Denmark Investigates Whether Company Provided WMD-Related Equipment to Iraq

The government of Denmark will investigate whether the Danish company Niro sold equipment to Iraq capable of being used to develop biological weapons, according to Agence France-Presse (see GSN, Oct. 8).

Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen ordered the inquiry based on allegations made in a CIA report, Possible Breaches of U.N. Sanctions by Danish Companies.

“The information in the CIA report is news to us. That’s why the authorities must naturally look into the claims,” Rasmussen told Danish lawmakers.

Investigators from the Danish Trade and Industry Ministry and secret service were schedule to visit Niro today. The company has denied any wrongdoing.

“We have not delivered one single screw to Iraq since 1989 when we supplied a dryer system used in the industrial ceramics industry,” Niro managing director Niels Graugaard told the Danish financial daily Boersen yesterday (Agence France-Presse, Oct. 19).

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