Acting with information from EIA's Forests team, German authorities raided the private villa of timber trader Stefan Bührich and the grounds of a company of which he was formerly a director. Bührich was the director of WOB Timber in Hamburg, previously investigated by EIA for exploiting regulatory loopholes to trade illicit timber in circumvention of the EU Timber Regulation. A total of 111m3 of teak worth more than €1 million was seized on suspicion of being illegally imported from Myanmar.
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