Environmental groups demand investigation
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/02/10
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – An Italian businessman dumped radioactive nuclear waste in
the ocean near Taiwan in the 1990s, according to documents from an Italian intelligence service declassified Wednesday.
The information was contained in 61 documents from SISMI, an Italian military intelligence department, which were submitted to an Italian parliamentary investigation commission, according to the Italian media.
The reports named Giorgio Comerio as a businessman who made a fortune by sending ships loaded with nuclear and other dangerous materials to the bottom of the sea in the Mediterranean and near Somalia and Taiwan. [FULL STORY]