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Carbon Credit Fraud
« on: December 03, 2009, 04:54:51 PM »
How cute.

The danes have a system so easy to register a company to buy carbon credits that people are registering fraudulent fronts so they can buy credits and sell them at inflated prices...which in turn inflate the prices passed on to consumers.

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Authorities in several countries investigate VAT tax fraud stemming from the Danish CO2 quota register

Denmark is the centre of a comprehensive tax scam involving CO2 quotas, in which the cheats exploit a so-called ‘VAT carrousel’, reports Ekstra Bladet newspaper.

Police and authorities in several European countries are investigating scams worth billions of kroner, which all originate in the Danish quota register. The CO2 quotas are traded in other EU countries.

Denmark’s quota register, which the Energy Agency within the Climate and Energy Ministry administers, is the largest in the world in terms of personal quota registrations. It is much easier to register here than in other countries, where it can take up to three months to be approved.
Ekstra Bladet reporters have found examples of people using false addresses and companies that are in liquidation, which haven’t been removed from the register.

One of the cases, which stems from the Danish register, involves fraud of more than 8 billion kroner. This case, in which nine people have been arrested, is being investigated in England.

The market for CO2 trade has exploded in recent years and is worth an estimated 675 billion kroner globally.

http://www.cphpost.dk/news/national/88-national/47643-denmark-rife-with-co2-fraud.html

Apparently all the tens of billions of dollars for research grants on AGW were spent to develop a government enforced Ponzi scheme.

I wonder: if liberals had to choose between funding cliamte change and carbon credits or healthcare, which would they choose?
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Re: Carbon Credit Fraud
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2009, 05:04:32 PM »
That will never happen here with Owl Bore leading and the Demsheeples following. :sarcasm: