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5 years seems like such a small penalty.

He was an international arms dealer and from the sounds of it selling weapons to countries that it was illegal to sell weapons to. Who knows what those weapons were used for.




But I think he wasn’t convicted for that? (Not sure why.)


I think its a common situation where you have to decide between crimes with long sentences, but hard to prove and smaller charges that are easier to prove.


From the article it didn’t seem like the arms dealing was illegal?


“and before you realize it, you’ve got a load of freshly overhauled attack helicopters getting snuck out of Marseille in the middle of the night going to Chad.”

Maybe not but if it's not illegal, why would they need to be snuck out? He might have just been adding more drama to a regular old arms deal




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