attack that will of course, a fuel the debate that's already going on about how to counter that product. that's right. in particular and that was dw correspondence. i'm and young talking to us, the idea of bringing you more updates about this developing story number such as well. thank you so much for being with us. the respect, it's all about. walk in waves and texting. make sure that's right, sandra, respecting they just studying aids. i mean it's about being up to date with coming tardies technologies. training for the e co way of life. the environment magazine, ego advocate on d, w. version know,

understand. can have a saying like the vice president do you have any news on instagram and the no follow up the it could be the biggest climate fraud and german history. they have the freedom park on easier to communicate with the gun different shades and a tool meant to make the oil industry cleaner, provided criminals with the unique opportunity for building euro fraud systems all over the system. it's not me, it's, it's kind of commercial detail, but 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

the this is shane lee, oil field in 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 modernization was approved as an environmental protection project in germany in may r z. do you have colleagues engaging travel to the strongly oil field to find the new equipment? no one didn't go to the new mail which i don't to where your communion was. active traded emails. mister shaw has been working in this oil field for many years and he frequently

travels to nearby oil wells. the whole y maybe. uh, giovanni. yeah, that's what we're finding with them. again, we're not in the mail. we drove to the company that supposedly installed the new equipment coordinates at the headquarters for also listed in the documents. and we found, well, almost nothing just in a band and 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 or nothing but a lucrative fraud. setting up a real project cost tens of millions, west faking and project just purely on paper like out of senior. you only need to forward your basket of new documents and you gain hundreds of millions of heroes in

return carbon credits worldwide or under scrutiny. for months we dug into carbon seating projects in china. we tried to 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 and 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 doesn't, does i'm logwood district spend the dope is noisy. and so what comes in providing just by success to you in addition to those, you know, my, to a, not my explanation and see any more annoying. quino shoots of uneasy. and overall the agency is approved. 66 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. them divide, calling, want to go over these images and few play from the shifting the current guns, the technician, and um, and the type of quote from the condo and is your upgrade from opposite to different uh at the dock in to tyler season. and this is the loophole that apparently was

exploited weeks after our visit to the chicken coop, the auditors sent the real coordinates of the company's address, claiming it was a mix up the 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 projects 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 pickup point and the security flare suggest 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 claimant project to the german authorities. we went to direct to meet one of the world's leading experts on international climate policies in carbon trait we showed act. so michelle, over 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 at off kind of 5 can image trend of s dolphins signed us on logics. yet

before don talk, 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 in 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 r calling from d d. 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 to take it home so i need to know how much you live in glen c. powered the drum stick. and one more thing, wilma, male, male, in the next company of sense to number 3, you know, again, 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 of addressing game change. understand does it as estimates the unvil funded entities steve, children that minutes in the home with us about it? yes. the guns do it, is your advice for me, is this the bus completely fucked? so it took this tip off from china for 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 said up, it'll take network of companies, and some companies we find references to beijing carbon their employees, their addresses, and the documents of at least 28 projects. our colleagues tried to visit the company in beijing hall called the woman to name and phone to cobb, and that goes with either one of the hall, foaming should double the intro. 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 asked it's chinese business partners not to talk to the press. empty, china and 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 all together. 7 times. in their reports, the companies confirmed that the installation consisted of 6 big storage tanks for liquefied gas to 12 generators. the satellite images and photos they obtained only ever show for tanks and 4 generators . how could the auditors possibly missed? that? is how does one go sized us? i believe i follow a lot of either either tons of companies. you're pressing the subject off con 5 because i know fremont def was because i shop got suspended yet. the auditors in this case for 2 companies with an excellent reputation in the industry. whether be i'm cert is specialized and environmental certification. and the 2nd company there

co s c e, located in this picturesque village and southern germany has 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 stop. i include a huge sign. does this plus stock if it's on the front, is a employee act and freaked line must be out and for these have improved film tactics, and that's how it has a fault. all fine was been tied to it, pushed in tyler distortions his team's, going to enjoy the dentist dissenters in japan. the miller, b, b, and search is 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 need to be mindful using about spacing between this being a mom to keep it. that's the zip, single fluid except this i'm going to get 5 screw of what i mean by tough on the type clicks on teams and politicians have also reacted members of parliament twice . someone, the president of the environmental agency for questioning the agency has now placed 45 projects under suspicion. they are worth 1000000000 euros according to estimates . the projects could have saved the amount of carbon a mega city like legal segments 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 yours out of thin air the the actually ride through.