Brazilian officials say they have fined a Swedish owned lumber company 275 million dollars for illegal logging.
Brazil's environmental agency said the company, Gethal, of Swedish sporting goods magnate Johan Eliasch, was responsible for DW boss voices concern about press freedoms ...
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Swedes find Viking-era Arab coins ... cutting down 230,000 trees and lacking certification for its Amazon land holdings. Eliasch is an environmental consultant to Britain's prime minister. Gethal says the allegations refer to irregularities committed before Eliasch purchased the company in 2005. Brazil recently conceded that deforestation of the Amazon is proceeding faster than previously thought.
(Deutsche Welle)
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