Thread by @FinUncovered

In collaboration with the @ICIJorg, and despite injunction threat from UK lawyers Campbell Johnston Clark, we've published this:
‘A moral crime’: Leaked contract reveals how shipowners wash their hands of toxic vessels via offshore world.
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@ICIJorg The story explains how Spanish oil giant Cepsa made a $3.14m deal with an anonymously owned offshore company to sell a tanker for scrap. The tanker highly likely contained dangerous toxins and ended up on a substandard beach scrap yard in Pakistan

@ICIJorg Campaign group @NGOShipbreaking says the leaked contract is a typical example of how large multinationals pass on their toxic assets without taking responsibility for where they end up. The anonymous offshore world is a key facilitator for the spread of poisons. #MauritiusLeaks

@ICIJorg Cepsa told us they had no idea its vessel would end up on the beaches of Gadani, Pakistan, but campaigners say they high price they received would have been a major red flag.

@ICIJorg This amazing video shows a separate end-of-life vessel arriving for scrap on the beach of Gadani, Pakistan, earlier this year.
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