Lebanon pursues the captain and owner of the ship who delivered the ammonium nitrate

The Lebanese D.A. didn't reveal the names of the people she turned to Interpol for arrest. However, it is known that the captain of the unit was Boris Prokoshev and the owner of Igor Grechushkin, a Russian businessman running business in Cyprus.

The Russian office of Interpol refused to comment on this. The Reuters Agency explains that Grechushkin had already been interviewed in August, while Prokoshev stated that he had not been contacted by any investigators for questioning.

Prokoshev told the agency Reuters that 2750 tons of chemicals went to Beirut after the ship's owner instructed him to enter Beirut in 2013 to collect additional cargo. However, from Georgia to Mozambique, the ship never left the capital of Lebanon, as it became the subject of a legal dispute over unregulated port charges and had technical defects.

The port authorities in Beirut occupied the ship at the end of 2013 due to debts, and the following year the unit was considered unfit for navigation. Its cargo was unloaded in October and stored in Hangar 12, where an explosion occurred in August.

According to a report by Lebanese security services, the ship sank near the port breakwater in February 2018.

After a massive explosion of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in the port, which occurred in early August, died on site or later due to injuries of over 190 people. In addition, 6,500 people were injured and thousands of buildings were damaged or destroyed.

Source: PAP