UK businessman found guilty of selling fake bomb detectors to Iraq

“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

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