In the process against the weapons manufacturer Sig three Ex-managers were sentenced to sour before the Kiel district court to suspended sentences. They had supplied thousands of guns illegally to Colombia.
Due to a non-approved delivery of weapons to the United States to Colombia, the regional court of Kiel has sentenced three Ex-Manager of the gun company Sig Sauer to probation. You will be accused of against the law.
suspended sentences of between ten and 18 months and probation of 60,000 and 600,000 euros were Imposed. Already in mid-February the three defendants a settlement, accepted, and confessions.
The Sig-Sauer-employees need to be between April 2009 and April 2011 for the export of more than 47,000 guns in the United States. Officially, the weapons were intended for the civilian market in the United States. More than 38,000 pistols to Colombia more have been sent to the Colombian national police equip.
at the time it was granted by Germany, no export licence for weapons to Colombia, where civil war prevailed. The sale value of the weapons is estimated to be more than 16 million US dollars.
