After a year of work, the government experts had concluded that "the production process implemented is beyond the purpose 'specifications laid down by law governing the treatment and processing of mineral oils and the consequent granting Interministerial Commission and which' was convened ". The activities 'of Omar Lacchiarella, in short, had nothing to do with "tax products similar to crude oil", a category introduced in' 82 with a leggina sponsored by the DC and PSI. Based on laboratory tests, hydrocarbons did not exceed 3 per cent, the rest of the product was formed by water (23%) and three-quarters of a cocktail of industrial solvents, acids much to put in serious danger of the same columns Distillation.The entire article in Italian is here.
The most interesting part of the article comes at the end:
“And he (judge?) added a curious detail: the best customers of the Dragon Petrol included a paper mill in the province of Frosinone, that between January ‘91 to March’ 92 had purchased 600 tons of fuel self-sufficient. Too bad that the factory had stopped production since ‘90.”
Ghost customer?
From this article posted...
Of all 56 prosecutions, the ones which led to imprisonment ended with acquittals; only 5 of the prosecutions for tax crime ended with convictions (with some custody imprisonments). All of the other prosecutions ended with acquittal or for statute of limitation. The same Petroldragon and Omar customers, even those who suffered factory seizures or prosecutions because of involvement with Rossi’s companies, testified as witnesses in favor of the defendant .