Word: imhausen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...noxious cloud hanging over Imhausen-Chemie keeps growing thicker. Under fire for its alleged complicity in the building of a poison-gas factory in Libya, the West German chemical company is besieged by criticism from its own employees, who fear their jobs will be lost unless President Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen resigns. Two weeks ago Imhausen's second-in-command took a drug overdose in an apparent suicide attempt. Now comes news that the firm is involved in the illegal production and sale of MDMA, a designer drug commonly known as "ecstasy...
German prosecutors say Imhausen has supplied U.S. drug traffickers with 374 lbs. of MDMA, worth up to $27 million on the street. Two Americans and one Imhausen employee have been arrested. While Imhausen has admitted manufacturing the drug, company officials claim they were unaware the substance was illegal. Ironically, Imhausen could face stiffer penalties if convicted of breaking local narcotics laws than for helping a foreign country make deadly chemical weapons...
...years earlier that Gaddafi could be preparing to make chemical weapons "with help from unknown East and West German firms." This admission comes several weeks after authorities, prodded by the U.S., begin an official investigation and seize twelve boxes of IBI documents. Among them are letters of agreement between Imhausen-Chemie and the mysterious IBI -- Ihsan Barbouti International...
...Barbouti's IBI had set up a network of offices stretching from Europe to Asia. In West Germany, where export-license rules have been hopelessly lax (but now, belatedly, are undergoing revision), he signed up Imhausen-Chemie as chief subcontractor for the project. Intelligence officials say Barbouti's newly opened offices in Hong Kong helped arrange a complex scheme by which material was sent to Imhausen's representative in Hong Kong and transshipped to Rabta. In this way, they explain, Barbouti managed to avoid arousing suspicions about Gaddafi's real intent...
...supply of protective equipment for handling toxic chemicals at the plant and remained active in the project, according to one official, "well into 1988." Barbouti's case is not helped, moreover, by the fact that he shuttered his Frankfurt office shortly after the U.S. first informed Bonn that Imhausen- Chemie was implicated in the Rabta affair. Barbouti dismisses that as mere coincidence and not an attempt to hide his tracks...