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Ships with hazardous waste, Economic Crime land at "Kurum".

2024-08-26 13:40:00, Aktualitet CNA

Ships with hazardous waste, Economic Crime land at "Kurum".

On Monday, a group of Durrës Economic Crime teams arrived near the Turkish company "Kurum" in Elbasan to investigate the export of hazardous waste.

It is reported that the Durrës prosecutors who are following this case are expected to arrive at the company. They will get to know the documentation and archives of the company, which has been operating in Elbasan since 1998.

Thailand-bound shipping containers filled with tons of hazardous industrial waste from Albania are now scheduled to return to Europe after environmental groups raised the alarm that they were being illegally exported to Southeast Asia.

The Ministry of Tourism and "Kurum" have reacted regarding the containers with toxic waste. 

In its response, the Ministry of Tourism has stated that it has not given any authorization and as a result the company has not submitted data on the destination of the cargo, while it has emphasized that the law enforcement institutions have engaged and are conducting joint investigative actions with the Union Anti-Fraud Office European (OLAF).

The Ministry of Environment declares that the waste of the company "KURUM" was loaded in Durrës in the containers owned by the international line MSC, it is suspected that they were transported to the port of Trieste.

After that, there was also a reaction from "Kurum", which clashed with the Ministry of Tourism in its statements.

"Kurum International" denies that the waste is its own and that it exported the cargo.

There was also a reaction from the Customs Directorate, which declares that the ships with waste did not depart from Albania, but are the international transit of the zinc concentrate product from Kosovo.

According to her, the zinc concentrate originates from Kosovo and is sent by the company "Apelbaum sh.pk". As for the final destination, according to "Customs", the host of the waste is the company "ACHRO AG"./ CNA 





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