From March 2025, two ship owners will have to appear at the Rendsburg District Court for illegal shipment of waste. The maximum sentence is five years in prison. The opening of the proceedings is likely to set a precedent for how to deal with similar cases, the dates of which are still pending. The trial goes back to an indictment filed by the Kiel public prosecutor's office in 2022. The opening of the proceedings has been postponed repeatedly. The ship owners are accused of having sent the "Westerhamm" to Alang in 2016 for scrapping. The removal of ships for scrap outside the scope of European legislation can be illegal if it violates certain regulations; this primarily concerns the so-called Basel Convention and the EU regulation on the shipment of waste, which prohibits the export of hazardous waste to non-OECD countries such as India. In 2023, the Hamburg public prosecutor's office charged three representatives of the Peter Döhle shipping company before the Hamburg regional court with illegal ship scrapping.This case concerned the scrapping of the "CS Discovery" at the beginning of 2017, which, according to the Hamburg public prosecutor's office, contained around 14,000 tons of hazardous waste. In the case of the "Westerhamm", the Kiel public prosecutor's office investigated not only the two Rendsburg shipowners, but also the Hamburg shipowners Jochen and Christoph Döhle and Döhle's managing director Gaby Bornheim, who is also president of the Association of German Shipowners (VDR). The investigators assumed that the three accused acted as a kind of broker in the scrapping of the "Westerhamm". The proceedings against Gaby Bornheim and Christoph Döhle have since been discontinued. Jochen Döhle, on the other hand, was charged in January 2024. In a separate case, he is accused of aiding and abetting the illegal disposal of waste. Döhle will also have to answer to the Rendsburg district court. It is not yet clear when the proceedings will begin.
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From March 2025, two ship owners will have to appear at the Rendsburg District Court for illegal shipment of waste. The maximum sentence is five years in prison. The opening of the proceedings is likely to set a precedent for how to deal with similar cases, the dates of which are still pending. The trial goes back to an indictment filed by the Kiel public prosecutor's office in 2022. The opening of the proceedings has been postponed repeatedly. The ship owners are accused of having sent the "Westerhamm" to Alang in 2016 for scrapping. The removal of ships for scrap outside the scope of European legislation can be illegal if it violates certain regulations; this primarily concerns the so-called Basel Convention and the EU regulation on the shipment of waste, which prohibits the export of hazardous waste to non-OECD countries such as India. In 2023, the Hamburg public prosecutor's office charged three representatives of the Peter Döhle shipping company before the Hamburg regional court with illegal ship scrapping.This case concerned the scrapping of the "CS Discovery" at the beginning of 2017, which, according to the Hamburg public prosecutor's office, contained around 14,000 tons of hazardous waste. In the case of the "Westerhamm", the Kiel public prosecutor's office investigated not only the two Rendsburg shipowners, but also the Hamburg shipowners Jochen and Christoph Döhle and Döhle's managing director Gaby Bornheim, who is also president of the Association of German Shipowners (VDR). The investigators assumed that the three accused acted as a kind of broker in the scrapping of the "Westerhamm". The proceedings against Gaby Bornheim and Christoph Döhle have since been discontinued. Jochen Döhle, on the other hand, was charged in January 2024. In a separate case, he is accused of aiding and abetting the illegal disposal of waste. Döhle will also have to answer to the Rendsburg district court. It is not yet clear when the proceedings will begin.
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