Former Argentine president convicted over arms deals

by admin
Mar 9, 2013

Argentina’s ex-president Carlos Menem has been convicted by a court in Buenos Aires for selling arms to Croatia and Ecuador in the 90s.

He was found guilty of authorising shipments to the countries, although he denied knowing that the arms were destined for those countries.

The war in the Balkans saw Croatia placed under an arms embargo and during the war between Ecuador and Peru, Argentina was banned from selling weapons to either side, as one of the guarantors of the peace agreement.

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