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Arms dealer faces investigation over his sales to Sudan
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THE government has ordered an investigation into the activities of
an arms dealer exposed by The Scotsman last week for attempting to
sell aircraft and weapons to the Sudanese government.
The British businessman, John Knight, admitted that he tried to
broker a deal to supply Antonov planes - of a type used by the
Khartoum regime to bomb its own people in Darfur - and large numbers
of other weapons at a time when the ethnic cleansing in Darfur was at
its height. Now an investigation has been ordered into whether he
should face criminal prosecution.
The government whip, Baroness Crawley, in a ...
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