Monday, August 23, 2010

Contractor in ammunition scheme now target of Orlando federal prosecutors

A 24-year-old Miami Beach man accused in a scheme to illegally ship nearly $300 million in Chinese-made ammunition to Afghan soldiers is now the target of an Orlando federal criminal investigation.

Efraim Diveroli, a military contractor who pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in a South Florida federal case last year, was arrested Friday.

A criminal complaint filed in Orlando charges Diveroli with two counts: possessing firearms as a convicted felon and possessing firearms by a person under indictment for a felony offense.

At a hearing Monday in Orlando federal court, a magistrate judge found Diveroli is a flight risk and ordered he be jailed pending trial.......................

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-efraim-diveroli-firearms-20100823,0,7978191.story

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