[Nickoladze]

His name seems to be quite well known at this point, lots of stories about him cooperating with US feds in 2014-2015.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/world/asia/in-real-life-ra...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/02/nyregion/us-reveals-crimin...

[pakled_engineer]

He's pretty much a Bond villain from those articles, like the UN claiming he funded militias in Somalia to harvest hallucinogenic plants and shipping arms to Liberia.

Probably would've made the same amount of money charging for TC premium support instead of building a pancontinental empire of mercenaries and arms trafficking.

[nickpsecurity]

Lord of War taught us such people won't enter such businesses because the "margins are too small." I'd also guess it's not as exciting and brings in less attention from the ladies.

[bithush]

I think you underestimate how much can be made from arms trafficking!