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The GT200 on trial
Spectrum, Published on 18/08/2013
» The criminal trial of GT200 manufacturer Gary Bolton in London showed not only how he had fraudulently sold his ineffective "bomb detectors" to Thailand and other countries at a price 1,100 times their production cost, but also how British government agencies had assisted him in his sales.
Slim chance of conviction for GT200 here
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 26/04/2013
» British businessman James McCormick made around £50 million (about 2.2 billion baht today) selling bogus bomb detectors to several countries, including Thailand, but has finally been convicted of fraud by the criminal court in London. He is to be sentenced next week.
Bomb detector is a fake, British court says
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 24/04/2013
» The ADE 651 bomb detector, virtually identical to the GT-200 sold to Thai government agencies in large quantities, is useless and a British court is sending its maker and chief salesman to jail.
Resolving the GT200 mess
News, Published on 16/08/2012
» Belatedly, the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has come up with its conclusion that Thailand, like 20 other countries, has been duped into buying useless GT200 bomb detectors from the UK manufacturer, Global Technical Ltd.
GT200: Faulty reasoning
News, Published on 22/07/2012
» After years of charges from a variety of sources that the GT200 bomb detectors government agencies began purchasing in the hundreds in 2008 are ineffective and overpriced, a Department of Special Investigation probe has come to the same conclusion.
Remembering 2010: The not-so-magic wand
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 31/12/2010
» The Thai military had a busy 2010, not all of it very satisfying. Certainly the GT200 controversy had to be one of its low points.