Trains: cleaning companies to extortion. 2 arrests
A union leader and a quality inspector ended up in handcuffs. And the administrator of Fs: "It 's a bad page"
An executive of the Union "Bear-Salpas," Pasquale Maio, has been arrested and two other directors of that organization were charged with extortion against cleaning companies trains and stations, the "Polfer" of Lombardy. Also arrested a fourth person, a quality inspector.
The investigation had already started in December 2009 after a complaint by the State Railways and of its security structure in relation to a company that was making extortion. The Railway Police has thus found a ransom, which was consolidated over the years, implemented by the three trade unionists against certain contractors, forced to pay the average of 5 thousand Euros per month for not having problems with the workers, under penalty of working retaliation. In other words, or paid the bribe or immediately snapped the "controlled strike", as that held last March 31 by employees of the company "Dussmann" Central Station. Behind the official explanation of the "no pay and no work," according to investigators, was the aim of the Maio brothers to force the company to pay "protection money".
During the investigation, a director of a company, had told of being subjected to continuous acts of violence by a person claiming to be an inspector in the quality of society and which was forced to pay a monthly € 800 to avoid the checks carried out on cleaning . El'estorsore The union ended up in handcuffs, just as they were intent on collecting the money. The other two trade unionists were reported and one was stopped at the station of Milano Centrale. He had just got off the train from Rome, where he had gone to pocket the money and then kidnapped.
And the CEO of Ferrovie dello Stato, Mauro Moretti, said the arrests carried out by Police in Milan: "It is an ugly page. Workers' representatives should not provide certain things. It is scandalous that a union such as the Great Bear plots with businesses because they do not undertake or carry bad housekeeping on board trains. "
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A union leader and a quality inspector ended up in handcuffs. And the administrator of Fs: "It 's a bad page"
An executive of the Union "Bear-Salpas," Pasquale Maio, has been arrested and two other directors of that organization were charged with extortion against cleaning companies trains and stations, the "Polfer" of Lombardy. Also arrested a fourth person, a quality inspector.
The investigation had already started in December 2009 after a complaint by the State Railways and of its security structure in relation to a company that was making extortion. The Railway Police has thus found a ransom, which was consolidated over the years, implemented by the three trade unionists against certain contractors, forced to pay the average of 5 thousand Euros per month for not having problems with the workers, under penalty of working retaliation. In other words, or paid the bribe or immediately snapped the "controlled strike", as that held last March 31 by employees of the company "Dussmann" Central Station. Behind the official explanation of the "no pay and no work," according to investigators, was the aim of the Maio brothers to force the company to pay "protection money".
During the investigation, a director of a company, had told of being subjected to continuous acts of violence by a person claiming to be an inspector in the quality of society and which was forced to pay a monthly € 800 to avoid the checks carried out on cleaning . El'estorsore The union ended up in handcuffs, just as they were intent on collecting the money. The other two trade unionists were reported and one was stopped at the station of Milano Centrale. He had just got off the train from Rome, where he had gone to pocket the money and then kidnapped.
And the CEO of Ferrovie dello Stato, Mauro Moretti, said the arrests carried out by Police in Milan: "It is an ugly page. Workers' representatives should not provide certain things. It is scandalous that a union such as the Great Bear plots with businesses because they do not undertake or carry bad housekeeping on board trains. "
by FREE-NEWS.IT
Categories: news, breaking news
