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ianstone
06-08-2010, 08:35 PM
British police investigating the sale of explosives-detection devices corrupt Iraq


http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/assets/images/2010/01/24/100124205042_bombdetector226.jpg Some officials insist that the equipment works


British police searched the headquarters of three companies in a campaign of investigations into fake sales for the detection of explosives in countries including Iraq.
And specific sites that have been inspected Global Tech Companies in Kent and Gruzfenr Saintevik in Devon and Scandk in Nottingham.
Police confiscated money and hundreds of devices and hundreds of people will be questioned in the investigations of corruption.
Remains the head of a company that sold the machines has been released on bail.
He was arrested on Jim McCormick, from AT SC Somerset in January on charges of fraud and fraud.
The achievement of a news program Newsnight on BBC that detect ADE-651 millions of pounds sold to Iraq and is not working.
The British government has banned the sale of such equipment to Iraq and Afghanistan early this year, said that the tests proved that it "is not valid for the detection of explosives."
There are fears that the machines, which are carried by hand, did not reveal explosives claimed the lives of hundreds of people

This is good news if the bad guys are locked up and their assets seized