‘Businessmen sold Russian figher jets and tanks to war-town countries’

Two businessmen sold arms, including Russian MiG fighter jets, missiles, assault rifles and battle tanks to warn-torn countries across Africa and the Middle East, a court heard. Aviation expert David Greenhalgh, 68, and Greek corporate financier Christos Farmakis, 48, obtained weaponry from former communist countries such as Bulgaria, Ukraine and Belarus, jurors heard. Greenhalgh and Farmakis did not apply for the appropriate licenses because they were selling the weaponry to embargoed countries such as Sudan, Libya, Iraq and Syria, Southwark…