• The Gas Man: The unlikely figure behind some of Iran’s deadliest crimes

  • Dec 23 2024
  • Length: 29 mins
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The Gas Man: The unlikely figure behind some of Iran’s deadliest crimes

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  • For more than three decades, Peter Walaschek has been on the run. In the late 1980’s, during the Iran-Iraq war, Walaschek admitted to selling illegal chemicals used to make mustard gas to the Iranian regime. But he wasn’t a professional weapons dealer or a career criminal. He was a pharmacist who happened to really hate his office job.


    Reporter Chloe Hadjimatheou joins Crime Story to explain what it was like sitting across from the international fugitive, and how, Walaschek says, he went from working in a pharmacy in Germany to visiting the battlefields of Iran.


    Feedback for us? You can email us directly at crimestory@cbc.ca.


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