Banned arms deliveries abroad, three unexplained deaths and involvement at the highest levels of government: these are the ingredients that make the Liezen Noricum affair one of the biggest political crime stories of the post-war period. Forty years ago the scandal of the century was exposed. What happened to the former Noricum factory?
Rumors had been going around for some time, but it was only Burkhart List and Otto Grüner, two journalists from the magazine ‘Basta’, who were able to provide (photo) evidence: they traveled to Yugoslavia and photographed GHN-45 field howitzers in a port leading to the was shipped abroad, should do so. They came from the Noricum weapons factory in Liezen, Upper Styria, and were destined for the warring states of Iraq and Iran. To camouflage the illegal deliveries, Jordan and Libya were officially named as recipient countries, as neutral Austria was strictly prohibited from exporting to war zones.
Source: Krone
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