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communicate with the gun different phases a tool meant to make the oil industry cleaner, provided criminals with the unique opportunity for building euro fraud system is all over the system. it's now most of the country deal. they use investigative unit, teamed up with germany's public broadcasters adf, to investigate this fraud, which began with complex carbon credit certified in germany, and took us all the way to oil fields and china. the . this is shane lee, oil field and eastern china. documents we've acquired showed that the owner supposedly installed new energy efficient equipment that reduces the oil fields, carbon emissions by more than $250000.00 tons per year. this modern is ation was

approved as an environmental protection project in germany. in may r z. do you have colleague in badging travel to the shang leeway ill failed to find the new equipment? danielle one. jen, go to the law. mill smiles which i don't a way off for communion why that is to me. mr. south has been working in this oil field for many years and he frequently travels to nearby oil wells. the whole one love. yeah. yeah. that's what we're finding. what can be done? well, not, not gimme o. we drove to the company that supposedly installed the new equipment, the coordinates at the headquarters. we're also listed in the documents and we found, well,

almost nothing. just an abandon chicken cuz this tied in with tips we had gotten from insiders within the carbon trademark it in china. that many of the chinese projects that were sold to german companies are nothing but a lucrative fraud. setting up a real project cost tens of millions where it's vacant and project just purely on paper like out of senior. you only need to forge of basket of new documents and you gain hundreds of millions of bureaus and return carbon credits worldwide or under scrutiny. for months we dug into carbon seating projects. in china. we traveled through satellite images corroborated coordinates and sifted through thousands of pages of project documents which were submitted to the german authorities for approval under a relatively new scheme. since

2020 oil companies operating in germany can invest in projects that reduce carbon emissions as well or gas fields. in other countries like china in return, they obtain carbon credits, which they can be used to meet their obligations to reduce emissions in germany. in the federal environment agency is in charge of approving the projects for germany. the most important condition to be approved. the facilities need to be new at the county datas quick. this is just one that's i'm not gonna district san diego is noisy. and so what comes in providing just by success dnd additional notion about so not my experience, any more annoying, quino shoots of energy and overall the agency is approved. $66.00 projects in china organize under random letter combinations their total market value exceeds 2000000000 years. many of the projects ernst and young china is remote weaker region with often limited access the

agencies president direct messner, told us that none of its employees ever visited any of the project in china. it's standard procedure to lead the auditing to private, specialized companies that i calling multiple bodies images and few play from the shifting the couldn't guns, the technician. and um, and the type of equipment you condone is you upgrade from opposite to different. adopting into tyler's decent and this is the loophole that apparently was exploited . weeks after our visit to the chicken coop, the auditor sent the real coordinates of the company's address, claiming it was a mix up. but wrong coordinates were not the own irregularities we came across. we found addresses and dates that don't check out the take file number b,

z i a this is a recent photo. a source gave us the station is supposed to save more than a $120000.00 tons of carbon emissions per year. it collects gas that would otherwise be released during the oil extraction. the gas has been liquefied and load it onto trucks for further use. the application list, the project start date as september 2020 but satellite images, route 2019 shows that the plant was already there. the 4 n g tanks were clearly visible. truck tracks at the pick up point and the security flare suggests that the plant was already operational more than one year before the application was filed. so an existing installation in china was likely submitted as a new climate project to the german authorities that we

went through zurich to meet one of the world's leading experts on international climate policies in carbon trait we showed act. so michelle little, the photos and documents to understand were there any circumstances under which such a project could have been eligible to be approved as an environmental project in germany? he's on log ahead of kind finding the image trend of s dolphins signed us on, on logics. yet before don tucker state had a different project. the same pattern. a plant in syndrome was allegedly built in 2020, and had in fact, been there since 2014. as the information board at the entrance shows over the following months, we identified 16 such allegedly fraudulent project and china almost all seem to have been submitted by different chinese companies. are germany's

carbon schemes and their potential loopholes common knowledge across china. could so many different companies be using the same trick? our colleagues from cd s paging bureau went to visit some of the companies mentioned in the documents. at the 1st address, we were suppose to find a power distribution company which supposedly submitted to projects. our search, let us to the 5th floor as well. it's a joy digging home, so i need to know how much you learn. going see power surge. i'm sick, i'm a single, i'm a single more male male in the next company. sense to number 3, you know, during the the

the projects that are not eligible companies that seemingly don't exist, things get more and more mysterious. then the plot thickens. the german environment agency received a letter from a chinese company. we have a copy. it claims that another company called beijing carbon new energy technology, had filed 5 projects in its name. without its knowledge, let alone consent. more over it states, beijing carbon had erroneous lee altered data. there was a high probability that the documents were forged. the company asked german authorities to investigate the finish by addressing game change of the windows 10. does it as estimate the unvil funded entities, steve, children that minutes in the home with us about it? yes, the guns do i have to share in vice from ish,

best of us come pitch effect. so it took this tip off from china to the german authorities to launch a full scale investigation. they referred the case to the prosecution. who as of now, is only looking into the german side, not the chinese company behind the whole scheme. chinese company records helped us investigate beach in carbon. it was founded in 2011 by a former official in the energy sector. together with her son and several others, they set up an opaque network of companies and some companies we find references to beijing carbon their employees or addresses and the documents of at least 28 projects. our colleagues tried to visit the company in beijing hall. the woman, 2 different phones, the coffin that goes with, i don't want any hall foreman said,

the wooden shrew, the manager she was told, was unavailable. then they hung up as we tried to find out more about the aging carbon, the companies seem to get nervous information we obtained suggest the company aspects, chinese business partners not to talk to the perhaps anti china media are using shady methods to smear all chinese projects. was allegedly citing these conversations, take project e q b t, another one of phasing carbons projects according to the documents. the site was inspected by 2 audit and companies altogether. 7 times. in their reports, the companies confirmed that the installation consisted of 6 big storage tanks. for liquefied gas through 12 generators, the satellite images and photos they

obtained only ever show 4 tanks and 4 generators. how could the auditors possibly missed that? charges has their own boss. i think that's, i believe i follow a lot of either either tons of companies. you're passing the subject off con 5. it's also known, fremont def, with cause a shelf, got to spend to get the auditors in this case for 2 companies with an excellent reputation in the industry, whether b, b, m cert is specialized and environmental certification. and the 2nd company, very co s. c. e, located in this picturesque village in southern germany as an equally good reputation. the executive chairman is known as one of the leading experts on carbon certification. $48.00 of the $66.00 chinese projects were audited by at least one of the 2 companies to stop. i can click on each side. does this plus stuck? if it's on the point i can define as a employee, act and click on good must be out and for these have improved film and tactics,

and that's how it has a fault. all fine was been tied, it approached and tyler distortions his team's gardens. i enjoy done this to centers in japan, the miller, b, b, and search and was eric o. s. c. e refused several requests for an on camera interview that replied in writing. we see no reason to doubt our auditing work, nor the work of our auditors. we are convinced that no criminal offense has been committed by the employees of our company. the prosecutor's office in berlin recently searched the premises of both those companies along with a 3rd one which audited a few other allegedly fraudulent projects. that misleading minecraft, using about spacing between this being a mom to keep my thoughts. zip sitting with fluid except this i'm going to

a good safe screw of what i mean by tough on the type clicks on teams and politicians have also reacted members of parliament twice. some of the president of the environmental agency for questioning the agency has now placed $45.00 projects under suspicion. they are worth 1000000000 euros according to estimates. the projects could have saved the amount of carbon a megacity like legal admits in one year. the agency says it is working to resend as many of the credits as possible, and the program is now closed to new applications. the full damage has yet to emerge. one thing, however, is already abundantly clear. it didn't take a lot to defraud a system that was supposed to make a dirty industry, a little cleaner with the right paperwork and the right people in the right places in germany. one chinese company was able to make hundreds of millions of years out of thin air,

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