The intelligence unit of the Customs Agency from 2009 to 2013 has drawn up a series of reports which showed the activities of a trust italospagnolo that keeps prices down, bypasses the quality of the product and circumvents the rules on competition. And so on supermarket shelves comes extra virgin olive oil with only 16% of Italian oil.
An alleged cartel italospagnolo oil that keeps prices down, bypasses the quality of the product and circumvents the rules on competition, getting the brand made in Italy despite having only 16% of Italian oil. Denounces the fraud intelligence unit of the Customs Agency, which from 2009 to 2013 has produced a number of reports of which were kept secret by the parliamentary committee of inquiry on counterfeits. The reason? The presence of judicial profiles of criminal activity also because they involve foreign countries. On those documents in the Ministry of Agriculture is silent and prefer not to provide explanations ailfattoquotidiano.it, who has consulted several times. The reports, however, have been scanned by the deputy of the M5S Francis Cariello, which by law has the right to read it, as vice president of the Committee on counterfeits.
Essentially the same subject, which belongs to the company ibericaDeoleo, which is controlled by the private equity firm CVC (which acquired Italian brands such as Carapelli, Bertolli eSasso) sells and buys oil getting the brand made in Italy despite the origin is not Italian, but also the EU and non-EU (greek, Spanish, Tunisian, Moroccan). Francesco Cariello told ilfattoquotidiano.it that in documents as the intelligence reports that "the same person has bought known Italian brands strictly from Tuscany and Umbria belonging to the space of a single family, the Fusi. And that "with only 16% of product earns the Italian brand made in Italy, while the remaining 84% are of foreign origin."
An own goal at an already delicate because of fenomenoXylella annoying, which is causing serious damage to oil production in Salento, but also a formal act on the part of preventing fraud to protect national interests, that policy does not lend ear . "We do not know that we consume oil - it has been the complaint of parliamentary 5 Stars - because while all Italian products of excellence such as the wine is exactly composition and origin, the oil instead there is only a generic Made in Italy, which does not specify the origin of the olives and which does not allow Italy to get the economic benefits that instead deserve "by virtue of the organoleptic properties and polyphenolic unique in the world of its oil.
Specifically, the inspections carried out in 2014 by the core anti-fraud confirmed that the Italian olive sector is among the most affected by commercial fraud. The reliefs were already reported criminal prosecution for repetition of offenses (art. 515 cp). Also analysis of the results of the investigation revealed a series of inconsistencies, ranging from construction of commercial fraud undertaken by chains companies Italo-Spanish mixing in Italian oil Spanish, Tunisian, greek and minimally intended to Italian products exported as "extra virgin olive oil".
Not only. They also cited some "subjective correlations", he writes the report, between Spanish-Italian companies capable of handling 40% of the commercial trade in output from Spaine at a price less than three euro per kilo. Also some businesses Italo-Spanish "are governed by the same natural" and yet are both sellers that buyers of significant quantities of olive oil is not Italian, but imported from Spain and Tunisia. On 5 October, Expo, the special inquiry committee on counterfeiting has released the results of the work, including conclusions about the cartel italospagnolo. In the audience there was Agriculture Minister Maurizio Martina, who declined the invitation. It subsequently declined to provide answers to questions of ilfattoquotidiano.it. Identical decision that Carapelli, interviewed on the subject, preferred for the moment not replicate. "Italy - said Cariello - has 350 cultivars, not few as laSpagna so do not understand why we should aim for quantity rather mortifying the quality of our oil can represent a unique richness to the South." Precisely for this reason, he has proposed an agenda for the approval of the bill (AC1864) entitled "Provisions for the fulfillment of the obligations arising from Italy to the European Union - European Law 2013 bis" with which she asks for the establishment, at the Ministry of Agriculture, a database representative of the various productions of extra virgin olive oil.
[Source: ilfattoquotidiano.it]
