(ANSA) - Trani, October 26 - Prosecutors in the Puglia city
of
Trani on Monday placed four more people under investigation in
an ongoing manslaughter inquiry into the death on the job of
49-year-old agricultural worker Paola Clemente, bringing the
total to seven suspects.
She died of heat stroke on July 13 while picking grapes
near the town of Andria for 27 euros a day.
Prosecutors in August named three suspects in the
manslaughter and failure to provide assistance probe.
They were transport company foreman Ciro Grassi, driver
Salvatore Filippo Zurlo - who drove the bus that took Clemente
from her home town of San Giorgio Ionico in Taranto province to
Andria - and Luigi Terrone, a manager at the Ortofrutto
Meridionale company for whom she was working.
On Monday, they placed Ciro Grassi's wife Maria Lucia
Marinaro, her sister Giovanna, Infogroup temp agency director
Pietro Bello, and Infogroup accountant Gianpietro Marinaro under
investigation on suspicion of fraud, illegal intermediation, and
labor exploitation.
The Marinaro sisters allegedly cooked the books to show
more days worked than actually took place in order to pocket the
laborers' social security benefits.
Probe into farm laborer death extended to seven suspects
Charges range from manslaughter to fraud and labor exploitation