Buy-a-MiG arms dealers get 16 years

Two businessmen who brokered arms deals to supply ex-Soviet surface-to-air missile systems to Sudan and MiG29 fighter jets to Libya were jailed for 16 years each. Aviation expert David Greenhalgh, 68, and Greek corporate financier Christos Farmakis, 48, obtained weaponry from former communist countries and sold them to embargoed countries across Africa and the Middle East. They offered AK47 assault rifles, ammunition, bombs, rocket propelled grenades, anti-tank guided missiles, fighter jets and tanks to ‘armed groups in some of the…