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DaimlerChrysler offices searched in connection with sale of vehicles
to Iran
Canadian Press
December 11, 2004

BERLIN (AP) - Authorities conducted a search of automaker
DaimlerChrysler's offices in Stuttgart in connection with the illegal
delivery of trucks to Iran, a prosecutors' spokeswoman said Saturday.

Customs inspectors searched the offices Nov. 30 on suspicion that
trucks officially bound for Saudi Arabia were instead delivered to
Iran, Stuttgart prosecutors' spokeswoman Tomke Beddies said. Beddies
said that the company itself had alerted the authorities to the
delivery.

Prosecutors are still investigating who at the company was aware of
the delivery.

"The names of those responsible are not known," Beddies said.

Beddies would not comment on specific details of the case, but the
Focus weekly reported that the case concerns 453 trucks that could be
converted for military purposes.

DaimlerChrysler supports the investigation, the company said.