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04 June 2020 The finance guard of the provincial command of Catania, in collaboration with Scico and the Messina air and naval group, has carried out an order for precautionary measures against 9 people, 2 in prison, 3 at home and 4 subject to obligations of Pg, for an alleged illegal management of the Lentini landfill, in the province of Syracuse, the largest in Sicily, managed by the 'Sicula Trasporti'.Waste and Mafia
The investigation also concerns the pressure "exerted by members of the Nardo mafia clan" for "the assignment of a kiosk-stadium where the Sicula Leonzio plays", First Division football team.
Offenses
The crimes hypothesized in various capacities by the Catania prosecutor's office are a criminal association aimed at the illicit trafficking of waste, fraud in public supplies, continued corruption, disclosure of official secrecy and external competition to the mafia association.
The seizures and buried money
€ 116 million were seized by the Guardi di Finanza during checks in the Leonardi group companies. During the searches in the Lentini landfill, plastic drums were discovered inside which there was cash for one million euros. The drums had been buried.
The king of waste in Sicily
There is also Antonello 'Nino Leonardi, of Sicula Trasporti considered the king of waste in the island, among those arrested in the investigation by the Catania finance guard on the Lentini landfill.
The prosecutor's investigation revealed a continuous and illegal system for the disposal of solid urban waste from over 200 Sicilian municipalities.