Gazprom operates gas pipeline to Turkey and Southern Europe from Amsterdam
By Ties Keyzer, Daniël van Kessel, Henk Willem Smits, Ties Keyzer, | 26 March, 2022
The control room of Turk Stream, the southern brother of the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, is located above a Coolblue shop on the Amsterdam Zuidas. That the headquarters of Gazprom subsidiary South Stream Transport B.V. was located in the Netherlands was known, but The Investigative Desk and Follow The Money discovered that from its office in the Dutch capital, Gazprom monitors the pipeline that the Kremlin uses to cut off the transit of gas through Ukraine.
How did a Russian-Turkish pipeline end up on the Zuidas? And could the Netherlands possibly hurt Vladimir Putin with this? Read the story here.
Read the full article on FTM (in Dutch).
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