Migrants, exploitation of illegal work and prostitution: arrests
Cgia Mestre: with the crisis in 2021, a boom in illegal work in Italy
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November 11, 202 134 searches in various European countries, seized 32 luxury cars, real estate properties, 350 bank accounts with several thousand euros deposited, 400 thousand euros in cash. It is only part of the earnings of an organization dismantled by the federal police of Brussels which led to the arrest of 12 people including two Italians from Treviso. The accusation is labor exploitation, illegal transnational posting of workers and money laundering. The operation, coordinated by Europol, involved investigators from Italy, Spain, Romania and Slovakia.
The Treviso Finance Police arrested two Italians for fraud and investigated 3 other people.
The military has seized 21 companies and financial assets worth 10 million euros.
The investigations also involved the provinces of Padua and Brescia.
According to the Belgian authorities, the two Treviso people allegedly built a series of companies in Italy, Croatia, Romania and Slovakia which in reality were real “empty boxes” which however entered into contracts with Belgian construction companies.
In this way they "disguised" the arrival of labor, thus avoiding paying social and social security contributions in Belgium.
The workers were mostly Romanians, had backbreaking shifts, were underpaid and were "housed" in dilapidated industrial warehouses bordering on human decency.