She’s a Doctor. He Was a Limo Driver. They Pitched a $30 Million Arms Deal.

Posted on AllSides October 6th, 2022
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Maksim Levin/Reuters

After falling out with his partner at a limousine company in the St. Louis suburbs, Martin Zlatev recently sought a lucrative new business opportunity: selling $30 million worth of rockets, grenade launchers and ammunition to the Ukrainian military.

Mr. Zlatev and his new business partner, a local osteopath, took their first crack at international arms dealing. Contract documents and other records obtained by The New York Times show that the deal relied on layers of middlemen and transit across seven countries. And it exists in a legal gray area, designed...

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/world/europe/ukraine-private-arms-deals.html

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