The coastal journey of the poison ship, the full text of the Italian archives of the marine nuclear waste cemetery was declassified.

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The Marine waste disposal Company (ODM) may have disposed of 200000 barrels of radioactive waste at a cost of $227 million. According to the findings of the military intelligence unit, the disposal site is likely to be in the Taiwan area. " Alessandro Bratti, chairman of the Italian Congressional waste disposal investigation Committee, made a remark on his website in early February, which was translated by the media and caused an uproar in Taiwan.

Military Intelligence Agency speculates: ODM helps North Korea clean up nuclear waste, and the disposal site is in Taiwan.

The file quoted by Bratti was finally officially declassified.

According to the full text of the files officially obtained by upstream and downstream in Italy, a document issued by the military Intelligence Agency (Sismi), which has now been transformed into the National Security Intelligence Agency (AISE), pointed out on April 21, 2004, that ODM, founded by Italian-born broker Giorgio Comerio, should have begun to establish relations with North Korea in 1995, mainly in the area of Hingnan Bay, where chemical weapons and uranium are produced.

The declassified documents also pointed out that the gradual consolidation of North Korea's relationship with ODM should be based on the following contracts: "asking for US $227 million to clean up 200000 barrels of radiation waste (which took place in Taiwan); installing nuclear waste disposal equipment; and strengthening port construction in the Luojin area to facilitate the transportation of processed radiation waste."

Although it carefully depicts the relationship between Comelio and North Korea, the emotional writer has reservations and uses Italian conditional sentences in some sentences, pending more direct evidence to support the argument. But the mystery that is difficult to understand is that the disposal of more than 100000 barrels of waste on Orchid Island has racked the government's brains, so how can people get rid of 200000 barrels of waste? So far, the source, type and exact location of these nuclear wastes have yet to be further investigated.

A suspicious shipwreck between Suao and Shanghai

At that time, the military Intelligence Agency did not explain how ODM threw radioactive waste in Taiwan's waters, but other data showed that a ship that sank between Shanghai and Suao was very similar to Comelio's illegal method of "throwing at the sea."

Francesco Fonti, a former gangster member of Ngrangheta who is willing to repent and co-operate with prosecutors, has said he deliberately sank three ships in 1992, including a ship called Voriais Sporadis carrying 75 containers of toxic waste.

According to an investigation by a reporter from Cyprus, surveillance data in 1989 revealed that Captain Voriais Sporadis, whose name was changed to Doto, had discussed on the phone where is the best place to dispose of waste.

However, I do not know that the memory of the square embankment is wrong, or deliberately mislead the direction of handling the case. According to Shipspotting, Voriais Sporadis changed its name to Glory Land shortly after it changed its name to Glory Land in 1989, and then sank in the sea between Suao and Shanghai on January 20, 1990 (another said on January 13). As for the cause of the sinking and what was on board at that time, it still sank into the sea.

A ship that sank off the coast of Suao

The landless journey of the poison ship, the graveyard where the ocean becomes a waste.

The illegal abandonment of toxic and even radioactive waste by "poison ships" in the vast ocean is not news in Italy.

When informed of Congress's decision to declassify the files, the Environmental Alliance (Legambiente) said: "when it was pointed out in the 1990s that 'drug ships' illegally transported toxic and radioactive waste and abandoned it at sea, everyone said we were crazy. Now the declassified files prove our allegations, and intelligence units already know that the Mediterranean is a graveyard of hazardous waste. "

In addition to throwing away toxic and nuclear waste at sea, some ships embark on a "shoreless journey" and are scheduled to "sink" at sea. According to the Anti-underworld investigation Group (DIA), there were 637 suspected shipwrecks worldwide from 1995 to 2000, of which 52 were in the Mediterranean region.

What makes people suspicious is that when the ship sank, the weather was good, the walrus was calm, there was no distress signal in the official record, and the crew often disappeared after being rescued.

Journalists and officers killed in pursuit of the truth

According to the latest declassified files of the Italian Parliament, the 90 ships that sank in the Mediterranean Sea between 1989 and 1995 were probably carrying toxic or radioactive waste, but when prosecutors and the central government received the relevant information, they turned a deaf ear, while Lieutenant Colonel Natale de Grazia, who was actively investigating the truth about the "drug ship", was poisoned during the 1995 case.

Of the 27 shipwrecks investigated by de Grazia, the Rigel registered in Malta was destined for Cyrus at the western tip of the Mediterranean, although the walrus was safe, and the five-day journey turned into drifting for 12 days before sinking off Calabria in southwestern Italy on September 21, 1987.

During the 10-hour period when it gradually sank to the bottom of the sea, the Rezier did not send any distress signals, and no one reported anything unusual about a 100-meter-long ship on the frequent Mediterranean route. What is even more paradoxical is that the ship registered in Yugoslavia rescued the crew of the Rezel, not to the nearest port of Sicily, but to Tunisia, North Africa, and the rescued crew disappeared as soon as they landed.

The Italian Congressional waste disposal investigation Committee pointed out in a report on the Rezel in 2000: "the shipwreck may be to defraud insurance money," and concluded that "hazardous waste loaded on board cannot be ruled out."

Lieutenant Colonel de Grazia was killed a year ago, a year after Italian television reporter Ilaria Alpi and photographer Miran Hrovatin were killed in Somalia in pursuit of a drug ship.

Taiwan has considered buying the mine of Comelio.

At that time, the police believed that the two journalists were robbed and killed during the "vacation". However, evidence gradually emerged afterwards that they were silenced for digging into the truth of the news.

The Alpha report revealed an international criminal network linked to illegal sea dumping of toxic waste and arms smuggling, with Comelio, an Italian broker with a Swiss passport and a long-term resident in Tunisia, a key figure.

Comelio's journal read: "the ship has disappeared" on September 21, 1987. According to de Grazia's verification, the Rezier was the only ship in the world that sank that day; what is even more suspicious is that there is a photocopy of Alfred's death certificate in Somalia in Comelio's office. However, none of these clips incriminated him; at a congressional hearing, Mr Comelio boasted that he was a "Green Party" for environmental protection, but was later denied by the Green Party.

As Alfred reveals, the disposal of nuclear waste is often linked to the arms trade. Italian investigative journalist Riccardo Bocca pointed out in his book "the shameful ship" that Comelio was also an arms dealer who sold remote-controlled mines to Argentina during the Anglo-Arab Falkland Islands War. Taiwan has also considered buying such mines, but in the end there was no deal.

Broker Comelio's international nuclear network

Born in Varese, northern Italy in 1945, Comelio is an engineer who founded ODM to weave a cross-international network to deal with toxic waste from all over the world. Outside its headquarters in Italy, it has offices in Austria, France, Germany and Russia, financial operations in Switzerland and the UK, and paper companies in tax havens such as Panama, the Virgin Islands, Leiceston and Ireland.

According to the Greenpeace (Greenpeace) survey, ODM disposed of about 3000 metric tons of waste every day in 1997, mainly transporting waste from developed countries to Romania, Lebanon, Venezuela, Brazil and Africa.

Although ODM also deals with chemical waste, radiation waste is the core business. Under pressure from environmental groups, the London Convention banning the dumping of nuclear waste at sea finally entered into force in 1993, and the Secretariat sent a letter in 1996 asking ODM to clarify the contents of its business.

In contrast, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which Taiwan would have relied on to verify that nuclear waste was dumped in Taiwan waters, was indifferent to the urging of environmental protection organizations at that time and did not write to ODM to abide by international law to stop illegal sea dumping.

The Technical Source of throwing poisonous ships at Sea

Comelio's use of poisonous ships on landless journeys to dispose of waste is not original and has its "technical" roots.

He participated in the study of nuclear waste disposal at sea, led by the United States, Canada, Japan and Switzerland, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) of industrialized countries and its Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), which cost about $120 million from 1977 to 1989.

In addition to the placement after drilling holes, another innovative method developed at that time was to project nuclear waste into the form of torpedoes with a size of about 16 metres and a weight of 200 tonnes, which were projected under the seabed.

Although the Nuclear Energy Agency recommended that there must be more and more comprehensive research, and the "nuclear waste torpedo" was not formally adopted in the end, Mr Comelio has sensed business opportunities and simplified methods to reduce costs. Let ships carrying toxic substances or nuclear waste be "sunk", or simply pour waste under the shallow seabed and drown the evidence by the sea.

Pioneering environmental groups were the first to reveal incredible facts, and journalists and military officers lost their lives, but the truth is still floating. "over the years, we have faced an atmosphere of hostility. When Italy continues to pursue, the EU does little to help in the face of transnational crime, "said Enrico Fontana, legal adviser to the Environmental Alliance.

No matter in the Mediterranean Sea or in the waters of Taiwan, without active investigation by public power, the sea breeze is magnificent, the tide is surging, and the truth of the poisonous ship sunk in the sea will not come to light on its own.

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