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Yuri Markov, a Bulgarian engineer, has allegedly invented a useless 'bomb detector', which has been subsequently marketed. File photo
A Bulgarian engineer has invented a bomb detector, which has reportedly turned out to be completely useless.
According to a BBC investigation, UK authorities have admitted they the UK Army and civil servants helped market so-called bomb detectors, which did not work, around the world. One of these detectors has turned out to be a Bulgarian invention,
The product, called the HEDD1 consists of a radio aerial on a handle and is made in Bulgaria. It has been displayed at a security exhibition at Olympia in London, even though it already has been banned for sale in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"The company selling the devices, Unival, claimed that while all the other products which looked like it were a "massive scam", theirs was different," the BBC says.
However, the US Navy has subjected the product to a double-blind test and found it does not work.
In fact, the maker of HEDD1, Bulgarian engineer Yuri Markov, had been charged in the United States in 2008 for fraudulently claiming that the previous version of his so-called bomb detector could detect explosives, BBC claims.
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