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13 July 2020 Issue of false invoices with the aggravating circumstance of the support of the gangs. This is the accusation that led Gico del Nucleo of the economic and financial police of the Gdf of Milan to the arrest of 5 people. Among them the city councilor of Busto Arsizio, near Varese, Paolo Efrem.

The investigation, by Milan prosecutor Silvia Bonardi, concerns the infiltrations of the 'ndrangheta in the waste collection and disposal sector.

The councilor ended up in prison for issuing false invoices with the aggravating circumstance of facilitating the gangs.

The order of the investigating magistrate Sara Cipolla also regards the head of the Legnano-Lonate Pozzolo clan, Vincenzo Rispoli.

The order of custody in prison, with at the center the crimes of extortion and issuing false invoices with the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method, was also carried out by the Nipaaf of the Forestry Carabinieri of Milan.

In a statement, signed by the prosecutor Francesco Greco, it is explained that the arrested councilor was "connected with representatives" of the Ndrangheta 'locale' led by Vincenzo Rispoli, a historical representative of the Calabrian mafia in the north and accused in the ongoing 'Krimisa' trial .  

The investigation is "the follow-up to the 'Feudo' operation of the Milan DDA which in October 2019 had led to 11 arrests for illicit trafficking of waste and a seizure of approximately € 1.5 million.

The new tranche of investigation ascertained that the company Smr Ecologia srl, after leaving the transport sector, had switched to that of waste, thus managing a treatment plant in La Guzza (Como). For a long time, the entrepreneur underwent "infiltration by subjects linked to the Legnano-Lonate Pozzolo venue", between Milan and Varese.

After the arrest, he chose to collaborate with the investigators, thus allowing "to reconstruct the extortion context".

Between 2014 and 2018 the entrepreneur "was forced to provide various types of utilities", that is money but also "staff hiring" in favor of the