S'pore Made Guns Seized in Finland(Shady ST-dealing)
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Mystery Singapore 'gun factory' sent 600-kg cache
By Alvin Chiang
[email protected]
FIVE crates of guns weighing 600 kg were seized by Finnish customs on a flight to Singapore.
All because the guns did not come with the proper paperwork.
Ms Sanna Sadevirta, an information officer with Finland's Ministry of the Interior, told The New Paper the crates came from a 'gun factory' in Singapore.
The crates contained automatic rifles and mortars.
The seizure took place in February.
It all started when the weapons were sent from Singapore to Morocco for a gun exhibition.
It was not known when the weapons reached Morocco.
The weapons were to be sent back to Singapore on a Finnair flight that left Amsterdam, reported the Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat.
But at a stopover in Helsinki, Finland's capital, customs officials seized the weapons on the passenger plane after they found the 'delivery did not comply with customs procedures'.
No import or export licences for the weapons were found at that time, reported Reuters.
It was not known how the weapons got to Amsterdam from Morocco.
It was reported the guns originated from a gun factory in Singapore.
SENDER, RECIPIENT UNDISCLOSED
Apparently, the weapons have since been returned to the unidentified factory by Finnish customs.
Finnish officials are considering whether or not to press charges against the unidentified cargo subscriber, Helsingin Sanomat said.
The Singapore Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said it can neither confirm nor deny if the shipment of arms is back here.
Its spokesman Lee Boon Hwee said such information is confidential.
The sender and the recipient of the shipment were not disclosed by Finnish customs and media.
Chye Whatt Seng , a licensed arms and ammunition dealer, told The New Paper it did not know of any gun exhibition in Morocco.
The company referred us to Chartered Industries which makes ordnance for the Singapore Armed Forces.
But Chartered Industries could not be reached for comment at press time.
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By TNP (afternoon singapore tabloid)
Assuming each gun weighs 5 kg + some ammo..i think about 120 guns were shipped..
such a shady dealing..
zzz , should be SAR-21.. -
Thats a load of crap, like your signature implies. Well, now we know there is indeed a demand for Singapore made products.
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fk lar, this was taken from the NEWPAPER LAR
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Obviously somebody too lazy to read the Defence Procurement green paper I posted for their benefit and so c ocked it up the imp/exp documents...
work so hard to source for such info and in the end nobody want to read, now c ock up the whole things. now happy lar kanna fk, the whole world know leow.
EU Green Paper: Defence Procurement
Source: European Commission
Ref: COM (2004) 608
Dated Sept. 17, released Sept. 23, 2004
The European Commission has published a consultative Green Paper on how to improve cross-border competition in certain types of defense procurement, in a way consistent with the special nature of the sector.
EU law (Article 296 EC) does not require competition in procuring supplies, works and services intended for specifically military purposes and crucial to national security.
However, the Commission wants to help Member States to get better value in the Euro 30 billion plus EU market for defense procurement, and to help EU defense industries to be more competitive, by providing guidance on how EC Treaty exceptions and requirements should be interpreted.
The ideas set out in this report focus on opening national defense procurement contracts to all EU companies for items that do not raise national security issues, such as boots, uniforms, food and other dual-use items.
The Green Paper assesses how the Commission might clarify in a Communication the criteria to establish when procurement of military equipment, services and works can be exempted from competitive procurement requirements and when they cannot.
Full text
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/publicprocurement/docs/defence/com04-608_en.pdf
16 pages in PDF format -
u think they ST mechanics guys come to this forum?
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Hey, which arms manufacturer is not shady?
ST, being Singaporean, and related to the military, would certainly have embraced the SAF 8th core value, aka. "Do anything you want, just don't get caught.", in its dealings... Just that this time it got caught? -
You had to be like that in all your posts, and your signature says it all. I just cannot take you seriously anymore.Originally posted by SibeiSuayKia:fk lar, this was taken from the NEWPAPER LAR -
*coughs*
what was our singaporean spies doing abroad?
chiak chua as usual.. -
Espionage is not easy. Not every situation is like those described by My Clancy nor are all spies like Jason Bourne. Just look at those 2 Mossad agents in the NZ fiasco, and Mossad is reputed to be among the best.Originally posted by SibeiSuayKia:*coughs*
what was our singaporean spies doing abroad?
chiak chua as usual..
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umm just look at the amount of daring mossad agents abroad..
even though i saw a website (over 50,000 spies in many countries)
and they tried to warn USA of the incoming september 11 attacks
they have a nice list of the amount of missions done..though
for a small country like israel..also..