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Teodor Nita, the prosecutor in charge with investigating the case of 16 waste containers unloaded on Thursday in the Port of Constanta from a Dutch vessel coming from the UK and declared in the shipping documents as carrying second-hand household items, said on Friday that this appears to be just one of several similar transports made lately, and that another roughly 50 containers with waste arrived in Romania when the UK was still in the European Union.
According to him, the waste shipments are not sent directly to Romania from the shipper, but are unloaded and reloaded in several ports for the authorities to "lose their track".
He mentioned that there was just a small amount of usable, marketable merchandise in the shipment, while the rest was waste, and that Romania risks to become the "trash bin" of Europe and not only.
Two Romanians and a British citizen are being investigated for illegally importing waste to Romania, after the border police found 16 containers with waste unloaded in the Constanta South Agigea Port from a Dutch ship, and which were listed as carrying second-hand household items in the accompanying documents, the Coast Guard reported on Thursday evening.
The illegal import was made by a company that has work points in Bucharest and Ilfov County.
AGERPRES
