BANGKOK: Activists on Monday urged Britain to hand over details of the multimillion-dollar sale to Thailand of fake bomb detectors that led to the detention of scores of innocent people.

British fraudsters Gary Bolton and James McCormick were jailed in 2013 for making millions selling the GT200 and similar devices billed as “magic wands” able to detect tiny particles of explosives or drugs from hundreds of meters away.

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