ALLEGED ARMS PROFITEERING
TRIAL OF EGYPTIAN OFFICER .CAIRO, November 5. The Egyptian Revolutionary Council today accused Colonel Abdel Ghaffar Osman, and his two .wives, one of them British, of having amassed £33,816 Egyptian (about £34,730) from the Palestine war.
On trial for treason, Osman, formerly chief explosives inspector of the Egyptian Army, was accused of having been involved in a plot to supply the Egyption Armv with ineffective arms during the Palestine war.
The prosecution alleged that he signed a contract with an Italian firm for 250,000 hand grenades, the bulk of which, according to experts, would not explode, or exploded in the hands of the soldiers throwing them. The prosecutor said Osman’s British wife banked £21,586 Egyptian (about £22,140) in a few months after the signature of the contract. Osman’s other wife, an Egyptian, at present owned property valued at £7OOO Egyption (about £7179) and a car.
The prosecutor challenged Osman’s suggestion that his. British wife brought the money from Britain. Osman told the Court that if the grenades he purchased were defective, “I am ready to be shot?*
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27191, 7 November 1953, Page 7
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