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Biodiversity credits: A “new form of green colonization plundering agricultural land for the benefit of financialization”
Via Campesina, Confédération Paysanne, and more than 270 civil society organisations and academics oppose biodiversity credits and offsets.
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UK Conservative Party donor Peter Virdee charged with bribery
AKA Batman.
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Peter Virdee sentenced to more than three years in prison for his role in carbon credit VAT fraud
Peter Singh Virdee has been sentenced to more than three years in prison.
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German prosecutors seek arrest of Peter Virdee (AKA “Batman”) for €125 million carbon credit VAT fraud
Prosecutors in Frankfurt am Main announced this week that they are seeking the arrest of a 46-year-old British businessman charged with running a…
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Peter Singh Virdee avoids extradition to Germany to face charges of VAT fraud on carbon credit sales. Virdee is now being investigated for…
On 10 January 2017, UK police arrested Peter Singh Virdee, a British businessman, in Heathrow airport.
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Mohsin Salya has been jailed. Aadiel Salya faces jail for fraud
On 27 April 2016, REDD-Monitor wrote about three carbon credit fraud suspects who were wanted in Germany for tax evasion and money laundering.
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Mohsin Salya is no longer wanted by the German authorities. Peter Singh Virdee, alias “Batman”, faces extradition to Germany
A British man, Mohsin Usmangani Salya, has been sentenced to three years and three months in jail. Carbon Pulse reports that a court in Germany found…
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Response from Salya Group: “Please could you kindly remove this link … with the upmost urgency”
Three weeks ago, REDD-Monitor wrote a post about three carbon credit fraud suspects who are wanted in Germany for tax evasion and money laundering.
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Three carbon credit fraud suspects wanted in Germany for tax evasion and money laundering
Last week Carbon Pulse reported that the Public Prosecutor‘s Office in Frankfurt am Main and the German Federal Criminal Police have issued a “wanted…
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Hot air and carbon crooks: The reality of carbon trading
Yesterday, “Varm luft for milliarder”, a documentary by Tom Heinemann, was broadcast on Danish television.
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