MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Wikileaks reveals Malaysian air force over up of F-5 jet engines which turned up in Uruguay
The Malaysian government failed to inform Washington that two “US-supplied” F-5 fighter jet engines had gone missing since May 22, 2008, despite having at least “three opportunities” to come clean, according to leaked United States diplomatic cables released recently.
The engines two years later were finally located two years later in Uruguay. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulessticky fingers, or is it dirty work at the crossroads!
Apr 19th, 2011 - 10:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0I remember this story. It was also found that the two engines had been stored in Argentina for a while before being sent to Uruguay.
Apr 19th, 2011 - 02:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Duno why the americans care, it's not like this is cutting edge tech anymore.
Apr 19th, 2011 - 02:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0One should solve this mystery with Andres Trianon, the smooth-talking Chancellor of the Uruguay Embassy in Malaysia. He had already ripped off the Malaysian government of hundreds of thousands of dollars via a sham IT project he initiated at the UCSI University, a sleazy local university.
Apr 19th, 2011 - 04:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hell, Mr Trianon even boasts of a RM1.2 million rip-off from a Malaysian government agency under Honours and Awards in his linkedin profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andres-m-trianon/7/717/685
“Recipient of the MDeC Million-Ringgit Grant for the Volumetric Display Using LEDs Project .”
What he forgets to mention is that the RM1.2 million project was mysteriously abandoned right upon the disbursement of money.
Ripping off US Jet engines of course make much more than that sum.
Unless, the Uruguayan embassy is staffed with swindlers, I am pretty sure the trail stops with the boastful Mr Trianon.
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