Fraud contractors and businessmen of Lebanon are abusing millions of dollars which are causing the US army to lose a battle against terrorism. The corrupt Lebanese contractor, Tony Abi Saab is on the urge to destroy peace due to his greed for money. He is selling weapons to the terrorist group in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iran to make his profit.Tony Abi Saab's company Brescia Middle East (BME) supplies arms and ammunition to the rebel groups. Dinorah Cobos a.k.a Sarah Lee, a US national and is born in Honduras was working with Tony against the US interests. Both of them were fueling violence in Syria and Iran, hence, supporting the war in the Middle East.Dinorah Cobos has also worked for numerous ghost companies of Tony like K5 Global and Bennet Fouch. Tony used his Lebanese banker friend to open fake bank accounts in Kaslick branch for money laundering purpose and wire it to the bank accounts of his business partners. Tony has been selling illegal weapons to both sides of the Syrian war. Tony swindled 5 million dollars of the US Army in the false contract in Afghanistan. The activity was closely monitored by the US agencies that saw money being diverted to shell companies. Just to put Tony and his partners behind the bars, a sting operation was planned in Afghanistan and led by FBI which was further supported by the CIA and the US Army.Fraudsters, Dinorah Cobos and Tony, were caught red-handed with supporting documents along and money. But, due to a technicality in the circuit court, Tony got away from the jail term. Dinorah Cobos, on the other hand, got 2 years of imprisonment. Though BME was found guilty of doing fraud and was banned in the US for doing business. Tony is still running his shady business through his shell companies for taking orders and supplying weapons to the active terrorist groups in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iran. The UN requires monitoring of arms exports and ensuring that the weapons sale don't break existing arms embargoes
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