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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Bankruptcy court records, however, list seven Ohio police agencies that bought ... That meant the Chinese companies packed the body armor in sealed boxes and used a pre-purchased shipping level.
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Investigators found thousands of Chinese-produced body armor plates at Vallmar Studios and ShotStop Ballistics, the Stow companies owned and operated by Vall Iliev, 69, according to a news release ...
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.