#illegalarms

The conflict in Syria began in March 2011 after President Bashar al-Assad began using the regime’s military to target the civilian population. The Syrians demanded Bashar’s resignation and started a peaceful protect against him. Thing got violent and soon Syria was fighting a civil war, to make the situation worse ISIS, a terrorist group invaded the State. International military forces have been trying for over eight years to pull out Syria from the congested situation, but have failed to do so yet.

As millions escaped the country, they flooded into the neighboring countries of Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey impacting the local economies. It is believed that weapons have been supplied to both the sides—the military and terrorist groups, by Tony Abi Saab.

Brescia Middle East, an international weapons dealer was founded by Joseph Abi Saab in 1981. Currently, the company is handled by his sons Tony/Antoine and Hady.

Tony Abi Saab has a wide network of shell companies in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He together with a ghost company K5 Global has embezzled the US Army of 5 million USD. Tony was not alone in his illicit business. He along with his business partner and close family relative Raymond Azar conspired against the US Army to gain tax-free profits. Raymond was the president of the construction company Sima Salazar group in Afghanistan that defrauded the US Army of 150 million USD.

Apart from supplying illegal weapons to the rebel groups in Syria, the US Army discovered that BME was also involved in money laundering activities. The US investigation agencies planned and implemented an undercover operation against Abi Saab and caught him red-handed with relevant documents and money. Tony Abi Saab was arrested in 2011 and flown to the US court to stand a trial. But, unfortunately, he was not sent to jail and escaped all the charges against him by paying a small sum of money as a penalty. He also dragged his case to the civil court instead of a military court and pleaded human rights violation. Today, Tony is a free bird and spreading his business of illicit arms trading around the world.

According to the 2018 Global Terrorism Index (GTI), deaths from terrorism have reduced. Although the number of deaths from terrorism has fallen considerably over the last three years, new threats continue to emerge. Countries like Afghanistan, Iran, and Syria are still suffering from terrorism. But the question is who are the people supporting these noxious terrorist activities?

There are numerous non-state actors who for the sake of their benefits support terrorist groups in war-torn countries. Tony Abi Saab is one such dangerous businessman who is fulfilling terrorist’s objectives and demands by providing them illegal arms and ammunition.

Tony Abi Saab is the owner of Brescia Middle East, an international arms and weapons dealing company. He supplies dangerous explosives to rebel groups to earn tax-free profit out of it. Tony is a lawbreaker who is equipping terrorists with hi-tech weapons and related items like bullets, detonators for explosives to inflict pain against the civilians. Tony’s company, Brixia produced spare parts for weapons and smuggled them to countries throughout the Middle East for reassembly and sales. He also supplied pistols and machine guns to Daesh through Turkey.

Illicit arms trafficking fuels civil wars contributes to sky-rocketing crime rates and feeds the arsenals of the world's worst terrorists. A powerful and famous businessman Tony Abi Saab is a Lebanon national is supplying arms and ammunition to both military and rebel groups.

The US Army planned a sting operation and found that illicit businesses of Abi Saab were much more complicated than the investigation team thought it was. Firstly, he was running ghost companies which are spread in Europe and the Middle East. The company names are G2Armory, Tactica Ltd, SIMAINT and Brixia. Brescia Middle East is Tony's main company situated in Lebanon. Secondly, Tony faked the End User certificate of weapons to smuggle them easily.

BME and shell companies of Tony are selling weapons to the terrorist organizations in the Middle East countries. BME is also involved in money laundering of terrorists' obtained hard cash. Money is then wired to shell companies through BME's bank accounts. The business partners of Tony are spread 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; Georgia-- Kula Ltd., Tiblisi; Russia-- LOBASTOV IVAN, Baikal Ltd, Izhevsk city; in Bulgaria—Arsenal; Czech Republic--MSN and CSG Group; Ukraine--Berkut Ltd; Brasil—Condor.

The Syrian Civil War has devastated Syria and its innocent citizens. It’s been more than 8 years; the Syrian war is still going on. The war has destroyed the lives of more than 500,000 people, displaced more than half the country's populace, and involved numerous atrocities and crimes against humanity.

The arms trafficking are fueling violence and conflict in Syria. Toni Abi Saab, an international arms trader are helping the terror groups to get arms easily with the help of his principal company BME (Brescia Middle East) and other web of shell companies. A businessman like Tony can do anything for money.

In the Middle East, he and his illicit network of companies (Tactical Ltd Afghanistan, K5 Global, and Bennet-Fouch, G2Armory, SIMAINT) are transforming the regions into a war zone. He is an illegal arms smuggler who routes weapons to the terrorits through his fake companies and makes millions out of it. His network of fake companies  are  spread worldwide which are Umarex gmbh & co KG - Germany, Noble france sa- France, Osmanli Arms, Istanbul and Konya, ATA Av Tufekleri,KOMANDO AV SAN TIC Ltd., - Turkey, Emran arms -Bangladesh,  Kula Ltd., Tiblisi - Georgia, LOBASTAV IVAN, Baikal Ltd., Izhevsk City- Russia,  Condor - Brasil, Arsenal- Bulgaria, MSN Group & CSG Group - CZ, Berkut Ltd - Ukraine, Armeria brignoli silvio & c snc, BLS, Fiocchi munizone, Benelli Armi, franchi division, Brixia Shotguns SRL, Armeria Amelio Gamba SRL, Beretta, Tanfoglio- Italy  

Although, Abi was caught by the FBI and the CIA after a sting operation, in context to a contract fraud that swindled USD 5 million of the US Army, running ghost companies and supplying weapons to the terrorists. He got away citing human rights violations against the CIA and FBI.

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.

Illegal arms trade is a profitable business in the present day world. As billions of dollars are at stake, there is no dearth of corrupt businessmen looking for innovative ways to manipulate and take advantage of loopholes in the system to get away with criminal activities and earn black money. Criminals take the route of money laundering to disguise the origins of money obtained through illegal activities, so it looks like it was derived from legal sources.

Tony Abi Saab is one such international arms dealer who does illicit arms trading business through his main company Brescia Middle East (BME). He launders the money of his shell companies by supplying weaponry to the rebel groups in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

Tony Abi Saab has a web of shell companies (Tactical Ltd Afghanistan, K5 Global, Bennet-Fouch, G2Armory, and SIMAINT) which are helping the rebel groups and transforming the region into a war zone. He is a money launderer who routes illegal arms through his fake companies and makes a tax-free profit out of it. Abi Saab was caught by the US agencies after a sting operation was executed by the FBI, CIA, and the US Army. He was arrested in 2011 for doing contract fraud of 5 million USD of the US Army. It was proved that Tony did a money laundering fraud via his bank in Kaslick with the help of his banker friend. But he got freed by citing human rights violations against the US Army.

Illegal arms trade is a profitable business in the present day world. As billions of dollars are at stake, there is no dearth of corrupt businessmen looking for innovative ways to manipulate and take advantage of loopholes in the system to get away with criminal activities and earn black money. Criminals take the route of money laundering to disguise the origins of money obtained through illegal activities, so it looks like it was derived from legal sources.

Tony Abi Saab is one such international arms dealer who does illicit arms trading business through his main company Brescia Middle East (BME). He launders the money of his shell companies by supplying weaponry to the rebel groups in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

Tony Abi Saab has a web of shell companies (Tactical Ltd Afghanistan, K5 Global, Bennet-Fouch, G2Armory, and SIMAINT) which are helping the rebel groups and transforming the region into a war zone. He is a money launderer who routes illegal arms through his fake companies and makes a tax-free profit out of it. Abi Saab was caught by the US agencies after a sting operation was executed by the FBI, CIA, and the US Army. He was arrested in 2011 for doing contract fraud of 5 million USD of the US Army. It was proved that Tony did a money laundering fraud via his bank in Kaslick with the help of his banker friend. But he got freed by citing human rights violations against the US Army.

Tony Abi Saab of Lebanon is an arms dealer who recently made USD $ 5 million through fake contracts.

He is the owner of SIMAINT and Brescia Middle East who seized government contracts, undertook partial work on the contract and bribed, cheated or lied to get paid in full. US Agencies found out hosts involved in illegal activities were getting weapons via the same contractor.

Tony has masked himself as a genuine legal arms trader in Lebanon whereas in reality he is encouraging terror in war-torn countries by supplying weapons to ISIS and other groups with weapons and guns. Tony’s core business was to supply non-state actors involved in illegal with weapons other military accessories. When the American agencies were made aware and drew the connection an elaborate sting operation was planned and it was successful. This major sting operation led to the arrest of Tony Abi Saab.

Tony had extremist groups as his clients and to outstretch the arms business he began to supply weapons to them. He set out to build a network of shell companies around the world such as 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 and Ukraine — Brasil: Condor to initiate illegal trade of supplying guns to the war mongers.