In the Stuttgart trial against five former employees of the weapons manufacturer Heckler & Koch for violation of the war weapons control and foreign trade law, the public Prosecutor’s office for three defendants in prison, has demanded sentences of between 22 and 33 months. The company should pay, according to the Prosecutor, moreover, 4.1 million Euro penalty. Two of the defendants were free to talk.
The five high-ranking former employees of the Oberndorfer company is alleged to have, between 2006 and 2009, nearly 5000 assault rifles and accessories delivered to, intended for a number of Mexican unrest provinces. The company knew that these States were not admitted to the war weapons control act for the Export and document accordingly manipulated.
The company had guarantees in the so-called end-use declarations to the Federal authorities that the weapons do not come in the Unrest. According to the prosecution deceived Heckler & Koch, the authorities with the wrong information deliberately, in order to secure the million in business with the Mexican authorities.
the state’s attorney called the behavior “outrageous, shameful, and miserable”
A defendant, a clerk and a Manager would have with a deceased employee and who live in Mexico and not to the trial in Stuttgart, Germany published trade representatives of Heckler & Koch formed a gang. They have acted professionally.
Three before the Stuttgart regional court the accused was aware that the arms shipment had not been with the war weapons control act. At the same time they realized that the delivery of more than half of the weapons had been intended for the unrest provinces.
Prosecutor Karl-Heinz Oriel said in the plea that the process had shown that the “weapon wheel Heckler & Koch” have turned. The behavior of the company and its sales representative in Mexico, he called it “scandalous, shameful and miserable”.
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The defense is after 25 days of negotiations, the view that there had been no legal reservations, to deliver to Mexico. Your arguments are scheduled for the coming Thursday. A judgment is on the 21. February expected. (AFP)
