Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson was arrested after the 1984 Bhopal gas leak, released on bail and flown out on a state plane; declared a fugitive in 1992, he died in the US in 2014 without extradition
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In December 1984 a methyl isocyanate gas leak from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killed thousands of people; commonly cited figures put immediate deaths in the low thousands, with the total toll of roughly 15,000-25,000 reflecting deaths over subsequent years from gas-related complications. Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson was arrested and released on a nominal ₹25,000 bail, and left India on an aircraft arranged by the Madhya Pradesh state government under Chief Minister Arjun Singh. He was declared a fugitive in 1992 for failing to appear in court and died in the US in 2014 without being extradited (CBS News, Gulf News, bhopal.net).
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