The acquisition of CO2 certificates, the new "legal" financial vehicle of criminal networks

Uniunea Europeana

One of the most ambitious ecological projects of the European Union - the emissions trading system (EU-ETS) - is about to become a Trojan horse used by the world of organized crime, claim the journalists from Follow The Money (FTM), following an investigation carried out in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Created on the polluter pays principle and intended to encourage green investments, it seems that the European mechanism has been exposed as vulnerable to an increasingly difficult-to-