Charges of breaching Germany’s War Weapons Control Act, its civil arms law and fraud had been laid against the four accused, said public prosecutors in Schwerin, the regional capital of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (MV) state on Wednesday. All the officers worked for the state’s arm of the SEK. Lorenz Caffier, Christian Democrat (CDU) interior minister in the state’s grand coalition cabinet headed by Social Democrat Manuela Schwesig, said he was “profoundly shocked and bewildered” by the turn of events and promised an “airtight” investigation. Regional prosecutors, acting on findings of a 2017 probe by federal prosecutors, effected the arrests on Wednesday...