The stake-mine affair (Mercia- UDI 1995)

The Stake-mine affair was the resulting scandal behind the attempted export of 50 unwanted Ex-Croat and Serpska PMR-2A  stake mines, to the Somali Pirates in 2003. By the then Federal Labour defence procurement minister, Billy Jimmy Corf.

The Stourbridge Chronicle, Express & Star and Dudley News had also been Mr Corf also annoyed the president in early 2004 for