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'Prolific waste criminal' ordered to pay £1.4m for illegal dumping at 16 sites
Varun Datta pleaded guilty to dumping 4,275 tonnes of waste at 16 English sites and must pay £1.4 million including £1.1 million for financial gains, the Environment Agency said.
- On Friday , Varun Datta, 36, of Little Chester Street, London was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court and ordered to pay £1.4m for illegally dumping about 4,275 tonnes of waste.
- Operating through Atkins Recycling Ltd, Datta diverted loads to unlicensed sites, claiming they went to Kiveton Park near Sheffield, while an associate Golechha allegedly falsified weighbridge documents.
- Images show hundreds of wrapped bales at Middleton Nature Reserve, and officials found rubbish at farms and a historic manor house; Farrar said, `Smell and flies were a feature at some of the illegal sites and caused a localised adverse effect to air quality`.
- He was ordered to repay 1.1m plus £100,000 in compensation and £200,000 in prosecution costs, and received a four-month suspended prison sentence, rehabilitation, and unpaid work.
- The Environment Agency uncovered a network of 16 illegal dumping sites across the country, and officials pledged tougher action after a June 3, 2025, guilty plea from Bashir, who admitted causing waste at three sites.
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Waste Crime Gang Ordered to Repay £1.4m After Illegal Dumping
A prolific waste criminal has been ordered to hand over more than £1.4 million after illegally dumping over 4,275 tonnes of waste across England in one of the most shocking environmental crime cases in recent years. Varun Datta, 36, of Little Chester Street, London, was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court after a nationwide investigation by the Environment Agency uncovered a network of 16 illegal dumping sites stretching from the northeast to th…
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