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Ship with illegal cargo was Iran-bound: Malaysia
[Straits Times] MALAYSIAN police said on Friday that they had found equipment they suspect could be used to make nuclear weapons smuggled on board a ship headed to Iran.National police chief Ismail Omar told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the cargo was seized from a Malaysian-registered ship traveling from China to Teheran while it was docked at a central Malaysia harbour. Authorities are investigating whether the equipment could be used to make nuclear weapons. Malaysian International Shipping Corp confirmed in a statement to the AP that police confiscated two containers from the MV Bunga Raya Satu on March 8. It said a freight forwarder had declared the contents as 'goods used for liquid mixing or storage for pharmaceutical or chemical or food industry.' Police said they had received a tip that the items were being shipped illegally and did not have a special permit required under Malaysia's anti-trafficking law. Malaysia passed that law last year to curb the trafficking of nuclear weapon components after being linked to the illegal supply of sensitive technology to countries including Iran and Libya. Posted by: Fred 2011-03-19 |
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