A load of 645 weapons, 318 repeating / automatic and 327 standard type rifles, were discovered by the "police" in a container that was to be loaded on the merchant ship "Rizokarpaso" in the closed port of Famagusta. Two hundred of the weapons are Russian-made Baikal and the rest are Italian-made Benelli, Browing, Beretta and Winchester.
According to the Turkish press, the weapons were transported by the ship "Morfou" on July 21, 2016 in the same port and remained until yesterday in an area inside the port owned by the company Port πουsbi ltd.
The weapons appear to belong to a person named Ali Kuciuk, represented by the company "Harun Erhun" Karfo Ltd. It was found that the weapons were illegally imported from the port of Mersina to the occupied areas and attempts were made to send them back to the port of Mersina by the merchant ship "Rizokarpaso", where they were found in a container that was half full of furniture.
Halkin Sesi writes that the weapons would be transported to some of the Arab countries, while according to Yeni Duzen in Tunisia.
Speaking in Havandis, Erdogan Sandun, owner of the Harun Sadun transport company (referred to in another newspaper as "Harun Erhun"), said that what was written in the press about the cargo was untrue, stressing that the weapons had not been transported. illegally but through legal process.
Meanwhile, the owner of the weapons, Ali Kuciuk, said that it was the first time that he would export weapons through the closed port of Famagusta, which caused him great damage, adding that the departure of the arms shipment from the port of Mersin was legal. procedure, but no one told them that the transfer of cargo to a transit station required a decision of the "cabinet" in the occupied territories.
The Turkish newspapers raise the question why the cargo stayed so many days in the area of the port of Famagusta since it was going to be only a transit station and why the number of cargo that entered the pseudo-state was different from that during the export which was not done, due to of the operation by the "police". The information to the "police" is said to have been given by the board of directors of the port of Famagusta.
Source: KYPE