~ But Prosecutor says too early for speculation ~
PHILIPSBURG--How illegal guns and ammunition discovered by Customs at Cura�ao's Hato Airport last week Thursday got on the Dutch Antilles Express (DAE) flight uncontrolled may be linked to an inside job at Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIA), says Prosecutor Bart den Hartigh.
The Prosecutor said it was still early to speculate, as the investigation was still ongoing. Customs at Cura�ao's Hato Airport intercepted the arms shipment when officials noticed that a few bags had not been collected from the luggage belt and lacked airline labels.
Customs Chief Julian Lopez-Ramirez said the find was the result of special ongoing actions to reduce the smuggling of weapons to Cura�ao. "This project started after indications that the numbers of catches that are intercepted via the appropriate manner, in which illegal firearms are generally intercepted, were becoming less. This implied a change of the routes," he said.
Lopez-Ramirez said special permission was required from the authorities of the country of origin for the legal import of such heavy firearms as those intercepted Thursday, although there were arms merchants in Cura�ao who imported firearms and ammunition for the police.
"Customs also uses heavy weapons such as machineguns for border control and patrols on the island. For the import of such, we must receive permission from the American Homeland Security or, with the recent import of weapons from Belgium, permission from Justice in that country," he said.
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