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Legalbrief   |   your legal news hub Sunday 01 September 2024

WMD accused claims he has no links with Libya

A Randburg engineer charged under weapons of mass destruction and nuclear energy laws has already told international authorities that he had no business dealings with Libya, the Vanderbijlpark Regional Court heard on Friday.

Gerhard Wisser, arrested with his colleague Dan Geiges, was questioned by German authorities in August as part of an international investigation into the ‘AQ Khan’ network, which is alleged to have supplied Libya\'s now-abandoned nuclear weapons programme. Wisser told German police ‘my company has done no business with Libya nor have I received any money from Libya’, his lawyer Anand Choudree said. The bail hearing continues. Full report on the IoL site