FridgeFreezer Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 As seen here the owner of L Jackson & Co has been locked up for exporting nice green trucks to shady characters. Not sure how this may affect the business should anyone be buying things from him 6 November 20091. Details of the case On 4 November Mr Andrew Jackson, owner of Doncaster-based L Jackson & Co, was given a 2 year, 8 month jail term at Southwark Crown Court after admitting breaking an arms embargo by selling military vehicles to Sudan without a licence. An employee of L Jackson, Mr Stephen Smithey, received a suspended jail sentence of 35 weeks plus 150 hours of community service. The vehicles in question (Hagglund BV206 personnel carriers) are specifically designed to move large numbers of military troops across difficult terrain, such as desert. Jackson had applied for an export licence to send 15 of these vehicles to Sudan in September 2005 but this was refused. He then shipped the vehicles to Norway, evading controls by deliberately and wrongly using an open general export licence which is usually reserved for UK military surplus vehicles. In reality, he was making secret arrangements to have the BV206 vehicles forwarded on to Sudan. When interviewed, Jackson said the use of the open general export licence had been an administrative mistake. This, however, was at odds with forensic evidence recovered from his computer and material obtained by investigators from Norway. An employee, Steve Smithey, was arrested in 2009 after documents showed his involvement in the subterfuge. When interviewed, Smithey eventually admitted that both he and Jackson knew that the vehicles were going to Sudan, after the licence had been refused. A year later Jackson shipped a further 15 vehicles to Norway. This time he applied for an export licence, with no mention of Sudan, which was approved. These 15 vehicles were also sent directly to Sudan from Norway, to the same end-user. Confiscation proceedings are underway against Andrew Jackson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mo Murphy Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Thats a shame, they won't look after those Hagglunds in Sudan. Mo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petethepilot Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 I would call this iniative! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FridgeFreezer Posted March 17, 2010 Author Share Posted March 17, 2010 If he'd gotten away with it I'd have called it initiative Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicks90 Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 i wonder why the Sudan wanted them? Not exactly a swampy snowy place requiring the services of a Huggy, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aragorn Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 Selling them on to other combatants? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FridgeFreezer Posted March 17, 2010 Author Share Posted March 17, 2010 Apparently they even have them in the sandpit these days, can't imagine a BV206 being overly happy about sand in the workings though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petethepilot Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 If he'd gotten away with it I'd have called it initiative Luckily I misspelled it...so actually I didn´t either call it initiativeness! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoltan Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 i wonder why the Sudan wanted them? Not exactly a swampy snowy place requiring the services of a Huggy, Maybe a diversionary tactic. They were being shipped onto Buenos Aires Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkrentfitter Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 in my experience l jackson &co were so far up there own arses they could pick there noses from inside!went there with a bloke i worked for to buy dump trucks for a landfill site,very arrogant,thought they were doing us a favour dealing with us,no doubt he will serve most of it in an open prison,fairly close to doncaster too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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