A German engineer has been convicted of providing parts for a centrifuge system to Libya for use in the country's scuttled nuclear weapons programme.
A Stuttgart state court sentenced 65-year-old Gotthard Lerch to five and a half years in prison for breaking German export and weapons laws by helping supply uranium-enriching equipment to Libya between 1999 and 2003. Prosecutors said the defendant helped Libyan interests, but had not been a member of an international network of nuclear smugglers led by the rogue Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.
(Deutsche Welle)
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