The hypothesis of the public prosecutor Giangiacomo Pilia is that in the landfill for waste “Inerti ex 2A - Ecoinerti srl” in Iglesias, between April 2021 and June 2022, large quantities of unauthorized waste ended up, in a continuous and organized manner. Materials that, by type, should have been sent to higher category plants. By reducing the disposal costs, the legal representative of the company Gianluigi Rubiu (67 years old from Iglesias, regional councilor of Fratelli d'Italia), his son Andrea (37), a partner in the company, and the employee Andrea Caschili (59), would have obtained an illicit gain of over 191 thousand euros. In total, there are 11 suspects for whom the Prosecutor's Office has requested referral to trial
Preliminary hearing
The preliminary hearing is scheduled for April 1st before the Gup of the Court, Michele Contini, who will have to make the first assessment of the material collected by the Prosecutor's Office, establishing whether it is sufficient to hold a trial. In addition to the legal representatives and the employee of Ecoinerti of Iglesias, the referral to trial has also been requested for some owners of waste producing companies that allegedly disposed of waste in the landfill.
These are Marcello and Massimiliano Saba from Cagliari (56 and 54 years old), Fausto Loi (55, from Lanusei), Giuseppe Ignazio Massenti (70, from Cagliari), Fabio Giua (46, from Olbia), Mario Siddi (72, from Selargius) and Luca Lemmi (52, from Pontedera). Also in trouble is Teresa Fabbri (65, from Sestu), the legal representative of an analysis laboratory suspected of forgery for having corrected a document that later ended up in the investigation. In addition to the 11 for whom referral to trial has been requested, there are also other suspects for whom the Prosecutor's Office has decided to proceed separately.
The investigation
The investigation was opened in 2021 and entrusted to the Carabinieri of the Ecological Operations Unit (Noe). Gianluigi and Andrea Rubiu, with Andrea Caschili, are accused not only of aiding and abetting illicit waste trafficking, but also of an alleged fraud against the Province of South Sardinia. They allegedly certified that part of the disposed material came from the "resurfacing of internal slopes", thus obtaining authorization from the Authority to then bury the waste. The owners and legal representatives of the companies that sent the waste to the landfill, on the other hand, are accused of having passed it off as non-hazardous inert materials, so as to reduce disposal costs. In reality - according to the Carabinieri investigations - sometimes bitumen insulation, sheaths, plasterboard, insulation, potabilization sludge and other material that should have ended up in other better equipped plants were also sent.
The defenses
Defending the defendants are lawyers Guido and Federico Manca Bitti, Gianluigi Perra, Giorgio Murino, Massimo Graziano, Giuseppe Durgoni, Emanuele Pisano, Andrea Usai and Giorgio Loi. The lawyers consulted consider their clients extraneous to the charges, ready to fight before the judge.
Francis Pinna
