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Medved: Interblue Group Doesn't Exist, Rights Now With Interblue Europe
Tuesday 12 January 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, January 12 (TASR) - The Interblue Group, a U.S.-based company that bought 15 million tonnes of unused emission quotas from Slovakia in 2008, has signed over its business rights to a Switzerland-based firm called Interblue Europe.
Environment Minister Jozef Medved provided this information at a news conference on Tuesday in response to information in the media that the Interblue Group ceased to exist in late 2009.
Medved said that although - based on information found at the Washington State Business Register - the Interblue Group appears to have ceased to exist, this information hasn't been officially confirmed yet and needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. "I take it that it doesn't exist any more, something to which I give a 95-99 percent of being true."
At the same time, Medved declared that Slovakia will insist that the Interblue Group's successor should pay the additional €15 million that was included in the deal and related to so-called green projects. "We're going to take all measures possible so that the whole case will end well for Slovakia," he promised.
Plus Jeden Den daily reported in its Tuesday edition that the Interblue Group, which signed a deal that is said to have cost the state at least €75 million, no longer exists. Despite this, the Environment Ministry was claiming that talks are in progress.
According to the daily's article, a look at the Washington State Business Register has revealed that the company ceased to exist on December 29. The weblink actually states that the company is inactive, meaning that it isn't allowed to carry out any law-related activities.
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