrebian coachbuilder of 36 years, who, however, had declared himself extraneous to the facts claiming to have rented this vehicle to a Congolese citizen residing in Spain, exhibiting a lot of contract and driving documents.
The operators of the Turin Traffic Police, coordinated by the PM Dr. Giulia Rizzo, continued the investigative activity by directing the investigative efforts on that Iveco Daily truck.
The monitoring of the vehicle and its owner made it possible to identify his collaborators, as well as the various receivers to whom the spare parts were sold, gathering concrete evidence to confirm the existence of a real criminal association aimed at receiving stolen goods. of vehicles.
In particular, during the investigation activity at the port of Savona and at the Port of Genoa, a truck and a container full of engines and body parts relating to 32 theft vehicles consumed in the province of Turin were seized.
A warehouse located in Cumiana (TO) and some boxes located in Turin, always "managed" by the head of the organization, have been identified as places to store the stolen goods.
The stolen vehicles instead were dismantled at a demolition in Turin managed by an Italian 52 year old, already arrested in the past by the same investigators for similar events, when at the time the stolen and dismantled cars were sent to pieces in Greece.
During the search carried out at the aforementioned self-demolition, parts of six other vehicles were found and confiscated which resulted from thefts committed at the end of last May.
The order for pre-trial detention in prison was issued by the investigating magistrate of the Court of Turin, relating to 16 counts of charges relating to the reception of 32 cars, with a commercial value of approximately € 400 thousand.