Annex 5
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: ILLEGAL EXPORTS
|
| Offender | Date of verdict
| Equipment | Destination
| Value of Equip't | Penalty
|
|
Stanford
Highmark | 15/9/89
| Body armour | Spain | £150,802
| £1,000
£2,000 |
| Treherne | 19/1/90 | Photographic equipment
| Soviet Union | £265,000
| 72 months
£10,000 |
Van Reyson
Keen | 22/4/91
| Computer equipment | Czechoslovakia
| £200,000 | £1,500
£500
|
Gibbard
Gilmartin | 6/6/91
| Aircraft tyres | Iran | £84,404
| 12 months
12 months |
Myers
PK
Electronic | 30/10/92
| CS gas equipment | Angola |
£78,298 | £4,000
£20,000
|
| Fox | 6/6/94 | Aircraft parts
| Libya | £56,425 | £4,500
|
DBI
Patrick | 1/7/94 |
Aircraft engine turbine blades | Iran
| £38,000 | £100,000
£12,000
|
| Schnackenberg | 12/6/95 | Parachutes for RPVs
| Iran | £5,268 | 6 months
|
Howe
Hartridge | 19/4/96
| Aircraft parts | Iran | £120,000
| £15,000
£500 |
Frank Stott, director of ICL Technical
Plastics Ltd*
| August
1997 | Electro-shock batons
| Offered to supply batons to journalists posing as agents for the Lebanese police and admitted supplying them to China a year after the Tiananmen square massacre
| £1.5 million
Stott could only be prosecuted for holding a single baton as it is not currently illegal to broker arms as long as they do not enter Britain.
| £5,000 |
| Cooper | 23/10/97 | Firearms and ammunition (personal export for crime)
| Spain | £500 | 264 months
|
| Manzarpour | 14/5/98 | Maraging steel
| Iran | £15,240 | 9 months
|
| Salami | 18/6/98 | Shotgun cartridges
| Nigeria | £202,832 |
12 months |
|
Source: Data supplied by HM Customs & Excise,
19 July 1999. Except for:
* The Guardian, "Amnesty may challenge the
DPP", 8 August 1997; The Observer, "Mixed view
on baton charges", 17 August 1997; Amnesty International
Press Release, "Redress and Amnesty International Win First
Stage of Legal Battle Against DPP, 4 Nov 1997.
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