L3Harris Trenchant’s former boss was arrested for allegedly selling fraudulent weapons to a Russian broker

Peter Williams, the former head of a US defense contractor, was sentenced to seven years in prison for stealing and selling his former company’s equipment to a Russian company.

Journalists are Bloomberg and Cyberscoop he first reported the Williams verdict.

Williams was the general manager of Trenchant, a division of the security firm L3Harris that sells surveillance and surveillance equipment – known as zero days – to the US government and a select group of top allies, called the Five Eyes, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

Last year, Williams, 39, an Australian citizen living in Washington, DC, he agreed to sell Trenchant’s seven secrets to a Russian broker. Although prosecutors did not name the company at the time, the US Treasury Department confirmed on Tuesday that the broker is Operation Zero announced sanctions against the company.

Operation Zero they give millions of dollars to learn more about security for Android and iPhone devices, as well messaging apps like Telegram. Operation Zero what to say reselling the equipment it acquires to the Russian government and local companies only.

The The US Department of Justice said that the hacking tools Williams sold could have given the client “access to millions of computers and devices around the world.” Williams, who previously worked for the Australian spy agency and the country’s military, admitted that he made $1.3 million in crypto from trading between 2022 and 2025.

Attorneys for L3Harris and Williams did not immediately respond to a request for comment.