Why media is afraid to cover the news of Tony Abi Saab’s arrest?
Added: (Mon Mar 25 2019)
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The business tycoon of Lebanon, Tony Abi Saab, and an international arms dealer was arrested in 2011 through a sting operation conducted by the special investigation team of the US, but no media platforms carried this news.
Free press in the Middle East has been suppressed and silenced at a gunpoint. Journalists are being killed, reporters are afraid to file the story, and no editor risk the future of the channel or newspaper by running the stories of powerful businessmen indulging in fraud activities. Tony Abi Saab, an illegal arms dealer was arrested for smuggling contraband weapons to the vulnerable regions to the terrorists, defrauding the US Army in contracts fraud, and running ghost companies. Despite grievous charges against him, no media person dared to write anything against him. There were few articles and news reports related to Tony's arrest in the beginning, which were later dropped within two days.
According to a report published in dogueroglu, Tony Abi Saab has allegedly supplied pistols and machine guns to Daesh through Turkey. This article has been removed now.The business tycoon, Tony laundered money through his front company Brescia Middle East and wired it to his business partners around the world. He was running ghost construction and weapons dealing companies K5 Global, Brixia, Tactica Ltd, G2 Armory, and SIMAINT to help terrorist organizations with arms and weapons. Brixia was producing spare parts for weapons and smuggled them to countries throughout the Middle East for reassembly and sales, and Tactica Ltd purchased arms commercially and sold them in the black market to terrorist groups in Syria.The federal government couldn't prove the crimes of Tony due to a technicality in the circuit court. He pleaded human rights violation and error in collecting the evidence against the CIA, thus, he was freed from the US court. His main company BME and other shell companies were banned from doing business in the United States.