Efraim Diveroli

Who is Efraim Diveroli?

Efraim Diveroli is an American arms dealer and president of AEY Inc. His company, AEY Inc., was a weapons contractor for the U.S. State Department. Convicted in January 2011 of fraud, and sentenced to four years in federal prison.

On March 27, 2008 the U.S. government suspended AEY Inc. for violating its contract. The company is accused of supplying ammunition, which was made in China from 1962 through 1974, to the Afghan National Army and police. United States Army-documents showed that since 2004 the company entered agreements with the U.S. government that totaled about $10 million. The papers also revealed the company struck it big in 2007 with contracts totaling more than $200 million to supply ammunition, assault rifles and other weapons. As a result of publicity surrounding the contract, the United States Army has begun a review of its contracting procedures.

A company Diveroli owns, Ammoworks, continued selling arms while he awaited trial. In late August 2009, he pled guilty on one count of conspiracy and he was sentenced to four years in prison on January 4, 2011.