US official trades arms with Filipino Muslim rebels?

While Filipinos celebrate the Bangsamoro agreement, US investigators try to establish if California State Senator Leland Lee traded weapons with Philippine “Muslim rebel groups.” Yee was arrested in his office in Sacramento, the state capital of California, on Wednesday, March 26 (March 27 in Manila), on charges of public corruption and trafficking firearms, among other charges, according to the San Jose Mercury News. An affidavit complaint revealed that the senator was allegedly proactive in illegal arms trading with both Russian organized crime groups and what they described as “Muslim rebel groups” in the southern Philippines.


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