On Thursday, charges will be brought against eleven people in what has been described as the worst environmental crime scandal in Sweden. This is stated by the prosecutor at a press conference – which you can follow in the player below.
– They are the ones who have been most active in this criminal activity, says Anders Gustafsson, head of the preliminary investigation, at the press conference.
A total of eleven people are charged in Sweden’s largest waste mess. Five people are charged with serious environmental crime. This is stated by the prosecutor during a press conference on Thursday.
Waste company Think Pink is suspected of dumping and burying unsorted construction waste at a number of locations in central Sweden.
The preliminary investigation into environmental crime is one of the largest investigations of its kind and concerns 21 different locations in 15 municipalities in Central Sweden.
The police investigation into the company NMT Think Pink started in 2020, two years after the company’s CEO, Bella Nilsson, was awarded “Gazelle of the Year” by Dagens Industri.
– It is the absolute biggest serious environmental crime that the prosecutor’s office and the police authority have investigated, said Lise-Lotte Tegler, who is one of the prosecutors in the investigation, to TT earlier this year.
The “Queen of Trash” and two other people were arrested and detained for some time. NMT Think Pink has now gone bankrupt.
The company has spread large amounts of environmental toxins that appear to have cost the municipalities and taxpayers several hundred million kroner.
The text is updated