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Swiss Arrest German Engineer
Swiss authorities last week arrested a German engineer suspected of aiding Libya’s past nuclear weapons efforts, German prosecutors said yesterday (see GSN, Oct. 27). The engineer, identified as Gotthard L., was arrested in Switzerland on Nov. 13, according to the German federal prosecutor’s office. He is believed to have been paid more than $4 million to support development of a uranium enrichment centrifuge for Libya, office spokeswoman Frauke Scheuten said. International Atomic Energy Agency investigations have turned up the name of Gotthard Lerch, a German living in Switzerland, during the investigation of the black-market nuclear network formerly headed by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Associated Press reported (David Rising, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, Nov. 16). Meanwhile, the U.N. agency has taken environmental samples from three warehouses in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates as part of its investigation into the international nuclear network, diplomats said yesterday. In a report on Iran’s nuclear program, the agency said that it took samples at three sites in an unnamed location where Iran claimed that uranium enrichment equipment it purchased through the network were stored in the mid-1990s, Reuters reported. Two diplomats said the samples were taken in Dubai. The agency has said that Dubai was the headquarters of the network headed by Khan, who has confessed to providing nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea. The samples are being analyzed. Results could back Iran’s claims that traces of enriched uranium on the equipment were present before Tehran purchased it, according to Reuters (Louis Charbonneau, Reuters, Nov. 16).
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