After 7 years of complex research and informal suddenly got in touch with our films aim and said he wants to hand over certain documents secret documents kept under lock and key germanys federal Intelligence Service the b. And d. The b. N. D. Calls the shipping company to transport arms to crisis regions our informant knew this but he kept quiet and today those regions are war zones. We have arranged to meet as a remote location of our contact thought mailing the documents to us seem to risky even now 10 years on. When given the shipping companies stowage plans for arms. And sports the documents also include photos of tanks in a ships hold tanks for a brutal military dictatorship supplied despite an embargo. We were also given the freighter papers of other ships and finally a computer stick and that is it. The stowage document shows how 80 tanks have to be positioned in order to get all of them on board. The shipping companys plan to deliver a consignment of tanks to islamic north sudan. The documents also include a manifest tanks guns and ammunition for delivery to kenya. But the arms were ordered by goss the government of south sudan. Controlled by rebels at the time south sudan was in the process of separating from sudan. The military unit or in my own man was also supplied with tanks seen here in a ships hold. The shipping company which delivered the arms is said to be beluga owned by neil stalled back. Stolberg agreed to an interview he wanted to present a different image from other shipowners seen as someone who staged fundraising concerts supported social projects and dreamt of ecological Ship Propulsion technology so how can that be reconciled with transporting arms we confronted stolberg. I was the arms to south sudan and my own mother doesnt that embarrass you. As who is quote personally im very sorry if we carried freight for that should not have been carried from theres no question of that but you did. Yes charted ships out and had no idea that certain goods were onboard and were transported to highly sensitive regions we were unaware of that was how the initiative was. Still back the Award Winning entrepreneur and selfstyled world Market Leader captivated by his success banks financed the construction of his ships in china one after another until he had a fleet of 80 vessels his headquarters in braman northern germany the architecture is representative the location maritime stolberg laid the emphasis on size but then came the shipping crisis stolberg earned less and less with his ships the rising losses were hidden in his Balance Sheets but it was all to no avail after all the entire world market was collapsing under such circumstances lucrative armstrong sports were the perfect solution stolberg shipping company charged 1094687. 00 for 2 consignments of tanks to my m. R. A mother lucrative deal involved the bill lugar and durrance the vessel transported tanks ammunition and guns from in the ukraine to mombasa in kenya. The arms were then taken on towards south sudan by kenyan railways. Kenya 2008 new tanks being transported through the country by rail. In mombasa several ships have unloaded arms of this kind not only the beluga are in durance. Under the gaze of the Kenyan Military a ship carrying weapons berths this time it is a ukrainian vessel. A soldier and an expert sense specially from the ukraine watch as the cargo hatch opens. Some of the crew have left the ship and look on. Guarded by soldiers the heavy cargo is unloaded yet another consignment forgot the rebels in south sudan loaded like other vessels before it in the ukraine and now everything has arrived. The president of the ukraine has sent the head of his foreign Intelligence Service to hand over a present that message our weapons are for you kenyans not the south sudan even though we know that they were ordered by goss the head of the secret service is uneasy during the ceremony later he told us that his president did not have the arms trade under control and that german ships also secretly loaded weapons in the ukraine. Were on our way to akio brusk the name of a secret port and a kind of arms bazaar where until 2014 russian and ukrainian state run companies offered weapons for export. The port lies hidden some 100 kilometers east of odessa it took us a long time to find it the place was not marked on any map the blue green durance loaded arms in october last as did the beluga eternity these photos of the hold on the blog or eternity which were taken secretly are some of the documents that were leaked to us. Long before the ship with the weapon set out a certain close home on send an email to the shipping company good morning whats the situation with the sensitive transport the keyword is sensitive because there is an e. U. Embargo in place with regard to my m. R. And its dictatorial government despite this the shipping company plan to sell. The consignment of arms there. In another email or man made the shipping company a job offer tanks for yemen a country where a civil war is now raging his exact words to the director responsible for chartering at the firms vessels were yemen is currently procuring a large number of tanks that should be of interest to you regards climbs home and the shipping company c. E. O. Remembers. Their home environment of by mr holman was on the staff of the federal Intelligence Service he simply said how things were to be handled and how not from digging and found to do for the mystifying theyre asking but it was a sensitive cargo eskin call it was a sensitive consignment and i reckon that he came to see us maybe once every 2 or 3 months and simply told us how things were to be handled and how not. From digging in other words it was important for us to proceed according to certain regulations is he not to engage in any illegal transporting or. Illegal and transport its fun to save a sickly he or the b. And they decided what was on and what wasnt good good exactly. This is how the system worked holeman maintained contact with the belugas shipping company for the b. M. D. When the company planned an arms transport it asshole man whether he saw a problem if he didnt stolberg gave the go ahead and the ship sailed for example a vessel was supposed to take a consignment of tanks rockets and ammunition to the congo the plan was to load the arms in the secret ukrainian port of akio brusk. The arms cargo was coordinated by the shipping companies chartering director he wrote to Neil Stolberg saying that he had sorted everything with regard to the congo consignment the ship he said could sail he had of course been in touch with horman from the b. And d. And had been told that there was no problem. Referring to holeman from the b n d who didnt see any problem the manager asked his boss for his ok stolberg wrote back ok and the ship sailed. Documents photos papers time and again it was all a bad weather holeman saw any problem with an arms transport. Weve also obtained an internal report strawn up by the zed k k the German CustomsInvestigation Bureau in it the said k. Examines the link between home and the shipping Company Based on a staggering 9 terabytes of seized data the b. M. D. Must also have the report at the b n ds headquarters in berlin we were given the Cold Shoulder a spokeswoman told us that the Intelligence Agency would only discuss operative aspects of its work with the federal government and federal parliamentary committees that was a pity because we would love to have shown the be indecent documents so instead we showed them to secret Service Expert eric schmidt in bloom he sees a complex being the operation at beluga behind the work of a man code named horman. This is going to push up a typical b. N. D. In this year 8 or 9 Liaison Officer was being commissioned by a specific department to implement transport. That of course who is why he cultivates links with beluga order of the room for the email communication show quite clearly that he was authorized to present himself as someone who could give official approval. Holeman probably work somewhere in the middle hierarchy of the b. M. D. Please can i find out what his real name is does is more interesting that is incredibly difficult after all his code name is designed to hide his civil identity and thus prevent any investigative authorities gaining direct access to his real name there so its really difficult because the Intelligence Service is able to mask identity z. T. Even by going as far as to issue forged identity papers are full of you. The b. M. D. Cannot be expected to provide any indication of who horman really is and what his brief was with regard to the beluga shipping company fortunately though we have good contact to someone who knows holman personally neil stall back here the captain of a cutter who is an old friend of his is taking stolberg from the mainland across to the island of speaker over in the north sea. We are also on board stall burke has agreed to give us an interview on his Favorite Island he used to own houses and develop on speaker rogue before that is his shipping company went under and before he was summoned to the Public Prosecutors Office and for a moment that the office had been investigating stall books since 2011 on suspicion of serious embezzlement and fraud including fraudulent accounting and loan fraud now 7 years later after a long court case during the course of which the work fell seriously ill he is on his way to speak with us to talk about everything. But yeah its been i kept im a fighter and ive had surgery 3 times for cancer. In 1000 jobs and now im going into the new year with this on my plate. And always in does yard here stolberg literally had to drag himself into the courtroom but he hung on and today hes in better shape the trial lasted 68 days stolberg was sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison but he appealed. That is why hes still at liberty weve come to meet him by the sea transporting industrial plants on heavy duty ships made store berg a wealthy man but a shipping company also offered to transport arms drew plans illustrating how tank should be stowed in order to prevent a ship from listing stolberg name the shipping company after the beluga whale he was impressed by the animal social behavior under the flag bearing the whales tail fin stolberg telephones not only with customers who wanted to have civilian goods transported but also with holman whenever arms transports were planned and he met home and personally. Wanted home and looked like what kind of person was. Scully i was kind of sorry but i really cant tell you exactly you know as i have i met a whole month maybe 2 or 3 times he then had a few meetings with a colleague of mine and things were discussed. Pommel gadhafi was a good strong bond person was a big or small did he have a large nose or small one i dont know if its Firm Handshake i dont know because the aftershave price i dont know well i suppose it. Can i really cant say its not enough for an identikit picture but from the recollections of one shipping Company Employee whom we are asked a graphic artist was able to sketch some of homans features it was a rather squat figure more on the small side he was also well groomed especially his hands the nails were always neatly manicured. Whats more his parting was always straight and he had always a perfect web shave he was always so well groomed and so casually or formally dressed perfect elegance that i dont know if you really im sorry but i dont know. Hallman always was sure its that were crisply pressed indeed everything about him we heard was sheer elegance he was about 50 years old. A boy mother home and was there and voice due on the sensitive issues. This is coming these are that all happened some 10 years ago so i cant remember exactly can i sneak megan always you know so we now know that holeman was well dressed and you all about arms transports on beluga ships and we know that stolberg doesnt like talking about those transports he refuses to snitch on home and and is not prepared to talk about october ask the secret court in the ukraine corner where weaver helps make a brief cut. Kiev the capital of the ukraine it took 8 months for us to get an appointment with a politician who knows everything about the secret port stall but refuses to talk about an appointment with a politician who sent the head of his Intelligence Service to kenya our appointment is with the former president of the ukraine. Viktor yuschenko outlined how putin is destroying the ukraine through his occupation of the crimea putin the enemy but he dodged questions on russell Ukrainian Arms deals that took place via the oppressed during his presidency with the president and put in a president himself that did not sell any pistols or rifles or any other arms usually with a boy to push. Past state run arms export Company Makes export its own guidelines which were also passed by the cabinet and approved by the National Security council of the ukraine so everything was perfectly legal but when youre usually for the protection. Of. For to you sure. Because the ukraine has always observed current legislation through the route through nonetheless laws and this business is highly delicate at this because. Footage of one delicate deal tanks being unloaded from the fina a ukrainian vessel normally this would be a clandestine operation but this time the press were watching pirates had kidnapped the ship and when the crew were allowed to disembark in mombasa the cameras were present the finer was one of several vessels which transported ukrainian weapons ordered by god according to the former head of the secret service the president no longer had the arms trade and the control restored church feels no person or you should call dr cyril or a muslim i know you change the world which we spent a lot of time together thought he played down our arms saying there was no corruption yet i pointed out to him several times that corruption was involved but for him it was all perfectly normal when such a stablish structures simply existed he said of the q 3 talk winnable in the book. Showed us kiev he told us about beluga saying that a secret dossier or existed the shipping company was regarded as reliable but it too was under investigation however nothing had been proven with that he said was all he was allowed to tell us. We were good deal there. We chatted about the German Secret Service and learned that he once met the president of the b. And d. We asked if he had already seen the fine new building the b. M. D. Had been given of course he said and laughed. Mr that. We then arrived at the comparatively modest building housing the Ukrainian ForeignIntelligence Service the s. B. U. Until 2010 mile emotionally as the boss here and they still listen to him living today dont worry he tells the guard is German Television everything is ok his office is somewhere else near the parliament he wants to go into politics as head of the secret service he told us he knows all about the secret port of aki a brusk the arms bazaar on or across the river from ability to sure its actually a good model the port was controlled by our secret service is yours and also by russias. But behind the official for sun but of which there was a shadow economy in the order young is the corruption born of god as a result large quantities of arms could be transported secretly but without us being able to keep check lot of on what was there or being loaded on some ships or didnt have any money 1st at all others put to sea with forged papers would be particular port was a hub for hidden arms consigned was supposed to know it was thought. Up to a brisk the secret ports stored here with tanks missiles guns and even field kitchens everything required for a regional war and observed by sea for a. B. S. An organization from washington. Its director is a Lieutenant Colonel who speaks russian and arabic and was trained at west Point MilitaryAcademy Prior to our interview the researcher on the left brought the director up to speed on the brusk c 480 s. Had focused on the port because of its own. Arms turn over and according to David Johnson it wasnt easy to research indeed the port lies hidden and is hard to access. But you could certainly see it with satellite imagery but it was not a port that was readily easily accessed they had gate guards there were few roads leading into it it was out in the in a in a restricted area farther away from the city out of the countryside to a certain extent on that point in all the bug river it certainly had gates and controls. We made our 1st attempt to see the port in 2013 this is just the 1st of 3 guarded gates we werent allowed any further seaman had described to us what it used to look like in the ports when they were there to load the ships behind the ships they said they were on as far as you could see and hanging from the cranes with tanks the shipments are global this is going around to countries where there are lots of conflicts going on eritrea. Youre looking at latin america venezuela youre looking at. Places in asia youre looking at places further south in africa like the democratic republic of congo or the cells you did. 5 years later were back and this time were allowed in congo kenya sudan mayan mar and yemen whenever beluga planned an arms transport this port was always involved. Secret service boss malam us had promised to ring up those in charge of the court perhaps that is why we were allowed to simply drive through in fact we were even given a musical reception. The poor bosses welcomed us on the left the director of security the great eminence on the rights the union leader kind of laid. The director and in the middle of watchdog 1st we was served the then we engaged in small talk. At the press Spokes Person explained the regulations we would have to observe aft