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Militants give legal touch to arms deals
The Telegraph | Nishit Dholabhai | Stockholm, March 19 (IANS):
Northeast outfits are employing crafty financial methods to procure arms worth millions of dollars and make them look like legitimate legal buys.
Shimray is accused of buying weapons from China with plans to spend $1.2 million (approximately Rs 60 crore) while the UNLF was buying properties in Guwahati, Imphal and Siliguri with benami transactions. “The cases against them and the accompanying evidence is good enough to put them away for some years,” said an NIA source.
Shimray has been chargesheeted and a key witness in the case has spoken against him, sources said. The Ukhrul resident allegedly placed an order for weapons worth $7 lakh (Rs 31 lakh, two years ago) to China-based weapons manufacturers, including Norinco.
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