The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) played an active role in an American anti-terrorism case in which a Swedish gangster offered to provide weapons to terrorists in exchange for 50 kg of cocaine.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York, the man has pleaded guilty to five counts stemming from his negotiation of a weapons-for-drugs deal with drug enforcement agents whom he believed to be representatives of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC).

A 43-year-old Swedish citizen who is also known as The Stallion, he was arrested in Panama City in April 2011 after having engineered the delivery of an AK47 assault rifle and a grenade launcher to a PET undercover agent in Copenhagen as a sample of the weapons he could deliver.

According to the Attorney's Office release, the Copenhagen meeting took place a year after undercover U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents posing as FARC operatives opened negotiations with the man in Barcelona, Spain.

In order for a PET agent to act on behalf of the U.S. DEA, a court order was required, sought and provided by the Copenhagen Municipal court.

If sentenced to maximum terms on all counts he has pleaded guilty to, the man risks being sentenced to at least 65 years in prison. Two of the counts – narco-terrorism and attempting to import cocaine into the United States – carry mandatory minimum terms of 20 and 10 years in prison.

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