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, ...

CLEVELAND — A Stow businessman has been hit with federal charges for allegedly smuggling body armor from China and making fake labels to pass the armor off as American-made, government-certified ...

Prosecutors say Iliev spent years working with a Chinese broker to find cheaply made body armor, which was shipped to Vallmar Studios. There, employees were told to put made-in-America and testing ...

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