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This afternoon, at 13:55pm, a group of six women surrounded Enquest’s CEO, Amjad Bseisu, and placed him under Citizen’s Arrest for the charge of Public Nuisance.

The oil boss, accused of public nuisance for his company’s polluting activities, resisted the arrest by aggressively barging the women out of the way and then fled into the Enquest office on Regent Street. The women called the police, however Bseisu refused to wait for the police to arrive. 

The group then entered his offices in London’s West End to attempt to deliver a dossier of evidence and wait calmly for the police to arrive. However when the Met Police arrived, one of the women from the Citizens Arrest Network was arrested. 

The group is accusing the oil executive of two counts of “Intentionally or recklessly caus[ing] a public nuisance, contrary to section 78 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022”. The particulars of the first count relate to his role in the extraction and distribution of “14,871,640 barrels of oil (equivalent) in the reporting year 2024, in full knowledge that [...] would release 6,622,087 tons of carbon dioxide (equivalent) into the atmosphere” with the harmful outcomes caused by such emission causing a risk of serious harm to the public or a section of the public. 

Sara Melly, one of the women who Citizen’s Arrested Enquest’s CEO, Amjad Bseisu said:

“Amjad spends his days expanding oil drilling for Enquest. He makes millions every year. The consequence is death and destruction for people like me. He knows his actions are putting the public at risk and disrupting lives. He’s a danger and he should be doing time.”

Earlier this year, Enquest acquired Harbour Energy’s oil holdings in Vietnam. The $84 million acquisition is part of the Enquest’s expansion outside its home market in the North Sea.¹

Amjad Bseisu has been a vocal opponent of the windfall tax on oil and gas companies. Since 2013, Bseisu has donated half a million pounds to the Conservative Party² and recently a subsidiary of EnQuest was awarded a North Sea drilling licence, despite being fined in 2022 for breaching gas flaring limits³. These limits are crucial for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and mitigating environmental and health impacts. Enquest was granted permission in 2023 to develop the Kraken oil field in the North Sea⁴.

In March 2025, the Citizen’s Arrest Network tried to confront Enquest’s CEO, Amjad Bseisu, but he ran away⁵.

Last week, leading Human Rights law firm Leigh Day⁶ agreed to take on Citizen’s Arrest Network as a client, to seek prosecution of Thames Water CEO Chris Weston.

The firm is preparing evidence on behalf of Citizen’s Arrest Network for submission to Thames Valley Police, in support of Citizen’s Arrest Network’s aim to prosecute Chris Weston for Public Nuisance. This may lead to the Police mounting their own investigation, before launching an indictment and subsequent prosecution of Weston for his role in pollution of UK waterways.

This follows a string of actions from the group over the last month, with a citizens arrest made on CEO of Anglian Water Mark Thurston on his way to work⁷, an attempted arrest on CEO of Thames Water Christ Weston⁸, and 8 water company headquarters across the UK where CEOs were handed evidence dossiers⁹, which outlined the damage of water pollution their companies have committed and the effect this has on the public and their access to clean water. 

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