The Yellow Flames of the Provincial Command of Trevisowith the coordination of the Public Prosecutor’s Workplace of Udinehave concluded a fancy operation that has allowed them to uncover a harmful fraud, primarily based on the introduction into the nationwide territory of serious portions of contraband ethyl alcohol, with a view to illegally produce, inside clandestine laboratories with none kind of authorization, alcoholic drinks together with whiskey, grappa, limoncello, gin, vodka, spirits and different liqueurs. Twenty individuals are thought of answerable for having launched into Italy, between 2022 and 2024, roughly a million litres of ethyl alcohol imported from Japanese Europe, for an evaded excise responsibility and VAT equal to 11.5 million euros.
Throughout the investigations, 12 entrance firms have been recognized, with headquarters within the provinces of Naples, Caserta, Salerno, Rome, Milan, Foggiaused to simulate the importation of sanitizing merchandise, subjected to look by the Treviso Group with the help of the competent territorial Departments.
The Istituto Superiore di Sanità – Division of Meals Security, Diet and Veterinary Public Well being then expressed its opinion on the chemical analyses, which licensed the presence in alcoholic drinks of isopropyl alcohol, ethylene glycol and methanol, above the utmost thresholds established by legislation, with a potential danger to human well being associated to excessive consumption, which is why the counterfeiting of meals substances has additionally been contested.