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Trucking company fined DKK 250,000: Never drive with animals again | BT Krimi - www.bt.dk Haulier Peter Ottesen must pay a fine of a quarter of a million kroner and may never again transport or deal with live animals at all. That was decided by a unanimous jury at the Court in Odense on Thursday afternoon. In a number of cases from January 2019 to March 2020, the Funen haulage company has transported piglets that. Among other things, due to lameness, umbilical hernia or tail bite, which according to a number of official veterinarians was the cause of great pain for the pigs. In addition, two of the pigs had broken jaws, while a third hero had had his upper jaw squeezed off during transport with Vognmand Peter Ottesen's cars. Contrary to what was stated in the indictment, however, the company was not convicted of animal cruelty. In return, the court emphasized that the company and its owner, Peter Ottesen, drag around "a sea of penalties." Not only has the company received fines or fines of between 7,000 and 50,000 kroner 11 times in the period from 2015 to 2021. Haulier Peter Ottesen has also been convicted several times before for grossly unreasonable treatment of animals. In September 2004, according to Fyens Stiftstidende, he was sentenced to 20 days probation and a fine of 250,000 kroner for grossly unjustifiable treatment of animals in connection with 32 transports. Subsequently, the haulier lost his authorization to drive long-distance animal transports, which, however, did not stop his drivers from driving pigs to Russia on a Polish authorization. DR was able to establish this by self-examination in the spring of 2007. The following year - in 2008 - truck driver Peter Ottesen was convicted in a case from 2005, where 97 piglets were strangled or trampled to death during a transport from Funen to Passau in Germany. On the same occasion, he was denied the right to deal with animals for five years. Earlier, Peter Ottesen had announced that he would wind up his haulage business with live animals. Nevertheless, in addition to the current case with 15 cases, the company has been indicted in a comprehensive case, where Vognmand Peter Ottesen, according to the prosecution, has broken the law as many as 485 times. Among other things, for having transported pigs for more than 24 hours without rest, for having more pigs than allowed in the transport trolley and for having completed long transports of live animals without submitting logbooks to the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration. In that case, a total of 11 haulage companies have been prosecuted, of which Haulier Peter Ottesen accounts for almost half. After the verdict was handed down on Thursday afternoon at the Court in Odense, Peter Ottesen asked for time to think about whether he would appeal the verdict. He was clearly surprised by the fine of 250,000 kroner, and subsequently told B.T. that he was inclined to have the verdict tried in the high court. abroad BEATS ALARM: Won a billion: Be good at your home UKRAINE BERLINGSKE Berlingske Media A / S Pilestræde 34 DK-1147 Copenhagen KTlf. +45 33 75 75 33 CVR.no .: 29 20 73 13