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- Financial Crimes
- The Magnitsky Act – Sanctions for abuse
- Dan Gertler, Diamonds in Congo; HSBC Swiss Leaks; The Paradise Papers
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- Money Laundering-Covering up crimes and repatriating ill-gotten gains into the economy.
- Diamonds are great vehicles for money laundering because they are high value in a small space and can be painted black to devalue them at customs. Watch The Dubious Friends of Donald Trump: King of Diamonds about Lev Leviev. “Diamonds have a long history of being linked to conflict and violence,” said Michael Gibb of the international human rights group Global Witness. “The ease with which diamonds can be converted into tools of war, when not sourced responsibly, is astonishing.” ICIJ
- The UN’s anti-conflict diamond effort is the Kimberley Process, cofounder Ian Smillie.
- Human Trafficking
- Sex Trafficking
- Pedophilia
- GOP Sexual Abuse
- Catholic Sexual Abuse
- Baptist Sexual Abuse
- #MeToo-Time’s Up for Sexual Abuse
- “Les Wexner, who in 2012 donated $250,000 to a super PAC supporting former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney” Victoria’s Secret, The Limited, etc. billionaire benefactor to convicted pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein
- Dan Gertler-1997 Israeli Diamond Dealer went to Congo, busted for a secret deal between Glencore (Marc Rich, 1974) and Congolese friend, President Joseph Kabila, who paid $20 million to give Gertler and Glencore diamond rights in exchange for Israeli arms and training by Israeli military officials. The rights were grossly undervalued by $1.3 billion in the 2013 Africa Progress Report. Concordia Marketing Group Inc., a British Virgin Islands firm with Beny Steinmetz’s brother Daniel. Magnitsky Act Sanctions. HSBC Swiss Leaks
- Beny Steinmetz– Diamonds–Israel‘s richest family with business in Angola, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, and a Guinea lawsuit. Nephew Raz invests with Kushner in Trump Bay Street Jersey City, paid Rudy Giuliani large sums before his 2007 presidential run from the Steinmetz’s Sage Capital Growth VC firm. Congolese Diamond Dealer, Israeli Dan Gertler & Beny’s brother Daniel are beneficial owners of Concordia Marketing Group Inc., a British Virgin Islands firm. Pentler Holdings bribed following a Soros & UK probe. HSBC Swiss Leaks – Pentler Pacific Ltd
- Deutsche Bank– Money Laundering in Putin‘s VTB Bank-backed loans
- Alfa Bank– Semion Mogilevich
- Prevezon
- Bank of Cyprus– Trump Sec. of Commerce Wilbur Ross
- Halkbank-Mehmet Hakan Atilla (32 months prison May 16, 2018)-Largest US-prosecuted money laundering case in history Turkey evading sanctions on Iranian oil; Mike Flynn tried to kidnap Erdogan’s foe, Fetullah Gulen.
- Reza Zarrab (b. 1984 as Reza Sarraf) is an Iranian-Turkish Gold Trader, May 18, 2016 charged with conspiring to launder money, bank fraud, and evading US sanctions on Iran via RSG Gold, Operated out of Trump Tower Istanbul. Turkish President Erdogan wanted released until Zarrab agreed to cooperate with SDNY prosecutors. Zarrab is married to Turkish pop star Ebru Gundes. Zarrab’s companies: Royal Holding AS–Trump Tower 2, Floor 35, Istanbul-Holding company for RSG Gold (Turkey’s largest Gold Exporter), RSG Altin, I Volga, Royal Mobilya/Royal Furniture, Royal Craft (ship building), Royal Shipping, Are Aviation, Great Success from Volgam; Yacht is “60 Years”December 17, 2013 Turkish police raided state-run Halkbank (whose General Manager, Suleyman Aslan, Zarrab bribed and it held $3 billion of Iranian funds), Zarrab and construction tycoon Ali Agaoglu‘s offices in wide-ranging corruption probe about Erdogan’s political threat posed by Gulen (exiled 1999, accused of trying to establish an Islamic state, residing in Pennsylvania), led by the Gulen-supporting prosecutor Zekeriya Oz. Case about bribes for public projects, ignoring zoning regulations. Zarrab confessed to paying tens of millions in bribes to Economic Minister Zafer Caglayan (who asked for 50% of profits) in an Gold-for-Oil trade scheme with Iran. Head of the Erdogan opposition party (Republican People’s Party) Kemal Kilicdaroglu, warned the US of strained relations following a leaked Turkish intelligence report on a 2013 investigation; Zarrab testified that Turkish President Erdogan directed sanction-evading trade with Ziraat Bank and VakifBank in 2012; Zarrab testified that he paid for prostitutes; arrested in March 2016 with $102,000, claiming on his way to vacation Walt Disney World; Zarrab funneled $45,000 to a US prison guard through his Turkish attorney & paid other inmates to use their cell phones.Quid Pro Quo
- Turkey
- Iran
- Money Laundering
- Fmr.US Attorney Preet Bharara-Giuliani called on February 24, 2017, Mukasey told Fmr. AG Jeff Sessions about trip to Turkey to meet Erdogan, FIRED in MARCH, replaced by prosecuting US Attorney Joon H. Kim. Federal District Court Judge Richard M. Berman
- Rudy Giuliani–Bracewell Giuliani through January 19, 2016– Bayrock/KazBay; Greenberg Traurig (resigned May 10, 2018, after embarrassing, conflicting media appearances about Stormy Daniels hush money payments, GT is the law firm for Deutsche Bank, Trump Organization, & Kushner Co.). GT and Michael Mukasey’s, Debevoise & Plimpton, both represented banks that prosecutors say were victims in the case. Attorney for Zarrab, lobbied US officials outside of court for Zarrab; Attorney for Trump; admitted to arranging a swap of Zarrab for jailed American pastor Andrew Brunson in Turkey (released October 12, 2018 after 2 yrs). Giuliani met with Erdogan March 24, 2019.
- Fmr. Attorney General for Bush, Michael Mukasey-Attorney for Zarrab
- Brian Ballard, Ballard Partners, RNC Finance, Trump Campaign Fundraiser, $125,000/month contract to represent Halkbank in August 28, 2017 FARA Amendment adding Halkbank; Maldives Marketing & PR February 21, 2018 Fmr. Pres. arrested for money laundering; Turkey/Erdogan May 19, 2017; Socialist Party of Albania April 13, 2017; AzerbijianEmbassy April 24, 2018;Qatar embassy June 29, 2018; Dominican Republic April 5, 2017 including Ballard’s donations to the RNC ($100,000 February 3, 2017) and Marco Rubio Victory Comm. March 30, 2017 ($25,000) & $1.2 million contract with Dominican Republic August 21, 2017. h/t @ericgarland
- Benjamin Brafman-Zarrab’s lead attorney, confirmed the Giuliani–Mukasey-Erdogan meeting on March 24, 2019 to discuss dropping the US case against Zarrab
- Rex Tillerson–Trump told Tillerson to talk to Giuliani and help Zarrab; Tillerson objected to Trump’s request, revealed after the July 25 call with Ukraine President Zelensky, leading to Impeachment
- Reza Zarrab (b. 1984 as Reza Sarraf) is an Iranian-Turkish Gold Trader, May 18, 2016 charged with conspiring to launder money, bank fraud, and evading US sanctions on Iran via RSG Gold, Operated out of Trump Tower Istanbul. Turkish President Erdogan wanted released until Zarrab agreed to cooperate with SDNY prosecutors. Zarrab is married to Turkish pop star Ebru Gundes. Zarrab’s companies: Royal Holding AS–Trump Tower 2, Floor 35, Istanbul-Holding company for RSG Gold (Turkey’s largest Gold Exporter), RSG Altin, I Volga, Royal Mobilya/Royal Furniture, Royal Craft (ship building), Royal Shipping, Are Aviation, Great Success from Volgam; Yacht is “60 Years”December 17, 2013 Turkish police raided state-run Halkbank (whose General Manager, Suleyman Aslan, Zarrab bribed and it held $3 billion of Iranian funds), Zarrab and construction tycoon Ali Agaoglu‘s offices in wide-ranging corruption probe about Erdogan’s political threat posed by Gulen (exiled 1999, accused of trying to establish an Islamic state, residing in Pennsylvania), led by the Gulen-supporting prosecutor Zekeriya Oz. Case about bribes for public projects, ignoring zoning regulations. Zarrab confessed to paying tens of millions in bribes to Economic Minister Zafer Caglayan (who asked for 50% of profits) in an Gold-for-Oil trade scheme with Iran. Head of the Erdogan opposition party (Republican People’s Party) Kemal Kilicdaroglu, warned the US of strained relations following a leaked Turkish intelligence report on a 2013 investigation; Zarrab testified that Turkish President Erdogan directed sanction-evading trade with Ziraat Bank and VakifBank in 2012; Zarrab testified that he paid for prostitutes; arrested in March 2016 with $102,000, claiming on his way to vacation Walt Disney World; Zarrab funneled $45,000 to a US prison guard through his Turkish attorney & paid other inmates to use their cell phones.Quid Pro Quo
- Malta
- Danske Bank
- 1MDB–Jho Low‘s Malaysian theft
- The Panama Papers- Offshore shell corps. exposed by whistelblower revealed international oligarch-level crime rings in April 2016.
- The Paradise Papers
- HSBC Swiss Leaks-Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations’ extensive July 17, 2012 report, U.S. Vulnerabilities to Money Laundering,Drugs, and Terrorist Financing:HSBC Case History, included a failed request for documents from whistleblower Herve Falciani. HSBC evaded sanctions on Iran, Saudi Arabian Benevolence International Foundation, Bangladesh, and was believed to fund Al Qaeda & terrorist organizations, paying $1.9 billion to settle with US criminal and civil investigations on December 11, 2012, under Obama’s Assistant AG Lanny Breuer.
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- 3 of Osama bin Laden’s 20 “Golden Chain” 9/11 attackers had HSBC Swiss accounts: List of Early al Qaeda Donors Points to Saudi Elite, Charities The Wall Street Journal By Staff Reporter March 18, 2003
- 2008–HSBC employee-turned-whistleblower –Arms Trafficking expose
- Diamonds are great vehicles for money laundering because they are high value in a small space and can be painted black to devalue them at customs. Watch The Dubious Friends of Donald Trump: King of Diamonds about Lev Leviev. “Diamonds have a long history of being linked to conflict and violence,” said Michael Gibb of the international human rights group Global Witness. “The ease with which diamonds can be converted into tools of war, when not sourced responsibly, is astonishing.” ICIJ
- Russians Richard Davidovici, Kenneth Lee Akselrod and Mozes Victor Konig, Interpol fugitives for Russian crimes: fraud, smuggling and tax evasion. HSBC
- Omega Diamonds: Sylvain Goldberg, Robert Liling, and Ehud Arye Laniado laundered arms money in DR Congo & Angola, 2006, Belgian 2013 settlement for a $195 million tax dispute for falsely valuation of Congolese and Angolan diamonds & shifting profits into a Dubai account HSBC
- Emmanuel Shallop, Côte d’Ivoire convicted of blood diamond dealing from a Dubai account April 20, 2011. HSBC
- Mozes Victor Konig and Kenneth Lee Akselrod – Interpol Most Wanted list – diamond dealers at HSBC
- Erez Daleyot, a Belgian-Israeli diamond tycoon “reportedly under investigation by Belgian authorities for money laundering and tax evasion” NYC Partner Lazare Kaplan International claimed plaintiff defrauded of money from Daleyot in HSBC MEDIS group accounts that funded $20 million bribes Antwerp Diamond Bank officials ~2005
- Arkadi Gaydamak, a Russian-Israeli convicted in 1990s “Angolagate” sometimes partnered with Daleyot ICIJ HSBC Warrant for arrest December 2000 but fled to Israel
- Dan Gertler-1997 Israeli Diamond Dealer went to Congo, busted for a secret deal between Glencore (Marc Rich, 1974) and Congolese friend, President Joseph Kabila, who paid $20 million to give Gertler and Glencore diamond rights in exchange for Israeli arms and training by Israeli military officials. The rights were grossly undervalued by $1.3 billion in the 2013 Africa Progress Report. Concordia Marketing Group Inc., a British Virgin Islands firm with Beny Steinmetz’s brother Daniel. Magnitsky Act Sanctions. HSBC Swiss Leaks
- Beny Steinmetz– Diamonds–Israel‘s richest family with business in Angola, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, and a Guinea lawsuit. Nephew Raz invests with Kushner in Trump Bay Street Jersey City, paid Rudy Giuliani large sums before his 2007 presidential run from the Steinmetz’s Sage Capital Growth VC firm. Congolese Diamond Dealer, Israeli Dan Gertler & Beny’s brother Daniel are beneficial owners of Concordia Marketing Group Inc., a British Virgin Islands firm. Pentler Holdings bribed following a Soros & UK probe. HSBC Swiss Leaks – Pentler Pacific Ltd
- Arms Trafficking
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