Renewed arrests after PFT sewage sludge scandal

Warrants of arrest executes - after the find of contaminated fertilizers in Saxonia-Anhalt three men were arrested. The public prosecutor's office in North-Rhine/Westphalian Paderborn issued warrant of arrest against the managing director of the fertilizer manufacturer GW-environment as well as two of its engineers. The managing director had been taken already once in October in detention, reports the industry magazine EUROPATICKER environmental call.

Bad handling dangerous materials and fraud is accused to the Trio. They are clarify-dredge, which were loaded with krebserregenden substances, when fertilizers defined. To the customers farmers belonged in Saxonia-Anhalt, Lower Saxony, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Warrants of arrest were executed against the managing director of the fertilizer manufacturer GW-environment as well as two of its engineers, said the speaker of the public prosecutor's office Paderborn, refuge Rrup, on Tuesday. Bad handling dangerous materials and fraud in particularly heavy case one accuse to the men in each case. After realizations of the investigators had the Trio clarify-dredge, which were loaded with Perfluorierten Tensiden (PFT), from the Netherlands at farmers in the Jerichower country (Saxonia-Anhalt), Lower Saxony, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania supplied.

The investigators had come by PFT loads in the sour country on the trace of the GW environment into Paderborn. In the sour country were however do not clarify-dredge from the Netherlands, but a bio waste mixture on the fields applied.

The GW environment has altogether 50,000 tons clarify-dredges from the Netherlands referred. In the Netherlands would have these dredge to be burned to have, said the public prosecutor. For the acceptance dredge took the company according to data of the investigators more than two million euro. The arrested men would have feigned their Netherlands business partners, them would have a superior technology to convert these materials to useful Bodenverbesserern and humus materials, communicated the public prosecutor's office. Actually the sewage sludge was only mixed with mineral lime.

According to data of the public prosecutor's office Paderborn there was at the beginning of of Octobers in Bleicherode in the district north living already an arrest. With provisionally the arresting concern it the managing director of the fertilizer manufacturer GW-environment and the company Terra vital, explained yourself public prosecutor Horst Rrup. By GW-environment of Borchen with Paderborn made and by Terra vital a fertilizer driven out from the Thuringian Bleicherode should be responsible for the contamination of soils and waters in North Rhine-Westphalia, Hessen and Lower Saxony.

Actually the investigators from Paderborn as well as Bielefelder Kriminalbeamten had driven only for search to Borchen and Bleicherode. When then during the search obviously documents should be created aside, the managing director was provisionally arrested. That surprised us, so Rrup. Because public prosecutor's office and environmental protection authorities nevertheless determine for months in the case of the contamination of fields with as krebserregend valid industrial chemical.

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