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Italy chemical plant execs jailed for pollution

Photo credit: Marco BERTORELLO / AFP - The now-shuttered Miteni plant is accused of knowingly contaminating the water of hundreds of thousands of people in northern Italy

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“Eleven executives from companies including Japan’s Mitsubishi and Luxembourg-based International Chemical Investors (ICIG) were convicted for contaminating nearly 200 square kilometres (77 square miles) of drinking water as well as soil through the Miteni plant in the northeastern city of Trissino.

The court sentenced them to prison terms ranging from two years and eight months to 17 years, in the case of two executives at now-folded Italian firm Miteni.

Four other defendants were acquitted.” …

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