BERN, Switzerland smuggling charges against three Swiss engineers suspected of giving nuclear weapons technology should be brought to a rogue network in Pakistan, a judge said Thursday in a case with CIA ties, shredded documents and national security implications.
Investigating magistrate Andreas Müller said its recommendation trial based on an exhaustive probe into alleged nuclear smuggling ring trio, two brothers and a father, face. Mr. Miller put his confidential report federal prosecutors who decide whether he will bring charges to breach the Swiss non-proliferation laws.
Mr. Müller monitoring three years a six year federal probe against URS TInner, his brother Marco and their father, Friedrich. Senior US officials ordered allegedly under pressure, after the Swiss Government repeatedly destroyed evidence in the case of politically sensitive case was slowed.
The Tinners are links to the nuclear smuggling network of Abdul Qadeer Khan suspected - the creator of Pakistan's nuclear bomb. Furnished allegedly nuclear network with the technical expertise and equipment used to gas centrifuges make Mr Khan's black market. Mr Khan sold the centrifuges for secret nuclear weapons programs in countries which included Libya and Iran prior to its operation was interrupted in 2003.
Mr. Müller, who said he facilitates the investigation is to do criticizes hard the Swiss Government for having "massively intervened in the wheels of justice by almost all evidence to destroy." Not saying that the Government also federal judicial police work ordered with him.
"There are many parts." "It's the whole picture like a puzzle and if you get together the puzzle you", Mr. Müller said at a press conference. "It is not a piece of prove, there are many pieces of prove."
U.S. officials in Bern had no immediate comment.
Mr. Müller said he recommended three face charges for "Supporting the development of nuclear weapons" in violation of the non-proliferation laws while Marco TInner should provide additional charges of money laundering.
Mr. of Müller's "examines general's Office is 174 page report now in detail by Swiss Attorney", said "will inform the public of in due course" on whether charges against the Tinners prosecutors submitted spokeswoman Jeannette Balmer Federal Office.
Mr. Müller, said the Tinners does not deny for the a.q Khan network work, but claims that you don't know his goal was to produce nuclear weapons. He also said that the Tinners for the CIA had worked since June 2003.
"The results are that the Tinners Khan could be part of the network," Mr. Miller said after the news conference. "And start where it should be known that Khan produced in May 1998, began nuclear weapons until you for cooperation with the intelligence services in June 2003 in their specific roles were part of this network and parts to the network, which shall give the network even in other countries delivered [them] as Libya," Mr. Miller said.
He added that "there is no contrary evidence were not on the Payroll" the CIA.
In June 2009, the Swiss Government ordered the destruction of about 100 pages of evidence, investigation family TInner, you say relating to Mr. of Müller's information, the national security at risk and had from "the wrong hands." could be kept
The Cabinet or Federal Council, said these documents "the most explosive" material in case the file more than 1,000 sites were.
Copies of some of the shredded files have allegedly again however and was part of the case against the Tinners - who have repeatedly maintained, you are innocent.
The documents are copies of files that destroyed in 2007 under a previous order, by the law and legal experts said the charge in smuggling case had undermined the Government protests. The replica found archives in December 2008, prosecutors.
Less sensitive documents, as for example in terms of tender with uranium enrichment, kept under high security on the Federal Justice Department ordered. The Government said investigators, prosecutors, courts and the TInner family lawyers would be able to see under tight restrictions, but the documents would be destroyed at the end of legal proceedings.
A report of this week by a Washington-based think tank found the Swiss authorities, the CIA and the Tinners were all responsible for refused to limit the spread of nuclear weapons technology and know-how.
Primarily responsible for the Swiss justice and U.S. intelligence officials pointed Institute for science and international security's report for their failure to cooperate. It also says that without knowing their true purpose convinced Zinnbergwerker companies to make parts for machines.
Mr Müller, said complicated an already complex case and made it a complete picture of Tinners's more difficult to piece together alleged participation in the Khan ring had file deletion. The Switzerland highest Criminal Court has criticised the Government for opting to further evidence to destroy and said it wasn't disappointed earlier informed to be.
To complicate the case claims of URS TInner, with information supplied the CIA, the breakup of the Khan network led. In a recent documentary said URS TInner Swiss TV from U.S. intelligence on a delivery which meant for Libya tipped centrifuge parts.
The broadcast was seized in the Italian port of Taranto in 2003, force allow Libya, and refrain from finally to acquire their efforts to nuclear weapons.
The Government has decided the former Swiss Justice Minister Christoph Blocher, destroy the original documents after he, refused an American request to in 2007 to hand over thousands of files.
URS TInner was released in December 2008 after nearly five years in investigative detention and has still not charge. A Swiss Parliamentary Committee investigated the shredding Government ordered by thousands of files of evidence in the case
The Khan network was interrupted, intercepted if Western secret services meant the centrifuge parts for Libya's nuclear programme.
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