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The Noricum scandal, or Noricum affair, is the collective term for the illegal artillery deliveries committed by the VOEST subsidiary Noricum (named after the ancient Roman province) to both Iraq and Iran during the Gulf War. . From 1985 until 1993, after Basta magazine (since merged with Wiener magazine) published photographs of a shipment of cannons destined for Iran, a series of judicial and parliamentary investigations convicted the managers responsible for endangering the terms of Austrian neutrality

, which were later investigated by the judiciary and a parliamentary investigative committee. The recipients of the GHN-45 artillery pieces were the two warring parties in the First Gulf War, the states of Iraq and Iran.

table of contents 1	Illegal arms exports into warring countries 2	Suspicion and detection 3	Political and legal consequences 4	See also 5	literature 6	Web links 7	Individual evidence