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UK man convicted of selling fake bomb detectors

24 April 2013 09:53 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Rashad Suleymanov – APA. A British businessman was convicted of fraud after making millions of dollars selling fake bomb-detection equipment based on a golf-ball finder to countries around the world, endangering rather than protecting lives there, APA reports quoting TVNZ.

James McCormick, 56, manufactured and sold the hand-held "ADE 651" devices to countries at serious risk from bombings such as Iraq, claiming they could detect explosives, drugs and other substances.

But the detectors had no working components, lacked any basis in science and did not work in accordance with the known laws of physics, London's Old Bailey court heard. A large proportion of these were countries where there was and still remains a real risk of terrorism and criminality

Pakistan, Tunisia, Rumania and Georgia, states which faced murderous criminal and political violence, were other customers.