- Erwin Meister
Erwin Meister is a
Swiss businessman who, with his partnerEdwin Bollier , formed the companyMebo Telecommunications in 1969. They bought a Norwegian fishing boat, renamed it "Mebo II" and converted it into a pirate radio ship. [ [http://www.mebocom-defilee.ch/ceocities/mebo.htm The trouble of a Swiss firm] ]RNI "Mebo II" operated off the coasts of the
Netherlands and ofEngland from 1970 to 1974, when it broadcast asRadio North Sea International (RNI ). Both countries having enacted legislation outlawing pirate radio broadcasting, Meister and Bollier decided to sell theRNI vessel toLibya in 1978. [ [http://www.offshore-radio.de/fleet/mebo2.htm Marine Offences Act, 1974] ]Lockerbie bombing
Because a Mebo timing device was alleged to have been used to trigger the bomb that destroyed
Pan Am Flight 103 overLockerbie ,Scotland onDecember 21 ,1988 killing 270 people, Erwin Meister was summoned to give evidence in week 8 of the Lockerbie trial. [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20021105041308/www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5260/week8.html Meister and Bollier testify at the Lockerbie trial] ]References
ee also
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Hans Köchler's Lockerbie trial observer mission
*Ulrich Lumpert
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