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Charged and to be prosecuted for attempts to smuggle banned equipments to Iran

Monday, 03 December 2012
In a very rare case, a person is to be prosecuted in Sweden for attempting to smuggle advanced technological equipment to Iran. The equipment is said to be advanced materials that could be used for uranium enrichment and this is violation of international sanctions.

Iran is currently caught in an international weapons quagmire with many people afraid that the country whose leadership had declares to wipe Israel out of the map could possess weapons of mass destruction. The nuclear weapon is one of those types of weapons and the fact that western countries, as well as Israel fear that possessing this weapon could bring chaos in the world. The USA and others blessed by the UN have imposed strong sanctions on the country.

The case being heard in Sweden in January will have ramifications across several continents, but its starts from a residential area in Lund, Southern Sweden. In one of the apartments, a small defunct company that is now being accused of trying to smuggle prohibited equipment to Iran, according to Swedish television (SVT).

<= Form Swedish Television
This story was uncovered when the Swedish customs did a sample checks of a packages which would be officially be shipped to Dubai. But the final address tags on the boxes specified a different final destination: Tehran, SVT reports.

The boxes contained advanced technological equipment, which is contained on the EU sanctions list as products that are not supposed to be exported to Iran - vacuum pumps and valves that are essential for enriching uranium.

"These are no ordinary vacuum pumps. They are of a type, which is highly corrosion resistant. Just the kind that is necessary for the production of enriched uranium," said Daniel Nord regional head of Inspectorate for Strategic Products, ISP to SVT.

"The pumps could be used in the fuel industry or dairies, but they are of such an advanced nature that it is not likely," added Daniel North.

The list of what is forbidden to sell to Iran is constantly growing but the background of all this is the suspicion that Iran is building nuclear weapons. As such as explained above sanctions have been imposed on the country.

The man who is now charged with criminal sanctions is originally from Iran but is a Swedish citizen. Neither he nor his attorney want to give any comment about the crime he is being accused of. The case will be taken into the Lund District Court in January.
By Scancomark.com Team

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