ApocaDocs: Ivory Coast: Two Underlings Jailed for Toxic Dumping, But Oil Company Bosses Still Free

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Posted Sat Oct 25 2008: from Infoshop News:


	Ivory Coast: Two Underlings Jailed for Toxic Dumping, But Oil Company Bosses Still Free http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1224955950 Yesterday Ugborugbo, the Nigerian owner of an Ivorian waste-disposal firm called Tommy, was handed 20 years in jail for directing an operation to dump chemicals from the tanker throughout the Ivorian port city of Abidjan in 2006. A shipping agent named Desire Kouao was sentenced to five years in jail for "complicity." Executives and Directors of Trafigura aren't going to jail. The company paid off the Ivory Coast and they didn't even have to face any criminal charges.... As usual the crime bosses get a get out of jail card, while their [underlings] serve time for them.

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