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Yep - the Wikipedia page has some more context: > Various customs officials had sent letters to judges requesting a resolution to the issue of the confiscated
by jborichevskiy 6y ago
Yep - the Wikipedia page has some more context:
> Various customs officials had sent letters to judges requesting a resolution to the issue of the confiscated cargo, proposing that the ammonium nitrate either be exported, given to the Lebanese army, or sold to the private Lebanese Explosives Company.[e][14] Letters had been sent on 27 June and 5 December 2014, 6 May 2015, 20 May and 13 October 2016, and 27 October 2017.[14] One of the letters sent in 2016 noted that judges had not replied to previous requests, and "pleaded":[14]
>> In view of the serious danger of keeping these goods in the hangar in unsuitable climatic conditions, we reaffirm our request to please request the marine agency to re-export these goods immediately to preserve the safety of the port and those working in it, or to look into agreeing to sell this amount
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosions#MV_Rhosus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosions#MV_Rhos...
- anonu 6y agoCorruption and incompetence beyond comprehension. Hopefully serves as a turning point for a new form of management in the country
- square_usual 6y agoI hope, but their economy is imploding and it's not a good time for Lebanon overall.
- guykdm 6y agoCorrupt officials would happily auction it. This is stranger.
- VLM 6y agoIts hygroscopic, stored next to the water, in a poor country. It was likely unsellable within weeks. Or, to be blunt, every undamaged package was probably already sold within weeks. Once the remainder amalgamates into a giant lump, its an environmental remediation problem that'll cost money, not a make money fast sales scam. That's the whole point of why historically explosives were used to crack chunks apart.