Edwin Bollier
Edwin Bollier and his partner,
The firm has traded in various electronic and telecommunication equipment and acted as consultants in the construction of radio stations.
Radio Nordsee International
In 1969–70, the partners Meister and Bollier established a commercial
Pan Am Flight 103 bombing
MST-13
Mebo's MST-13 timing device was claimed at the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial in 2000 to have triggered the bomb that brought the aircraft down over Lockerbie in Scotland on December 21, 1988.[2][3]
In the early stages of the
Possibility of co-conspirator charge
Bollier had rented office space to the Libyan convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103.[4]
During Bollier's testimony, it was revealed that the prosecution had been considering charging him with the same
- "If we were going to libel him we would have done so, these issues have been considered. The decision not to include him as a co-conspirator is not a recognition that he has nothing to do with the matter. The extent of his involvement is yet to be developed in evidence. It may be he has involvement in what occurred, but unless the Crown is able to adduce evidence that places him in the conspiracy, it is not appropriate to libel him as a co-conspirator."[5]
As a discouragement to the prosecution, Bollier is alleged to have let it be known before the start of the trial that if he were to be charged for the PA 103 bombing he would call some high-ranking and controversial witnesses to appear, for example: former United States President George H. W. Bush, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Gerrit Pretorius, private secretary to South Africa's former foreign minister Pik Botha.[6]
"$4 million offer" to Bollier
In October 2007 Bollier told UN-observer Dr
References
- ^ Dr. Martin van der Ven. "Target practice in the Mediterranean". Offshore-radio.de. Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ "Meister and Bollier testify at the Lockerbie trial". Archived from the original on 5 November 2002. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ "How MI6 was told of Stasi spy who supplied the timer". Icce.rug.nl. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ "Shadow Over Lockerbie". Americanradioworks.publicradio.org. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ "Bollier 'was Lockerbie suspect'". BBC News. 21 June 2000. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ Lockerbie +Pan +Am +103. "Calling high-ranking/controversial witnesses". Mebocom-defilee.ch. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Lockerbie trial: an intelligence operation?". I-p-o.org. 5 October 2007. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ "Gaddafi's son attacks "greedy" Lockerbie relatives in BBC Two documentary". Bbc.co.uk. 29 August 2008. Retrieved 16 May 2011.