Carabinieri officers conducted an operation in Lazio against illegal waste trafficking. Officers from the Judicial Police Section of the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office and the Forestry Corps of Rome, Rieti, and Latina, supported by the Carabinieri's Territorial Units, carried out 15 arrests (six pre-trial detentions and nine house arrests), three daily reporting orders, 6 residence bans in the Province of Rome, and the preventive seizure of 9 trucks used for the illegal transportation of waste and one car dismantling plant. A total of 3 people were investigated, on various counts, for illegal waste trafficking, criminal conspiracy for the purpose of money laundering and receiving stolen vehicles, insurance fraud, feigning a crime, and aiding and abetting. The orders were issued by the investigating judge of the Rome Court at the request of the local Public Prosecutor's Office - District Anti-Mafia Directorate. The operation, conventionally called "Tellus" (from the name of the Roman deity of the Earth, to underscore the Carabinieri's commitment to protecting the environment), is the result of an investigation stemming from a series of checks aimed at combating the phenomenon of "toxic fires," resulting from the illegal management of waste, primarily carried out by Roma people in collusion with the owners of several waste-recycling companies, who received only the valuable components (e.g., copper, bronze, brass).
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