Judicial review for the American company building the US consulate

It is stated in the Prosecutor's Statement that Caddell Construction 'employed between 311 and 394 workers for the year 2025, of whom 388 were employed in December, of whom 316 were ethnic Indians. As of February 2026, the number of workers reported by Caddell's branch office for the construction of the new consulate is 261. Hence two considerations: the number of exploited workers is massive and the situation of heavy labour exploitation has been going on for a long time'.

From the many testimonies, we come to understand that there has existed for years, close to the centre of Milan, a place where recruitment is managed from abroad: workers are hooked up in their country of origin, India, by unscrupulous intermediaries. Prosecutor Paolo Storari writes that 'these intermediaries promise decent salaries by exploiting their state of need. The initial payment: in order to be able to leave, all the workers were asked to pay a fee of about 5000 euro (500 thousand rupees) in order to obtain the relative work visa and the guarantee of work itself and, often, in order to pay this 'protection money' the same workers and their families get into heavy debt. The debt bond: Once they arrive in Italy, the workers discover that the promises were false and the debt contracted becomes a chain as the 'site corporal' withholds a large part of the (already paltry) salary with the excuse of accommodation and food and with the threat of dismissal.

Many workers remain in a state of clandestinity. This leads to a more organised exploitation on site, inside the construction site, where the workers 'are forced to work with massacring shifts, without security and under the constant threat of dismissal and then return to their country of origin, if they do not submit to degrading and underpaid working conditions, not even being able to rebel because they are blackmailed and controlled. In this situation of para-slavery, it is difficult to deny that the prerequisites set forth in Article 603 bis of the criminal code (and the related liability ex L.D. 231/2001 against the company) exist'. Hence the emergency measure: the carabinieri raided the offices and presented the card for immediate commissioner.