Low-value lubricating oil that was offered for sale at the price of high-quality oil .
This is what was discovered by the Guardia di Finanza of the Arbatax Tenenza , under the direction of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Lanusei.
At the center of the investigation is a criminal association made up of five people , who will have to answer for commercial fraud .
The suspects, the investigators explain, replaced the original labels , affixed to the oil drums, with others, false, created specifically. An operation that allowed them "to obtain huge profits by engaging in unfair competition to the detriment of honest operators".
The first suspicions about the illegal activity emerged during an examination of the accounting and non-accounting documentation of the company , based in Tortolì, which ended up under the lens, which presented numerous inconsistencies between the quantity of product purchased and sold. Then the results of the analysis of the samples of the product seized at various workshops located throughout the region confirmed what was hypothesized by the Fiamme Gialle, which also seized 8 thousand liters of counterfeit oil .
For this reason, the Attorney of the Republic of Lanusei Biagio Mazzeo issued the notice of conclusion of the investigations against the people involved.
"The service activity in question, directed by the Public Prosecutor of Lanusei and coordinated by the Provincial Command of Nuoro, is part of a broader and more constant law enforcement device aimed at repressing serious illegal conduct in the field of market competition protection" , explains an official note.
(Unioneonline / lf)