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The USA has contributed money, men and muscle power to the reconstruction of Afghanistan and to the driving out of the Taliban, but at what cost? Everywhere, there is a wasteful expenditure compounded by a lack of accountability among the people of Afghanistan.

Tony Abi Saab set up ghost companies that the Abi Saab group along with their partner in crime Raymond Azar used as fronts to launder money, and they were K5 Global and Bennet Fouch. These two American construction companies all of a sudden suspended their operations in Afghanistan and left the country, where they were working. They cheated their Afghan partners of over $2 million, and were blacklisted by the US military. Since they defaulted on payments to Afghan contractors, they were asked to pay the money and refused to listen. Tony Abi Saab defrauded the USA forces of 5 million dollars.

Since Army General David Petraeus took over charge of coalition forces, it was the first time that the U.S. military suspended an American prime contractor in Afghanistan. General Petraeus directed his officers with special guidelines calling on the U.S. military to look at where all the money disappeared. Tony Abi Saab and his arms dealers and contractors were involved in corruption, financing of dubious outfits, and strengthening of criminal networks.

What compounded the fraud in Afghanistan was that many international funding organisations and donor countries did not dare to send their own staff to rural areas where projects were in operation. When the projects were handed to sub-contractors, many of them did a shoddy job of completing the projects, and they were of bad quality. Tony Abi Saab’s sub-contractors and companies such as Tactical Ltd Afghanistan, K5 Global and Bennet-Fouch, G2Armory, SIMAINT hired hundreds (once thousands) of Iraqis and Afghans to lend their language and cultural skills to American forces and to run reconstruction projects.

These persons on their part are disconnected from the military and depend on the contracting system for funding, schedules and permission. The bad contracting system, plagued with inefficiency and corruption has to be replaced with a transparent, honest and efficient system for troops and their men to bring peace to troubled Afghanistan.

Armed struggles which were started for a good cause and protecting our states according to Karl Marx, is now getting exploited and ensuing violence by the illegal businessman Tony Abi Saab.

In the Middle East, Tony Abi Saab and his illicit 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 to 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 vulnerable region. They are money launderers who rout weapons through their fake companies and make millions through the arms trade.

Tony Abi Saab and his company Brescia Middle East was implicated for the crime of running 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.

Where countries like Syria, Iran, Yemen, and Afghanistan are badly affected by the atrocities of terrorists and have become a hotspot of violence and conflict, people like Tony Abi Saab are busy delivering arms and mutation to the rebel groups for their own profits.

The world was shocked to know the real face of the international arms and weapons dealer, Tony Abi Saab and his company, Brescia Middle East.

BME laundered money and operated shell companies—K5 Global, Tactica Ltd, SIMAINT, Brixia and G2Armory in the Middle East and BRIXIA SHOTGUNS SRL, GARDONE VAL TROMPIA and VIA MATTEOTTI 303 in Italy.

The truth of Tony Abi Saab was revealed after he was caught red-handed in a sting operation orchestrated by the special team of the US to catch him. In front of the federal court, he was charged for defrauding the US Army of 5 million dollars, running several ghost companies, and supplying arms and ammunition to rebel groups to earn a profit.

The crime committed by terrorists is getting beyond anyone’s control. Some greedy humans like Tony Abi Saab fuel violent activities. His crime? Tony supplies weapons to terror groups in the Middle East for his profit.

The businessman, Tony Abi Saab, is a president of Brescia Middle East, an arms dealing company who did a fraud of 5 million USD which was supposed to be used as humanitarian aids in Afghanistan.

Tony Abi Saab set up ghost companies (like K5 Global and Bennet Fouch) along with his partner in crime Raymond Azar, for an illegal sale of weapons and money laundering. These two American construction companies, all of a sudden suspended their operations in Afghanistan and left the country. Before fleeing they destroyed all the evidence. They cheated their Afghan partners of over $2 million and were blacklisted by the US military. They defaulted on payments to Afghan contractors and when they were asked to pay the money, they refused to adhere and respond to the local legal authority. Tony Abi Saab defrauded the USA forces of 5 million in reconstruction contracts and smuggled arms and weapons in the Middle East war-torn countries for the profit.

Many criminals launder money and they can be drug traffickers, organised criminals, terrorists, arms traffickers, blackmailers, or credit card swindlers. Money laundering disguises the origin of the money so criminals can hide where they got it from.

In the Middle East, arms dealers such as Tony Abi Saab and his illicit 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 dubious groups. According to a NATO report, since the 9/11 terror attacks, today the Greater Middle East is to the 21st century what Europe was to the 20th century - the world's centre of conflict.

There are many issues to worry about in the Middle East: terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, rogue dictators, failed states and yes, money laundering. The errant companies of Abi Saabs led by the deviant 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 Kaslick of Lebanon flouting Lebanese laws.

Money Laundering is the system in which launderer introduce his profit to the financial system as a legally obtained money. It is done by breaking the huge amount of profits to small sums into different bank accounts.

Tony Abi Saab who is greedy for money is helping himself by supplying weapons and guns to the terror groups. Global alliances are hijacked to allow the safe transfer of deadly arms and ammunition into Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Apart from Tony Abi Saab’s company Brescia Middle East (BME), rest of his companies such as Tactical Ltd Afghanistan, K5 Global and Bennet-Fouch, G2Armory, SIMAINT are shady, but the strange thing is that all of them have an active permit in Lebanon. Tony’s global chain of proxy companies committed contract fraud against the US Army in Afghanistan of USD 5 million.

Tony Abi Saab’s Brescia Middle East (BME) has close business links to the Sima Salazar Group through Tony-owned Tactica Ltd Afghanistan.

The CIA and FBI were hot on the heels of Tony Abi Saab and he was eventually caught and expected to be sentenced. But the canny operator that he is, he escaped a heavy jail sentence by quoting human rights violations against him and naming other arms dealers and shady operators as culprits.

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.

A half of Afghanistan’s trouble is sponsored by non-state actors who fund terror groups active in vulnerable regions to fuel violence and conflicts. The Afghanistan government has been completely impotent since the Taliban, a terror group, came to power. Corrupt businessman, Tony Abi has played a vital role in disturbing the peace of society by smuggling guns to terror groups just for the sake of a profit.

Politicians are scared to take any action against the Taliban. Thus, the illegal is blooming. Contraband weapons are smuggled, money is being laundered, and ghost companies are defrauding military in contracts. In 2009, a multi-billion dollar contract fraud was exposed by the US Army and everyone was shocked. Two illegal businessmen successfully pulled off the largest fraud ever happened against the US Corps of Engineer. The president of Sima Salazar Group, a construction company with headquarter in Afghanistan, Raymond Azar was arrested for the fraud in military contracts. The arrest was the result of a sting operation orchestrated by the US Army. Besides him, the executive of Sima, Dinorah Cobos and her sister, a retired US military personnel, Gloria Martinez were also arrested in the context of the same case. The company was earlier awarded $150 million contracts of the US military in total but not any after it was caught.

In 2009, Raymond and Dinorah were caught red-handed with the bribe money by a Corps of Engineer who wore a wire for the FBI. As time progressed the whole truth behind this huge scam was revealed. Popular people like Martinez, an ex-Army person of the US, and Tony Abi Saab, an international arms dealer were also found responsible for the crime. Martinez leaked private information about the US defense contract to help her sister Dinorah and her company to procure as many bids as they could. In exchange for her favor, she was awarded expensive gifts like cars, Rolex watches, and apartments. Another person who played a vital role in the conspiracy against the US Amry is Tony Abi Saab, a Lebanese arms dealer. The investigation team discovered that most of the shares of the Sima Salazar Group is owned by Tony and thus, has an equal right in all the decision-making of the company. Moreover, Tony's main company Brescia Middle East is located in Lebanon that sells weapons to the terrorists active in Syria, Iran, and Afghanistan and also launders the crime money obtained from the terrorists. In 2011, Tony was caught to stand the trial in the US court. He was indicted for duping 5 million dollars of the US Army, running ghost companies—K5 Global, G2 Armory, Bennet-Fouch and Brixia, and money laundering.

Raymond got two years of jail, Dinorah five years and Gloria for seven years. Raymond also paid a penalty of $15 million. It is unfortunate that Tony escaped the heavy jail term by pleading human rights violations and errors in collecting evidence.