Stow businessman admits to selling fake body armor, agrees to pay $32.4 million in restitution
A Stow businessman who admitted to selling fake body armor to police has agreed to pay back $32.4 million in restitution. Vall Iliev, the owner of Shotstop Ballistics, faces a sentencing range of five ...
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Ohio man charged with allegedly smuggling body armor from China to sell to law enforcement customers as American made
Vall Iliev, 69, of Stow, Ohio, has been charged in a three-count information with smuggling foreign-made body armor and then selling it to law enforcement agencies and others, as legitimate, ...
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Stow businessman charged with smuggling and selling knock-off body armor from China
Vall Iliev, 69, is accused of working with a Chinese broker company to find ... performance standards for ballistic-resistant police body armor for more than 50 years. Iliev allegedly instructed ...
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Stow businessman accused of selling counterfeit body armor to police
Ohio— A Stow business owner is accused of selling counterfeit body armor imported from China to more than a dozen law enforcement agencies, including Akron, Rocky River and Columbus police.
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Stow man charged with smuggling body armor from China to law enforcement as American-made
Investigators found thousands of Chinese-produced body armor plates at Vallmar and ShotStop, which served as warehouses to receive, but had no means of producing, Level III or Level IV body armor.