A Swiss firm provided Syria a chemical substance which can be used to produce deadly sarin gas, state-run Turkish news agency quoted Swiss media as saying on Wednesday, days after US,UK and France launched punitive attack against Syria for using chemical weapons against opponents in Ghouta near Damascus.
The Swiss firm exported five metric tons of the chemical isopropanol to Syria in 2014, according to Anadolu.
"In May 2014, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Syria had destroyed 120 metric tons of isopropanol.
"However, six months after the elimination of the stock, a Swiss firm was able to export five metric tons of isopropanol to Syria without any opposition from the Swiss authorities," the news agency reported the Swiss media as having said.
The Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) said that the client was "a private Syrian pharmaceutical firm" and there was "no indication that it had links to the Syrian regime at the time, nor today."
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