Defion Internacional is a Lima, Peru based Private Military Company that recruits and trains security personnel, logistics personnel, administrative personnel and professional services personnel to provide world wide services. It has offices in Dubai, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Iraq. Their main contracts have been with Triple Canopy, Inc. and the U.S. Department of State involving the war in Iraq. They employ static guard forces, logistical and administrative professionals along with English professors for their American contracts.

Controversy

Contracts

Defion Internacional recruits, vetts and trains (when needed) personnel on a global level for different companies.

Defion Internacional came on the personnel services scene by recruiting and training security guards for Triple Canopy contracts, involving the war in Iraq. These contracts have manned up to 3,000 security guards in the Green Zone in Baghdad. Some guards were paid as little as $1000 a month.www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39941 The security guards were also provided with transportation, housing, food, medical care and life insurance. Triple Canopy no longer uses Defion's personnel services.www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39941