Former US Soldiers Charged In Elaborate Drug Cartel Assassination Plot

Hunter and Timothy Vamvakias, both former U.S. Army sergeants, and several  other suspects were arrested this week and are being transported to New York to  face charges that include murder and drug conspiracy, as well as weapons  possession.

“The bone-chilling allegations in today’s indictment read like they were  ripped from the pages of a Tom Clancy novel,” said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet  Bharara in a statement. “The charges tell a tale of an international band of  mercenary marksmen who enlisted their elite military training to serve as hired  guns for evil ends.”

The DEA informants agreed to pay Hunter and two others $700,000 for the two  killings, as well as an additional $100,000 to Hunter “for his leadership role,”  according to an indictment filed in New York.

The killings were to take place in Liberia, Bharara said at a press  conference on Friday.

Hunter and his alleged accomplices – who include Vamvakias, Dennis Gogel and  Michael Filter of Germany, and Slawomir Soborski of Poland – were rounded up in  a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration sting.

Hunter was arrested in Thailand.

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