It came up this past week, via several German news media sites....that at least three German companies....either knowingly or unknowingly sold the basic ingredients for Syria to make poison gas.
Yes, even with EU regulations in place....it didn't matter, the deal was pursued and achieved.
The BR public TV folks out of Bavaria told part of the story.
Back in 2014.....Brenntag sold two of the chemicals (diethylamine and isopropanol) to Syria. Direct sale? No, via a Swiss group.
The chief problem? There are various things that you could use the combo to manufacture, and VX/sarin gas is simply one of the products.
The German office that should have supervised sales, and kinda said something about this? They either never noticed the sale (it's possible) or they simply looked the other way. You would think that regular monthly or quarterly audits would come up, with people visiting plants and looking at production numbers. My guess is that audits were rare, and no one matched up the production level and the sales level.
Someone going to jail? About all that the EU folks and German authorities say is that an investigation is underway. Even if court action does occur, it'd be at least a year into the future. These folks who were involved? Well....if I were one of them....I'd go and disappear into Chile or Panama.
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