The investigations into the Ilva of Taranto continue, and the arrests also continue. I am well seven new precautionary custody orders (three in prison and four under house arrest) signed by investigating judges Vilma Gilli and Patrizia Todisco against the company's executives, but also public executives accused of extortion, complicity in environmental disaster and criminal association.
Furthermore, the prosecutor of Taranto has established the preventive seizure of the entire production of Ilva in the last four months. The seized goods, as made in violation of the law, cannot be marketed, since they were made during the four months in which the hot area of the factory could not be used, by law. The provision also affects future productions.
The pre-trial detention orders were notified, among others, to Ilva managers Fabio Riva, Luigi Capogrosso and Girolamo Archina, to the former councilor for the environment of the province of Taranto Michele Conserva, and to Lorenzo Liberti, a professor at the University of Bari who according to the prosecutor, he would have softened a report on Ilva, after having received pressure to do so from the steel group.
