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Dutch traders exposed by EIA are facing legal action for importing illicit teak from Myanmar - EIA Dutch traders exposed by EIA are facing legal action for importing illicit teak from Myanmar
The crackdown on Myanmar teak in the Netherlands has expanded to include criminal prosecutions against a range of companies and individuals, EIA has learnt.
The action also involves companies that have attempted to circumvent the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) by routing timber through the Czech Republic.
This follows years of work by EIA Forests campaigners laying complaints against Dutch companies, providing information to the Dutch authorities and exposing circumvention of the law.
Stashed inside pickup trucks and guarded by armed militias and jihadists, every year billions of illicit cigarettes wind their way through the lawless deserts of northern Mali bound for the Sahel and North Africa.
The profits from their long journey fuel north Mali’s many armed conflicts, lining the pockets of offshoots of al-Qaida and the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, as well as local militias, and corrupt state and military officials. This violence is now spilling out across West Africa, displacing more than two million people in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Niger.
Cigarettes made by one of the world’s largest tobacco companies, British American Tobacco (BAT) and distributed with the help of another major, Imperial Brands, through a company partially owned by the Malian state, dominate this dirty and dangerous trade.