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The terrorist groups are spreading violence,doing money laundering and executing operations across the globe using their illegal networks.Sometimes these networks are around us mixed well in the economy that we tend to ignore them. Such infamous player between us is Tony Abi Saab.

In the Middle East, Tony Abi Saab and his illicit a network of companies (Tactical Ltd Afghanistan, K5 Global and Bennet-Fouch, G2Armory, SIMAINT) are transforming the region into a war zone by trading in weapons with terror groups.

There are many issues to worry about in the Middle East: terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, rogue dictators, failed states and money laundering. The companies of Abi Saabs led by the Tony Abi Saab have caused much devastation in the region through illegal arms dealings as the region is volatile. They are money launderers who rout weapons through their fake companies and make millions through the arms trade.

Raymond Azar, an ally of the Abi Saabs and his company Brescia Middle East (BME), is implicated in the crime as he set up a ghost company K5 Global to steal $5 million of the US Government money in shady contract work in Afghanistan. Brescia Middle East (BME) the company owned by Tony Abi Saab laundered the money using its bank accounts in Lebanon flouting Lebanese laws.

The dark web is a place which facilitates the illegal sales of firearms, weapons, explosives and banned digital products that provide guides on “home-made” explosives and weapons. It is also a potential source of diversion of illegal weapons to the rebel groups.

Tony Abi Saab is one such dreadful international arms dealer, who is executing the devious business of supplying guns and weapons in conflict regions. He owns numerous shell companies in different parts of the world, to name a few: In Italy: ARMERIA AMELIO GAMBA Srl, INTESA SANPAOLO S.P.A., Benelli Armi, franchi division, Fiocchi munizione, Armeria brignoli silvio & c snc , BLS — Germany: Umarex gmbh & co KG — France: Noble france sa — Turkey: Osmanli Arms, ISTANBUL and KONYA, KOMANDO AV SAN TIC LTD, ATA Av tufekleri — Bangladesh: Emran arms, — East Europe and Russia: Kula Ltd., Tiblisi - Georgia, LOBASTOV IVAN, Baikal Ltd, Izhevsk city, Russia, Arsenal, Bulgaria, MSN and CSG Group, Czech Republic, Berkut Ltd, Ukraine and Brasil: Codor.

Tony used these shell companies to obtain tender from the US Army by hiding the real identity of the company and had also used them to grow his illegal business of supplying weapons to the terrorists in return of the tax-free amount of money. He also did 5 million USD frauds with the Army. These names were out after extensive research carried out by the US investigation teams.

In 2011, Abi Saab was caught red-handed with valuable documents and hard cash by the US Army, FBI, and CIA while he was in Afghanistan. He was flown back to Washington to stand a trial. Sadly, he was released without serving a single day jail term and a huge amount of money as a penalty, this happened because he pleaded Human Rights violation and error in collecting evidence.