The Civil Guard has reported this Sunday the arrest in the Huesca town of Binéfar of two men aged 66 and 70 as alleged perpetrators of the crimes of sexual assault and against the rights of workers.
The arrest occurred last Friday by agents of the Organic Unit of the Judicial Police of the Huesca Civil Guard Command.
The proceedings, along with the detainees, were forwarded to the Monzón Guard Court (Huesca), which ordered their entry into provisional prison, communicated and without bail.
The informative note of the Benemérita does not provide more information about the detainees, although judicial sources have confirmed this Sunday that it would be the brothers Mario and Piero Pini, of Italian origin.
Both reside in Binéfar and are owners of several meat companies in the area, including the large slaughterhouse of the Litera Meat company, opened four years ago in the aforementioned town in Huesca.
It employs around 1,600 workers and is considered the largest slaughterhouse in Europe.
The oldest of the detainees would be Piero Pini, the owner of the Pini group, who had previously had problems with the law.
At the beginning of March 2019, he was arrested in Hungary, where he had a meat industry. He was accused of millionaire tax fraud similar to the one that motivated his arrest in Poland, a country in which he had another slaughterhouse before that date.
In December 2016, Piero Pini left his slaughterhouse in Kutno, Poland, in handcuffs. On December 5 of that same year, the Central Police, the border guard and the tax office carried out an operation that resulted in eight detainees.
They were accused of acting as a criminal group and of defrauding public coffers of more than 100 million euros, a practice that, according to the Police, had been going on since 2011.
Pini was considered the mastermind of the operation and the businessman was released after paying a bail of 10 million euros.
His legal problems were known to the Government of Aragon and the Binéfar City Council, but both institutions justified that in Spain there was no evidence that he had broken the law and that a sanitary cordon could not be established before the arrival of a million-dollar investment .
The meat company assured that its investment in all the plants planned in the region of La Litera would be around 200 million.
Pini presented the macro slaughterhouse project at the headquarters of the Government of Aragon accompanied by the president, Javier Lambán, and the mayor, Alfonso Adán. The presentation took place in August 2017, six months after his first arrest in Poland.
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