Published: July 16th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Following indications of possible fraud in climate action projects (Upstream Emissions Reductions, UER), with which mineral oil companies want to improve their carbon footprint, police have searched companies in North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria. Numerous documents were confiscated from the premises of companies in Kerpen, Cologne and Langenbach last Friday, according to the Berlin public prosecutor’s office.