By Lodu William Odiya<\/p>\n
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A new report has exposed activist, Peter Biar Ajak\u2019s accomplices in the alleged arms purchase for regime change in South Sudan.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n According to Bloomberg report, Ajak was introduced by a legendary Russian Chess player, Garry Kasparov to an American financier to source weapons for arming rebels.<\/p>\n Report emphasized that the grandmaster is said to have introduced the former activist to the US financier who unknowingly funded the plan to procure weapons.<\/p>\n Mr. Ajak, a Harvard fellow and exiled South Sudanese activist\u2019s alleged plot emerged from the US prosecution.<\/p>\n The report said he pleaded not guilty, but now facing federais charges of conspiring to illegally export arms to South Sudan.<\/p>\n Bloomberg revealed that Mr. Ajak who allegedly wanted to buy AK-47s and Stinger missiles to topple the government, lacked the cash to put his plan in motion.<\/p>\n However, the report also noted that he received $7 million from Robert Granieri, a co-founder of the Jane Street trading firm, further adding that Granieri insisted that he was\u00a0\u201cduped\u201d<\/em>\u00a0into funding the coup plot, with his lawyer claiming that the financier thought the money would be used to support human rights activism.<\/p>\n The chess grandmaster met Ajak during his tenure as chair of the Human Rights Foundation.<\/p>\n The report noted, Kasparov neither confirmed nor denied his involvement, telling Bloomberg via his spokesperson:\u00a0\u201cMy record and my values are clear, and they remain unchanged. I have spent much of my life standing up for civil rights and promoting democracy around the world.\u201d\u00a0Neither Kasparov nor Granieri is facing charges\u201d report read.<\/p>\n As alleged, the defendants sought to unlawfully smuggle heavy weapons and ammunition from the United States into South Sudan, a country that is subject to a U.N. arms embargo due to the violence between armed groups, which had killed and displaced thousands.<\/p>\n Peter Biar Ajak fled to the U.S. with the help of the American government after he said South Sudan’s president ordered him abducted or killed.<\/p>\n South Sudan was embroiled in a multi-sided civil war from 2013 to 2020, with factional conflicts still a major source of instability. The clashes have been accompanied by a humanitarian disaster, numerous atrocities, ethnic cleansings, and mass deportations.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Lodu William Odiya A new report has exposed activist, Peter Biar Ajak\u2019s accomplices in the alleged arms purchase for regime change in South Sudan. According to Bloomberg report, Ajak was introduced by a legendary Russian Chess player, Garry Kasparov to an American financier to source weapons for arming[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":37221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Former-Activist-Peter-Biar-Ajak-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37222,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37220\/revisions\/37222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}