In the Netherlands, a new report details multiple scams involving fake biofuels have erupted in northern Europe in recent years. A new investigation from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project shows several cases were linked by a Bosnian company that sold thousands of tons of fraudulent fuel across the European Union.
Key findings include:
· Fraudsters have exploited a key EU climate policy by passing off cheap traditional biofuels as expensive types made from waste.
· In one alleged scam, Bosnian company Sistem Ecologica is accused of selling U.S. soy biodiesel mislabelled as next-generation fuel made of used cooking oil.
· Bosnian investigators say Sistem Ecologica supplied 17 companies in nine EU member states over several years.
· These included biofuels dealers who have been accused of running their own used cooking oil fraud scams in the Netherlands and the U.K.
