Several are sentenced to prison in the huge Think Pink case
All except one of the defendants are convicted of different degrees of environmental crimes after hundreds of thousands of tonnes of hazardous waste have been dumped in a number of places in Central Sweden.
Five people are sentenced for serious environmental crime to prison for between two and six years, another five are sentenced to lower prison sentences or conditional sentences for environmental crimes. Think Pink’s CEO « The Sweep Queen » Fariba Vancor is convicted of 19 cases of serious environmental crime. The co -founder of the company, as well as Vancor’s Exman Thomas Nilsson, is sentenced for, among other things, 12 cases of serious environmental crime to prison for 3 years and 6 months.
The goal is the largest that the National Unit for Environmental and Work Environment Goals has had through the ages, Anders Gustafsson, senior prosecutor and preliminary investigator has previously said. After a several -year legal process and just over 80 negotiating days, the nearly 700 -page judgment came in Södertörn District Court on Tuesday.
The chairman of the court Niklas Schüllerqvist tells the large press raid in Flemingsberg, that the court agreed on its decision:
– Waste management has to a significant extent been inadequate or incorrect. It has also resulted in environmental damage through emissions and, in some cases, very high risks to people and the environment. Therefore, there is no doubt that there was an environmental crime in the places where the waste was handled, says Schüllerqvist.
The former CEO and TV profile Leif-Ivan Karlsson are acquitted from all charges. According to the court, Karlsson can be linked to waste management at one of the places in question, but that act is prescribed.
– It is a very extensive investigation. 150 witnesses and experts have been heard as well as about twenty plaintiffs, says Niklas Schüllerqvist.
The tours around the company Think Pink have taken many severe turns. In 2018, the rapidly growing company received award from Dagens Industri. Two years later, the police conducted a house search at the founder of founder Bella Nilsson, who now changed its name to Fariba Vancor, after suspicions of illegal waste management arose.
According to the crime suspicions, Think Pink had dumped hundreds of thousands of tons with waste illegally in 21 places in 15 municipalities around the country between 2015 and 2020, but according to the court, crime could only be substantiated in 19 places. All defendants have consistently denied crime.
The extent of the problems that the dumped garbage has done are difficult to grasp. In Kagghamra south of Stockholm, a waste mountain began to burn at the end of 2020. First Now, five years later, it has cooled enough for the municipality to start taking samples To find out what it actually contains.
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