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| Saturday, 29 May 2004 |
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Alleged SL nuke blackmarket agent held in Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR, Friday (AFP) Malaysia has arrested an alleged middleman in the international nuclear black market scandal surrounding Pakistan's disgraced scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, officials said yesterday The alleged agent, Sri Lankan businessman B.S.A. Tahir, was described by US President George W. Bush earlier this year as Khan's "chief financial officer and money launderer". Tahir was arrested in the capital Kuala Lumpur as a threat to national security, government officials told AFP on condition of anonymity. They gave no further details, but under the wide-ranging Internal Security Act (ISA), Tahir can be held indefinitely without trial. The scandal embroiled a son of Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Kamaluddin, when it was revealed that a company he owned, Scomi Precision Engineering (SCOPE), had manufactured centrifuge parts seized on a ship headed for Libya last year. A police probe cleared the company, which said it had been misled about the purpose and destination of the parts, allegedly ordered by Tahir on behalf of Pakistan's Khan. Khan has admitted selling nuclear secrets abroad. |
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