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Gulf Today - 27 July, 2012

Paris prosecutors opened a preliminary probe on Thursday into the alleged involvement of French technology firm Qosmos in supplying Syria’s regime with surveillance equipment, judicial sources said.

The investigation follows a suit filed by human rights groups against the firm which said that Qosmos may have been supplying equipment that helped President Bashar Al Assad’s regime spy on opposition forces.

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Human Rights League (LDH) jointly filed the complaint with the Paris prosecutor on Wednesday.

“Western companies must know that they cannot sell this type of equipment to authoritarian regimes without being held accountable,” said Michel Tubiana of the LDH.

Qosmos’s website says its core expertise is in “technology that creates an information layer in communications networks, enabling detailed, real-time visibility into all IP (Internet Protocol) traffic as it crosses networks.”

Benoit Chabert, a lawyer for the firm, told AFP on Wednesday that Qosmos had not yet seen the complaint filed against it but that it had been involved in no wrong-doing.
Agence France-Presse
 
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