LONDON (Reuters) - A British arms dealer was jailed on Friday for trying to buy surface-to-air missiles from North Korea to sell them to the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan.
British prosecutors described Michael Ranger
as an established international arms dealer who used a company
registered in Hong Kong under the name of his girlfriend to organize illegal arms deals between the two countries.
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correspondence read out in court showed that Ranger had boasted to his
arms supplier in North Korea that he had been a guest of the Azeri
government and was chauffeured in a luxury limousine during a visit to
the country to discuss arms sales.
Azerbaijan, an oil-producing Caspian Sea nation bordering Iran, is under an international arms embargo following a 1990s ethnic conflict in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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