Blood Timber

Notorious 'blood timber' trader found guilty

Posted by admin — 7 June 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Timber from one of Kouwenhoven's companies is marked by Greenpeace in the Netherlands in 2001

In a verdict that will have far reaching implications for the international timber trade, a judge in The Hague has found a former timber trader and arms dealer guilty of breaking the UN arms embargo in Liberia and sentenced him to a maximum of eight years in prison.

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