Albanian Government Selling Weapons to Muammar Qaddafi

In January 2010, MEICO a company owned by the Ministry of Defense of Albania engaged in a complex operation of exporting 150,000 82-millimeter mortar shells to Libya. Two Serbian gun smugglers made this export possible. One of them was Slobodan Tesic, who violated the UN weapons embargo to President’s Charles Taylor Liberia; the other was Zoran Damianovic, who in July 2005 spent a short stint in prison in Montenegro for attempted smuggling of a thousand M70 and M72 Zastava assault rifles [note: These are reverse-engineered Kalashnikov variants.] The export of 150,000 82-millimeter mortar shells was made to a Montenegro company Yugoimport of Montenegro, a subsidiary of the Serb weapons company Yugoimport SDPR according to the EUC (end user certificate) and the cargo manifest and the bill lading of the vessel. The payment was made through Niksicka Banka of Montenegro, a bank with old ties to the weapons trade of the MOD of Albania.
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