Bjorling told her fellow MPs during parliament that the Swedish Agency for Non-Proliferation and Export Controls (ISP) was able to determine with the serial numbers found on photos of the weapons that the M-3 Carl Gustav launcher and assorted shells came from a batch of arms sold to India. This confirms a report in the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper on Tuesday that fingered India as the gateway country.

Bjorling has requested “clarification from the Indian authorities” after learning of the results provided by ISP. But her wording is vague, making it unclear just what this clarification would entail. Will this mean that Sweden will take punitive measures to discourage India from violating weapons sales agreement designed to prevent the re-sale of Swedish made weapons to blacklisted third parties like Burma's military?

Bertil Lintner, the Swedish journalist and longtime Burma commentator who wrote the story that appeared in Svenska Dagbladet told the Irrawaddy magazine it’s unlikely.“It will be investigated, but because India is such an important market and a major buyer of Swedish weapons, there will probably just be a slap on the wrist”.

Saab Bofors Dynamics, the company that made the M-3 Carl Gustav anti-tank weapons, is part of the Saab group. Saab absorbed Bofors more than a decade ago. But back in the ‘80`s Bofors was allegedly involved in a massive bribery and kickback scandal to win a bid to supply India’s 155 mm field Howitzer field guns. The scandal plagued Rajiv Gandhi's government.