Environment Protection Authority files charges against Khalil Shahin and Nasmin Pty Ltd over Hills waste dump

MEMBERS of one of SA’s richest families are being prosecuted by the environmental watchdog on charges of creating and operating an unauthorised waste dump in the Adelaide Hills.

14/1/15 Constable Norman Hoy standing trial in the District Court, accused of assaulting millionaire petrol baron Yasser Shahin during a traffic stop - over tinted windows - in September 2010. Yasser Shahin arrives at the District Court.

MEMBERS of one of South Australia’s richest families are being prosecuted by the environmental watchdog on charges of creating and operating an unauthorised waste dump in the Adelaide Hills.

The Environment Protection Authority has filed criminal charges, in the Environment Resources and Development Court, against four members of the Shahin family and two of their companies.

In court documents, the EPA alleges Khalil Shahin and Nasmin Pty Ltd “undertook a proscribed activity” by operating a waste depot, without licence or authorisation, at Mount Compass between January 2 and January 13, 2012.

The documents further allege Shahin Enterprises Pty Ltd “aided, abetted, counselled or procured” Khalil Shahin and Nasmin Pty Ltd to operate that dump.

The EPA alleges Salwa, Samer and Yasser Shahin were officers of Shahin Enterprises at the time of the dump’s operation.

The ERD court’s file on the case contains no details as to what materials were allegedly being dumped at the Mount Compass location, nor their quantities.

The Shahin family owns several of the state’s most profitable retail businesses, including the On the Run petrol stations and Krispy Kreme under parent company Peregrine Corporation.

Peregrine Corporation, On the Run and Krispy Kreme are not charged with any offending.

In January, Yasser Shahin gave evidence in the District Court trial of SA Police Senior Constable Norman Hoy, who he claimed had assaulted him during a 2012 traffic stop over the tint on the windows of his 2008 Rolls Royce.

Jurors acquitted Const. Hoy of wrongdoing.

The Advertiser subsequently revealed Const. Hoy had been the subject of 11 Police Complaint Authority inquiries that dubbed him a threatening, harsh, unfair, arrogant and rude bully whose behaviour breached SA Police regulations.

The ERD court case against the Shahins has been adjourned until next month.