The United States have re-sold old weapons from central and Eastern Europe to terrorist groups in Syria, despite guaranteeing to be the end user, the Czech Centre for Investigative Journalism reported on Wednesday.

Some of the weapons were reportedly purchased in the Czech Republic.

According to the Czech journalists, who cooperated with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, such a procedure would be a breach of the arms trade agreement.

The report, which cites publicly available documents, claims that the American Defense Ministry bought assault rifles, mortar shells and other military technique worth 500 billion crowns and subsequently re-sold them to terrorist groups in Syria.

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