Durresi prosecutors arrived this Monday to Kurum company in Elbasan and seized all the documents, that are supposed to be connected with the case of the toxic wastes that were exported by Durresi Port.

Called by BIRN, the head of Durresi Prosecution Suela Beluli said that everything that this prosecution seized it is believed that has to do with the wasted actually under investigation. 

Based on information provided, Basel Action Network, BAN believes that the ship 'Maersk Campton' and a second container ship of the same line, 'Maersk Candor', loaded at the port of Durrës at the beginning of July about 100 containers of hazardous waste, which comes from the ash of electric metallurgical chimneys (EAFD) destined for Thailand.

Based on the notification of BAN, the port authority has blocked the containers from Albania in Singapore and they are expected to return to Durrës in the coming months. The prosecution has identified the company "Sokolaj" shpk, a mineral import-export company based in Durrës owned by citizen Gjovana Sokolaj as the exporter of the containers and the Turkish company "Kurum International" sh.a as the source of these products.

The Ministry of Environment in a reaction to the media admitted that the waste loaded in Durrës came from the metallurgist. "Volumes of goods which are suspected to contain waste from the technological process carried out by international companies operating near the metallurgical complex in Elbasan", said the ministry in a statement to the media.