Editing Arms trafficking (section)

== Regulation ==
Prosecuting arms traffickers and [[brokers]] has proven difficult due to loopholes in national laws. In 2000, Israeli arms dealer [[Leonid Minin]] was arrested in Italy for drug possession, and while serving his sentence, Italian police found over 1,500 pages of forged [[end-user certificate]]s and transfers of money which implicated him in trafficking arms to the [[Revolutionary United Front]] in [[Sierra Leone]]. Minin was released in December 2002, as according to Italian law, he could not be tried because the weapons he had sold had never reached Italy. Additionally, some arms dealers will operate in countries where they cannot be [[extradited]]. Arms traffickers are also able to evade capture due to a lack of co-operation between nations, especially in Africa and ex-Soviet states.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Cattaneo|first=Silvia|title=Small Arms Survey|publisher=Graduate Institute of International Studies|year=2004|pages=163–164|chapter=Chapter 5. Targeting the Middlemen: Controlling Brokering Activities}}</ref>