
“A businessman has been found guilty of a multimillion-pound fraud involving the sale of fake bomb detectors to Iraq and around the world. A jury at the Old Bailey found Jim McCormick, 57, from near Taunton, Somerset, guilty on three counts of fraud over a scam that included the sale of £55m of devices based on a novelty golfball finder to Iraq. They were installed at checkpoints in Baghdad through which car bombs and suicide bombers passed, killing hundreds of civilians. Last month they remained in use at checkpoints across the Iraqi capital. McCormick also sold the detectors to Niger, Syria, Mexico and a UN agency in Lebanon.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/apr/23/somerset-business-guilty-fake-bombs
Related posts:
Lamassu Bitcoin ATM on CNBC
An attack on free speech in North Carolina
ECB cuts rates to new low of 0.25%, euro sinks
Yang Jisheng: The man who discovered 36 million dead
8-year-old girl handcuffed, jailed for two hours
France adopts words of war by vowing to ‘destroy terrorists’
Australia Bans Cash For All Purchases Over $7,500
West Virginia residents sickened after exposure to 'safe' water
Deposit Flight From Europe Banks Eroding Common Currency
Anger over East German medical ‘human guinea pigs’
DEA agents seize black businessman's $16K life savings; no charges filed
School District Ends Policy Of Forcing Students To Kneel Down For Dismissal
China tells U.S. to slow money printing presses
South Korea Plans to Hit Bitcoin Exchanges With Massive Tax Bills
Black people in London twice as likely to be charged with drug possession