{"id":2470,"date":"2010-01-22T16:03:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2010-01-22T16:03:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:03:49","slug":"british-law-enforcement-moves-on-bomb-detector-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/01\/22\/british-law-enforcement-moves-on-bomb-detector-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"British law enforcement moves on bomb detector scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s nice to see that sometimes the British government can move <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2010\/jan\/22\/bomb-detectors-iraq-arrest?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">quickly<\/a> on something. As reported on the BBC program <em>Newsnight<\/em>, a bogus bomb detector has been selling briskly in Iraq (link <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/01\/22\/there-should-be-a-special-hell-for-this-scam-artist\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). The lead scammer has been arrested today:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The managing director of a British company that has been selling bomb-detecting equipment to security forces in Iraq was arrested on suspicion of fraud today.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the British government announced that it was imposing a ban on the export of the ADE-651 detectors because it was concerned they could put the lives of British forces or other friendly forces at risk.<\/p>\n<p>The government promised to help investigate the multimillion-pound deal between the company, ATSC, and the security forces in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq has invested more than \u00a350m in buying the devices and training people to use them. Police and military personnel have used them to search vehicles and pedestrians for explosives. But concerns over their effectiveness &mdash; and fears they could put lives at risk &mdash; have been raised.<\/p>\n<p>Avon and Somerset police officers arrested Jim McCormick, 53, on suspicion of fraud by misrepresentation. A spokesman said: &#8220;We are conducting a criminal investigation and, as part of that, a 53-year-old man has been arrested.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s nice to see that sometimes the British government can move quickly on something. As reported on the BBC program Newsnight, a bogus bomb detector has been selling briskly in Iraq (link here). The lead scammer has been arrested today: The managing director of a British company that has been selling bomb-detecting equipment to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,370],"tags":[194,333,39],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-law","category-middle-east","tag-fraud","tag-iraq","tag-junkscience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-DQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}