VIDEO: A Container Full Of 809 Arms From Ghana Have Been Captured By Spanish Authority!

A stash of Swiss-made strike rifles and explosive launchers snuck from Ghana and whose last destination was the United States has been captured by the Spanish Civil Guard.


As indicated by a dispatch by the Civil Guard which is a military power accused of police obligations under the power of both the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Defense in Spain, the revelation was made on August 4.

The weapons, reports say, can be followed to Hungary however their appearance in Spain remains a secret.

The public statement says officers had opened a "suspicious" shipment from Ghana in the port city of Algeciras, which is close Gibraltar and found more than 800 arms.


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Video Source:  Tages-Anzeiger (TA)

In what they depicted as an "unlawful load", 737 strike rifles (5.56mm) and 72 projectile launchers, which were Swiss made were found, the Civil Guard said.

"The consequence of these examinations, the individuals from this unit, a week ago detected a suspicious holder from Ghana via ocean and was headed for the United States, which announced a load of weapons disassembled," part of the announcement by the Civil Guard read.

It included: "In any case, once the opening of the holder, requested by the Spanish dominant presences keeping in mind the end goal to continue with its physical examination, it was found that 809 weapons (strike rifles 737 5.56 mm and 72 40mm projectile launcher fabricating Swiss), obviously new, were consummately mounted each in its unique bundling industrial facility.

"It would create consequently a break of the vital regulatory customs that must secure the activity of such merchandise.

"The endeavor did not have the rundown of assembling and serial quantities of arms 809 conveying the compartment.

As per the going with reports – which had some data missing – the weapons were to be transported from Ghana to business firearm merchants in the United States.

In the interim, Zurich-based daily paper, Tages-Anzeiger has taken a gander at the conveyance's fare record. It reported last Friday that the weapons were undoubtedly made in Switzerland and the exporters anticipated that the conveyance would go to Ghana, by means of a merchant in Hungary, in pre-winter 2010. The daily paper said the aggregate estimation of the weapons was around CHF1.6 million ($1.64 million).

The purchaser, it said, was given as the National Security Council of Ghana and certifications were made that the weapons would not be sold on, and would be for military use.

The Swiss firm in charge of sending the weapons to Hungary told the daily paper that the fare from Switzerland had been embraced effectively. It is not known how the conveyance then wound up in Spain.

The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco's) Export Controls office was cited as saying that it had observed the Spanish media reports and was checking the data.