The dispute over the illegal landfill in Bohumín, which was brought there from Poland in 2019 by an organized criminal group, has its final outcome after six years. Poland sent 11 million crowns to the Czech Republic as compensation for waste removal.
Warsaw has paid the Czech Republic 11 million Czech crowns (453,000 euros) for the removal of waste illegally imported from Poland, the Czech Minister of the Environment said on Friday. TASR informs about it according to the PAP agency.
- Poland reimbursed the Czech Republic for the costs of removing illegal waste.
- The waste was brought to the Czech Republic from Poland by an organized criminal group.
- The payment took place according to the agreement between the ministries and the environmental inspectorate.
Petr Hladík wrote on Platform X on Friday that the Polish side refused to take away waste from the city of Bohumín in the Moravian-Silesian Region for six years. In 2024, an illegal waste dump was damaged by a flood and posed a threat to the environment. The region therefore removed it at its own expense.
The waste was illegally transported to the Czech Republic from Poland by an organized criminal group
“When I wrote an official letter to the Polish minister, I didn’t have much hope that it would turn out like this,” Hladík wrote, expressing satisfaction that the payment was made according to the agreement between his ministry and the Polish environmental inspectorate GIOS.
In 2019, waste was illegally transported from Poland to the Czech Republic by an organized criminal group. A subsequent investigation by a special unit of the Czech police in coordination with Polish law enforcement authorities led to the arrest of the perpetrators, including 15 persons in Poland.
