British Tank Officer Veteran gets jail time! | ILLEGAL TANK COLLECTIONS 🚔🚨
2,411A huge haul of tanks and other military vehicles a disgraced British Army major stashed has been pictured.
An anti-aircraft gun, a Saladin armoured car and an IKV91 light tank that Michael Whatley had duped foreign governments into sending him were found in his personal war collection of military equipment.
The former soldier, who served with the Household Cavalry Regiment, was given a suspended prison sentence earlier this month for acquiring 24 vehicles in total.
Whatley tricked authorities in Germany, Belgium and Sweden into giving him the weapons before selling them off and trading them with other collectors.
He fooled a Belgian military museum and the governments of Sweden and Germany into believing they were donating them to the Household Cavalry Museum.
The 65-year-old originally denied any wrongdoing but changed his plea to guilty in July ahead of a scheduled trial in October.
Whatley was branded a 'disgrace' by a judge at Salisbury Crown Court, who handed him a two-year prison sentence, suspended for two years, for three counts of misconduct in a public office.
Also!
An 84-year-old man from Germany has been convicted of illegal weapons possession and has been fined €250,000 ($293,972) along with a suspended prison sentence of 14 months.
An investigation into the man's home in Heikendorf, Northern Germany, in 2015 revealed a World War II-era Panther tank, as well as a plethora of ammunition.
The military collector had broken Germany's War Weapons Control Act, according to prosecutors.
Shout out to Paul Donovan! Some of this footage Is his and he’ a collector himself. Please go check out his channel https://youtube.com/c/PaulDonovan
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