Arcadi Gaydamak
Arcadi Gaydamak
Arcadi Aleksandrovich Gaydamakis a Russian-born gun trafficker. He was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honour. Gaydamak was sentenced to three years in jail for money laundering and illegal guns trade in Angola, in years of the Angloa Civil War. While laundering his money in Switzerland, Israel and the Virgin Islands, he ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Jerusalem in the November 2008 elections, receiving about 3.6% of the votes...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth8 April 1952
CountryRussian Federation
I'm no more or less Jewish than any other Jew. Israel has survived because we haven't forgot our Judaism, but there are some Israelis who did forget.
In 1992, I was an official of the Angolan regime. I was appointed by that country to oversee the organization of the raw diamond market and responsible for the governmental authority that later controlled this market.