DEARBORN, Michigan - Ford Motor Co.'s Land Rover vehicles are no longer being sold in Sudan after the Securities and Exchange Commission asked the company about reports that some Land Rovers may have been used by military or paramilitary organizations in that African nation.

The SEC yesterday released a letter dated Jan. 5 from Don Leclair, Ford's chief financial officer, who was responding to a Dec. 15 letter of inquiry from Cecilia Blye, chief of the SEC's Office of Global Security Risk.

An SEC spokesman said such correspondence was not released to the public for at least 45 days, following the completion of a review by the agency.

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