“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:
After QE failure, BOJ's Kuroda says no plan to ease policy now
Syrian rebels say they have received anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles
US, UK soldiers wear terrorist YPG uniforms in Syria camps
Bitcoin Judged Commodity in Finland After Failing Money Test
New Zealand passes law allowing domestic surveillance
Europe Pushes for Centralized Supervision of Banks
Jack Lew’s “Extraordinary Measures” on Debt Just “Cooking the Books”
Marine in tutu allegedly mistakes vet's wheelchair as costume, assaults him
Vegas developer selling $7.85M mansion for bitcoin
Google 'Donates' Millions For San Francisco Kids' City Bus Fares
American Expat Taxpayers Would Rather Ditch Citizenship Than Face New IRS Rules
Virtual-Currency Craze Spawns Bitcoin Wannabes
Least Surprising News Flash Ever: Study Finds Bureaucrats Are Lazy
Switzerland pays billions to foreign governments in tax deal
Air Force guards at top-secret US nuclear missile base were actually a LSD ring