25/07/2008

STOCKHOLM - The Swedish investigative reporters trio Troikan in it’s report "The Illegal Cod” uncovered how western companies cooperated with russian mafiaorganisations to fish in the Barents sea, the only place on earth where there is still a healty population of cod.

In the end the team could pinpoint a number of well-known Swedish consumer brands as responible for buying illegaly caught cod form the Barents Sea and marketing it to Swedish, and international, customers.

Read the research report in English under documents.

(Published in 2006)

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