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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 6646876" data-attributes="member: 92282">A British court has jailed two arms dealers from west London who  traded military weapons to countries including Sri Lanka without a UK  license. Both men were jailed for seven years each for trading 1,000  bombs from Ukraine to the Sri Lankan Army in 2005 and 3,900 rounds of  30mm armour-piercing incendiary ammunition from Serbia and Montenegro to  Sri Lanka between May 6 2006 and February 15 2005, the UK Press  association reported.      Gideon Sarig deliberately chose not to apply for the license as he  arranged for Uzis, pump-action shotguns, bombs and other weapons to be  sent to countries including Sri Lanka and Israel.      Sarig used contacts arranged by his co-defendant Howard Freckleton to  sell the military and paramilitary kit to Sri Lanka's military during  its "long, protracted and bloody civil war" with the Tamil Tigers,  Southwark Crown Court in London heard.      Judge James Wadsworth QC told Sarig the jury unanimously found him  guilty of trading "large amounts of ammunition for totally war-like,  destructive and death-dealing use" without a UK licence.      Both men were jailed for seven years each for trading 1,000 bombs from  Ukraine to the Sri Lankan Army in 2005 and 3,900 rounds of 30mm  armour-piercing incendiary ammunition from Serbia and Montenegro to Sri  Lanka between May 6 2006 and February 15 2005.      Sentencing them immediately after their convictions, the judge said:  "You both knew exactly what you were doing. Each of you exercised what  is your undoubted right to fight this case to the full, but by doing  that you have, of course, removed from me the opportunity of giving you  any proper credit in your sentence as a result of regret, remorse, or  even acceptance of your guilt."      He also jailed Sarig, a UK national with joint Israeli-British  citizenship, for a further two years for trading 391 pump action  shotguns from Turkey to Israel, Venezuela and Burkina Faso, and 1,000  anti-riot shields from Turkey to Israel. Sarig, 58, of Lauderale Road,  Maida Vale, west London, held his head in his hands before he was taken  into custody by the two dock officers.      Turning to Freckleton, the judge said he had an earlier conviction for  breaching export licences in 1987 for which he was sentenced to nine  months in jail. The judge told him the "earlier conviction for a not  entirely dissimilar matter" showed the "determination you had to ignore  very important regulation".      Both Sarig and Freckleton, 64, of Mitchell Road, Enfield, north London,  showed little emotion as they were jailed. They were both self-employed  arms dealers based in London, with Sarig running MIA Trading and  Freckleton running Lyon Brandfield in the UK. Sarig also ran Greemount  Trading, which was registered in Panama but had no offices there, the  court heard.      In all, the jury unanimously found Sarig guilty of 12 counts of being  knowingly concerned in the supply, delivery, transfer, acquisition or  disposal of controlled goods with intent to evade prohibition thereon.  But he was cleared of the deals involving the trade of 1,000  semi-automatic pistols from Turkey to Venezuela, and ammunition from  Serbia and Montenegro to Sri Lanka. Freckleton was convicted of three  counts of the same charge.<a href="http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/news/1515-uk-jails-arms-dealers-to-lanka.html" target="_blank">DM</a></blockquote>

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