Chinese weapons shipment to Zimbabwe - 2008 Documents

The are 4 scanned documents in PDF form, presenting information on the 2008 Chinese weapons shipment to Zimbabwe.

The documents are dated between January 21st and 10th of March 2008.

Document 1 holds an arrival notification for the Ministry of Defence in Zimbabwe related to 77 tons of Arms shipped in 3080 cases from a shipper Poly Technologies (INC).

Document 2 presents the commercial invoice from Poly Technologies related to that shipment, detailing a purchase of 3,004,755 rounds of different ammunition, from 7.62 shells to mortar bombs.

Document 3 holds the Packing List for this shipment.

Document 4, while being in very bad quality holds another confirmation of the shipment in form of the Bill Of Lading.

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The information in this file was first released by a Cape Town based investigative magazine Noseweek (www.noseweek.co.za) when he called a radio Talk show to warn of the arrival of arms for Zimbabwe.

Some journalist doubted whether there were arms among the cargo. The magazine editor later provided copies of the shipment details to New York Post and Sky News.