1. Pierre Konrad Dadak was born on 28 March 1976 and is a Franco-Polish alleged arms dealer, fraudster and a controversial character portrayed in media as being at the center of a web of corruption extending from Europe to Africa.
68 Facts About Pierre Dadak
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Pierre Dadak was born in Paris, the son of Polish immigrants.
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Pierre Dadak's father was an engineer, a graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology while his mother was a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts.
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Pierre Dadak grew up in an upper-middle-class family in the 18th arrondissement.
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Pierre Dadak was educated at the Lycee jules ferry and at an elite business school, the Institut superieur de gestion, graduating in 1999.
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Pierre Dadak is reported to have attended courses at New York University.
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In February 2010, Pierre Dadak started working as a sales agent for Bumar, the state-owned arms company with the responsibility for sales in Africa and Latin America.
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Pierre Dadak presented himself as the "shareholder president" of Rosevar Holdings, which was a subsidiary of Bumar.
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Wegrzyn stated he went into business with Pierre Dadak "to help Polish industry conquer new markets", but he claimed he only provided him with "consulting services".
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Several former employees of the company accused Pierre Dadak of engaging in unethical business practices.
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In 2010, Pierre Dadak purchased a luxury villa in Ibiza, where he lived with his common-law wife, a Ukrainian model named Katerina Dirgina.
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In 2010, Pierre Dadak signed his first arms deal on behalf of Bumar to sell armored vehicles, anti-aircraft missiles, and ammunition worth some 912 millions USD to the Colombian military, but the company insists that the deal never went through.
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One Canadian businessman, Thierry Carbou, who did business with Pierre Dadak, stated: "This was his technique with his victims who, meanwhile, opened their address book and made appointments with heads of state and ministers".
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Along the way, Pierre Dadak had the airplane land in Marseilles to pick up le milieu gangster Franck Barresi, though for what purpose remains unclear.
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Pierre Dadak was saying 'I don't know what I'm doing here.
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Between 2010 and 2016, Pierre Dadak was involved in arms deals negotiations in The Gambia, Burma, Colombia, Libya, India, Cameroon, Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, and the United Arab Emirates.
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In October 2012, the French police contracted the police in Krakow for requests for more information on Vinams Enterprises, which was used by Pierre Dadak to collect on the down payments relating to his arms business.
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In December 2012, Bumar ended its relationship with Pierre Dadak, terminating him for his failure to make any sales.
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The cooperation between Bumar and several other arms suppliers such as the swedish SAAB or the american Northrop Gruman and Pierre Dadak began in 2005 and never really stopped.
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In Ibiza, the playboy Pierre Dadak was well known for his "extravagant lifestyle", owning a private jet and eating at the exclusive and expensive Blue Marlin restaurant; for his friendship with the Barresi brothers, and always being surrounded by well armed bodyguards.
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Pierre Dadak is alleged to have continued to misrepresent himself as an agent for Bumar for several years afterward after leaving the company in 2012, continuing to hand out business cards that misidentified him as the Bumar sales agent for Africa and Latin America.
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Sharma alleges that after making the complaint, Pierre Dadak threatened his life, saying: "He called me and he said 'I'm going to destroy you and kill all your family, I'm an arms dealer, you don't know me, I'm this, I'm that".
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In 2013, BOR launched an internal investigation as to how Pierre Dadak obtained the services of its agents, of which the results were that it was decided not to sack any employees.
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In exchange for promising to invest in gambling and banking in Guinea-Bissau, Pierre Dadak was appointed a diplomat for Guinea-Bissau, granting him diplomatic immunity.
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Pierre Dadak did not perform any diplomatic work for Guinea-Bissau and instead declared himself the "special economic adviser" to the president of Guinea-Bissau.
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In late 2013, Pierre Dadak set up a company named Polietica, which was registered in the United States and was purported to sell plastics and polymers, through it appears to have been used as part of Pierre Dadak's arms dealing.
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In Belgium, a police investigation of Polietica was started on the suspicion of "carousel VAT fraud" as the police believed that Pierre Dadak was engaged in transactions between his companies with the intention to avoid paying VAT.
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Pierre Dadak often used a credit card issued by the Rietumu Banka in Riga, Latvia.
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In January 2014, Pierre Dadak is alleged to have made contact with members of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition led by Riek Machar to sell them arms.
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In February 2014, Pierre Dadak was briefly arrested in Ibiza after he was alleged to have made death threats via email to a local property manager who he had a dispute with.
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In May 2014, Pierre Dadak is said by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to have used a Polietica email address under the false name of Jennifer Forbes to make contact with SPLM-IO rebels fighting in the South Sudanese civil war promising to sell them 40,000 AK-47 Kalashnikov rifles, 30,000 machine guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
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The investigation was joined by the FBI who in January 2015 informed the Spanish police of their belief that Pierre Dadak was selling arms in South Sudan via his American incorporated Polietica company.
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The police who were observing Pierre Dadak noted in the following months he became notably irascible and began to press his associates for money.
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Pierre Dadak continued to call his former business partner Wegrzyn and in one call said "The merchandise is there and we can act" and spoke about "cars and ammunition".
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Pierre Dadak told his friend to send him photographs of the Russian models he was planning to bring to a party and said:.
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Pierre Dadak told another ex-girlfriend she would end up in a "wheelchair" as he was going to "cut" her legs to keep her from walking.
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The wire-tapes showed that Pierre Dadak was friends with a Dutch gangster, Salomon "Sanny" Lampie, long resident on Ibiza.
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In February 2016, a police meeting about Pierre Dadak was held in Madrid attended by policemen from Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and Poland.
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On 14 July 2016, Pierre Dadak was arrested in his Ibiza home.
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Pierre Dadak was arrested in his underwear while attempting to leave his villa via a window.
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Pierre Dadak resisted arrest and had his nose broken by a Spanish policeman.
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Documents seized at Pierre Dadak's villa were alleged by the police to show that he had been approached by South Sudanese rebels who wanted to buy from him 40,000 AK-47 assault rifles, 30,000 PKM machine guns, and 200,000 boxes of ammunition.
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One journalist, Dominic Johnson of Die Tagezeitung, in a 2016 article based upon police sources alleged that Pierre Dadak shipped arms from Poland to The Gambia, and then flew the arms into South Sudan abroad one of the presidential jets belonging to President Yahya Jammeh, who was a close friend of his.
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The police allege that Pierre Dadak purchased weapons on the black market in Eastern Europe; shipped them to The Gambia via his Polietica companies registered in Belgium, Germany, Britain and France; and invested the profits into Spanish real estate while blackmailing his business partners.
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Police sources allege that Pierre Dadak primarily shipped AK-47 assault rifles, PKM machine guns, ammunition, and rocket launchers to South Sudan, but claim that on occasions he sold tanks in South Sudan.
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The fact that Pierre Dadak enjoyed diplomatic immunity as the "special economic adviser" to the president of Guinea-Bissau and his Ibiza estate was officially classified as a Guinean-Bissaun consulate was cited by the police as one of the abuses associated with Guinean-Bissaun diplomacy.
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An investigation into Pierre Dadak was initiated by the ABW in Rzeszow in August 2016 with several figures from Bumar, Rosevar Holdings and several Polish arms firms being questioned, but the investigation has been criticized as "desultory".
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The public prosecutor's office in Rzeszow in a statement declared the investigation into Pierre Dadak had been suspended "awaiting an application for international legal assistance from the Spanish side".
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Sources state it is more likely that Pierre Dadak will be brought to trial on charges of organized crime, extortion, bribery, and money laundering instead of gunrunning.
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Carbou told the press that he did not believe that Pierre Dadak actually sold arms, saying "I doubt he ever sold one bullet", and called him a swindler who merely played the part of an arms dealer in order to fleece the gullible.
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Pierre Dadak was alleged to have stated that the SPLA-IO had "approached" him looking to buy weapons rather than the other way around.
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In early 2018, it was reported that the National Police Corps as part of the investigation into allegations that Pierre Dadak was involved in gunrunning planned to meet four informants from South Sudan who were to confirm that Pierre Dadak had delivered 20 containers of weapons to South Sudan.
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Jammeh's private secretary Njogu Bah, who was present at the Jammeh-Pierre Dadak meetings, has refused requests for comment from the Gambian media.
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Pierre Dadak has not yet to be charged as of 2018 and was released on bail, through forbidden to leave Spain.
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In 2018, Pierre Dadak asked a Spanish court to permission to leave Spain, saying "I am no Pablo Escobar".
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Pierre Dadak claimed he was not an arms dealer, but only a military consultant who claimed to have been employed by the armies of Canada, Switzerland, Thailand, Guinea, Cameroon, Peru, Columbia, and the Gambia.
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On 30 May 2018, Pierre Dadak was arrested again in Ibiza on the basis of an extradition request from Germany, alleging he was engaged in drug trafficking and tax evasion.
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In May 2021, Pierre Dadak attracted attention in the Netherlands where he was seen socializing in Spain with the Dutch rapper Jorik Scholten, better known by his stage name Lil' Kleine.
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On 7 September 2021, Pierre Dadak was brought to trial on charges of fraud.
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Pierre Dadak had claimed that his Ibiza villa had been robbed in July 2015 and maintained that he had lost two insured watches, a Rolex Daytona worth 26 thousand euros and an Audemars Piguet worth 23 thousand euros, both of which the insurance company had paid out for.
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In France, Pierre Dadak has become known as a chef de guerre.
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In mid-June 2023 Pierre Dadak was arrested in a joint operation by the FBI and the National Police Corps at the Barcelona - El Prat Airport upon arrival from Dubai.
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When Pierre Dadak presented his diplomatic passport issued by Guinea-Bissau he was immediately placed under arrest.
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Pierre Dadak was wanted for fraud, identity theft, and money laundering.
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Pierre Dadak is alleged to have been the main architect in an elaborate scheme where dozens of people were defrauded around the world.
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Pierre Dadak allegedly controlled the account where the defrauded funds were first received and from where they were further diverted to accounts based in Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Latvia, Monaco, Poland, Spain, the Arab Emirates, the United States, and Vietnam.
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Pierre Dadak was held in custody for the entire time and extradited to the USA in March 2025.
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The businessman was arrested in a police macro-operation that was deployed in various parts of the island, with the main focus on the villa where Pierre Dadak was arrested, in Calo d'en Real, Sant Josep.