The flames that immerse the entire Middle East are the direct reasons for profit & loss .Profit for people like Tony Abi Saab is making tax free money by supplying arms to terror groups and is responsible for the loss of millions of lives.Tony Abi Saab of SIMAINT and Brescia Middle East of Lebanon who was winning US Army contracts and transfer them to benefit terror groups. BME and Tony Abi Saab are offenders and have an ability to disturb global checks when smuggling weapons around the Middle East.What was troubling to authorities was the ability for Tony Abi Saab to move weapons out of Europe on fake End User Certificates. These weapons were traced and were being rerouted and sold to the highest bidder in Syria. Tony Abi Saab created a banking system and a network of companies that are working as a group of shell companies that are conducting fraud in places like Afghanistan.Tony Abi Saab's company was indicted through an extensive sting operation orchestrated by several US Agencies and arrested him for bribing a Government official and conspiracy to commit fraud.What was surprising to GTR was the intensity of the sting operation. It indicated that Tony Abi Saab got more attention than he was due for a simple bribing conspiracy. Was he providing logistical and material support to terrorists, only for the sake of profit?Tony Abi Saab however, got away citing human rights violations and in return of a jail term, he just paid a small fine.The requirement of End-User-Certificate for complete weapons and munitions should be important to be reviewed by all supplier countries to prevent diversion of weapons to undesirable elements. So, people like Tony and his illicit can be come to end.
VERSION HISTORY
- Version 0 posted on 2019-05-06
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Program Details
- Category: Business > Other
- Publisher: Lebanon Transparency Center
- License: Free
- Price: N/A
- Version: Array
- Platform: windows