lundi 13 mai 2013

Iranian man jailed five years in Nigeria for illegal arms shipment



An Iranian and his Nigerian accomplice were sentenced to five years in prison on Monday, over a plot they orchestrated to smuggle a shipment of military-grade weapons, including mortar rounds, into West Africa.

Both Azim Aghajani and his accomplice, Usman Abbas Jega, pleaded for leniency in the hearing, in which Justice Okechukwu J Okeke avoided giving the men a maximum sentence of life in prison. The two men already have served more than two years in prison waiting for trial, time which will count toward their release.


The case began when security forces broke open 13 containers at Lagos' busy Apapa Port in October 2010 and found the weapons, sparking an international outcry as Iran is barred by the UN from shipping arms abroad.

The cache, hidden under tiles in a shipment labelled as containing construction equipment, included 107 mm artillery rockets, rifle rounds and other weapons.

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