(ANSA) – PAVIA, MAY 26 – The economic-financial police unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Pavia this morning carried out the evidential seizure of an area of about 140 thousand square meters of the former Fibronit of Broni (Pavia). It is one of the sites of national interest, which represent contaminated areas of particular extension classified as dangerous and which require reclamation of the soil, subsoil and surface and underground waters to avoid environmental and health damage.
The investigation, coordinated by the Pavia Public Prosecutor’s Office, concerns the reclamation works of the area. Several notices of guarantee were notified to the directors and managers of the companies in charge of reclamation of the former Fibronit site. The main alleged offenses are fraud in public supplies; aggravated fraud for obtaining public funds; some crimes against the environment, including environmental pollution, failure to reclaim, unauthorized waste management activities, violations of the measures to prevent and protect the risks associated with exposure to asbestos, administrative liability of entities for administrative offenses.
In addition to the seizure of the area, the GdF searched the offices of the contracting authority and of two companies carrying out the design and execution of the works on the second reclamation lot. “The works – reads a press release from the Pavia Public Prosecutor’s Office, signed by the prosecutor Fabio Napoleone – consisted in the completion of the disposal of the artifacts / pipes located on the external yards of the plant, the reclamation of the interior of the sheds contaminated by asbestos and the removal and disposal of all the roofing and plugging plates of the buildings in the area “.
For these works, the company that was awarded the contract received a total of over 8 million euros in grants and loans provided by the Ministry of the Environment and, in part, by the Lombardy Region. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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