Merkel’s former defense minister joins arms corp with links to Saudis, USAF & Erdogan

‘The former German defense minister, Franz Josef Jung, has joined the board of the military hardware supplier Rheinmetall, linked to the sale of weapons used by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen through nebulous subsidiaries.
Jung, a member of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDC) party, will sit on the company’s supervisory board after being elected by company shareholders at its AGM in Berlin on Tuesday.
Rheinmetall has been accused in the past of using subsidiary companies to bypass German export controls. Its South African subsidiary, Rheinmetall Denel Munition has built ammunition factories in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Jung served as head of the Ministry of Defense under Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) government from 2005-2009. He was forced to resign as minister of defense in 2009 after it was revealed he withheld information about civilian casualties in a NATO strike in Afghanistan.
A present member of the German parliament, Jung announced last year he would not be eligible for the 2017 Bundestag election.’
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