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2020-08-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russian fella Igor Grechushkin connection to Beirut Warehouse #12 blast
[MAIL] Lebanon has placed every official responsible for the security of Beirut's port for the last six years under house arrest as it investigates a massive explosion which has devastated the city.

The country's political leaders vowed those responsible for the tragedy would 'pay the price', but customs officials pointed the finger of blame back at them - saying they were repeatedly warned of the danger but failed to act.

It came as an astonishing photo emerged, purporting to show the dock's Warehouse 12 filled with ammonium nitrate - with the highly explosive chemical stored in simple construction sacks with no other protection in place.

The dangerous load is understood to have been abandoned by Russian businessman Igor Grechushkin in September 2013 before eventually being transferred to the port where it remained for six years.

A ship carrying the load was detained en route from Batumi, in the ex-Soviet republic Georgia, to Mozambique, and never recovered.

On Tuesday evening a fire that started in Warehouse 9 ignited 2,750 tons of the chemical - sparking an explosion with three kilotons of force, equivalent to a fifth the size of the Hiroshima nuclear blast.

Related: Who is Igor Grechushkin, how did his abandoned ship Rhosus become a ticking time bomb?
Posted by Besoeker 2020-08-06 02:52|| || Front Page|| [11147 views ]  Top

#1 Nice ride. Nice squeeze. Sleep lost by Igor estimated at zero.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-08-06 03:14||   2020-08-06 03:14|| Front Page Top

#2 It should have been Warehouse 13, but life is so rarely artistically perfect.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-08-06 17:49||   2020-08-06 17:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Captain astonished that his ship delivered Beirut explosive
https://www.wsoctv.com/news/world/captain-astonished/ZUMWG5M7WBAH74VZXRPC2SCFQE/
Igor Grechushkin, a Russian businessman residing in Cyprus, bought the cargo ship in 2012 from Cypriot businessman Charalambos Manoli.
Posted by b 2020-08-06 18:45||   2020-08-06 18:45|| Front Page Top

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