Brescia Middle East is a Lebanon-based guns and military accessories company, established in 1981 by Joseph Abi Saab. After the retirement of Joseph, the company is owned by his sons Tony and Hady.Today in the world of international arms and weapon trade, BME is a big name, but not many know that the company has been barred from doing any business within the United States. Tony through BME and a ghost company, K5 Global embezzled the US government of $5 million. The shrewd Tony was also indicted for supplying pistols and machine guns to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant through Turkey with a sole purpose of profit.His greed for money didn't quench in this much so he decided to spread his empire of illegal business more. He appointed Raymond Azar, his partner in crime and a close relative, to look after his fraud business in Afghanistan. He made Raymond the owner of Sima Salazar Group of Afghanistan, for official records and himself owned Tactica Ltd Afghanistan. Both the companies procured several essential military contracts, Sima Salazar alone obtained contracts estimated $155 in Afghanistan and Iran. Tony also owned a company named Brixia that produced spare parts for weapons and smuggled them to countries throughout the Middle East for reassembly and sales. Likewise Tony and Raymond continued to harp on how to earn more and more money without caring about the lives of innocent men, women, and children dying in Syria and Iran.After years of combined investigation and intense research of FBI, CIA and the US Army, Tony was caught, so was Raymond and few others involved in this crime trade. Raymond was convicted and got 10 years of prison but Tony escaped from the clutches of law. Being well aware of the loopholes in the government, he dragged his case out of the Criminal court to make it appear in civil court and here he pleaded human rights violation against the investigation teams. He was out of the jail, all the charges were dropped and he got away by pay
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Program Details
- Category: Business > Other
- Publisher: Lebanon Transparency Center
- License: Free
- Price: N/A
- Version: Array
- Platform: windows