Today talk of such an arm dealer who was called a merchant of death. It was believed that this person had thrown the countries into the fire of rebellion in different ways. Its name is recorded in the world’s crime history as Basil Jahroff. Basil’s real name was Basilios Zacharias and was born in 1849 in the city of Muala, Turkey. When Basil became an international arm dealer, his name was counted among the richest men in the world.
Basil Jahroff was the son of Greek parents, who changed the family name to Russian during the years he spent in exile in Russia. However, he was also known as the most mysterious person in Europe, as little was known about him among the people. Basil went to England for schooling in the year 1866 and then in 1870 joined the uncle’s clothing business there. But two years later Basil’s uncle accused him of embezzlement.
The matter went to court amid allegations of embezzlement but he was later acquitted of the charges. After this Basil left London and reached Athens. Here she met Stefanos Sklodis, a financier and diplomat. On the recommendation of Sklodis, he was made an agent of the Swedish gun designer Thorsten Nordenfelt Company. Then in 1897, the British company Vickers Sons and Company bought Northernfelt and Basil’s fortunes also opened.
Basil invented this weapon business, and first he used to cleverly increase the enmity between the countries and then sell all the equipment to both of them. In this way, he created an arms-buying competition between many two countries with strained relations. Basil Jahroff became a millionaire by selling weapons in a short time. Jahroff is also believed to have been involved in the 1904-05 rebellion against British colonialism in Asia and Africa.
Jahroff was considered to be inciting one country against another. Due to which it also expanded its business in Turkey, Greece and Russia and sold many submarines, of which the Northernfelt submarine was the main one. However, Basil was also very unstable in his personal life. He left his first wife in England and then married Maria de Pilar of Spain in 1923. Before his last time he settled in Monte Carlo and died in 1936.