(ANSA) - Trani, February 23 - Six suspected southern Italian
gangmasters were arrested for exploiting farm labourers Thursday
in a probe related to the death in 2015 of agricultural labourer
Paola Clemente.
Seven people are being directly investigated in the death of
Clemente, who collapsed after working endlessly in hot
conditions near Andria in Puglia.
The six arrested Thursday are involved in a separate probe,
stemming from the Clemente case, which has enabled police to
reconstruct "new forms" in which casual labourers are recruited
and exploited, judicial sources said.
They are accused of illegal hiring, gangmastering and
defrauding the Italian State, crimes that could get them eight
years in jail.
6 'gangmasters' nabbed in Puglia
Probe stems from 'woman worked to death' case