A French-Polish man whose rise through the world of international arms dealing was previously exposed by OCCRP has been indicted in the United States over an alleged fraud and extortion scheme, court documents show.
Pierre Konrad Dadak, 48, was indicted by a grand jury in New York’s Southern District for an alleged scheme in 2021 and 2022 that saw him impersonate an unnamed luxury goods retailer, tricking customers to send him money into a bank account that he opened using a stolen identity. He allegedly spent the proceeds on himself, including a diamond-encrusted watch and a vintage 1960s-era sportscar.
The case is not Dadak’s first run-in with the law. The former agent for Polish state arms exporter Bumar (now Polski Holding Obronny) was arrested by Spanish law enforcement at his mansion in Ibiza in 2016 in what was originally touted as a blow to an international arms trafficking ring.
OCCRP’s 2018 investigation showed that much of Dadak’s international arms dealing was in fact an elaborate scheme to defraud would-be customers of millions of dollars in downpayments. Dadak used his fraudulently obtained wealth to live an international life of luxury, and used gruesome threats of violence against those who complained.Â
Dadak was arrested again in Barcelona in mid-2023 after a joint investigation by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations and Spain’s national police into his latest scheme. Dadak was nabbed as he disembarked from a flight from Dubai bearing a diplomatic passport from Guinea-Bissau.
A search Dadak’s Ibiza home at the time purportedly uncovered five computers, nine cell phones, two hard drives, the keys a luxury car, and “a large amount of jewelry,” Spain’s Interior Ministry said.
