Georgia: Sex, Files and Videotape

Sky phones were a favorite tool for criminals to discuss logistics. Now, it turns out that some of Sky’s most prolific “resellers” were Serbian criminals affiliated with organized groups that have been wreaking havoc in the Balkans.

It didn’t take long for business to boom after Jean-Francois Eap launched a Vancouver-based start-up selling ultra-secure phones. Now facing charges in France and the U.S., Eap says he didn’t know his client base included organized crime. But his own distributors had connections to the criminal underworld — and their resellers often had convictions themselves.

Senior Airbus executives corresponded with an intermediary for controversial helicopter deals in Kuwait after the European company came under scrutiny for its dealings with middlemen, emails obtained by reporters show.