They documented how in 2000 and early 2001 Liberia's Commissioner for Maritime Affairs Benoni Urey authorised payments from maritime funds for a sanctions-busting operation through San Air in the United Arab Emirates a company linked to the McDonald's of sanctions-busting Victor Bout...
An associate of Bout's Kenyan-born Sanjivan Ruprah helped Benoni Urey and his brother Leroy to set up a ghost-airline West Africa Air Service (WAAS) to supply weapons and military equipment in contravention of UN sanctions...
Benoni Urey maintains his innocence...
