An Ivorian company approached the Israeli company with a request for night-vision equipment. The Israeli company’s application for an export license from the Defense Ministry “was denied because its night-vision goggles are considered combat equipment by the Israeli authorities and as such would need prior approval from the Security Council” due to the arms embargo on Ivory Coast, the report says.
The company then approached a different company, one based in Singapore, and together they located similar night-vision goggles in the United States that were considered civilian products. The Israeli defense source confirmed that the Israeli company in effect had acted as a broker in supplying the goggles to Ivory Coast.
According to the Israeli law regulating defense exports, the Defense Ministry is supposed to supervise brokered export deals, but in practice it does not — despite an announcement by the ministry that it would start overseeing such transactions in 2014.
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