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Outside the DTi We also had to let Olli Salo know that we weren’t real arms dealers, so we drove our truck round to the Department of Trade & Industry and phoned him again, blaring out Mark’s conversation to anyone in their building who wanted to listen…and quite a few passers by.
Olli said he had been joking, that he knew we were journalists all along and that of course you need an export license! Ah, those crazy Scandinavians and their "tricks"... Mark also phoned Heinrich Thomet from Brugger & Thomet from the truck and told him he was a journalist (of sorts) and not an arms dealer. Mr.Thomet put the phone down… 
...and then sent us a fax. Brugger & Thomet’s fax said that all quotations and contracts for weapons are subject to export licensing by the Swiss government. 
That there are no irregularities in the company's procedures and they have never issued any quotation for weapons delivery to Algeria or Zimbabwe nor to the best of its knowledge has any its representatives. We also needed to know what BAe Systems, Heckler & Koch’s ultimate owner, had to say bout it all. So we went round to their offices in Bristol… …in a limo… …with a camel. 
BAe Systems said they have no involvement with and derive no benefit from Heckler and Koch's licence agreements with manufacturers in other countries. 
They were agreed prior to BAe's predecessor British Aerospace's purchase of the company. 
Any weapons exports require export licences from the German government and there is no right to automatic provision of upgrades. 
BAe abide strictly by export regulations and do not seek ways around them.
see you next series!!!
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