US EditionBulgarian Arms Trafficker and Accomplices Indicted for Supplying Weapons to Mexican Cartels
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The Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG ) has spread its networks across several countries and, on this occasion, the District Court of East Virginia, in the United States, reported the existence of an international traffic network that supplied them with aramamento to carry out their operations. Specifically, the network that sold weapons to the CJNG was led by Bulgarian Peter Dimitrov Mirchev, in coordination with Kenyan Elisha Odhiambo Asum…
The case reveals sending machine guns, drones and surface-to-air missiles to Mexico; they face extradition and trial in the United States.
Bulgarian Arms Trafficker and Accomplices Indicted for Supplying Weapons to Mexican Cartels
UNITED STATES — On July 30, 2025, an indictment was unsealed in the Eastern District of Virginia charging Peter Dimitrov Mirchev, a Bulgarian arms trafficker, and three African nationals with conspiring to distribute cocaine, possess firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking, and provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.The group used corruptly obtained end-user certificates from Tanzania to export 50 AK-47 rifles as a test…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced today, July 31, 2025, that it detected the trafficking of weapons for military use into the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), which it has designated as a terrorist organization, making an accusation against Peter Dimitrov Mirchev, a citizen of Bulgaria who would lead the sale of weapons including grenades and rocket launchers. In a statement, it reported that Bulgarian citizen Peter Dimitrov Mirche…
l and three other foreigners provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, they said.
Among the military weapons allegedly handed over to the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, the Department of Justice highlights machine guns, bazookas, grenades, night vision equipment, sniper rifles, mines and weapons to shoot down planes.
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