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List Of Illegal Arms Dealers
The following is a list of illegal arms dealers – individuals involved in the illicit sale and transfer of firearms. {{DEFAULTSORT:Illegal arms dealers People convicted of arms trafficking Arms dealers Lists of criminals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdelkader Belliraj
Abdelkader Belliraj ( ar, عبد القادر بليرج, ; born 1957, Nador) is a Moroccan-Belgian citizen who was found guilty in 2009 of arms smuggling and planning terrorist attacks in Morocco. Petty criminal in the 1980s In the 1980s, he was convicted in Belgium of assault and battery (1986), followed by convictions for breach of trust, arms trafficking, and trafficking in false passports with accomplices inside the Moroccan consulates of Belgium (1987), as well as embezzlement (1989). Abdellatif Mansour, La bande à Belliraj. L'armée prend les choses en main', Maroc Hebdo n° 781, February 27, 2008 pdf/ref> Gilbert Dupont, Belliraj tuait pour A. Nidal', La Dernière Heure, October 15, 2008 Hold-up in 2000 A Belgian-Moroccan gang organized the successful hold-up of a Brinks agency at Kehlen, Luxembourg on April 17, 2000. They stole 17,000,000 Euros. Abdellatif Bekhti was arrested and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Luxembourg in January 2003. He succeeded in esc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gowda
James Gowda (born 1942), also known as Jim Gowda, a firearms dealer for more than 20 years was indicted by a federal grand jury in November 1999 on charges of selling up to 10,000 handguns to people who did not live in Colorado, selling a semi-automatic weapon to a felon, and dealing guns without a license. He was indicted with Waldemar Drwall, who was an associate of Gowda. It was described as the "largest gun-trafficking case" (as of 2000) that the agency knew of by Chris Eastburn, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Denver office inspector. It is estimated that criminals used hundreds of guns purchased from Gowda in the commission of their crimes, according to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Gowda was reported to have only had a "handful" of federal sales forms for the sale of firearms at gun shows. He claimed that he was selling guns from his personal collection. Gowda sold thousands of firearms at gun shows in various states, including the state of Colorado, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomislav Damnjanovic
Tomislav Damnjanovic is a Serbian businessman and arms smuggling, arms smuggler. A former employee of Yugoslavia's national airline, Damnjanovic founded his own company transporting supplies aboard an Ilyushin Il-76 freight carrier. With increasing United Nations sanctions on Yugoslavia, United Nations sanctions on Yugoslavian airlines, he began to expand his operations into illegal smuggling. He attained notoriety in 2002 when he was contracted to deliver "millions of rounds of ammunition, guns, grenades and mortars" to aid the US military during the ongoing War In Iraq and War in Afghanistan (2001–present), War in Afghanistan. At the time, United Nations officials investigating his previous activities discovered a 15 year history of weapons deals with Libyan, Liberian, Republic of the Congo officials as well as Al Qaeda-linked Islamist groups in Somalia and other smuggling deals backed Yugoslavia, Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic.Wood, NicholasFor Balkan Shipping Agent, War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarkis Soghanalian
Sarkis Garabet Soghanalian ( hy, Սարգիս Սողանալեան; February 6, 1929 – October 5, 2011), nicknamed the Merchant of Death, was a Syrian- Lebanese-Armenian international private arms dealer who gained fame for being the "Cold War's largest arms merchant"Sarkis Soghanalian: The Cold War's Largest Arms Merchant " '''' (produced in March 2001). Retrieved April 10, 2007 and the lead seller of firearms and weaponry to the former government of under |
Samuel Cummings
Samuel Cummings, (February 7, 1927 – April 29, 1998) was an American small arms dealer. He founded the International Armament Corporation (also known as Interarms or Interarmco) in 1953, a company which came to dominate the free world market in private arms sales. He died on April 29, 1998, in Monaco after a series of strokes. Biography Cummings was born in Philadelphia and became interested in weapons after acquiring a Maxim gun from a disused American Legion hall at the age of five. Cummings became a US Army weapons specialist at Fort Lee, Virginia, after World War II. Following his military discharge he attended George Washington University on the GI Bill, where he was recruited in 1950 by the Central Intelligence Agency as a weapons expert. Cummings then toured Europe, where he bought large quantities of surplus World War II weapons for both Hollywood productions and the Taiwan government During this time he was also called upon to identify captured weapons in the Korean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Laureys
Pierre François Laureys (7 August 1919 – 18 December 2004) was a flying ace for the Free French, Arms industry, arms dealer, and printer. Early life Pierre Laureys was born on 7 August 1919 as the son of a photogravure, photo-engraver. He followed in the footsteps of his father after completing his secondary education, until war broke out in September 1939. He followed his training as a pilot at the aviation school of Vannes. World War II In June 1940, Laureys embarked at Saint-Jean-de-Luz on a boat repatriating Poland, Polish troops and reached the United Kingdom. There, he registered under the alias of François Kennard as a member of the Free French of Charles de Gaulle. In May 1942, he became a member of the No. 340 Squadron RAF, ''île de France'' group. During the Dieppe Raid on 19 August 1942, Laureys obtained two victories over two Dornier Do 217 planes of the ''Luftwaffe''. After several more victories, he was promoted a Ranks in the French Army#Capitaine, Captain at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Dadak
Pierre Konrad Dadak (born 1976) is a Franco-Polish fraudster and confirmed arms dealer. He was convicted of fraud in France on 29 October 2010 and in Spain on 25 February 2022. Early life Dadak was born in Paris in 1976 to Polish immigrants. He holds both French and Polish citizenship. Dadak's father was an engineer, a graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology, while his mother was a graduate of the . He had an upper-middle-class upbringing in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Dadak attended the , and graduated from the ISG Business School in 1999. He also attended courses at New York University. Allegedly, as a young man Dadak stole rental cars and occupied apartments without payment. Between 2000 and 2006, Dadak was arrested at least five times in France. Dadak worked for a time for a military contractor who supplied uniforms and arms to armies in the ''Françafrique''. Dadak's last known job in France was with a software company in Paris in 2008. Activities By 2009, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Beaumarchais
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (; 24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799) was a French polymath. At various times in his life, he was a watchmaker, inventor, playwright, musician, diplomat, spy, publisher, horticulturist, arms dealer, satirist, financier and revolutionary (both French and American). Born a Parisian watchmaker's son, Beaumarchais rose in French society and became influential in the court of Louis XV as an inventor and music teacher. He made a number of important business and social contacts, played various roles as a diplomat and spy, and had earned a considerable fortune before a series of costly court battles jeopardized his reputation. An early French supporter of American independence, Beaumarchais lobbied the French government on behalf of the American rebels during the American War of Independence. Beaumarchais oversaw covert aid from the French and Spanish governments to supply arms and financial assistance to the rebels in the years before France's for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Le Roux
Paul Calder Le Roux (born 24 December 1972) is a former programmer, former criminal cartel boss, and informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). In 1999, he created E4M, a free and open-source disk encryption software program for Microsoft Windows, and is sometimes credited for open-source TrueCrypt, which is based on E4M's code, though he denies involvement with TrueCrypt. Le Roux was arrested on 26 September 2012 for conspiracy to import narcotics into the United States, and agreed to cooperate with authorities in exchange for a lesser sentence and immunity to any crimes he might admit to later. He subsequently admitted to arranging or participating in seven murders, carried out as part of an extensive illegal business empire. Le Roux was sentenced to 25 years in prison in June 2020. Early life Le Roux was born on 24 December 1972, at Lady Rodwell Maternity Home in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and given up for adoption. His birth certificate gives his first name as "u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Ferris (Scottish Writer)
Paul John Ferris (born 10 November 1963) is a Scottish author and organised crime figure. Ferris was an enforcer for Glasgow 'Godfather' Arthur Thompson in the early 1980s. Known for his ruthlessness and extreme violence, he rose to a prominent position in the city's criminal underworld. He served a prison sentence for weapons possession in 1984 and believed he had been betrayed by the Thompsons. In 1991 Thompson's son, Arthur Jr, was shot dead. Ferris was charged with his murder and subsequently found not guilty after what was the longest criminal trial in Scottish history at that time. He was imprisoned again from 1998 to 2002 for trading in firearms and possessing explosives. Ferris was also involved in a long-running feud with Tam McGraw. His first book was published in 2001 while he was in prison. Since his release he has written three more books about crime, and has been involved in the security industry. Early life Paul Ferris was born on 10 November 1963 in the Black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Nee
Patrick Joseph Nee (born December 22, 1944) is an Irish-American former mobster and Irish republican sympathizer. A former member of the Mullen Gang and the Winter Hill Gang, he is a Vietnam War veteran, and author of ''A Criminal and an Irishman; The Inside Story of the Boston Mob-IRA Connection''. Early life Nee was born in Ros Muc, an Irish language speaking village in Connemara, County Galway. He has recalled: Our family had it tough in Ireland, sure, but I'm not going to tell you any of that ''Angela's Ashes'' crap to try to gain your sympathy. We might not have had many good clothes, but Ma washed them every day. There was always good food. In fact, Ma never let my brothers and I go to bed hungry. And I remember falling asleep every night to a penetrating fire that burned until early morning. Nee's four maternal aunts had already emigrated to the US, three to Boston and one to Pittsburgh, influencing the Nee family's decision to settle in Boston. Nee's father emigrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahum Manbar
Nahum Manbar ( he, נחום מנבר) is an Israeli businessman who was involved in arms trade with Iran. He was convicted in series of crimes against Israel's national security and served 14.5 years in prison, prior his release in October 2011. Early life Manbar was born in kibbutz Givat Haim in 1946. His parents were among the founders of the kibbutz. At age 16, he was in the reserve squad of the Israeli national basketball team. He served as an officer in the Paratroopers Brigade after being conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). He also served as an instructor at the IDF Officers' College. Manbar fought in the Six-Day War, War of Attrition, and Yom Kippur War. During the Yom Kippur War, he saved the life of Hanoch Saar, who would later serve on his defense team.Bergman, Ronen: ''The Secret War with Iran: The Clandestine Struggle Against the World's Most Dangerous Terrorist Power'' (2006) Career After his military service, Manbar moved to Tel Aviv and opened up a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
