Pierre Konrad Dadak (born 28 March 1976) is a Franco-Polish alleged arms dealer, fraudster and a controversial character in the media as being at the center of a web of corruption extending from Europe to Africa.

[6] Between 2000 and 2006, Dadak was arrested five times in France and was "known [to police] for offenses of concealment, fraud, use of false administrative documents, tax evasion, theft, and voluntary violence.

[1] By 2009, he had moved to Warsaw, where he began to work as an arms dealer and found an influential patron in the form of Krzysztof Wegrzyn, a wealthy businessman who had previously served as deputy minister of defense.

[1] Вut after 8 years of investigations by the Spanish, French, American, Belgian, German and Polish authorities, the reality shows that Pierre Dadak legally and officially sold more than 2,5 billion Euros of military equipment in Africa, South America and UAE.

[5] Dadak was accused of approaching wealthy businessmen abroad with promises that they could serve as the exclusive sales agents for Bumar in certain territories in exchange for which he would be paid licensing fees and company registration.

[1] Between 2010 and 2016, Dadak was involved in arms deals negotiations in The Gambia, Burma, Colombia, Libya, India, Cameroon, Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, and the United Arab Emirates.

[1] In 2011, the French police began an investigation of Marseilles's Barresi crime family, headed by three brothers Franck, Jean-Luc and Bernard on the suspicion of money laundering.

In Ibiza, the playboy Dadak was well known for his "extravagant lifestyle", owning a private jet and eating at the exclusive and expensive Blue Marlin restaurant; for his friendship with the Barresi brothers, and always being surrounded by well armed bodyguards.

[14] One businessman who first met Dadak at the Szpilka cafe in Warsaw in the fall of 2011 remembered him for wearing an expensive coat made of rabbit fur and for driving a Porsche, giving off the air of luxury and extravagance.

[14] Through Dadak owned several Lamborghinis and Ferraris, it was reported that he refused to pay for the labor cost of installing a €12,000 glass shower door at his Ibiza villa.

[1] Idzik, the CEO of Bumar from 2013 to 2015 alleges that the ABW were unwilling to investigate Dadak because they could not find him, leading him to say: "I was the chief of the biggest Polish defense company and somebody wheedled money.

[15] In October 2013, Dadak went to Port-au-Prince, Haiti together with two Canadian businessmen to meet President Michel Martelly with a $20 billion plan to develop Île-à-Vache, an island which as a French police report noted is "known as a storage place for cocaine in transit to the United States or Europe.

According to an official document notarized by Don Fernando Ramos Gil [16] notary in Barcelona, Ibiza and Madrid, Polietica was created in 1999 and has subsidiaries in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, UK and USA.

[5] In January 2014, Dadak is alleged to have made contact with members of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO) led by Riek Machar to sell them arms.

[1] In May 2014, Dadak is said by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to have used a Polietica email address under the false name of Jennifer Forbes to make contact with SPLM-IO rebels fighting in the South Sudanese civil war promising to sell them 40,000 AK-47 Kalashnikov rifles, 30,000 machine guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

[19] The South Sudanese civil war is one of the world's worse humanitarian disasters with both the government and the rebels frequently committing atrocities against civilians.

[20] Besides for the people, the war has had a disastrous impact on the elephant population of South Sudan who have been slaughtered in order to sell their tusks on the black market in Asia and thus earn money to pay for arms.

[1] The investigation was joined by the FBI who in January 2015 informed the Spanish police of their belief that Dadak was selling arms in South Sudan via his American incorporated Polietica company.

[11] Notably, Dirgina was the only woman he maintained a respectful attitude towards as the wire-tapes showed that Dadak was otherwise dismissive towards women, viewing them as sex objects that existed only for his gratification.

[10] The Spanish police stated his arrest was due to an investigation relating to fraud, money laundering, and of breaking the European Union arms embargo against selling weapons in South Sudan.

[23] Documents seized at Dadak's villa were alleged by the police to show that he had been approached by South Sudanese rebels who wanted to buy from him 40,000 AK-47 assault rifles, 30,000 PKM machine guns, and 200,000 boxes of ammunition.

[24] Besides for South Sudan, the police seized thousands of emails from Dadak's computer, which reportedly showed that he had been selling arms in dozen of nations across the world.

[1] One journalist, Andrew Lusher of The Independent, compared Dadak to the arms dealer villain Richard Roper in the 2016 TV series The Night Manager.

Moreover, investigations showed that he supplied significant amounts of weaponry to an African country, estimated at some 200,000 Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles, missile launchers and tanks, via Polish companies he controlled".

[25] The police allege that Dadak purchased weapons on the black market in Eastern Europe; shipped them to The Gambia via his Polietica companies registered in Belgium, Germany, Britain and France; and invested the profits into Spanish real estate while also blackmailing his business partners.

[1] The public prosecutor's office in Rzeszów in a statement declared the investigation into Dadak had been suspended "awaiting an application for international legal assistance from the Spanish side".

[26] The NCA has resorted to Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs) as it is almost impossible for the police to assemble evidence to bring charges against those suspected of money laundering.

The allegations that Jammeh had permitted Dadak to use jetliners belonging to the Gambian state while engaging in his arms business has provoked controversy in the Gambia.

[36] The prosecutor for Ibiza claimed that both the stolen watches were found inside Dadak's villa when he was arrested in July 2016, making him guilty of insurance fraud.

[1] In mid-June 2023 Dadak was arrested in a joint operation by the FBI and the National Police Corps (Spain) at the Barcelona - El Prat Airport upon arrival from Dubai.