{"id":5259,"date":"2013-05-03T00:38:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T19:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=5259"},"modified":"2013-05-03T00:38:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T19:38:25","slug":"briton-jailed-for-10-years-over-fake-bomb-detectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=5259","title":{"rendered":"Briton jailed for 10 years over fake bomb detectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2\u0532\u0580\u056b\u057f\u0576\u0561\u0581\u056b\u0576-\u0564\u0561\u057f\u0561\u057a\u0561\u0580\u057f\u057e\u0565\u056c-\u0567-\u057c\u0578\u0582\u0574\u0562\u056b-\u056f\u0565\u0572\u056e-\u0564\u0565\u057f\u0565\u056f\u057f\u0578\u0580\u0576\u0565\u0580-\u057e\u0561\u0573\u0561\u057c\u0565\u056c\u0578\u0582-\u0570\u0561\u0574\u0561\u0580.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5257\" alt=\"2\u0532\u0580\u056b\u057f\u0576\u0561\u0581\u056b\u0576 \u0564\u0561\u057f\u0561\u057a\u0561\u0580\u057f\u057e\u0565\u056c \u0567 \u057c\u0578\u0582\u0574\u0562\u056b \u056f\u0565\u0572\u056e \u0564\u0565\u057f\u0565\u056f\u057f\u0578\u0580\u0576\u0565\u0580 \u057e\u0561\u0573\u0561\u057c\u0565\u056c\u0578\u0582 \u0570\u0561\u0574\u0561\u0580\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2\u0532\u0580\u056b\u057f\u0576\u0561\u0581\u056b\u0576-\u0564\u0561\u057f\u0561\u057a\u0561\u0580\u057f\u057e\u0565\u056c-\u0567-\u057c\u0578\u0582\u0574\u0562\u056b-\u056f\u0565\u0572\u056e-\u0564\u0565\u057f\u0565\u056f\u057f\u0578\u0580\u0576\u0565\u0580-\u057e\u0561\u0573\u0561\u057c\u0565\u056c\u0578\u0582-\u0570\u0561\u0574\u0561\u0580.jpg\" width=\"245\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a>A British millionaire was on Thursday jailed for 10 years for selling fake bomb detectors to the Iraqi government and other countries, by a judge who told him he had blood on his hands.<br \/>\nJames McCormick made an estimated \u00a350 million ($76 million, 59 million euros) from selling the devices, which prosecutors said were based on a novelty golf ball finder and had no scientific basis.<br \/>\nLast week, a jury at London &#8216;s Old Bailey found the 57-year-old guilty of three counts of fraud.<br \/>\nPassing sentence at the court on Thursday, judge Richard Hone said McCormick&#8217;s &#8220;callous confidence trick&#8221; had likely cost lives.<br \/>\nMcCormick is believed to have made around \u00a337 million from sales to Iraq alone, although other customers included Georgia , Niger , Belgium and even the United Nations, for use in Lebanon .<br \/>\nThe businessman, from Somerset in southwest England , told the court he had also sold detectors to the Egyptian army, Kenyan police, Hong Kong &#8216;s prison service and Thai border control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British millionaire was on Thursday jailed for 10 years for selling fake bomb detectors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[648],"class_list":["post-5259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-648","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}