The transport company ended up in the investigation of the Dda: “We have loaded up trusting in documents falsified by others”
SALGAREDA. Involved in the maxi investigation into the illicit trafficking of waste from textile factories in Prato, Codognotto Trasporti di Salgareda – a giant in the field of national and international transport – was investigated for having moved with its trucks loaded with textile materials passed off as ” selected “when they were in fact treated as waste and illegally abandoned in disused warehouses.
The president (Gianfranco Codognotto), the managing director (Maurizio Codognotto), and the vice president (Flavio Codognotto) are under investigation. But they are not there, and after a first day of dismay, yesterday (“we didn’t even know we were being investigated), they defend themselves:” We are strangers to illicit trafficking. “
“Betrayed by fake bubbles”
“Codognotto is not charged with any association crime or role within the association that is considered to be dedicated to the offenses” underline by the Salgareda company, with branches throughout Italy, “but only for having transported goods with documentation that alleged, falsely , it was a matter of recovered cloth ». The Treviso-based company stresses that it did not prepare any of the delivery notes “at home”, but that it only relied on the documents that had been delivered to it and of which it was unaware of the incorrectness or falsity demonstrated by the investigations of the Dda and the Tuscan prosecutor who he accuses Codognotto of 4 illegal loads, with unloading in two abandoned warehouses that the association had managed to procure in the Padua and Verona areas by taking advantage of failed or closed companies.
“Everything will be clarified”
Salgareda’s managers, assisted by the lawyer Pietro Calzavara, say they are confident “that the situation will soon be clarified by highlighting how the company has operated by relying on the truthfulness of documents that were later discovered to be false”, and therefore without direct responsibility.
“Codognotto, if anything, is an injured party in this affair” they underline by the company, highlighting “that it has always worked with strict compliance with laws and regulations”. They say they are “confident of the work of the judiciary”.
The investigation
It all stems from the discovery of an illegal waste disposal system belonging to a Tuscan company that through transporters, front names, falsification of documents and a lot of black had led to the abandonment of almost a thousand tons of textile waste; 19 people and 6 companies, accused in various ways.