In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Efimovich and the family name is Minin.
Leonid Minin
Born
1947
Ukrainian SSR
Occupation
Arms dealer
Known for
Arms dealing
Leonid Efimovich Minin (/ˈmɪnɪn/; Ukrainian: Леонід Юхимович Мінін, romanized: Leonid Yukhymovych Minin; born 14 December 1947) is an international arms trafficker. He was arrested on August 4, 2000 by Italian authorities in Cinisello Balsamo near Milan. Minin had been under surveillance since 1992 for his suspected illegal arms dealings, mostly to West African nations.[1] He was sentenced to two years in prison in Italy.
He was born in Ukraine, but moved to Israel in the 1970s. In the mid-1970s, Germany arrested him for falsifying identity documents and he was suspected of theft of art.[2] He moved to Bolivia, Switzerland, Germany, Monaco, and Italy. In the 1990s he opened a timber business registered in Zug in Switzerland as well as offices in Monrovia in Liberia and Tel Aviv in Israel.[3]
In the latter 1990s, Minin operated a company in Liberia, Exotic Tropical Timber Enterprise, that shipped timber from the country but also imported weapons that it supplied to the Liberian warlord and then president Charles Taylor.[4] Taylor supplied the arms to militants of the Revolutionary United Front in neighboring Sierra Leone as part of his sponsorship of their war in an effort to take control of that country's diamond trade.[3][4] In arresting Minin in 2000, Italian police found documents regarding his transactions with Taylor in Minin's belongings. The arms allegedly came from Aviatrend, a Russian company owned by Valery Cherny.[2] The same Aviatrend has been involved in money laundering by Slobodan Milošević.[2]
Nicolas Cage's character in the film Lord of War is a composite of Minin and another arms smuggler, Viktor Bout.
^FRONTLINE/WORLD . Sierra Leone - Gunrunners . Gallery of International Arms Dealers . Leonid Efimovich Minin | PBS
^ abcCatching the Middlemen Fuelling African Conflicts Archived 2011-06-09 at the Wayback Machine Gail Wannenburg, SAIIA
^ abTraynor, Ian (2001-07-09). "The international dealers in death". London: The Guardian.
^ abRupert, James (16 October 1999). "Diamond Hunters Fuel Africa's Brutal Wars". The Washington Post. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
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