In late May 2013, in email communications, Hunter confirmed that his team would be willing to murder both a U.S. With respect to the murder-for-hire scheme, in mid-May 2013, at a meeting with the CSs in Thailand, VAMVAKIAS, Gogel, Hunter, and Soborski were told that a “bonus job” – that is, a contract killing – was in the offing, due to a leak within the CSs’ narcotics trafficking organization. CS-3 informed the defendants that the aircraft was to be loaded with 300 kilograms of cocaine to be shipped to New York. In late June 2013, VAMVAKIAS, Gogel, Filter, and Soborski conducted surveillance of a purported U.S.-registered aircraft at the direction of the third CS (“CS-3”), who posed as a member of the CSs’ narcotics trafficking organization.
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Communications between the defendants and the CSs occurred by telephone, over email, and in a series of surreptitiously audio-recorded and videotaped meetings over a nine-month period. In exchange for the murders, VAMVAKIAS and Gogel were together to be paid approximately $700,000, and Hunter was to receive an additional $100,000 for his leadership role.
Furthermore, VAMVAKIS, Gogel, and Hunter agreed to commit murder-for-hire in Liberia by assassinating both a Special Agent of the DEA and a person who, according to the CSs, was providing information to the DEA about the CSs’ narcotics trafficking organization. Hunter and his co-defendants thereafter agreed, in meetings and communications with the CSs, to provide security and surveillance services to the narcotics trafficking organization. Hunter also told the CSs that he had previously been involved in contract killings – referred to as “bonus jobs” – and that some team members wanted to do as much “bonus work” as possible.
Hunter agreed to serve as the head of security for the CSs’ purported narcotics trafficking organization and assembled a “security team” consisting of VAMVAKIAS, Gogel, Filter, and Soborski.
During meetings in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, beginning in January 2013 and continuing through late September 2013, Hunter communicated with three confidential sources (the “CSs”) working with the DEA, who purported to be Colombian narcotics traffickers. Hunter recruited VAMVAKIAS based on their prior experiences working together for a transnational criminal organization. In 2013, VAMVAKIAS was recruited by Hunter to serve as security for a Colombian drug trafficking organization and to perform contract killings. Hunter served as a sniper instructor and a senior drill sergeant, training other soldiers in marksmanship and tactics and Soborski and Filter were also trained as snipers. VAMVAKIAS attained the rank of sergeant and served both as infantryman and a military police officer. Army between approximately 19 Filter served in the German armed forces until 2009 and Soborski served in the Polish armed forces until 2011. Army between approximately 19 Gogel served in the German armed forces until 2010 Hunter served in the U.S. Thanks to the investigative efforts of the DEA, Vamvakias’s descent into the criminal underworld has been put to an end.”Īccording to the Indictment filed against VAMVAKIAS, Hunter, Gogel, Soborski, and Filter, and other documents filed in Manhattan federal court:Īll five defendants have previously served in the armed forces of their respective nations. Vamvakias went from serving his country in the military to serving the interests of drug lords and contract killers. Attorney Preet Bharara said: “Timothy Vamvakias’s callous disregard for human life made him an ideal member of an international mercenary team that conspired in an elaborate and diabolical scheme to murder a DEA agent and an informant. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who imposed the sentence. VAMVAKIAS pled guilty on January 9, 2015, before U.S.
VAMVAKIAS was arrested in September 2013 along with co-defendants Joseph Hunter, Dennis Gogel, Slawomir Soborski, and Michael Filter following a long-term DEA undercover investigation. Army, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to murder a Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) agent and a confidential informant working at the direction of the DEA, a conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States, and a conspiracy to possess a firearm in furtherance of the murder conspiracy. Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced that TIMOTHY VAMVAKIAS, a former member of the U.S.
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