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Environmental Investigation Agency (Washington, DC)

Inside One of the Congo Basin's Worst Forest Offenders

Publisher:
Environmental Investigation Agency
Publication Date:
14 May 2019
Tags:
Congo-Brazzaville, Asia, Australia, and Africa, Corruption, Environment, United States, Canada and Africa

EIA Raw Intelligence Series - #1 Dejia Group. Bribery, overharvesting and tax evasion. And that's just the beginning. In EIA's recently released report Toxic Trade: Forest Crime in Gabon and the Republic of Congo and Contamination of the US Market we exposed how the Dejia Group - a conglomerate of affiliated companies controlled by the Chinese magnate Xu Gong De - repeatedly violates the most fundamental laws of forest governance, and thus has contributed to pillaging the Congo Basin Forest, the world's second lung next to the Amazon Rainforest.

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