DEA Michele Leonhart,U.S.Congress,LAPD cover up for Mexico billionaire Jose Serrano Segovia,Titan Corp connected 5.5 ton Cocaine DC-9 bust and beheading in LA
And yet theDEA under the 'leadership' of terrorists and murderers Barack Obama and Michele Leonhart has no scruples about shooting to death pregnant women in Honduras or torturing enginnering student in Titan Corp's home city of San Diego and the LAPD or Los Angeles Police Department also covered up the trafficking of cocaine in the ghettos of LA in the 1980's among other thingsApparently their tradition lives on..And most recently Michele Leonhart's and Barack Obama's
DEA has been trying to erroneously pin this DC 9 of Skyways Communications and that was also a penny stock fraud and that even had a direct line to the W Bush White House ,to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ! Go figure....:
17 May 2012 – Hondurans protest at DEA role in fatal shootings ... Local officials said the two men and two pregnant women killed weren't drug smugglers.
Six months ago, the LAPD was telling reporters the decapitated head
found underneath the Hollywood Sign was the result of a "gay lovers
triangle."
Six months later, they were still pursuing the gay "thing," only
instead of a gay boyfriend in Hollywood, their chief suspect was the
now-notorious Canadian Cannibal. Their efforts at disinformation were
successful, and widely disseminated.
But it also created a teachable moment about the Mexican drug war.
The reason for all the disinformation about Hervey Medellin’s head,
found beneath the Hollywood Sign in January 2012, has to do with the
identity of Medellin’s longtime boss:
Jose Serrano Segovia is one of Mexico’s wealthiest oligarchs. He owns
Mexico’s biggest shipping line, whose fleets of cargo ships, trucks
and planes bring goods from Central and South America into the U.S. He
even owns a railroad, that goes all the way to Kansas City.
And he is known as one Mexico’s biggest Drug Lords.
In APRIL 1998 The Wall Street Journal revealed that the FBI was
investigating Jose Serrano Segovia for drug trafficking and money
laundering, after a huge shipment of cocaine from Colombia was found on
one of his cargo vessels.
The next year, Serrano hired a lobbying firm to block a bill in
Congress which aimed to impose sanctions on companies linked to drug
trafficking. And even though a top staffer to Republican Senator Richard
Shelby resigned in protest, the effort was successful.
Much more recently, Hervey Medellin‘s boss was connected with the
American drug trafficking operation in St Petersburg which was exposed
when 5.5 tons of cocaine were found on an American-registered DC9.
The company that owned the busted DC9, Skyway, was itself owned by
its biggest shareholder, a shady investment bank in Texas called Argyll
Equities. Argyll was said in the business of providing “creative
financial solutions globally,” which can look a lot like money
laundering.
One of Argyll’s creative financial solutions was arranging a a $17
million “loan” to Mexican” businessman” Jose Serrano Segovia’s shipping
line, Grupo TMM.
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also Hopsicker made mention of Jose Serrano Segovia's connections to the DC-9 also connected to Jeb Bush's pals at Skyway Communications of Lakeland Florida and Titan Corp torturors and murder suspects of San Diego several years ago as well.Very convenient after all these years for the corrupt,(to say the least),DEA of Czarina Michelle Leonhart to now try and blame the Skyway Communications-Titan Corp-Argyll DC-9,bought from Skyway's stock fraud upon mainl American penny stock investors,on Hugo Chavez,seeing as how she herslef is deeply in bed with the government protected and paid criminals of Level 3's Titan Corp subsidiary and no doubt the Israeli government criminals they are also connected to.After all she is an aging Jewish American Princess or white Euro trash decendent who lies about being a 'Semite'.If you lie to yourself and are lied to by your culture about being a 'Semite' and are raised to hate Christians and bon Jewish others such as real Semites,as Michele Leonhart was,what else will you lie or muder about ? :
Juan SerranoSegovia is one of a handful of Mexican “big corporate guns”
lucky enough to have been feted at a private dinner several years ago hosted
by Gov. Jeb Bush, leading a Florida trade mission to Mexico.
"The evening turned into a kind of let's-get-to-know-each-other-socially
affair." Joseph Lacher, BellSouth's Florida president, confided to The
Miami Herald. - Daniel Hopsicker
"Cocaine One" Bust Lifts Veil on Global Narcotics Cartel
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by Daniel HopsickerMad Cow Morning News
A DC9 registered to a company which once used as its address the hanger of Huffman
Aviation, the flight school at the Venice, FL Airport which trained both terrorist
pilots who crashed planes into the World Trade Center, was caught in Campeche
by the Mexican military April 10th carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine destined for the
U.S.
Beyond a few half-hearted stabs at pinning blame for the crime on ‘scapegoats
du jour’ like the FARC in Colombia or Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, authorities
in Mexico and the U.S. have had virtually nothing to say about the case.
In the more than three months since, the massive seizure has slipped into a
black hole.
One of the chief shareholders in SkyWay Aircraft, the company
which owned the DC9 airliner (N900SA) seized in Mexico with 5.5 tons of cocaine
aboard, is a private investment bank in Dallas which also raised funds for a
Mexican industrialist with reported ties to a Cali and Juarez Cartel narcotics
trafficker, the MadCowMorningNews
has learned.
An investigation into the circumstances surrounding the seizure of the DC9
airliner (dubbed “Cocaine One” for its paint job
and Seal designed to impersonate planes from the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security)
has unearthed evidence which is beginning to pierce the heavy curtain behind
which the biggest taboo in the U.S. mainstream media has remained hidden: the
identities of the until-now anonymous American Drug Lords. Meet the Masters of the Universe
What local officials blundered into at a remote airport in the farthest corner
of Mexico’s Yucatan may have earth-shaking reverberations felt around
the world… if the true story of what happened there becomes widely known...
The seizure in Ciudad del Carmen has exposed the links of a global narcotics
cartel that may be the most powerful political force on the planet.
Based on court documents, SEC filings, records of incorporation, and interviews
with eyewitnesses, the elements which comprise this global narcotics cartel—all
of which will be named and covered in this series—include the following:
Rogue U.S. defense contractor Titan Corp in San Diego; CIA
proprietary airlines; “fugitive” Saudi billionaires,
Gulf States Sheiks and financiers; the Israeli Mossad and right
wing Israeli political parties identified with Jewish settler interests; “retired”
officers of the CIA and U.S. military intelligence; Texas Republican
kingmakers and private investment banks; member of U.S. organized
crime...
Also... stock swindlers in Vancouver, Canada responsible for
multi-billion dollar financial fraud; officials from the party of Mexican
President Vicente Fox; Colombian and Mexican drug cartels; Florida
air charter companies which enjoy—as did the Florida aviation
companies associated with the terrorist hijackers—apparent official
immunity from prosecution; and Lebanese “industrialists”
in Mexico known to the Mexican press as the “Narco-Pederastas,”
for their penchant for molesting children, with apparent immunity from prosecution,
both boys and girls, as young as four. Five ton shipments must be the the industry standard
Today’s story begins in Dallas, Texas...
As stated in the lead to this story, one of the chief shareholders in the company
which owned the DC9 airliner (N900SA) seized in Mexico with 5.5 tons of cocaine
aboard is a private investment bank in Dallas which also raised funds for a
Mexican industrialist who reportedly financed a narcotics trafficker linked
to both the Cali and Juarez Cartel.
In a major irony, the trafficker involved, Manuel Vicente Losada, was arrested
in Chile after being linked to another five ton cocaine shipment,
this one over the high seas.
Private investment bank Argyll
Equities LLC in Boerne, Texas, is part of The Argyll Group, headquartered
in La Jolla, CA., incorporated in Texas, Nevada,, and Delaware, whose undisclosed
principals are involved, according to their website, in “providing
creative financial solutions globally.”
One example of the firm’s creative financial solutions: According to
documents filed with the SEC in 2005, Argyll Equities LLC was paid to raise
a $17.0 million loan for Mexican industrialist JoseSerrano Segovia’s
shipping line, GRUPO TMM. The
Santiago Times, an English language newspaper in Chile, reported on May
5, 1998 that Segovia “provided significant capital” to a “Chilean
narcotics trafficker" named Manuel Vicente Losada, arrested in the Chilean
capital of Santiago after being “linked to a shipment of five
tons of cocaine which U.S. drug enforcement officials in Miami intercepted
over six years ago on the vessel Harbour, as it headed toward Guantanamo Bay.”
“As it headed for… Guantanamo Bay?”
“In September 1997, Mexican newspaper El Universal de Mexico connected
Losada to the Juarez Cartel of Mexico, referring to him as "the Chilean
narcotics trafficker," the paper reported.
“Both Losada and JoseSerrano denied any connection to the Juarez Cartel.”
Drug trafficker Losada, said the paper, is a partner in some 30 shipping companies. JoseSerranoSegovia owns shipping lines too, and until recently controlled
what used to be Mexico’s flagship airline, Mexicana. This would appear
to be an excellent example of what has been called the corporatization
of narcotics trafficking which began taking place during the late 1980’s,
while then-Vice President George H. W. Bush led the DEA’s task force in
Miami.
Juan SerranoSegovia is one of a handful of Mexican “big corporate guns”
lucky enough to have been feted at a private dinner several years ago hosted
by Gov. Jeb Bush, leading a Florida trade mission to Mexico.
"The evening turned into a kind of let's-get-to-know-each-other-socially
affair." Joseph Lacher, BellSouth's Florida president, confided to The
Miami Herald. Ask Baby Doc: Toxic waste is good business.
Was Argyll Equities LLC the victim of “dashed bad luck” in providing
funding for an operation which may be providing cover for something else? Other
recent examples of Argyll’s “creative financing globally”
provide at least a tentative answer...
Remember the infamous toxic garbage barge which circled the
world for more than two years in search of a country willing to accept its cargo
of toxic ash from a Philadelphia dump site? The barge, the Khian Sea, left the
territorial waters of the United States, went to the Bahamas, then to the Dominican
Republic, Honduras, Bermuda, Guinea Bissau, and the Netherlands Antilles. No
one would take it...
That is, until it got to Haiti. There, U.S.-backed dictator Baby Doc Duvalier
issued a permit for the "fertilizer," and 4,000 tons was dumped onto
the beach in the town of Gonalves.
Argyll Equities LLC provided funding to the man who owned the barge, one Louis
D. Paolino, who later, and perhaps understandably, tired of the garbage business,
and sold his company to Wayne Huizenga’s Waste Management
in Miami, which runs, news accounts demurely report, “much of New York's
extremely lucrative garbage industry.”
How unlucky can one private investment bank get? Maybe somebody left it on the plane?
Mr. Huizenga, readers of “Welcome
to TERRORLAND” may recall, flew to the Naples, FL airport in his private
helicopter adorned with the symbol of the Miami Dolphins (he owned them at the
time) to have a private tête-à-tête on the runway with mysterious
financier Wallace J. Hilliard, the owner of Huffman Aviation
in Venice.
Alert readers will recall that during the same month, July of 2000, that Mohamed
Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi arrived to attend his flight school, Hilliard’s
Lear jet was surrounded by DEA agents on the runway of Orlando Executive Airport.
They found 43 pounds of heroin onboard.
Argyll Equities is currently involved in a still-unexplained imbroglio which
may shed some light on this milieu which seems to attract such large quantities
of narcotics…
According
to a federal indictment, the lucky company was the recipient of $9.7 million
dollars it didn't earn, in a “purported stock loan program operated
by Argyll Equities, L.L.C,” which resulted in criminal charges
earlier this year against three men.
“The complaint alleges the men made false statements to a hedge fund
operator so they could keep $25 million from the fund that was invested this
year with Nevada-based American Trade Industries, Inc., according to US
Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and the US Secret Service in Chicago,”
the AP reported.
That's right. THAT Fitzgerald. General Stroessner isn't dead. He's on vacation with
Franco.
The men were accused of conspiring to perpetrate a $26 million dollar fraud
on the administrator of a private hedge fund in Lake Forest, IL, who turns out
to be mother of “Wedding Crashers” actor Vince
Vaughn.
According to the indictment, one of the accused men, Richard E. Warren,
apprehended as he attempted to board a plane for London, told Sharon Vaughn
that he “had a special government clearance,” was “licensed
by USG to participate in secret trading programs.”
Also
indicted was Frank L. Cowles Jr., who owns an Arabian horse farm near Washington
D.C., where he is referred to in news accounts as a “Virginia businessman,”
and who is married to the Ambassador to the U.S. of the tiny country of Paraguay,
Leila Teresa Rachid de Cowles.
Paraguay, in Latin America’s infamous triangle region, is suspected by
the State Dept. of “helping to finance Islamic terrorist groups”
through Lebanese traders in Ciudad del Este, a lawless border
town, called South America’s "contraband capital.”
Of anecdotal interest only—since a U.S. District Court judge in Chicago
recently dropped criminal charges against Cowles— is the fact that Ambassador
Rachid is among the five percent of Paraguay's inhabitants of Arab descent.
Her father was born in Homs, Syria; her mother is from Ba'albek, Lebanon. "We used the shares for toilet paper... and still
made out like bandits."
Argyll Equities LLC is the second-largest shareholder in SkyWay,
according to bankruptcy filings, owning nearly 21 million shares of totally
worthless stock, which might be considered something of an investment
black eye, unless other undisclosed considerations were involved.
Last week we reported the discovery that SkyWay Aircraft had
been leasing a “repair” facility for more than $20,000 a month at
DFW Airport in Dallas—even though the company had nothing to repair—
from Richard Rainwater, called “George W. Bush’s
biggest supporter” and “the power behind the throne” in news
accounts during Bush’s first Presidential campaign.
New evidence unearthed since then has begun to fill in the picture of an operation
which boasted a bewildering international cast of characters, in San Diego,
Israel, Miami, Dallas, and in the case of two prominent principals, on
the lam…
SkyWay Aircraft was not a real entity, in the sense of a corporation engaging
in commerce for profit. The now bankrupted-firm’s only utility was to
serve as a dummy front company which provided cover for the larger operation,
and as a vehicle to part innocent people from their investments.
Individuals involved in the operation have extensive and wide-ranging connections
to each other which clearly pre-date the brief life span of
the front company which ostensibly controlled the twin DC9 airliners. "Cocaine, TOW Missiles, renditions... We're a
flexible airline."
Since the MadCowMorningNews was successful last month in obtaining the FAA
registration records for “Cocaine One,” the accumulating evidence
has all pointed to a clear conclusion: the DC9 carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine
was a CIA plane which belongs to the Agency’s no-longer-totally-secret
airline.
Based at the Clearwater-St. Petersburg International Airport, both “Cocaine
One,” and its twin, a second DC9 (N120NE) were being used by an operation
which includes the former head of the CIA proprietary airline
used to ferry TOW missiles to the Ayatollah Khomeini’s regime in Iran,
as part of the Iran Contra Scandal.
Adnan Khashoggi lieutenant Ramy El-Batrawi, who supplied one of the two DC9’s,
is the former President of an admitted CIA subsidiary airline. Jetborne International, a company supposedly owned by El-Batrawi’s
long-time boss, Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, folded after being indicted
for illegally ferrying TOW missiles to Iran, an “enterprise” which
netted someone—though not the U.S. Government or the Contras it was supposedly
funding—a tidy bit of change a U.S. Senate investigation estimated to
be $16 million dollars.
The Tower Commission Report into the Iran-Contra Scandal first
exposed Jetborne as a CIA proprietary. When it came time to begin shipping the
missiles, said the report, Oliver North had asked a CIA official for the name
of a “reliable” charter airline.
“CIA’s Air Branch suggested the use of a proprietary, the proprietary
was told to await a call, and “the airline was assured that the caller
(North) had sufficient funds for the charter,” stated the report.
The public commercial charter airline North called was Jetborne International.
By the time the firm was “outed” as a CIA airline, it had already
gone bankrupt. Six degrees of deviated septums
But none of this does anything to explain Ramy El-Batrawi and Adnan Khashoggi’s
other major connection with the founder of SkyWay Aircraft,
Miami attorney Michael Farkas. Their hidden connections may
reveal a larger, previously secret organization.
Last month the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Khashoggi and Ramy
Al Batrawi, his lieutenant for the past 20 years, with stock fraud in U.S. District
Court for Central California. Both men are both currently on the lam after being
accused of orchestrating a $130 million fraud, called the “Stockwalk case,”
involving the stock price of another firm headed by el-Batrawi called GenesisIntermedia.
GenesisIntermedia was incorporated by the long-time attorney
of the man once reckoned by the U.S. Government to be the biggest drug smuggler
in American history...CIA pilot Barry Seal.
Seal was assassinated in 1986 at the reported behest of then-Vice President
George Herbert Walker Bush, the father of our current President.
Hey. Is it a small world, or what? How to make a billion dollars without hardly trying
Along with GenesisIntermedia, the stock of two other companies
was used to generate fraudulent loans in the Stockwalk scam.
One was a company called Holiday RV. Stores. The other was Imperial Credit Industries.
Michael Farkas is involved with both firms.
Holiday R.V. Stores was owned and controlled by Michael Farkas, through a holding
company he founded called Atlas Recreational Holdings. Michael Farkas and Adnan Khashoggi were partners in a $300
million scam. It was called “the largest brokerage industry
failure in more than 30 years.”
Michael Farkas, is also on the board of Genesis Realty, founded by Ramy El-Batrawi,
a man who is clearly no piker when it comes to pilfering money from a public
company…
His GenesisIntermedia exploits put Glenn and Brent Kovar’s
$40 million theft at SkyWay in the shade.
“Just three months after GenesisIntermedia’s Initial
Public Offering (IPO), the nearly $17 million raised in the offering was gone,”
read one wire service story.
“The creative dealings of defendant El-Batrawi partly explains how this
money disappeared so quickly,” reported the AP Board meeting on Tuesday at the Spearmint Rhino
While we can detain ourselves only a moment longer with the colorful Stockwalk
Scandal, a brief mention of a few of the other stalwarts involved would include:
Kenneth D'Angelo, a New Jersey stock finder with a criminal and civil record
Richard Evangelista, an employee at a New Jersey brokerage and President of
Local 18 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters; and Bradford Keiller,
a Las Vegas
Strip club entrepreneur with a tastefully named string of strip clubs in London,
Moscow, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, all called The Spearmint Rhino.
A recent headline about Keiller’s business in Las Vegas may have said
it all: "FULL FRONTAL BATTLE OF THE BOOBS AS THE WORLD'S GAMBLING
CAPITAL GOES BACK TO SLEAZE.”
Before leaving the ties between Michael Farkas and Ramy El-Batrawi and Adnan
Khashoggi, we discovered a story from the St Paul Pioneer Press (where the fraud
bankrupted one of that city’s biggest firms) that may help explain our
contention that what we are witnessing is the daily workaday transactions of
a very large but still-invisible organization:
“SEC filings show ties among Imperial, Holiday and Genesis,” reported
the Saint Paul Pioneer Press on April 22 2002. The Israeli Connection, Pt. 1
“For example, El-Batrawi owns a private company called Genesis Diversified
Investments, which is an investor in a company called Aviation Group that in
2001 merged with a British Columbia company called Travelbyus.”
“Lee Sanders, the chairman of Travelbyus is a director of Holiday. Riley
is a former chief executive of Holiday and its largest shareholder. Riley also
is among the largest shareholders of Imperial.”
Michael Farkas’ connections to right wing Israeli political parties,
and to Israeli Mossad, have already been ably covered by others. Farkas was
listed in 2005 as president of Manhigut USA. This is the US branch of the Israeli
Manhigut Yehudit, involved in fundraising for the radical settlers who were
trying to resist the Gaza withdrawal.
Suffice it to say that he serves as the American representative of an ultra-nationalist
Zionist party in Israel; he is also the American sales agent for anti-missile
technology developed by Israel Aircraft Industries, and is a Director of spy
technology company CCS, along with individuals with histories so colorful that—were
we to start—we could go on about them all day.
Oh, maybe just one example: CCS International’s Latin American sales
manager, Menachem Cohen, who was convicted in 2002 for illegally exporting passive
phone interception equipment to individuals in Colombia conversant with the
drug trade. Titan Corp was thinking ahead, Pt 1
CCS commercializes and brings to market trinkets said to have been invented
by innovative minds at the CIA and Israeli Mossad.
If you’re looking for sunglasses fitted with a fiber-optic video camera,
or have need of an umbrella that is bullet proof, a baseball cap that is strong
enough to repel a hatchet blow, or a surveillance microphone that looks for
all the world like a shirt button, Mr. Farkas and his partners can oblige.
Of particular interest for our purposes at least, is the early interest shown
in Mr. Farkas by The Titan Corporation, who made an early investment in his
obvious potential, in 2000.
SkyWay Aircraft was presumably still a gleam in Mr. Farkas’ eye when
Titan put up $72,386 for 1,113,627 restricted shares of the Company which became
SkyWay. Are they forward thinking, or what? Bankruptcy is a state of mind
One unexpected discovery was that the narcotics trafficking is just one of the
lucrative criminal enterprises the enterprise is engaged in.
The registration records of the twin DC9’s involved in the operation
reveal that there is apparently something special about owning
of these particular planes...
You get a free pass to steal from unwary investors.
At least six of the companies associated with “Cocaine One” and
its twin airliner have been involved in massive fraud resulting in hundreds
of millions of dollars being swindled from innocent investors and shareholders.
SkyWay, Jetborne… even Mexican industrialist Juan Serrano Segovia’s
GRUPO TMM defaulted on $377 million in loans several months ago.
We will be keeping a running tally of companies associated with the operation
finding it necessary to declare bankruptcy…but only after being
stripped of anything not securely tied down. "The only good Indians... are on our payroll"
Jack Abramoff played the Lone Ranger to a whole host of Indian casino
Tonto's. But this is just one of the many ways this secret organization
has recently used the special status of Native Americans.
In the StockWalk scam, which easily netted as much as Abramoff's
casino fraud, the firm used to perpetrate the fraud was native American-owned.
Called Native Nations Securities, it was the brainchild of a Hollywood actress
named Valerie Red-Horse. Ms. Red-Horse, the first Native American
to control a securities firm, may have been a little light in the bond-trading
business, but she learned financial fraud at the feet of the master...
"Red-Horse got her first exposure to Wall Street while a theater student
at UCLA," read one news account. "She went looking for part-time work
and was referred through the school's placement office to the Beverly Hills
office of Drexel Burnham Lambert, where she landed a job as an assistant to
junk-bond king Michael Milken."
Her bio says she's been in a movie called "Naturally Native."
She has guest-starred on "Babylon 5." She recently
starred in the acclaimed ABC made-for-television movie "The Secret
of Lizard Woman."
As an actress she is perhaps best known for serving as the model for Mattel's
Pocahontas doll. Probably not on her bio: She helped, or was
used, by some well-connected fraudsters steal over $300 million dollars. Chief Bearskin & "the boys"
One more example will suffice, at least for now:
Express One International is one of the bankrupt firms which was also an owner
of the DC9's, a company whose colorful corporate history would make, we think,
an excellent episode of Babylon 5.
Express One International's look-alike DC9 was sold to Skyways/Royal Sons just
before they went bankrupt. Now they're back.
Today the president of Express One International is David Byers, at
whose flight school Mohamed Atta trained at the Charlotte County Airport,
according to Charlotte County Sheriff William Clements. t
The airline was founded by the notorious Kenneth Good, who got, with Neil
Bush's help, a cool hundred million in loans from Silverado Savings
which he never felt the need to repay. Taxpayers ended up footing the bill.
We don't imagine anyone's heard Neil Bush saying "thanks?"
The company issued a press release recently to announce their plans to assist
the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma in developing an aviation business called Bearskin
Aviation Service, hiring Bearskin to provide fleet and baggage handling
services at two Air Force bases in England.
"Chief Leaford Bearskin, leader of the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma, founded
Bearskin Aviation Service out of his love for aviation and
his vision that a well-run aviation company would provide revenue for Tribal
health and education programs," said the press release.
Only a cynic would quibble. Right? ______________________________ Read from Looking Glass News In
Search of the American Drug Lords The
Homeland Security Rackets FAA
Stonewalls Release of "Cocaine One" Records 5.5
Ton Cocaine Bust Reveals New Details of 9.11 Attack Aircraft's
Owners in 5.5 Ton Cocaine Bust Include Tom DeLay Appointee, "Royal Sons
LLC" Mystery
of 5.5 Ton Coke Flight Deepens San
Diego Defense Firm Titan Corp. Link to 5.5 Ton Cocaine Bust in Mexico
While progressives pop firecrackers in celebration of the great
victory for Barack Obama's ACA (Advancing Corporate Authority) program
-- which forcibly delivers customers to some of the most horrendous and
inhumane companies in the land and fills the coffers of these heartbreak
cartels with public loot -- another one of the president's landmark
achievements continues to build up an enduring legacy for his visionary
leadership.
We refer, of course, to the living hell he has
helped make in Honduras. In one of the early foreign policy successes of
his illustrious administration, Obama helped midwife a brutal coup by
Honduran oligarchs, who overthrew a democratically elected president,
sent him into exile, then began jailing and murdering those who objected
to this regime change. Although almost all of the nations of Latin
America condemned the coup, Obama and his equally progressive Secretary
of State, Hilary Clinton, told the Hondurans to get over it, and
embraced the murderous new government.
This despicable policy --
a throwback to the very worst of America's long and very dirty history
in Latin America -- has not provoked the slightest ripple of concern
from our earnest progressives. Of course it goes without saying that the
earnest regressives on the Right have raised no objection
either. (And they say bipartisanship is dead in Washington.) But you
would think that people who make a profession (not to say a fetish) of
progressivism might be just the slightest bit wiggly at the sight of
their champion channeling Nixon in Chile and Reagan in Guatemala. But
no: the most important thing in the world is that Barack's corporate
welfare scam has been validated by suddenly saintly John Roberts.
But in the real world, where the realities of power shred the ludicrous inanities of partisan hackery (for more on this, see Arthur Silber), the bodies are still falling as Obama "surges" the Drug War in his sinister satrapy. Following up from the fresh hell described here just the other day, John Perry has the latest in the London Review of Books -- one of the very, very few venues following the atrocities of the Peace Laureate in Honduras. Here are a few excerpts:
It’s three years since the coup in
Honduras that sent President Manuel Zelaya into exile in his pyjamas.
Porfirio Lobo, who took over as president in January 2010 following
highly questionable elections, is more than halfway through his term.
The only grounds for optimism are offered by the resistance movement
that sprang up after the coup.
Much that’s wrong with Honduras is
illustrated by a recent incident. In the small hours of 11 May, in the
remote Moskitia region, there was a drugs bust led by helicopters from
the United States Drugs Enforcement Administration. The facts are
clouded, but an on-the-ground investigation appears to confirm that
sacks of cocaine had been transferred from a small plane to a boat which
– spotted by the DEA helicopter – was then abandoned, with the
drug-runners escaping into the night. A nearby passenger boat, about to
put into the small port of Paptalaya, was mistakenly fired on, and four
people were killed and several injured. The DEA personnel prevented
people from helping the victims, violently intimidated the local
community and did nothing to secure medical assistance for the
injured. No drug traffickers were arrested, though 400 kg of cocaine was
recovered from the drifting boat. (According to the Honduran police,
the four victims were in a boat that fired on the authorities; the DEA
says that none of its agents shot at anyone.)
The incident is
indicative of [several] characteristics of Honduras since the coup. The
first is drugs. In a suspiciously precise assessment, the DEA says that
79 per cent of cocaine smuggling flights from South America land in
Honduras. Drug-running makes money for some of the country’s most
powerful people. Miguel Facussé, described by the New York Times as ‘the
octogenarian patriarch of one of the handful of families controlling
much of Honduras’s economy’, was a strong supporter of the coup. He has
been known to the US authorities as a drug-runner since 2004.
Second,
violence is widespread. The murder rate in Honduras is four times
Mexico’s, and it is now the world’s most dangerous country for
journalists, with 23 assassinated since the coup. Four deaths in a
remote region, especially in one of the country’s indigenous
communities, are unremarkable. Last weekend, DEA agents killed another
man in the same area.
Third, the peremptory official
investigation into what happened in Moskitia in May is typical. Four
months after the Comayagua prison fire in which 360 people died, no one
has been charged. Police were implicated in the murder last October of
the son of the rector of Honduras’s main university and, last month, of
the journalist Alfredo Villatoro (an associate of President Lobo). No
one has been charged in those cases either.
Violence, corruption and death for the truth. A marvelous legacy for
our progressive commander -- one that even mean old Antonin Scalia can't
threaten!
Hillary Clinton and Martin Schlaff,Avigdor Lieberman,Lev Leviev and other Israeli Russian Jewish Terrorists and Money Launderers,Traffickers
Mick Jagger - Memo From Turner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3qgmVb4-kU
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Quote from U.S. government's own SEC filings in which Israeli government terrorist Menachem Atzmon admits ICTS International responsibility for at least one of the two planes that the U.S.government claims hit the WTC in NCY on 9/11/01.ICTS International was a stock fraud incorporated in Joe Biden's state of Delaware in 1999 that Israeli airline El Al lied about giving business to in order to artificially-psycologically
increase the dollar value of its shares which allowed Menachem Atzmon and Ezra Harel,long term Israeli criminals who have used U.S. stock markets for fraud,and their Israeli Mosad or Shin Bet crime partners to buy Huntleigh airport security business just prior to 9/11/01.:
''We face significant potential liability claims.''
''As a result of the September 11th terrorists attacks numerous lawsuits
have been commenced against us and our U.S. subsidiary. The cases arise
out of airport security services provided for United Flight 175 out of
Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts which crashed into the World Trade
Center. In addition, to the present claims additional claims may be asserted.
The outcome of these or additional cases is uncertain. If there is an adverse
outcome with respect to any of these claims which is not covered by insurance,
then there may be a significant adverse impact on us...........''- Menachem
Atzmon,ICTS International
Note that these murderers faced NO 'liability claims ' whatsoever because
the U.S. government that treats its own citizens as disposable only wanted
to invade and occupy Iraq and Afghanistan and loot and rape and murder those
countries' citizens and 3,000 dead Americans thanks at least in part to Israeli
terrorists was just what they wanted.Note also that on Christmas 2009 it was
ICTS International that still controls Schipol Airport Amsterdam.This can be
explained by the fact that Netherlands Queen Beatrix is herself a fascist and
the Dutch Royal Shell and UK Rothschild tentacles extend all the way through
Europe even now.It was a Rothschild concern that helped bring ICTS to the U.S.
stock market in the first place !
Goldman Sachs was Barack Obama's most significant financial backer in his first
presidential campaign and he appears to have a CIA past history in Pakistan in
the 1980's,etc..It should also be remembered that Hillary Clinton who will be
mentioned in regards to her Jewish Russian mafia campaign contributers,was the U.S.
Senator from New York who lauded W Bush FOR HIS IMMEDIATE CALL FOR WAR AGAINST THE
CITIZENS OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN WHILE IGNORING ISRAELI AS WELL AS SAUDI AND KUWAIT
INVOLVEMENT IN 9/11.After all it was 15 Saudi NOT iRAQIS WHO WERE ALLEDGED TO HAVE
DRIVEN THE PLANES INTO THE WTC IN THE FIRST PLACE AND IT WAS THAT OTHER SECURACOM
STOCK FRAUD OPERATED BY MARVIN BUSH AND THE AL SABAH ROIYALS OF KUWAIT THAT ALSO HAD
SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES AT BOTH THE WTC AS WELL AS DULLES AIRPORT !
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It would be bad enough to wake to the discovery that somehow 'our' U.S.government had been duped at the highest levels by a Russian 'white Jewish' mafia with interrnational reach and with the help of our so-called Israeli alllies,but much worse to realise that they have NOT been 'duped' but are on their payroll.And this goes not only for Barack Obama aka Barry Soetoro,but equally or more so for Mitt Romney whose Mormon mafia religionists is in direct collusion with them as well just as he himself is.Baine hedge fund was a stock fraud money laundering operation owned by Israeli Zionists and many of it 'securities' frauds againt American middle class investors were for the benefit of Israeli government financial and corporate sabotage in the U.S.against Americans !
The Grin or Grinshpon brothers are Jewish 'poster criminals' for Israeli and U.S.government protected stock or 'securities' criminals and money launderers allowed to operate freely in both U.S.and European stock markets to defraud both U.S. and EU CITIZENS WHILE OUR GOVERNMENTS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC LOOK THE OTHER WAY AND PRETEND THEY DON'T NOTICE A THING.
It is pretty obvious that Nadav or Avinadav Grinshpon of blood diamond and blood the other thing dealer,
Jewish Russian Israeli mafiosi ,Lev Leviev's, Africa Israel Investments Ltd as well as his Memorand Management Ltd.,is a relative of the Martin Schlaff connected Ukranian Israeli Grin or Grinshpon brothers, Abraham,Eugene and David who have run so many U.S. and Nevada based penny stock frauds over decades.In fact this is the REAL financial support on the backs of American and probably many EU citizens - not the oft mentioned few billions of dollars per year the U.S.government officially' claims to give to Israel to support its military defense.
The Grin brothers are also connected to Goldman Sachs Zionist stock fraud money laundering crime family as well and bragged of having Goldman Sachs' White House prostitute Barack Obama aka Barry Soetoro's help in selling their worthless shares of PetroAlgae that Goldman Sachs was also aiding the Grin brothers to defraud more American investors with and send to offshore, including Israeli,bank accounts.
Lev Leviev is moving his business and himself from Israel to England, for which the master of Africa Israel Investments evidently needs mobility. AFI Development, a member of the Africa Israel group that is listed for trade in London, has therefore bought a plane. This is no propeller-driven biplane; it is a Bombardier Global 5000, one of the biggest and most prestigious executive jets to be had.
The Bombardier will also be made available to Africa Israel Properties, Danya Cebus, Africa Israel Industries (the steelworks formerly known as Packer Plada) and Leviev's privately-owned companies. The Orthodox businessman himself and Africa Israel's acting CEO, Avinadav Grinshpon, may also use the plane personally, for which pleasure they will pay AFI the same rate as the Africa Israel group companies......
Mr. Avinadav Grinshpon, Nadav CPA serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Memorand Management Ltd. and of companies in the Leviev Group. Mr. Grinshpon...
Oct 4, 2010 – Neither Brightsource nor PetroAlgae are U.S. companies and yet Barack Obama misleads the public for his masters at Goldman Sachs in both ...Below is a little about the recent Goldman Sachs collusion with the notorious Israeli stock and money laundering criminals the Grin brothers' ...
Hillary Clinton,Guantanamo connection to Russian-Israeli Jewish Mafia:
[cia-drugs] Hillary Clinton flew on plane owned by company linked to CIA renditions and organized crime
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http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20071015Hillary Clinton flew on plane owned by company linked to CIA renditions and organized crime publication date: Oct 15, 2007 Previous | Next October 15, 2007 -- Hillary Clinton flew on plane owned by company linked to CIA renditions and organized crime On September 24, 2007, a Gulfstream II (tail number N987SA) crashed landed in Yucatan, Mexico with 3.3 metric tons (3.7 tons) of cocaine on board.
The plane had recently been sold to Donna Blue Aircraft, Inc. of Coconut Creek, Florida, a firm owned by two Brazilians, and re-sold, shortly before the crash, to two Florida businessmen. N987SA had also flown patterns to and from Guantanamo Bay similar to those flown by CIA rendition aircraft Before being sold to Donna Blue, the Gulfstream had been owned by Air Rutter International, a firm with offices in Garden City, New York; Long Beach and Irvine, California, whose owner is Arik Kislin, the son of Sam Kislin. N987SA was owned by Kislin's business partner, William Achenbaum, an owner, along with Arik Kislin, of Manhattan's Hotel Gansevoort.
Air Rutter leased out the aircraft. WMR has learned that another Air Rutter Gulfstream II (tail number N216RR) has flown presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, including a January 2007 stop in Des Moines, Iowa. The plane, which has a crew of 3, including a jump seat for a flight attendant, and can handle up to 13 passengers, has a fully galley, a private lavatory, plush leather seats, conference seats and table, CD/DVD entertainment system, a 21 inch monitor, satellite telephone system, and even an espresso machine.
On October 9, 2007, WMR reported: Arik's uncle, Semyon (Sam) Kislin, a member of the New York City Economic Development Board and immigrant from Odessa, has poured substantial political donations into the past campaigns in New York of Hillary Clinton and [Rudolph] Giuliani. He has also contributed to past campaigns of New York Senator Charles Schumer, former Republican Senator Alphonse D'Amato, and President Bill Clinton. The Center for Public Integrity has previously reported that a 1996 Interpol report connected Sam Kislin's Trans Commodities, Inc. to two reputed Uzbek mobsters, Lev and Mikhail Chernoy.
The Interpol connected Kislin's firm to the Chernoys' fraud and embezzlement schemes. Kislin confirmed that Mikhail Chernoy had been employed by his Trans Commodities firm. The Chernoy brothers are citizens of Israel. [The Chenoys have been linked to a worldwide empire of front companies and corporate shells in Monaco, the Bahamas, Cyprus, Switzerland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Israel, the Cayman Islands, Western Samoa, London, Isle of Man, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Brighton Beach (Brooklyn), Liechtenstein, and Vanuatu].
Between 1994 and 1997, Sam Kislin and his wife Ludmila, gave Giuliani $14,250 in contributions. In 1997, after Giuliani maxed out on his GOP contributions, $9.7 million, Kislin donated $30,000 to Giuliani through the Liberal Party, the other ticket on which Giuliani was running for re-election as mayor. In May 1999, Sam Kislin co-chaired a Giuliani Senate race fundraiser at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in New York. The gathering raised $2.1 million for Giuliani's aborted senate campaign. Arik Kislin contributed $1000 to Giuliani's 1995 mayoral campaign and his Blonde Management shared office space with Sam Kislin's Trans Commodities. Sam Kislin, his wife Ludmila, their son David, and daughter Regina gave $2000 to Schumer's 1998 Senate campaign........
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Enron's Good Jew Fastow gets leniency and good bill of health from his Rabbi.Also a lenient sentence from the judge.Actually 'good Jew' is exactly the term used to describe CNN's Wolf Blitzer by his own rabbi even though Wolf Blitzer is himself an IOsraeli Zionist propogandist and NOT an unbiased news reporter.It was Wolf Blitzer and CNN who covred up their own day in court in Florida in 2005 when British Israeli Michael Zwebner of UCSY or Air Water Corp penny stock fraud sued :
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Former Enron financial chief Andrew Fastow, long vilified as the mastermind behind the collapse of Enron, was sentenced to six years in prison Tuesday - a lighter sentence than the 10 years he agreed to in his original plea agreement.
Fastow appeared before U.S. District Judge Ken Hoyt in Houston amid of throng of reporters and victims of the fraud that cost Enron shareholders billions of dollars. Hoyt sentenced him to 72 months in jail and two years of supervised probation following his release.
Former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow will serve 6 years for his part in the fraud that brought down Enron
The judge cited his cooperation with prosecutors and eagerness to assist shareholders that had lost millions in Enron's collapse for the relatively lenient sentence.
Under his plea agreement in January 2004, Fastow pled guilty to two counts of conspiracy and agreed to accept a 10-year prison sentence and forfeit $23.8 million to the federal government. Judge Hoyt imposed no additional fine.
Fastow hugged his wife and surrendered immediately after the hearing, Reuters reported. The judge rejected a request from lawyers for victims suing banks to recover Enron-related losses that Fastow be allowed to surrender Oct. 23, after giving a deposition in that case.
Fastow's rabbi speaking to reporters after the sentencing said that Fastow was a changed man and the family had hoped that he would serve even less time.
"What you have seen is a man that innately had good values...a moral man who strayed," said Rabbi Shaul Osadchey. "This man had returned to the true person he actually is [and] hopefully will be in the future."
Fastow was considered one of the star witnesses in the trial against Skilling and Lay earlier this year. He testified that the win-at-all-cost culture within Enron promoted fast dealings.
"In the culture of corruption within the company that rewarded financial performance over economic value, I believe I was being a hero," he testified in March, although he said he later regretted his illegal actions.
On October 9, 2007, WMR reported: Arik's uncle, Semyon (Sam) Kislin, a member of the New York City Economic Development Board and immigrant from Odessa, has poured substantial political donations into the past campaigns in New York of HillaryClinton and [Rudolph] Giuliani. He has also contributed to past campaigns of New York Senator Charles Schumer, former Republican Senator Alphonse D'Amato, and President Bill Clinton. The Center for Public Integrity has previously reported that a 1996 Interpol report connected Sam Kislin's Trans Commodities, Inc. to two reputed Uzbek mobsters, Lev and Mikhail Chernoy. .......... http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20071015
In many ways we can say HillaryClinton is connected to Israeli Uzbek mobsters Lev and Mikhail Chernoy.just as is Israeli PM Avigdor Lieberman just as is HillaryClinton by way of her relation to and with Sam Krislin and his Guantanamo 'cocaine rendition' plane.And Chernoy is connected to Jewish Austrian billionaire money launderer Martin Schlaff of the Grin or Grinshpon brothers who were part of the Endovasc penny stock fraud whose worthless shares for some reason increased in 'value' by about 500% around 9/11 while every other thing on the stock market was collapsing.I wonder why ? Maybe DEA or Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator could explain it all for us...... :
3 Apr 2009 – ...Avigdor Lieberman was questioned by police on allegations of receiving bribes from businessmen Martin Schlaff and Michael Chernoy in the ...
Martin Schlaff, Vladmir Putin Gazprom,Stasi Fascist Connection
Schlaff was another figure implicated in the Sharon corrupt scandal. Obstefeld was implicated (although not convicted) in the largest insurance fraud in US history: the looting of the NationalHeritageLife Insurance company for $450 million. The figures at the center of that scandal, Shalom Weiss, was eventually caught hiding out in Austria. One of the trading firms Mr. Weiss used, Pacific International, apparently had a number of mafia-connected clients.
It's also worth noting that penny stocks (and the shorting of them) appear to be a favoritemafia'sactivity on Wall Street. Because it involves selling shares to private investors at a discounted the price, the PIPE market is seen as one ripe for abuse via insider-trading and short-selling. A lot of these mob activities specifically favored penny-stocks (which are easier to manipulate), so it’s interesting that BAWAG's affiliated firm that dealt with the PIPE market, LH Financial, is a major player in the PIPE market and almost exclusively deals with penny-stocks. ......
Washingtonpost.com: Hillary Clinton Futures Trades Detailed
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/.../wwtr940527.htm Hillary Rodham Clinton was allowed to order 10 cattle futures contracts, normally a ... (Refco), allowed Clinton to initiate and maintain many trading positions ...
The Refco Debacle: Reporter on the Hunt
www.evesmag.com/refco.htm Refco was the commodities firm that handled Hillary Clinton's $1000 investment in 1978 in cattle futures. Against all odds, that account generated nearly ...
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Michael D. Farkas, skyway communications, titan corp, red sea
Note Bawag Bank of Austria has been an enabler of Martin Sclaff and the Israeli Ukrainian Grin brothers for decades and was part of the Refco stock fraud several years ago that led to the collpase of Bancafe in Guatemala.
'I am prepared to cut off both my hands if Martin gave Sharon a bribe. The State of Israel has lost him, and in a huge way,' says good friend Moti Finkelstein.
In 2002 a group headed by Martin Schlaff bought the Bulgarian cell-phone company Mobiltel from tycoon Mikhail Chernoy. Shortly before the deal was struck, Chernoy was declared persona non grata in Bulgaria after suspicions were raised that he was a kingpin of Russian organized crime. Chernoy had to unload Mobiltel in a hurry. Big names in the world of Israeli business, such as Lev Leviev, Eliezer Fishman, Noni Mozes and Gad Zeevi, were interested in the asset at one stage or another, but Schlaff won out in the end. He purchased Mobiltel with two partners: Herbert Cordt, former chairman of Austria's Laenderbank, and Josef Taus, who had served as chairman of Austria's conservative People's Party.
Peter Pilz. Sought inquiry into a triangle involving Bawag, Schlaff and politicians.Photo by AP
Helmut Elsner. Jailed for 'gambling' with Bawag bank funds.Photo by AP
Contact Gidi Weitz at investigations@haaretz.co.il
While serving as CEO of the Bank fur Arbeit und Wirtschaft AG (Bawag ), one of Austria's largest banks, Helmut Elsner used to be called "Rockefeller" because of his penchant for the good life. He had a collection of sports cars, a beautiful home in the south of France and he used to walk his dog around Vienna while puffing on an expensive cigar. He was considered the omnipotent man at Bawag, until about four years ago. The bank, controlled by one of the strongest labor unions in Austria, was founded in 1922 by the country's chancellor, Social Democrat Karl Renner, to help the proletariat obtain credit more easily.
For the full Haaretz Special Report on Martin Schlaff click here
Elsner is one of Martin's Schlaff's best friends. The two have frequently flown together in a private plane to various destinations, including Israel, to keep an eye on their joint ventures, including the Oasis Casino in Jericho and the Bulgarian cell-phone giant Mobiltel.
In 2006 French police arrested Elsner in his French villa after he had fled Austria following developments at Bawag. An investigation into the collapse of the American brokerage firm Refco led to the Austrian bank, after it emerged that Refco had helped Bawag's CEO hide losses of some $1.4 billion. These losses resulted from failed investments of clients' money in hedge funds and other risky deals - including the Oasis Casino.
Bawag agreed to pay out about $690 million to avoid facing trial, after admitting its part in Refco's collapse; the labor union that controlled the bank was forced to sell its share in it. After his arrest, Elsner was ask to deposit a 1 million-euro guarantee in the hands of the French authorities. The person who agreed to pay that enormous sum was Martin Schlaff, who also underwrote the legal expenses incurred by Elsner, who was extradited to Austria.
Elsner was tried along with other top people at the bank and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison.
Vienna Federal Court judge Claudia Bandion-Ortner wrote in her verdict, in July 2008: "He [Elsner] gambled with the bank's money as though in a casino." 'Were bribes paid?'
In April 2008, attorney Norbert Steger appeared as a witness in Elsner's trial. Steger, the former Austrian vice chancellor, had lost his position as head of the extreme right-wing Freedom Party to Joerg Haider in 1986. From 1997 he served as chairman of the board of the CAP Holding company in Liechtenstein, which held shares in the Oasis Casino in Jericho. During his testimony, it emerged that Steger had been a trustee of the account from which funds had been drawn, some in cash, to pay fees to individuals in Israel and Switzerland who had helped establish the venture.
"Were bribes paid?" judge Bandion-Ortner asked Steger.
"Money was paid to legal consultants and also to those who created a good atmosphere surrounding the casino," replied Steger.
From the trusteeship account, various activities were funded - such as, for example, travel expenses of $54,000 for a trip by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to Vienna for a meeting with the Austrian chancellor. The total amount of travel expenses drawn from the account was $1.3 million. Other money was transferred to diamond businesses in Israel and New York.
Among the names that came up in the courtroom was that of Louise Weissglas, who between August 2001 and March 2002 received a number of payments, totaling $280,000, from the casino for "consulting services." (Her husband, Dov Weissglas, was serving at the time as the casino's legal adviser; this was before he began to work with the Prime Minister's Office ). The name of businessman Shimon Sheves was also mentioned in court: In November 2003, when the casino was not operating, he was paid $60,000.
When asked about the payments to Israeli consultants, Steger said: "It was necessary to create a sort of presence in Israel as a counterweight to the criticism of the casino on the part of the radical Shas party: It had demanded that the place be bombarded."
For his part, Schlaff gave his testimony as a witness in the Vienna court in October 2007. He claimed he had known nothing about Bawag's huge losses or about the scandalous way the debts stemming from failed investments had been hidden. "Had I known these things I would have switched banks," he claimed.
The prosecutor, Georg Krakow, confronted Schlaff with testimony of other witnesses about fees of hundred of thousands of dollars that had flowed into Schlaff's private companies, ostensibly as payment for facilitating monetary transfers between the Austrian bank and foundations in the United States.
In reply, Schlaff said the money that entered his companies' accounts was not his, but rather belonged to a friend in New York named Solomon Meyer, who was the one who had actually served as a go-between between Bawag and the U.S. funds. "I introduced Meyer to the bank and all he did was 'park' the money in those accounts on the advice of my tax adviser, Michael Hason. The money was intended for charity," he said.
The fact that Schlaff was only a witness and not a suspect in the complex Bawag affair raised the hackles of Austrian legislator Peter Pilz. In the past, Pilz had called for an investigation of the "triangle" that connected Schlaff, Bawag and leading Austrian politicians.
"The judge in the Bawag affair," says Pilz, "is today the minister of justice, the prosecutor in the case is now public prosecutor, and I have asked them several times why they aren't investigating Schlaff's involvement, why they aren't making progress on this." Mobiltel affair
In 2002 a group headed by Martin Schlaff bought the Bulgarian cell-phone company Mobiltel from tycoon Mikhail Chernoy. Shortly before the deal was struck, Chernoy was declared persona non grata in Bulgaria after suspicions were raised that he was a kingpin of Russian organized crime. Chernoy had to unload Mobiltel in a hurry. Big names in the world of Israeli business, such as Lev Leviev, Eliezer Fishman, Noni Mozes and Gad Zeevi, were interested in the asset at one stage or another, but Schlaff won out in the end. He purchased Mobiltel with two partners: Herbert Cordt, former chairman of Austria's Laenderbank, and Josef Taus, who had served as chairman of Austria's conservative People's Party.
The purchase of this huge company, subject to the caprices of the Bulgarian government, was a daring move on Schlaff's part. To make it happen, he enlisted the Bawag bank, which put at his and his partners' disposal a loan that financed most of the 768 million-euro acquisition.
Chernoy - currently on trial in Israel on charges that he attempted to purchase the Bezeq communications company fraudulently - remained friends with Schlaff after the Mobiltel acquisition. Chernoy says today that the fact that the Austrian businessman has decided not to travel any more to Israel is "one of Israel's greater losses. The way he is being treated [by the authorities] exceeds all limits. He is a person deserving of respect, a great businessman. I don't believe the accusations against him."
In 2005 Mobiltel was sold for 1.6 billion euros to the Austrian Telekom company, in which the state also holds shares. It was the largest foreign investment in the history of Austria. Schlaff and his partners, who held 63.9 percent of the company at the time, raked in a profit of hundreds of millions of euros. Critics of the deal had a hard time understanding why the state bought an asset for such a high price from someone who was effectively a go-between who stood to pocket a fat profit, rather than directly from the original owner of the company.
"The reason is simple: Telekom Austria feared that if they were to buy the company directly from Chernoy, this would be harmful to their image," says one Austrian economic journalist. 'A righteous man'
Mordechai "Moti" Finkelstein is snazzily dressed in a Ralph Lauren shirt, wears Prada shoes and a chunky Bulgari watch, drives a Mercedes 4X4 and lives today in a penthouse in north Tel Aviv. One of the Israelis closest to Martin Schlaff, he used to be the billionaire's chauffeur, but now represents his remaining business interests in Israel.
Finkelstein, 66, worked as a taxi driver until meeting Schlaff at the Tel Aviv Hilton in the 1980s. Schlaff, Chernoy and Avigdor Lieberman attended the wedding of Finkelstein's daughter some time ago, and Finkelstein still maintains good relations with Lieberman today.
"In every generation a righteous man arises," he tells Haaretz, "and the righteous man of our generation is called Martin Schlaff. I am prepared to do for him what I would not even do for my own children."
On January 1, 2006, after celebrating at a wild New Year's party, Finkelstein returned to his Tel Aviv home at 5 A.M. An hour later he heard thunderous knocks on the door. "We kept on sleeping. But the knocking was so loud," he recalls, "and when I got up and opened the door four 'gorillas' were standing there."
These were investigators from the Israel Police's national fraud squad, who asked Finkelstein to accompany them for questioning. "They told me I was suspected of transferring bribes to Israel's prime minister Ariel Sharon," he relates.
Finkelstein was under house arrest for 10 days, during which time he was offered the choice of turning state's witness against his benefactor, but he refused outright. Examination by the police of Finkelstein's bank accounts, and also others over which he had power of attorney, showed transactions involving millions of shekels. The investigators identified, for example, transfers of hundreds of millions of dollars between an account of Finkelstein's in Switzerland and one of Schlaff's companies.
Finkelstein refused to enlighten the investigators on the subject of the bank accounts. "It has no connection to the investigation into giving bribes to Ariel Sharon," he told them.
Ultimately, the police did not recommend indicting Finkelstein, and turned his file over to the Israel Tax Authority, which eventually hit him with a fine.
Finkelstein has told Haaretz he has a bank account in Switzerland to which the generous Schlaff sent a large sum as a gift. Today he says he is waiting impatiently for the moment the police officially admit they have no evidence against Schlaff.
"He never gave Sharon a single cent," asserts Finkelstein. "I am prepared to cut off both my hands if Martin gave Sharon a bribe. I once told him in connection with some matter, 'Have a word with Arik.' And he told me, 'Don't ever let that cross your lips again.' The State of Israel has lost him, and in a huge way."
In recent years, Finkelstein has been responsible for Schlaff's waning interests in Israel, among them his floating casino the Cancun, which remains anchored in the port of Eilat.
"No one wants to buy the ship, which is costing us thousands of dollars a month," complains Finkelstein. "Are you asking me if Martin regrets establishing a casino in Israel? Of course he regrets it. If it were possible to turn back the clock, he would not have gone into that business."
Finkelstein recalls that Schlaff made huge contributions to Israel during the years in which the country was close to his heart. Indeed, Schlaff contributed to a number of organizations, such as Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, the United Israel Appeal, the Jewish Agency and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, where there is a lecture hall in the name of Schlaff and his ex-wife Andrea. One of the billionaire's sons studied business management at the IDC, and his daughter, a young doctor, is interning at Tel Hashomer.
Even after he stopped flying to Israel, people here continued to approach Schlaff for donations to local organizations. Ehud Olmert, for example, asked him in 2004 to contribute to an organization for veterans of the Duvdevan special operations unit of the Israel Defense Forces. "Martin donated money to that association," confirms Finkelstein.
Gradually, though, since the Israel Police began to investigate Schlaff, his philanthropic activities in Israel have come to a complete standstill. In 2006, after the police raided his parents' home in Jerusalem and confiscated his brother James' laptop, Schlaff, in protest, even cut off the ties he had with the Israeli Embassy in Vienna.
"He is a redhead and he is furious at what the [Israeli] police are doing to him," relates one of his friends.
According to his associates, in recent years Schlaff has changed from a lover of Israel into someone who hates the country and its mentality. "After what the police did to him here, over the years he developed a loathing of Israelis," acknowledges one close friend in Israel.
Despite his alienation, Schlaff continues to take great interest in Israeli politics, as well as in developments involving the Palestinians. Friends say that, for example, he supports the idea of Israel talking with Hamas and even has access to movement leader Khaled Meshal.
Even after he had stopped traveling to Israel, on the eve of the 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, Schlaff apparently held talks to "soften up" the head of Egyptian intelligence, Omar Suleiman, while updating then-prime minister Sharon's bureau. "He acted to bring [Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak and Sharon closer," says one of the former premier's associates.
In conversations with his friends in Israel, Schlaff has also expressed an interest in the criminal case against Avigdor Lieberman. According to testimony by Schlaff's associates, the hundreds of thousands of dollars that flowed from the Robert Placzek company (over which Schlaff and his brother James had control ) in 2001 to a Cypriot company, which police suspect was controlled by Lieberman at one time, was intended for purchase of a sawmill in Ukraine; in any event, at the time of the acquisition, however, Lieberman did not control the company. Information about this affair is currently sitting on the desks of Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein and State Prosecutor Moshe Lador.
Despite his self-imposed absence, Schlaff continues to maintain relations with his Israeli friends. Every year Finkelstein continues the tradition of sending floral arrangements on the holidays to Schlaff's friends, among them a number of senior politicians. Some of the latter have been flown to Vienna in recent years for Schlaff's various family events - among them Lieberman, Aryeh Deri, Gilad and Omri Sharon, Shimon Sheves and Haim Ramon.
Now tie the knots. Giuliani has been linked to Sam Kislin a Russian mafia figure whose political patronage extends to Hilary Clinton. Kislin’s Russian business deals extended to Lev Chernoy who was called the face of the Russian aluminum industry. Lev is also the younger brother of an immensely power Russian businessman known as Michael Cherney. Cherney or Chernoy was believed to have been the most powerful Russian organized crime figure prior to his shift to Israel where he is deeply engaged in media relations and politics. Cherney sold a portion of his vast Russian holdings to Lev Leviev who has partnered with Tshuva in several large and controversial U.S. real estate purchase in New York and Las Vegas.......
......... May 10, 2012
Chabad Molestation Scandal: Court Hears Chabad Rabbi Protected Accused
Child Rapist
The mother of one victim said that abuses against her son continued
for three years after she initially reported them to Groner, who she
said took no action. The father of another victim was allegedly told
by Groner that his son “wouldn’t need counselling because [he] was
under eight years old.” Another mother testified that when she
mentioned Cyprys’s name to Rabbi Groner, “he replied, ‘Oh, no, I
thought we cured him’. By this I was sure that Rabbi Groner meant this
sort of thing had happened before with David Cyprys.” And through it
all, David Cyprys kept his job with Chabad and his full access to
children at Chabad's Yeshiva College. http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2012/05/chabad-molestation-scandal-court-hears-chabad-rabbi-protected-accused-child-rapist-567.html
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Arcadi Gaydamak says Berel Lazar, Chabad's chief rabbi of Russia,
destroyed a contract given to him for safekeeping. That helped Chabad
oligarch Lev Leviev steal $2 billion dollars from Gaydamak. Gaydamak
also says Lazar failed to answer repeated summonses from a Moscow beit
din.
Did Chabad Oligarch Lev Leviev Steal $1 Billion With Chabad’s ‘Chief
Rabbi’ Of Russia?
That question will be decided by a British High Court judge sometime this year.
Shmarya Rosemberg • FailedMessiah.com
Did Chabad Oligarch Lev Leviev steal $1 billion dollars from Arkady
Gaydamak with the help of Chabad’s ‘chief rabbi’ of Russia?
That billion dollar question will be decided by a British High Court
judge sometime this year, the Independent reported today.
The case involves the two Russian oligarchs (both who also have
Israeli citizenship), Chabad’s Chief Rabbi of Russia, and the
government Angola.
Leviev is Chabad’s chief financial backer in the Former Soviet Union.
The judge must decide whether Leviev, Gaydamak's former business
partner, owes Gaydamak more than $1 billion for his part of an Angolan
diamond venture.
The judge has already heard evidence from witnesses that include
former Mossad agents, an Israeli war hero, the President of Angola,
rabbis, and diamond dealers.
Claims and counter-claims abound: forged documents, missing documents
– even double agents.
Gaydamak insists that he and Leviev signed an agreement 11 years ago
that allowed Leviev was to hold Gaydamak’s share and income from the
Angolan Diamond Selling Corporation, while paying Gaydamak regular
dividends. But those dividends stopped suddenly in 2005, Gaydamak
claims.
He also says the agreement was given to Chabad’s Chief Rabbi of Russia
Berel Lazar to hold for safekeeping, a common practice, Gaydamak told
me two years ago, among traditional Jews [especially in areas where
the legal system is not reliable].
Leviev claims there was no such deal. Instead, Leviev says the
document he and Gaydamak signed was an agreement stating that Gaydamak
would donate to one of Leviev’s own charities.
Lazar admitted on Israeli television that he had been holding an
envelope for the two men for safekeeping. But Lazar claimed that he
did not know its contents because he did not look inside it, and
anyway, he had since lost it.
According to Gaydamak, Lazar also did not answer repeated letters from
Gaydamak's attorneys asking for the agreement. When Lazar was asked
about the contract by an Israeli television news reporter in 2010.
Gaydamak told me Lazar answered that he "lost" the envelope containing
the signed agreement and did not mention that loss to Gaydamak until
then because Leviev had told Lazar the document inside that envelope
was "not important."
When asked by Failedmessiah.com for comment on this story in September
2010, Lazar called questions about the matter "intrusive." He objected
to being called at his home and said he would answer questions if
called at his office. When asked for the best number to reach him at
there, Lazar hung up. A call the following morning shortly after 9:00
am Moscow time to the listed number of Chabad's chief rabbinate was
not answered.
In August, Leviev and Gaydamak made another agreement in which, Leviev
says, Gaydamak pledged to give up all of his claims without payment.
Gaydamak alleges that General Manuel Helder Vieira Dias Júnior – known
as Kopelipa – who is one of the most powerful men in Angola, was
working with Leviev. Kopelipa supposedly tricked Gaydamak into signing
that agreement, which includes a confidentiality clause that protects
the Angolan government.
Gaydamak says this contract was supposed to become active only after
Leviev paid Gaydamak the hundreds of millions of pounds in
compensation that Leviev allegedly promised him through General
Kopelipa.
A judgment is expected this year.
You can read Gaydamak's 2010 version of the events here.
Related Post: Exclusive: Is Chabad's Chief Rabbi Of Russia Part Of A
$2 Billion Swindle?
Conflict diamonds, Israeli settlements and the Lieberman-Gertler connection
Posted on by Andrew
The ultra-nationalist Israeli political figure Avigdor Lieberman has made a name for himself with his anti-Arab vitriol and hard-line stance on Israeli claims to the West Bank. But the frequent headlines concerning his many inflammatory remarks tend to crowd-out under-reported allegations surrounding his ascent to power—namely—those concerning his numerous shady business dealings and conflicts of interest while serving in previous governments. For a while now it has been occasionally reported that Lieberman faces a possible indictment for bribery and money laundering. In-depth exposes in Ha’aretz have gone further than most sources in describing his involvement with a shadowy underworld that ties certain Israeli political and business groups with diamond moguls, Russian oligarchs, arms dealers and foreign bank accounts. There is good reason to believe that the two roles Lieberman take on, of the Zionist firebrand and the secretive businessman, are beginning to overlap in a manner that represents a larger trend.
Mr. Lieberman is a steadfast advocate of Israeli settlement activity and himself lives in the West Bank settlement of Nokdim. One of Lieberman’s associates, the scion of a well-known family that made its fortune off the diamond trade, serves as a perfect case of the overlap between politically-connected business moguls and Zionist efforts to colonize the West Bank. As we shall see, it is part of a nexus in which the profits made from neo-colonial arrangements in Africa are being used to fund Israeli settler-colonists in occupied Palestine. LIEBERMAN AND HIS “PATH TO THE EAST”
The issue of Lieberman’s allegedly illicit financial arrangements first came out publicly in 2000, when a report by the State Comptroller discovered that his party, Yisrael Beitenu, had “received a million dollar credit line from a bank in Israel, using a bank guarantee from Vienna for the credit line. The Viennese bank [...] was given a personal guarantee of the million dollar guarantee by a foreign resident.” The foreign resident turned out to be an Austrian businessman named Martin Schlaff, who is also suspected of having bribed the now comatose ex-PM Ariel Sharon.
Central to the allegations against Lieberman is a company he established in the late 1990s called Nativ el Hamizrach (“Path to the East”), an international trading company. He had just resigned his position as PM Netanyahu’s director general in 1997 and decided to use his political influence and numerous connections for more profitable ends. One of his first successes was on behalf of an Austrian bank. He made $3 million predicting a devaluing of the Russian ruble. This was apparently enough to raise the suspicions of Israel’s National Fraud Investigation Unit (NFIU), which took depositions from officials at the bank. None of them were able to adequately explain how Lieberman could have correctly predicted the devaluation.
In 1999, Lieberman was elected to the Knesset and he resigned his position as CEO of the Nativ el Hamizrach as the law required him to. Despite this, plenty of conflicts of interest and reasons for suspicion became apparent. Many of his closest associates were named as directors and shareholders of the company. The year of Lieberman’s election to the Knesset was–suspiciously–a “breakthrough” year for the company. According to Ha’aretz, “millions of shekels began to flow to Nativ el Hamizrach from companies associated with the lumber industry and firms dealing in raw materials for construction.” Upon becoming the minister of national infrastructure in March 2001, he appointed Micha Lazar–the accountant for Nativ el Hamizrach–to the board of directors of the Israel Electric Corporation. It is also suspected that Lieberman was heavily involved in laundering money through his confidants during this time period.
To further support the case that Lieberman advanced his business interests while in office, Ha’aretz reported that:
The revenues of Nativ el Hamizrach skyrocketed in the years when Lieberman was an MK and a cabinet minister: from about NIS [Israeli new shekel] 1 million in 1999 to more than NIS 5 million in 2000, NIS 8.5 million in 2001, NIS 6 million in 2002 and NIS 4 million in 2003. In 2004, revenues fell by half, to about NIS 2 million, and in the past two years [2005 and 2006] they have stood at hundreds of thousands of shekels a year.
DAN GERTLER’S CONGO ENTERPRISE Dan Gertler comes from a prestigious family that made its fortune off the diamond trade. His grandfather, Moshe Schnitzer, is known as the “king of Israel’s diamond industry.” Gertler has chosen to distance himself from the family business by starting an independent firm, Dan Gertler Israel (DGI), and dealing with rough diamonds instead of polished diamonds. DGI serves as his main conduit for mining investment operations throughout the world.
In early 2000, Dan Gertler arrived in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with the intent of meeting with its new leader Laurent Kabila. The DRC had been in a state of chaos and conflict since the overthrow of the Cold War-era US ally Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997. The presence of armies from neighboring African countries aggravated the situation further. Its mineral wealth was being systematically plundered by government and military officials from both within and outside the country. Gertler was eventually able to arrange a meeting with Kabila by taking advantage of his international liasions. He offered an impressive $20 million up front payment in exchange for comprehensive monopoly rights to all of the DRC’s diamond exports. Kabila, who was desperate for the cash, accepted the offer. Gertler established a Congo branch of DGI and named it International Diamond Industries (IDI). Gertler later attributed this successful deal to his credentials. As he told The Scotsman: “they checked up on me and saw that I have a good company and that I am someone they could trust.”
The monopoly had it’s drawbacks. Despite the fact that the DRC government received a greater percentage of revenues, illicit smuggling of diamonds out of the country increased.
Analysts claimed that the IDI monopoly offered below-market prices for diamonds, causing many producers to smuggle their stones into the neighboring Republic of Congo (Brazzaville). According to Ambroise Kawaya Swana, the DRC’s deputy minister for mines, shipments of rough diamonds from Brazzaville to buyers in Belgium soared from $1.2 million a month before IDI’s monopoly to $25 million a month (World Peace Foundation 2002, p. 15).
In January 2001, Laurent Kabila was assassinated by his own bodyguard. His son Joseph Kabila entered office stating that he wanted to democratize the DRC and engage the impress the West. That April, he ended the IDI monopoly with much encouragement from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Gertler still maintained good ties with the DRC leadership and soon found new methods of reasserting his presence there.
In 2003, he made a secret agreement through Emaxon Finance Corporation, a Canadian firm he controlled. The agreement gave him the right to export 88% of the diamonds mined by MIBA (the DRC’s government-owned diamond company), which were purchased with a 5% discount. A December 2003 expose from Newsweek revealed that the DRC’s own mining minister, Eugene Diomi Ndongala, said it was “a terrible contract for the republic.” Diomi estimated that the discounted rates to Emaxon was costing MIBA about $2 million per month. It also reported on evidence that a Kabila associate named Augustin Katumba Mwanke, who was once suspended from the administration for being named in a UN report on corruption, put pressure on MIBA to sign the Emaxon deal.
Interestingly, Kabila has been utilizing Gertler and his close Brooklyn-born confidant Haim Leibowitz as representatives for his regime in Washington DC since 2002. They met with then national security advisor Condoleezza Rice, who referred them to a National Security Council member responsible for African affairs named Jendayi Frazer. The duo lobbied her for assistance to Kabila’s regime and an easing in human rights-related criticism. They later took credit for helping Kabila get a visit to the Bush White House in November 2003. TIES BETWEEN LIEBERMAN AND GERTLER EXPOSED IN LAWSUIT
In 2004, a lawsuit was filed by Yossi Kamisa, an ex-officer of Israel’s border police, against Dan Gertler, an Israeli government agency responsible for arms export and a retired general named Yosi Ben-Hanan. Kamisa claims that in July 2000, Avigdor Lieberman invited him to a meeting at the Jerusalem offices of Nativ El Hamizrach. He was referred by Lieberman to Gertler, who needed security advice as part of his deal with Kabila.
According to the suit, Gertler told Kamisa that if the attempts to secure monopoly rights for the DRC’s diamond exports were successful then Kamisa could earn a significant portion of the profits if he provided certain security services. Specifically, Kamisa was told he would need to help recruit and train the Congolese army and provide protection for both Kabila’s regime and the Gertler’s diamond enterprise. When Kamisa requested a formal contract in writing, he “was told that the diamond industry did not normally make contracts and that everything was settled by a handshake.”
The suit alleged multiple acts of corruption on the part of Gertler and his associates in the Israeli government, including Lieberman. It was asserted that Gertler:
Bribed Congolese officials and Angolan generals allied with Kabila, which Kamisa claimed to have witnessed personally while on a visit to the Congo.
Illegally attempted to bring the Congolese army’s chief-of-staff to Israel to meet with Israeli defense industry officials.
Arranged for Lieberman to stop the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs from filing a police complaint against him over the attempted Congo army chief visit.
Gertler soon canceled his agreement with Kamisa and, in October 2000, agreed to pay him NIS 1.4 million on the condition that he forgo any claims or demands. Kamisa persisted in attempting to obtain permission to train the Congolese army on his own but an application to do so was rejected by the Foreign Defense Assistance and Defense Export Organization (SIBAT). Around the time of this rejection, two major generals named Meir Dagan (later named head of the Mossad) and Avigdor Ben-Gal applied to train the Congolese army on Gertler’s behalf.
Shortly after Kamisa’s application was rejected, a delegation of senior Congo Army officers arrived in Israel and visited the same defense industries that were blocked to Kamisa. SIBAT illegally approved the visit, without obtaining the consent of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The visit was cut short after Kamisa contacted [a Ministry of Foreign Affairs official] and the Congolese officers [...] were flown back home.
In September 2002, when Kamisa planned to file a complaint with the Israel Police chief of investigations over the affair, he was promptly fired from his position at Ministry of National Infrastructures. It is of course worth mentioning that Avigdor Lieberman was the head of the infrastructure ministry at this point in time and that the firing was ordered by an appointee and political associate of Lieberman. Kamisa’s position was reinstated only after an appeal to the National Labor Court.
The basis for the lawsuit is the assertion that Gertler “grossly and fundamentally” violated his earlier agreement with Kamisa when he worked to block Kamisa’s security work in the DRC while Ben-Gal and Dagan were picked as a replacement. The suit was rejected immediately as a result of the October 2000 agreement in which Kamisa forfeit any claims surrounding the Congo diamond security deal.
For his part, Gertler denied being personally involved in any arms deals and that Dagan and Ben-Gal were brought to the Congo as sources of advice more than anything else. Israeli documents appear to corroborate this as it does not appear that very many arms were exported to the DRC from 2001 to 2002. However, allegations of a corrupt relationship with Lieberman still continue to haunt him.
At the beginning of 2009, Gertler was interrogated by Israeli police on suspicion of bribing Lieberman. He was asked “if he had joint business dealings with Lieberman and whether he had transferred funds to companies allegedly controlled by Lieberman.” He denied both allegations, but admitted that he employed Lieberman for a brief period of time in the late 1990s and paid him the equivalent of a couple thousand US dollars. INVESTING IN ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
In July 2008, the West Bank village of Bil’in filed suit in Canadian court against two Quebec registered companies called Green Mount Inc. and Green Park Inc. The suit alleged that both companies take part in construction and sale of condominiums in the Modi’in Illit settlement, which is built on land confiscated from Bil’in. As it turns out the majority shareholder in Green Mount and Green Park is Lexinter Management, whose majority shareholder is a Panama registered entity called FTS Worldwide Corporation, which is controlled by Dan Gertler Israel.
It would appear as though Mr. Gertler is not alone in using the wealth from his diamond business to finance the colonization of Palestinian land. The Israeli billionaire businessman Lev Leviev, who is a competitor with Gerlter, has attracted attention from mainstream sources for his controversial diamond dealings in Angola and his involvement in West Bank settlement construction. According to a profile in New York Magazine:
Leviev’s alliance with Angola’s central government, which won the country’s civil war, led to his gaining primary control of the country’s rough-diamond supply in 2000. A security company contracted by Leviev was accused this year by a local human-rights monitor of participating in practices of “humiliation, whipping, torture, sexual abuse, and, in some cases, assassinations.”
According to research done by Adalah-NY, Leviev’s investment in construction activities often takes place in settlements that are “central to Israel’s efforts to seize control of and annex strategic areas of the West Bank.” He also provides funding to settler support organizations such as the Land Redemption Fund.
Yedioth Ahronoth and other sources explain that the Land Redemption Fund has used large sums of money, strong-arm tactics and deceit to secure Palestinian land for settlement expansion. According to Gadi Algazi,”The fund, established 20 years ago, coordinates the takeover of Palestinian land in key areas earmarked for the expansion of the settlements. Moreover, “The fund’s intelligence network is made up of former [Palestinian] collaborators who were discovered and returned to their villages, retired Israeli General Security Services operatives who are information contractors for pay, and former military governors,” who use their “connections in the villages.” The Land Redemption Fund’s attorney Moshe Glick explained the LRF’s goals to Yedioth Ahronoth in this manner: “The fund has no interest in just blurring the Green Line, but wants all of Judea and Samaria to move toward the State of Israel.”
Oligarchs are the hard faced men who did well out of the collapse of the Soviet empire after the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. The Wikipedia's article, Russian oligarchs tells us that they are hated in Russia but manages not to let us know that there is very good reason and that six out of the seven are Jews. Given that they made off with some 85% of Russia's assets you can see why there is no love lost there. The one who is not a Jew may well be Alexander Lebedev. He was KGB which is a good sign. Of course Russians can be thieves too.
What happened at the time was that smooth talking patter merchants from Harvard moved in for the kill. It was a case of Harvard Screws Russia and Western banks too.
The Jews - Where Are They Now? QUOTE Of the seven oligarchs who controlled more than 50% of Russia's economy during the 1990s, six were Jews: Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, Alexander Smolensky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Mikhail Friedman, and Vitaly Malkin. Berezovsky also controlled the state television station and several newspapers, while Gusinsky's media empire controlled NTV, Russia's only national independent TV station, as well as major radio and print outlets. UNQUOTE The main stream media - well just big enough - tells the truth for once. It does not say which one was not a Jew. Database on Russian Jewish oligarchs This list is not necessarily right but it does look in the right direction.
Ninety years later, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, a funny thing happened: Russia's media and finance was overwhelmingly controlled by Jews. Paranoia and fiction became reality. Of the seven oligarchs who controlled more than 50% of Russia's economy during the 1990s, six were Jews: Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, Alexander Smolensky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Mikhail Friedman [ Mikhail Fridman ], and Vitaly Malkin. Berezovsky also controlled the state television station and several newspapers, while Gusinsky's media empire controlled NTV, Russia's only national independent TV station, as well as major radio and print outlets. UNQUOTE This is from The eXile which is based on Moscow and seems quite sensible, albeit informal. It is an update of their other article on the same theme.
Roman Abramovich - Jew Jew, very rich. He operates in Israel as well as Russia so he has got a bolt hole if he has to go on the run. He beat the rap on thieving Diesel and worked with Berezovsky. You need a long spoon to sup with the Devil but he is a mate of Yeltsin so he will get away with things.
Boris Berezovsky - Jew Berezovsky got very rich, very fast when the Soviet empire collapsed. Now he is on the run but he has managed to keep the ill gotten gains. They are safely off shore. Some judge in England swallowed the story that he wasn't going to get justice in Russia; fool or rogue? Leonard Blavatnik - Jew Worth over $4 billion. Lives in England, not on the run it seems.
Jewish Tycoon Had A Bank Loan Of £2.5 Billion Written Off [ 20 January 2009 ] QUOTE A £2.5 billion loan said to have been given to a Russian oligarch by a British bank and then written off is an example of the alleged practices perpetrated by this country's major lenders which have prompted a surge of political anger. ABN Amro, a Dutch bank owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), apparently lent Leonard Blavatnik the money to help shore up the finances of his troubled chemicals company LyondellBasell. RBS is just one of the British banks being scrutinised by Government officials, alongside Lloyds Banking Group and Barclays, after lending to foreign nationals left them facing multi-billion pound losses which require another taxpayer funded bail-out. UNQUOTE Brown is blaming the banks with some reason. If you think that he is not grossly irresponsible you have not been paying attention. Brown wastes over £500 billion of your money and mine in a good year. This time it is going to be far worse. He is pointing the finger after causing the problem. Brown is more than happy to collude with Jews like Blavatnik and protect Berezovsky from justice.
Mikhail Brudno - Jew QUOTE Nevzlin, Brudno and the third Menatep owner Vladimir Dubov are currently in Israel. They have been placed on the Russian wanted list for various charges including fraud. UNQUOTE The Wiki didn't bother to tell us about this wonderful chap. But he is fingered by another Jewish source - Russian fugitives may cloud Putin's visit Michael Cherney - Jew Went into business in Russia when it was illegal and got big when the Soviets collapsed. He got charged with trying it on in Israel but beat the rap. The Wiki, a Zionist front seems pleased so does the Israel News Agency -Michael CherneyVindicated In Israel Bezeq Case. Apparently another Jew was trying it on.
Anatoly Chubais - Jew The Wikipedia tells us that Chubais is controversial and regarded as a thief by Russians. It does not tell us that they are wrong. The Wikipedia is controlled by a Jew.
Oleg Deripaska - Jew The Wiki admits just barely that Deripaska is a Jew. Haaretz pretends that he is not - see Russian oligarchs' wealth diminishing. Private Eye tells us that he is a thief or rather that he is big on bribes and settling out of court. He is also a mate of Putin unlike the twat, Khodorkovsky. PBS tells us that us that what he did was legal, more or less, sometimes. That is the pay off from settling out of court, murdering witnesses or what ever - see Rich in Russia . How to Make a Billion The Grauniad tells us that he sorted the Mafiya without any lurid details - How metals and a ruthless streak put Russian patriot at top Deripaska Private Eye says that he has never been convicted. They make it sound as though he should have been and long ago at that. The track record is out there and down right ugly.
Israel's New Attorney General Kept Politicians Out Of Prison [ 7 February 2010 ] Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman [ Ya'akov Ne'eman ] yesterday announced his recommendation that the cabinet appoint Yehuda Weinstein [ Yehuda Weinstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ] as the next attorney general. Weinstein, 65, is a prominent and well-regarded defence attorney specializing in white-collar crimes, who has represented some very well-known public officials and businesspeople............ In a statement yesterday, Neeman's bureau said Weinstein was "the best candidate for the post at this time, when there is a real need to strengthen the Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will be the first and most significant case Weinstein will be dealing with if he is confirmed as attorney general. Lieberman is suspected of having received millions of dollars in bribes from businessmen, among them Martin Schlaff and Michael Chernoy, allegedly to promote their business dealings in Israel. UNQUOTE His clients include Dan Cohen, a former judge [ $2.8 million and over a million euros in bribes ], Netanyahu, current Prime Minister [ Netanyahu expense fraud ], Olmert, the previous prime minister [ fraud, still on trial ], Weinrot, an attorney [ bribery charges pending ], Eitan Rube, director of the Tax Authority [ bribery ], Deripaska [ murder, wholesale bribery ] He will deal with Lieberman, racist thug and Foreign Minister [ thieving ]. You might get the impression from this that all Jews are bent or, perhaps that some/most/an overwhelming majority/all Jews in big business and politics are rogues without conscience. PS Weinstein's clients do not include the president of Israel currently on trial for multiple rape. PPS The Wikipedia gives clients as inter alia Ezer Weizman, Aryeh Deri, Ehud Olmert, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yossi Beilin, Avigdor Ben-Gal and others.
Vladimir Dubov - Jew QUOTE Nevzlin, Brudno and the third Menatep owner Vladimir Dubov are currently in Israel. They have been placed on the Russian wanted list for various charges including fraud. UNQUOTE The Wiki wasn't telling us about him. The Wiki is a Jewish propaganda operation. But he is fingered by another Jewish source - Russian fugitives may cloud Putin's visit. He rates a mention from Wayne Madsen in Alexander Litvinenko Mikhail Fridman - Jew Big in oil. Not much scandal. A Jew but not on the run.
Arcadi Gaydamak - Jew If a man wants to buy a football club like Portsmouth he has more money than sense. If he is a Jew on the run he can live in Israel because arrest warrants don't mean much there but he has to operate through a front man which is where his son comes in. He admits a connection to ALIMZHAN TOKHTAKHOUNOV but he quote knew nothing about his evil ways unquote. See page 30 of Private Eye 1150 and Anatoly Chubais
Gaydamak Avoids Being Made Bankrupt [ 22 June 2010 ] QUOTE Gaydamak avoids bankruptcy with settlement In March, the Tel Aviv District Court issued a bankruptcy warning against Gaydamak in the amount of NIS 90 million. Arcadi Gaydamak has reached an out-of-court settlement with Balram Chainrai and Kital Holdings & International Development Ltd., following which the Tel Aviv District Court cancelled Chainrai and Kital's petition to declare Gaydamak bankrupt.
In March 2010, the court accepted Chainrai and Kital's petition and issued bankruptcy warning against Gaydamak in the amount of NIS 90 million. Gaydamak was ordered to pay Chainrai $23 million, plus interest from the date of the Supreme Court ruling against Gaydamak in September 2008. Gaydamak was also ordered to pay court costs. UNQUOTE Skint? Trying it on? Both? His football club has it problems too.
Portsmouth Is In Deep Doo Doo [ 5 January 2009 ] QUOTE Daniel Azougy, the Israeli lawyer hired by Portsmouth to alleviate the club's dire financial position, has claimed that the owner Ali al-Faraj will have paid £40m to creditors by 10 January, when he hopes the embargo on registering new players will be lifted............. Club officials have also stated that the players will be paid today, having missed the due date for a third time this season.
Azougy, who is on a short-term contract with Portsmouth, claimed that the problems are the fault of the previous owners, Sulaiman al-Fahim and Sacha Gaydamak, and that the full scale of the situation is still unknown. Gaydamak, though, says he is owed £28m by the club and last week demanded clarity relating to who is the "ultimate beneficial owner" of Portsmouth [ His father in all probability but Sacha will know that - Editor ]. UNQUOTE The Jews move in, move the money round, it all sounds fine then suddenly it all goes wrong. We have been here before. PS The Graun isn't vulgar enough to mention these details
Jew Guilty Of Gun Running [ 27 October 2009 ]QUOTE A French court on Tuesday sentenced Israeli-Russian businessman Arcadi Gaydamak to six years in jail and a 5 million euro fine for his role in illegal arms sale to the Angolan government in the 1990s and in laundering hundreds of millions of dollars. Gaydamak was one of 42 people charged in the case, popularly known as Angolagate. Others include the son of former French President Francois Mitterrand; a former French interior minister, Charles Pasqua; and several senior French government officials. All but six defendants were convicted. UNQUOTE Guns, narcotics, slaves, you name it and Jews sell it. If it is illegal it costs more but there are major advantages in the tax position.
Gaydamak, Jew, Gun Runner And Thief On Trial In Absentia [ 13 October 2008 ] QUOTEThe trial of tycoon Arcadi Gaydamak starts today in Paris on charges of illegal arms trafficking, fraud, money laundering, fraudulent receipt and tax evasion. The indictment also states that Gaydamak and his former partner Pierre Falcone gave perks [bribes/bungs/brown envelopes/commissions/introduction fees sweeteners] to senior members of the French government to promote their business deals. As far as is known, Gaydamak will not appear in court, although in the past he has said he would. Gaydamak claims that he is a victim of French political power struggles.
The charges allege that mainly from 1993 to 1995, Falcone and Gaydamak used various intermediaries and sold weapons and ammunition worth $790 million from Russia and Slovakia to Angola, during that country's civil war. They also allegedly established a branch of the Slovak arms company ZTS OSOS without the necessary permits. Falcone, who severed his ties with Gaydamak several years ago after financial disagreements, told Haaretz he had not decided whether to appear for the trial. UNQUOTE Gaydamak made it big time in Russia. He is one of the oligarchs who robbed Russia blind.
Gaydamak And Mitterand To Be Done For Gun Running [ 31 July 2008 ]QUOTE France’s attorney general has decided to proceed with the case against Russian-Israeli business mogul Arcadi Gaydamak and French arms dealer Pierre Falcone, according to reports published Thursday. The two are accused of illegal arms smuggling after allegedly selling weapons to the Angolan president between the years 1993-2000, during the civil war in the African country......... In March 2007 France filed a grave indictment against 42 people suspected of involvement in the sale of arms to Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos during the country's 27-year civil war – these included Gaydamak, Falcone, Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, the son of late French President Francois Mitterrand, who served as counsellor on African affairs from 1986-92 under his father, and former Interior Minister Charles Pasqua. The indictment,.... estimated Falcone and Gaydamak's profit from the deal reached $791 million, and international arrest warrants were issued against them. UNQUOTE Gaydamak uses an Israeli passport because there are no extradition agreements in force - unless someone's face does not fit.
Jew On The Run Cuts Down His Bribes [ 7 July 2008 ] QUOTE TheMarker has learnt that over the past few months, Russian-Israeli tycoon Arcadi Gaydamak not made good on promises to transfer large funds to a number of Israeli charities. Attorney David Brodetzky, the legal adviser for Gaydamak's Social Justice political party, confirmed Saturday that the billionaire businessman had halted the flow of financial donations. Gaydamak's donations in recent years had totalled in the tens of millions of dollars......... The tycoon's promises to donate tens of millions of shekels to different charitable organizations were made under much media exposure, with particular attention given to his claims that the state authorities were not fulfilling their role, and that he was merely doing their job for them. UNQUOTE France wants him for gun running. Buying publicity was part of his answer to getting away with it.
Russian-Israeli billionaire bribes his way out of police investigation [ 22 January 2007 ] QUOTE Russian-Israeli billionaire Arkadi Gaydamak is not the subject of any criminal investigation...... nearly eight months after police investigators recommended that Gaydamak be charged in connection with his alleged laundering of some $50 million... through Bank Hapoalim. True to his media savvy form Gaydamak went on the offensive... by publicly accusing Police Investigations and Intelligence chief Yohanan Danino of conducting a personal crusade against him. UNQUOTE Bribery worked for the Saudis even if it leaves Blair in the frame. The French wanted Gaydamak for gun running, tax evasion, money laundering and corruption charges. If you are going to you might as well go the whole hog.
Jewish billionaire indicted in France for gun running [ 30 March 2007 ] QUOTE PARIS - French prosecutors have decided to indict Russian-Israeli business mogul Arcadi Gaydamak for illegal arms trafficking to Angola and various other corruption charges.... Prosecutors allege that the arms sales, carried out from 1993 to 2000 without clearance from the French government, totalled nearly $791 million.... sales included tanks, helicopters, six warships, land mines and large amounts of ammunition. The group targeted by prosecutors includes Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, the son of late French President Francois Mitterrand. UNQUOTE Gaydamak didn't do this without French connivance. It is politics and they are all guilty.
Arcadi Gaydamak Beats Gun Running Rap - Guilty On Lesser Charge [ 15 February 2012 ] QUOTE Russian-Israeli businessman will plead guilty to 'obtaining benefits via a ruse that did not entail outright fraud.' Lawyers representing Arcadi Gaydamak have reached a plea bargain with the prosecution, under which the businessman will plead guilty to "obtaining benefits via a ruse that did not entail outright fraud." This is significantly less serious than the charges of money laundering and fraud Gaydamak has been facing. Under the charges dating from October 2009, Gaydamak could not do business openly in Europe because he was wanted in France on gun-running charges. He therefore used a front man, Nahum Galmor, to negotiate to buy a Dutch phosphates company for $50 million, believes the prosecution. In the process, Gaydamak hid the fact that he was the true buyer, states the prosecution. UNQUOTE Another Oligarch, another thief, another Jew. Oligarchs are very unpopular in Russia because they stole 85% of the country's assets.
Vladimir Gusinsky - Jew Being investigated for money laundering according to Wikipedia but not on the run yet. Suleyman KerimovMade lots of money fast which means he is a chancer if nothing else. No indication that he is a Jew. Indeed the name might be Islamic.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky - Jew He is another rogue who got very rich very fast. He also ignored the messages that came his way saying don't try it on with Vlad. Putin was not a colonel of the KGB for nothing and he wasn't going to take any insolence from a light fingered Jew on the make. Khodorkovsky got off with a mere nine years and a fairly tough nick. See Mikhail Khodorkovsky Alexander Lebedev Reads as clean and not a Jew in the Wiki.
Platon Lebedev sent to penal colony in West ... Former Menatep chairman Platon Lebedev has been transferred to penal colony No. 3 in the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous area in West Siberia, the local prosecutor's office for supervision of correctional labour institutions said Thursday. He colluded with Khodorkovsky.
Lev LevievWould qualify if he had not moved to Palestine as a lad. He made it big time in diamonds and gave De Beers aggro. He was bright enough not to try it on with Vladimir Putin.
Vitaly Malkin - Jew Malkin is fingered as a Jew by The eXile a rather good newspaper in Moscow. QUOTE Of the seven oligarchs who controlled more than 50% of Russia's economy during the 1990s, six were Jews: Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, Alexander Smolensky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Mikhail Friedman, and Vitaly Malkin. Berezovsky also controlled the state television station and several newspapers, while Gusinsky's media empire controlled NTV, Russia's only national independent TV station, as well as major radio and print outlets. UNQUOTE A Jew and a thief albeit not all Jews are crooks. See also eXile - Issue #200 - Feature Story - No-ligarchy: The Tragicomic ...
Alexander Mamut QUOTEAlexander Leonidovich Mamut (Russian: Александр Леонидович Мамут), born January 29, 1960 in Moscow to a family of lawyers, is a businessman and investor. He was previously an advisor to the former Russian government of Boris Yeltsin, and was a friend of Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana Dyachenko. He is best known outside Russia for his investment in LiveJournal via a media company which he co-owns, SUP Fabrik. UNQUOTE Is a Jew according to Russia Monitor, a Russian source.
Leonid Nevzlin - Jew On the run from murder raps. The Wiki admits that Nevzlin has been charged. It uses words like claimed and alleged. Jewish Oligarch Being Tried For Murder[ 9 March 2008 ] QUOTE The former president of the Russian Jewish Congress is being put on trial in Russia for murder.
Proceedings against former Yukos co-owner Leonid Nevzlin, who now lives in Israel, are scheduled to begin March 4 in Moscow, according to the Web site Jewish.ru.
The Jewish businessman and philanthropist is being charged with the ordering of multiple murders committed between 1998 and 2002, including those of Moscow businesswoman Valentina Korneyeva and Nefteyugansk Mayor Vladimir Petukhov.........
Nevzlin, who fled Russia in 2003 as the Kremlin was beginning what many observers said [ claimed/alleged/pretended ] was the politically motivated prosecution of his Yukos partner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, is expected to be tried in absentia. In Israel, Nevzlin is considered one of the country's wealthiest citizens. UNQUOTE Murder is a business tool and a very effective one too. Kill one; coerce thousands. But Vladimir Putin is getting a grip of thieving Jews. Notice how many have done a runner. Berezovsky is just one.
Badri Patarkatsishvili- Jew Thief on the run. He was. Now he is dead. Colluded with Berezovsky and Abramovich.
Viktor Pinchuk - Jew Big in the Ukraine. Big in steel. Big in the media. Jew. Not on the run.
Mikhail D. Prokhorov PhD - Jew Mathematician, not on the run. Published some heavy weight papers. Worth some $5.4 billion. Got bored with showing off? Went back to teaching.
Aleksandr Smolensky - JewQUOTE ...and two, Aleksandr Smolensky's SBS-Agro and Vladimir Vinogradov's Inkombank, are ruined. Though weakened, however, entrepreneurs with extensive interests in natural resources extraction -- Viakhirev of Gazprom, and Alekperov of Lukoil -- or in industry -- Khodorkovskii of Menatep and Berezovskii of LOGOVAZ -- remain influential. UNQUOTE Was Smolensky ruined or was it just his bank. Given that Smolensky is fingered by Forbes as a Jew [ see 1 and Haaretz ditto - 2 ] I think he walked away laughing.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn And The Jews QUOTE Since returning to Russia in 1994, Solzhenitsyn has published........... a two-volume work on the history of Russian-Jewish relations (Two Hundred Years Together 2001, 2002). In it, Solzhenitsyn emphatically repudiates the idea that the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917 were the work of a "Jewish conspiracy" (see chapters 9, 14, and 15 of that work). [ That is not believed by everyone. We can't find the truth for ourselves because it has not been translated. This may well be why it has not happened. - Editor ] At the same time, he calls on both Russians and Jews to come to terms with the members of their peoples who acted in complicity with the Communist regime.
The reception of this work confirms that Solzhenitsyn remains a polarizing figure both at home and abroad. According to his critics, the book confirmed Solzhenitsyn's anti-Semitic views as well as his ideas of Russian supremacy to other nations. Professor Robert Service of Oxford University has defended Solzhenitsyn as being "absolutely right", noting that Trotsky himself claimed Jews were disproportionately represented in the Soviet bureaucracy. UNQUOTE Alexsandr was not a fan of the Russian government but he cannot be accused of ignorance. Last Days of the Romanovs gives us the names of the important Bolshevik committees. They were predominantly Jews. PS 200 Years Together is now being published. It was a case of by passing the Jews in the main stream media suppressing it.
Alisher Usmanov He may be a Jew but he is certainly rich enough, ugly enough and vicious enough.
The legacy of Boris Yeltsin [ 26 April 2007 ] QUOTE Communism wounded Russia, grievously, almost irreparably – and Yeltsinism delivered the death blow. The legacy of Boris Yeltsin, who presided over what Paul Klebnikov described as "one of the most corrupt regimes in history," is, quite literally, the death agony of the Russian nation. As David Satter pointed out in the Wall Street Journal: "Between 1992 and 1994, the rise in the death rate in Russia was so dramatic that Western demographers did not believe the figures. The toll from murder, suicide, heart attacks and accidents gave Russia the death rate of a country at war; Western and Russian demographers now agree that between 1992 and 2000, the number of "surplus deaths" in Russia–deaths that cannot be explained on the basis of previous trends–was between five and six million persons."
The Yeltsin era was marked by a precipitous fall in living standards, but some prospered.... The one who perhaps profited the most was Boris Berezovsky.
Understanding the Yeltsin legacy and its catastrophic effect on Russia is key to grasping the Putin phenomenon.... Putin turned against "the Family" and drove most of the oligarchs out of power and into exile, where they are even now scheming to make a comeback. Yeltsin's legacy to Russia – poverty, privation, and a renewed adversarial stance by the West – is the "gift" that just keeps on giving. UNQUOTE The oligarchs stole 85% of Russian assets and the billions poured in by Western banks. Berezovsky wants more. His greed is unlimited.
Berezovsky Incites War in Russia [ 13 April 2007 ]QUOTE The Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has told the Guardian he is plotting the violent overthrow of President Putin from his base in Britain after forging close contacts with members of Russia's ruling elite.
In comments which appear calculated to enrage the Kremlin, and which will further inflame relations between London and Moscow, the multimillionaire claimed he was already bankrolling people close to the president who are conspiring to mount a palace coup. UNQUOTE Berezovsky has worked out how to beat the murder rap - overthrow the government.
Israel close to indicting Gaydamak for money laundering [ 27 February 2007 ] QUOTE The state prosecutor may be planning to indict business mogul Arcadi Gaydamak for money laundering, based on a request it submitted to the Tel Aviv District Court on Monday.
And, in an unrelated case, police questioned Gaydamak on Monday on suspicion of giving Shula Zaken, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's bureau chief, free season tickets to Beitar Jerusalem soccer matches. UNQUOTE Gaydamak is one of the Jewish oligarchs who profited mightily from the fall of the Soviet empire while Russians starved to death. He is not loved in Russia any more than Berezovsky who some fool of a judge refused to extradite to face justice.
Russia - Jewish Oligarch Linshits Wanted [ 15 September 2006 ]Prominent Russian Jewish oligarch IgorLinshits is now officially a wanted man, thanks to a prosecution case developed after a raid on a Linshitsbank recently. Not all Jews are criminals but a lot of the very successful ones are. Linshits is just another. See also Liberal Supporter Put On Federal Wanted List
Putin's Arch-Enemy Berezovsky Sells Media Business to Georgian Partner [ 14 September 2006 ] - lost due to bit rot Berezovsky [ Jew on the run from major fraud and murder raps. See Boris Berezovsky - Editor ] sells Media Business to Georgian Partner one Badri Patarkatsishvili [ also a Jew on the run from financial irregularity raps - Editor ]. Murdoch [ not on the run - Editor ] has bought 30% of Imedi, Badri's media outfit. See page 4 of Private Eye 1169 for more and better details. PS Ownership of West Ham is part of the fun. PPS You need a long spoon to sup with the Devil. PPPS Berezovsky Declared Persona Non Grata in Latvia
Israeli police recommend Russian-Israeli billionaire be charged with money laundering [ 24 March 2006 ] He [ Arkady Gaydamak ] must have been using the wrong synagogue. It was only $50 million after all. Then there is the little matter of smuggling weapons into Angola but the point of being in Israel is that they don't extradite criminals - or do much to help the poor for that matter. See the next one.
Mobster linked to Olympics bribe scandal has Israeli PassportQUOTE The man at the centre of an alleged Olympic figure skating bribe scandal, Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, is an Israeli citizen – according to reports Thursday in the Russian media. Tokhtakhounov was arrested in Italy for allegedly fixing two events at the Salt Lake City Games. Police believe he may have contacted as many as six Olympic figure skating judges, Italian police said. UNQUOTE
Jewish capital is good for Russia, Jewish politics less so The head line is a lie before we go any further. Jewish capital in Russia was obtained by robbing Russia and Russians of some 85% of their assets. Millions of Russians starved to death as a result. It is fair to say that they were not the only thieves but Haaretz admits here to seven out of a dozen. QUOTE The Jews in Russia are, of course, concerned about whether there are anti-Semitic elements in the affair. Of the dozen or so Russian billionaires who made their fortunes during the past decade, seven were Jewish. Three of them have already been deposed from heading their companies and pushed out of Russia as well - Aleksandr Smolensky[ 1 ] , the crash of whose bank in 1998 led to the worst financial crash in the post-Communist era; Boris Berezovsky , "the Kremlin godfather," whose demonstrative conversion to Christianity proved to be of no avail; and Vladimir Gusinsky , who was not helped by his demonstrative Jewishness as chairman of the Jewish Congress in Russia. UNQUOTE
........ We are well aware of who Jacob Arab is but what is not as well known is that he is a cousin of Lev Leviev and his diamond operation is an extension of Leviev’s Africa Israel. Africa Israel belonged to the Bank Leumi and Leviev received extremely favorable terms in securing its assets. Another key contact between these gentlemen is Baron Mandelson of Foy. Lord Peter Mandelson is an intimate of British power figures including the Rothchilds.
Sholam Weiss who oversaw one of the largest insurance fraud cases in U.S. history was an orthodox Rabbi. He also did business with Michael D. Blutrich an attorney who was a hidden owner in Scores and Club 662. Another figure associated with these gentlemen was another multi-million dollar lawyer by the name of Sam Burstyn. Burstyn accepted $500,000 in drug money as collateral for a loan owed to one of Burstyn’s Atlanta client’s whose business partner was a drug dealer. Burstyn represented Weiss as he fought extradition back to the United States from Austria. Again all of these players played into a vast money laundering scheme which included Scores nightclub in Atlanta as well as Death Row Records and Club 662 in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
Isack Rosenberg pled guilty in October 1999 to bankruptcy fraud after he attempted to launder cash through a Brooklyn yeshiva. The money he sought to launder again was tied to Scores and 662 co-owner Lyle Pfeffer. Rosenberg was also represented by Burstyn. All of these men were tied to a Hasidic sect in Williamsburg, Brooklyn known as the Satmars. The Satmars are divided into factions Rosenberg was a member of the Aroni faction of the deeply riven Satmar community. A business rival, Rabbi David Niederman, was an influential rabbi in the Zali faction of the Satmars. These factions are headed by sons of the Grand Rebbe Moses Teitelbaum who passed away in 2007. The Aroni’s are headed by Aron Teitlebaum whereas his brother Zalman heads the Zalis.
So who is Rabbi Pinto exactly or more appropriately who does he represent? The answer lies in his associations that range from Yitzhak Tshuva, Jacob Arabo, Ofer Yardeni, Rudy Giuliani, Nochi Dankner and Mikhail Chernoy.
Now tie the knots. Giuliani has been linked to Sam Kislin a Russian mafia figure whose political patronage extends to Hilary Clinton. Kislin’s Russian business deals extended to Lev Chernoy who was called the face of the Russian aluminum industry. Lev is also the younger brother of an immensely power Russian businessman known as Michael Cherney. Cherney or Chernoy was believed to have been the most powerful Russian organized crime figure prior to his shift to Israel where he is deeply engaged in media relations and politics. Cherney sold a portion of his vast Russian holdings to Lev Leviev who has partnered with Tshuva in several large and controversial U.S. real estate purchase in New York and Las Vegas.
Nochi Dankner partnered with Tshuva in purchasing the Frontier Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. We are well aware of who Jacob Arab is but what is not as well known is that he is a cousin of Lev Leviev and his diamond operation is an extension of Leviev’s Africa Israel. Africa Israel belonged to the Bank Leumi and Leviev received extremely favorable terms in securing its assets. Another key contact between these gentlemen is Baron Mandelson of Foy. Lord Peter Mandelson is an intimate of British power figures including the Rothchilds. Lord Mandelson met with David Geffen of Dreamworks SKG to discuss a strategy to combat file sharing piracy in a summit held at the Rothschild family villa on Corfu last year. This issue was a key concern to Edgar Bronfman Jr. Chairman of Warner Music Group whose father was the Chairman of the World Jewish Council. Lord Mandelson’s father was the advertising manager of the Jewish Chronicle the longest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world. Again Lord Mandelson is an intimate friend of the owners of the Corfu villa who so happen to be “the 4th Baron Jacob Rothshild and his son Nathaniel.
Mandelson is also a close friend of Russia’s wealthiest man Oleg Deripaska. Mr. Deripaska counts young Nathan Rothschild as one of his key financial advisors. Deripaska completes a circle that returns to Mr. Chernoy aka Cherney. These two were close friends with shared interest in a number of Russian business ventures. One of those ventures was a firm known as Basic Element. Chernoy sued Deripaska claiming a 20% ownership stake in the company
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Norway Divests from Leviev companies over Israeli settlement
construction NEW YORK: In a major victory for the international
movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel,
the Norwegian government announced today that it has divested from Lev
Leviev’s company Africa Israel Investments and its construction
subsidiary Danya Cebus due to their construction of Israeli
settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The move followed
a campaign of more than a year by affected Palestinian villages of
Bil’in and Jayyous and by Norwegian, Palestinian, Israeli, and
international activist groups, including Adalah-NY, calling on the
Norwegian government to divest from Africa Israel.
The companies of Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev have been the target
of a boycott campaign that led UNICEF and Oxfam to renounce donations
from Leviev, the British government to sever business ties with
Leviev, celebrities to seek distance from him, and divestment by other
major investment firms. more>>
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In 2009, Norway’s pension fund divested in Elbit Systems, an Israeli
defense electronics firm, because of its involvement in building
Israel’s illegal Separation Wall.
On March 29, 2011, EuropeNews headlined, “Norway: Socialist Left Party
to Vote on Motion Calling for Bombing Israel if it Acts against Hamas
in Gaza,” saying:
Former Finance Minister, now Education Minister Kristin Halvorsen’s
Socialist Left Party (SV), (part of Norway’s three party ruling
coalition with the Centre Party and the Labour Party) supports a
measure supporting military action against Israel if it attacks Hamas.
Part of its statement said:
“The credibility of the world community in its confrontation with
(Gaddafi) is undermined when there is no reaction against other states
in the region (that) commit injustices against (their) civil
population. The greater world community must therefore also react
against Israeli air attacks on the Gaza strip.”
MOSCOW - Arkady Gaydamak, the Israeli tycoon convicted by a French court last month of smuggling arms to Angola, blasted the case as "pure politics" in an interview published Wednesday.
Gaydamak, born in Moscow, professed his innocence to the Russian daily Vedomosti, three weeks after he was convicted in absentia and sentenced to six years in jail for organising arms sales to Angola during its 1990s civil war.
"I personally never took part in the deliveries of military equipment," said Gaydamak, whose business interests have ranged from Angolan oil exports to Russian media outlets to Israeli sports teams.
...The tycoon said in the interview that he has French, Angolan, Israeli and Canadian citizenship and there was "nothing interfering" with him receiving a Russian passport too.
The huge Soviet-made arsenal that fuelled Angola's grim civil war included 420 tanks, 150,000 shells, 170,000 anti-personnel mines, 12 helicopters, and six warships and was worth 790 million dollars.
Background: 2007: Gaydamak is connected to Lev Leviev and Putin and Chabad
In a move that brought the feud between Russian tycoons Arkady Gaydamak and Lev Leviev to a new high, Russian President Vladimir Putin invited Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, an associate of Gaydamak, and not Rabbi Berel Lazar, who is close to Leviev, to a meeting with representatives of the European Jewish Congress at the Kremlin on Wendnesday.
The feud pits Lazar's Chabad Association of Jewish Communities in Russia, which Leviev heads, against Goldschmidt's Russian Jewish Congress of which Gaydamak is president.
...Jews in Russia also believe that Putin reached the conclusion that a rabbi who does not represent all the Chabad movements in Russia can not serve as the representative of the entire Jewish-Russian community. Because of this, Putin turned to Goldschmidt.
The sudden turn of events in Moscow may also have an effect on Israeli politics. In contrast to Lazar, Goldschmidt is a Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox rabbi and is very close to Rabbi Elyashiv, a powerful political figure in Jerusalem. Goldschmidt's improved standing in Russia could help Gaydamak in his plans to run for mayor of Jerusalem.
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Norway Divests from Leviev companies over Israeli settlement
construction NEW YORK: In a major victory for the international
movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel,
the Norwegian government announced today that it has divested from Lev
Leviev’s company Africa Israel Investments and its construction
subsidiary Danya Cebus due to their construction of Israeli
settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The move followed
a campaign of more than a year by affected Palestinian villages of
Bil’in and Jayyous and by Norwegian, Palestinian, Israeli, and
international activist groups, including Adalah-NY, calling on the
Norwegian government to divest from Africa Israel.
The companies of Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev have been the target
of a boycott campaign that led UNICEF and Oxfam to renounce donations
from Leviev, the British government to sever business ties with
Leviev, celebrities to seek distance from him, and divestment by other
major investment firms. more>>
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Young Israelis of the year: Nadav Grinshpon, 37: Rebuilding an empire
09/17/2009 14:28 Sharon Wrobel
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The investments of real-estate empire Africa Israel Investments Ltd.,
controlled by Russian billionaire Lev Leviev, are foundering day by
day amid the global crisis weighing on its assets. Against such a
reality, 37-year-old Nadav Grinshpon has jumped to the top of the
pyramid of the empire over the past year, rising to one of the
strongest assets Leviev has left as the group has focused on selling
assets after a slump in the value of its real-estate investments in
the US and Russia led to difficulties in refinancing its long-term
debt. Considered the right hand of the oligarch, Tel Aviv-born
Grinshpon, who is involved in almost every step of Leviev's business
activities between Namibia and Russia, was appointed deputy chairman
of Africa Israel Investment's board of directors in June, after
operating as its acting chief executive officer for eight months
before the appointment of Izzy Cohen as CEO. Grinshpon's career at the
Africa Israel Group began more than 10 years ago. He has held
positions in several companies of the group from chief financial
officer at Memorand Management Ltd. in 1998 to CEO of Memorand Group
Ltd. in 2002. Since 2005, he has served as a director of Africa Israel
Investments and since 2007 he has been the group's adviser on
investments and financing. Last year he took up a number of positions
at several subsidiaries of the group, such as chairman of the board of
directors at Africa Israel Properties Ltd. and director at Africa
Israel Residences Ltd., Afi Development Plc., Africa Israel Industries
Ltd. and Denya Cebus Ltd. Since January 2008, Grinshpon has also
served as a director at Blue Square Israel, in which the Africa Israel
Group holds a controlling interest through its holdings in the Alon
Israel Oil Company Ltd. Furthermore Grinshpon is a director at Dor
Alon Energy Israel Ltd. and Dor Alon USA Energy Inc. Grinshpon,
married and the father of three, is a CPA, and holds a bachelor's
degree in business administration and accounting from the College of
Management. Before joining the ranks of the Africa Israel Group, he
was senior vice president of a communications company in Eastern
Europe and prior to that worked as manager of the economic department
of Zohar, Zohar & Co., an Israeli accounting firm.
Diamond and real estate baron is setting up in style with a $50m executive jet and $70m house.
By Michael Rochvarger | Jan.08, 2008 | 12:00 AM
Lev Leviev is moving his business and himself from Israel to England, for which the master of Africa Israel Investments evidently needs mobility. AFI Development, a member of the Africa Israel group that is listed for trade in London, has therefore bought a plane. This is no propeller-driven biplane; it is a Bombardier Global 5000, one of the biggest and most prestigious executive jets to be had.
The Bombardier will also be made available to Africa Israel Properties, Danya Cebus, Africa Israel Industries (the steelworks formerly known as Packer Plada) and Leviev's privately-owned companies. The Orthodox businessman himself and Africa Israel's acting CEO, Avinadav Grinshpon, may also use the plane personally, for which pleasure they will pay AFI the same rate as the Africa Israel group companies.
Lev Leviev is moving his business and himself from Israel to England, for which the master of Africa Israel Investments evidently needs mobility. AFI Development, a member of the Africa Israel group that is listed for trade in London, has therefore bought a plane. This is no propeller-driven biplane; it is a Bombardier Global 5000, one of the biggest and most prestigious executive jets to be had.
How much AFI paid is not known, but industry sources figure the plane is worth about $50 million. The only other Israeli businessman who has a Bombardier Global 5000 is Eitan Wertheimer, who sold 80% of Iscar to Warren Buffett for about $4 billion.
Africa Israel did not release an announcement about the acquisition. A company spokesman said there was no need to do so: All it formally needed was approval from the general assembly of shareholders.
Ahead of his move to London, the self-made business magnate sold his previous executive jet to online gaming tycoon Noam Lanir for $15 million. On February 11, Africa Israel will be convening a special assembly of shareholders to approve an arrangement for use of the new jet between the subsidiary, AFI, and other Africa Israel group companies. AFI is responsible for handling Africa Israel's real estate business in Russia.
The Bombardier will also be made available to Africa Israel Properties, Danya Cebus, Africa Israel Industries (the steelworks formerly known as Packer Plada) and Leviev's privately-owned companies. The Orthodox businessman himself and Africa Israel's acting CEO, Avinadav Grinshpon, may also use the plane personally, for which pleasure they will pay AFI the same rate as the Africa Israel group companies.
Investors may wonder why Africa Israel actually needs the jet. The company explained that it and its subsidiaries have worldwide operations in residential real estate, yield-generating properties, hotels, construction, infrastructure and steelmaking. Africa Israel operates in the United States, Middle East, Russia, several other former Soviet states, eastern Asia and central America.
In short, for its people to move about efficiently, they need robust private transportation. Moreover, Africa Israel pointed out, there are not always routine commercial flights to the destinations it needs.
The Bombardier Global 5000 can seat 15 passengers, not including the crew, and boasts a range of 8,500 kilometers, rendering it capable of either trans-Atlantic flights or flights between Europe and the Far East, including India, where Africa Israel has been striking roots. Africa Israel took pains to stress that any company executive using the plane will pay the full rate of $5,000 an hour plus $2,000 for each day the plane spends in the destination country, along with the costs of accommodation for plane and crew.
And if several executives from different Africa Israel group companies share the plane on a given trip, they will just have to come to an arrangement about the costs, Africa Israel shrugged. If they squabble, Leviev will decide himself and that will be that.
Once a year, the Africa Israel audit team will have to update the prices paid by group companies for using the plane in accordance with market rates.
The Africa Israel group companies have already budgeted for use of the plane in 2008. Africa Israel Investment itself has budgeted $4 million, Africa Israel Properties - $2 million, Danya Cebus - $700,000, Africa Israel Industries (Packer) - $300,000, and Leviev's private companies - a combined $400,000.
However, approval by the general assembly of shareholders is still required for all this to come about.
Conflict diamonds, Israeli settlements and the Lieberman-Gertler connection
Posted on by Andrew
The ultra-nationalist Israeli political figure Avigdor Lieberman has made a name for himself with his anti-Arab vitriol and hard-line stance on Israeli claims to the West Bank. But the frequent headlines concerning his many inflammatory remarks tend to crowd-out under-reported allegations surrounding his ascent to power—namely—those concerning his numerous shady business dealings and conflicts of interest while serving in previous governments. For a while now it has been occasionally reported that Lieberman faces a possible indictment for bribery and money laundering. In-depth exposes in Ha’aretz have gone further than most sources in describing his involvement with a shadowy underworld that ties certain Israeli political and business groups with diamond moguls, Russian oligarchs, arms dealers and foreign bank accounts. There is good reason to believe that the two roles Lieberman take on, of the Zionist firebrand and the secretive businessman, are beginning to overlap in a manner that represents a larger trend.
Mr. Lieberman is a steadfast advocate of Israeli settlement activity and himself lives in the West Bank settlement of Nokdim. One of Lieberman’s associates, the scion of a well-known family that made its fortune off the diamond trade, serves as a perfect case of the overlap between politically-connected business moguls and Zionist efforts to colonize the West Bank. As we shall see, it is part of a nexus in which the profits made from neo-colonial arrangements in Africa are being used to fund Israeli settler-colonists in occupied Palestine.....
The issue of Lieberman’s allegedly illicit financial arrangements first came out publicly in 2000, when a report by the State Comptroller discovered that his party, Yisrael Beitenu, had “received a million dollar credit line from a bank in Israel, using a bank guarantee from Vienna for the credit line. The Viennese bank [...] was given a personal guarantee of the million dollar guarantee by a foreign resident.” The foreign resident turned out to be an Austrian businessman named Martin Schlaff, who is also suspected of having bribed the now comatose ex-PM Ariel Sharon.
Central to the allegations against Lieberman is a company he established in the late 1990s called Nativ el Hamizrach (“Path to the East”), an international trading company. He had just resigned his position as PM Netanyahu’s director general in 1997 and decided to use his political influence and numerous connections for more profitable ends. One of his first successes was on behalf of an Austrian bank. He made $3 million predicting a devaluing of the Russian ruble. This was apparently enough to raise the suspicions of Israel’s National Fraud Investigation Unit (NFIU), which took depositions from officials at the bank. None of them were able to adequately explain how Lieberman could have correctly predicted the devaluation........
An Israeli tycoon, the Virgin Islands, and Africa's blood diamonds
Israeli diamond tycoon Dan Gertler, grandson of Israel Diamond Bourse founder Moshe Schnitzer, recently purchased stakes in oil and mining projects in the Congo. It's unclear where the money is going.
By Jason Stearns, Guest blogger / June 22, 2010
Israeli diamond tycoon Dan Gertler appears to be working his magic again in the Congo. Various sources have reported his involvement in Caprikat, a company registered in the British Virgin Islands that was reported to have taken oil blocks 1 and 2 in Lake Albert. At the same time, he is reportedly behind Highwinds, another British Virgin Islands-based company, which is reportedly taking over the lucrative Kolwezi Tailings copper & cobalt concession that is being expropriated from Canadian company First Quantum.
Neither company has any reported expertise in mining or oil drilling. They both appear to be newly-founded companies.
In both cases, Mr. Gertler's alleged companies have stepped in to take over concessions whose worth is well-known and that are being claimed by other parties. In the case of Kolwezi, First Quantum says it has already sunk $700 million in the project, whose rich mineral deposits are well-known. In Lake Albert, the blocks are being claimed by two other parties already – Tullow Oil first had the rights for both blocks, one of which was sold on to Divine Inspiration, much to the alarm of Tullow. On the one hand, this makes the investments safe bets for Gertler, as at least he knows the value of the concessions. On the other hand, he will have to weather the international legal disputes that are currently unfolding. (First Quantum has gone to arbitration, while at the same time being sued by the Congolese state for $12 billion).
Gertler was just 27 when he first became involved in the Congo in 2000, obtaining a monopoly of diamond exports (worth around $600 million) in return for $20 million. He had previously been involved in diamonds in Angola and he is the grandson of Moshe Schnitzer, the founder of the Israel Diamond Bourse. He is now one of the richest Israelis.............
Gertler also recently bought the BIC bank from Congolese businessman Pascal Kinduelo (whose curious involvement in the Divine Inspiration deal was also documented here). And he has been rumored to be involved in several offshore oil concessions, as well, in the Atlantic off the Congolese coast.........
There are "worrying" matters in the secret cables recently released by WikiLeaks, said Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov.
Speaking for the Bulgarian National Radio at the close of the OSCE meeting in Astana, Parvanov did not specify precisely what those worrying things were.
The Bulgarian President underscored that in his contacts with US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton they have not discussed potential links between members of the previous cabinet and Russian mafia bosses. The topic of such links was among the hottest point in cables sent by Clinton to the American Embassy in Sofia, as revealed by WikiLeaks.
"As far as ties to controversial Russian circles are concerned, perhaps the American Embassy would be interested by documented information published by Bulgarian media some ten years ago about certain "family foundations"," said Parvanov adding he is just joking.
The Bulgarian President was probably refering to information around the funding of the rightist Union of Democratic Forces in the late 90s, which was then chaired by Ivan Kostov, Bulgaria's PM 1997-2001.
The UDF was said to be financed by a network of foundations, one of them created by Kostov's wife Elena Kostova, some of which had admitted they have received funds from offshore companies. The names of controversial Russian figures Michael Cherney (Chorny) and Grigoriy Luchanski.
