First prison sentence handed in sludge dumping scandal

Maribor, 18 January - A man who pleaded guilty to assisting in the dumping of nearly 200 tonnes of sewage sludge in the village of Pivola in 2021 was handed a prison sentence of two years and four months in Maribor on Thursday. The remaining suspects in what was one of many such cases discovered after Hungary ended sludge imports from Slovenia still face trial.