Smit on Tuesday confirmed that it was among at least half a dozen towage providers that were raided by authorities last week.

A spokesman for the company’s parent, Boskalis Group, said its Rotterdam office was “visited” by the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets.

Martijn Schuttevaer told a local media outlet, ABM Financial News, that the organisation’s German counterpart stormed Smit’s Hamburg branch as well.

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