{"id":40757,"date":"2020-08-05T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/beirut-explosion-reportedly-caused-by-fertilizer-seized-from-russian-businessman\/"},"modified":"2020-08-05T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T12:44:00","slug":"beirut-explosion-reportedly-caused-by-fertilizer-seized-from-russian-businessman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/beirut-explosion-reportedly-caused-by-fertilizer-seized-from-russian-businessman\/","title":{"rendered":"#Beirut explosion reportedly caused by fertilizer seized from Russian businessman"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Beirut explosion reportedly caused by fertilizer seized from Russian businessman<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 5, 2020 |<\/span> 8:44am |<\/span> Updated August 5, 2020 | 8:55am<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n Rescue workers and security officers work at the scene of an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, yesterday.<\/span>
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\n The 2,700 tons of fertilizer believed to have caused the explosion that devastated Beirut had been confiscated from a Russian businessman \u2014 who \u201cabandoned\u201d his cargo ship after an unscheduled stop, according to reports.<\/p>\n

Officials revealed Tuesday that the blast that killed at least 100 \u2014 and left up to 300,000 homeless \u2014 app<\/a>eared to have been sparked by ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse since it was confiscated in 2014.<\/p>\n

There were repeated warnings to the dangers of storing it \u2014 including one that it could \u201cblow up all of Beirut\u201d \u2014 but \u201cnothing was done,\u201d official sources told Reuters, calling it \u201cnegligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The timeline and size of the cargo suggest it was taken from the MV Rhosus, according to the Associated Press, as well as Lebanon\u2019s LBCI, citing sources at a Supreme Defense Council meeting.<\/p>\n

The Rhosus is owned by Igor Grechushkin, a Russian national who now lives in Cyprus, according to The Moscow Times.<\/p>\n

It had been travel<\/a>ing from Georgia to Mozambique in 2013 when it experienced an apparent malfunction and made an unscheduled stop in Beirut, the reports said.<\/p>\n

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Igor Grechushkin<\/span>REN TV<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Grechushkin then declared bankruptcy \u2014 and \u201cabandoned\u201d the ship in Lebanon, leaving its crew stranded on the vessel for months before the ammonium nitrate could be offloaded, the Moscow Times said.<\/p>\n

The ammonium nitrate had been stored in a warehouse in the port of Beirut since then, the outlet said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOwing to the risks associated with retaining the ammonium nitrate on board the vessel, the port authorities discharged the cargo onto the port\u2019s warehouses,\u201d lawyers involved in the case previously wrote, according to the AP.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe vessel and cargo remain to date in port awaiting auctioning and\/or proper disposal,\u201d the lawyers said in the 2015 article.<\/p>\n

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Smoke is seen after an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, yesterday.<\/span>TALAL TRABOULSI via REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Grechushkin does not appear to have addressed the link, reports said.<\/p>\n

It also remains unclear what conditions the ammonium nitrate had been stored in \u2014 or why tons of an explosive chemical compound had been left there for years, AP noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is negligence,\u201d an official source told Reuters, adding that the storage safety issue had been before several committees and judges and \u201cnothing was done\u201d to issue an order to remove or dispose of the highly combustible material.<\/p>\n

A fire had started at warehouse 9 of the port and spread to warehouse 12, where the ammonium nitrate was stored, the official said.<\/p>\n

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The MV Rhosus<\/span>Sirotencu Liviu<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Badri Daher, Director General<\/a> of Lebanese Customs, told broadcaster LBCI on Wednesday that customs had sent six documents to the judiciary warning that the material posed a danger.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe requested that it be re-exported but that did not happen. We leave it to the experts and those concerned to determine why,\u201d Daher said.<\/p>\n

With Post wires<\/em>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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