Thread by @DawsonSField

Link University raided by Italian law enforcement!
Claiming tax breaks for research on intelligence but faking the research? Sounds like Halper!
Trying to read the translated version of an article short on details.
#ButNothingsHappening HT @ferny77528037
dagospia.com/rubrica-29/cro…

I'm sure we'll see more details but it seems 14 people with direct or indirect links to Link Uni, including former government minister Vincenzo Scotti, are under investigation.

Vincenzo Scotti is President of Link Campus, the Italian branch of the University of Malta. In the 90s he was Italy's Foreign Minister. He has been involved in many Swamp scandals, including a scheme to launder money through real estate for Italian Intel. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_…

He was also accused of graft in construction & waste management contracts for the 1990 World Cup in Italy. Of course he connects to #FIFA corruption...

The finance police are investigating that Link Uni's research consortium on intelligence & security services was faking research projects & claiming tax credits for the work. Wonder if that cash was laundered to Italian intel too?

Wanna guess that Professor Joseph Mifsud is one of the 14 people who was involved in this 'research' on the laundered dime of Italian taxpayers?

Found an article from 1993 covering the Italian Spy scandal. Where money was laundered through 3000 Swamp creatures to give off the books cash to the Italian spy agency SIDSE so they could pay the Mafia for dirty deeds.

If you follow me you won't be surprised to see it was all done with off-shore bank accounts, real estate including private villas, & art collections. With every one along the way getting their Swampy cut of course...

Vincenzo Scotti was allegedly pocketing $60,000 per month from covert operations funds & spent $1M to remodel his home...

The then President of Italy was accused of taking the money for years while he was Minister of the Interior. The former director of SIDSE was accused of making off with $70M with his secretary & mistress.

His mistress became the de facto treasurer of SIDSE & earned the nickname Czarina for using her relationship with the Director to run the agency.
She even bought a penthouse & a Picasso to hang in it with intelligence agency funds!

Private villas, buying an office building with government cash then laundering an addition $62M from the covert operations funds to the building owner.

At the time more than 10% of the personnel from Italy's 2 intelligence agencies were fired, arrested or retired early because of the scandal.
But of course, most escaped justice including Vicenzo Scotti as the government failed to prosecute vigourously.

Here's a link to the Chicago Tribune story on it.

Wonder how many of these players in 1993 got protected because it would expose Swampy connections to CIA & other partners of Italian intel?
chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-19…

Part of the reason that I connect these issues is because an Italian bank was making illegal loans to Saddam Hussein to buy weapons up to 1991. Then laundering the money through the CIA's BCCI bank.
washingtonpost.com/archive/opinio…

It also connects William Casey, Reagan's CIA Director who ran Spygate 1980 through Halper against President Carter. He started some of this while he was Nixon's SEC chairman...

BCCI was connected to a lot of shady middle eastern oil money, including the ones where were running Safari Club an off the books covert center for the CIA.
But BCCI then shifted to laundering cartel money through Panama with the aid of Manuel Noriega.

When I talk about the larger scandals, I discuss how these organized crime figures rig war, peace, sanctions & regime changes through corrupt intelligence & national security apparatus. Regime change, like the one Manuel Noriega ran into when he when BCCI was being investigated.

This lead to some major flare ups at the end of the GHW Bush Admin. Including FBI Director Sessions siding with the CIA to blame DOJ for letting CIA obstruct justice in the case. AG Barr engineered Sessions with an ethics report that Clinton had to resolve

https://twitter.com/DawsonSField/status/1268900426172243970?s=20

The bank involved in those loans to Saddam was actually an Italian govt. owned bank who was laundering the cash through the US to conceal it.

https://twitter.com/DawsonSField/status/1268900427799711746?s=20

Much of this corruption was supporting the work of the Safari Club of Mt. Kenya, with Adnan Khashoogi managing operations & arms deals & Saudi Prince Turkey al Faisal giving the orders.
Was the money disappearing in Italy funding these arms deals?

https://twitter.com/DawsonSField/status/1240680885311201283?s=20

The attempts to prosecute BCCI involved a small team at DOJ: FBI informant Robert Trump & probably his brother, prosecutors Comey, Mueller, Rosenstein, & DOJ leaders Terwiller & AG William Barr. A team decimated when Pres. Clinton cleaned out DOJ which saved BCCI & CIA involved.

. @MissMaga2016 Found a few more details on the raids & searches from this article, it seems they searched 27 companies who were paying Link Campus' Center for Reaseach in Security Studies (CRISS). The companies would pay CRISS to do fake studies, then claim tax breaks for it.

Seems like a perfect way to launder taxpayer dollars through the companies & into Link Campus' CRISS to pay for activities like those of Prof. Joseph Mifsud. There are lots of connections to Italian Swamp Creatures too.
ilfattoquotidiano.it/2020/07/15/inc…

One of the companies is represented by Stephan Roh, the attorney for Joseph Mifsud.

The companies are primarily in the logistics & cybersecurity fields. I wonder if they were performing services for Italian intelligence (authorized or not) & these tax breaks were meant as a means to compensate them for their services.

The Italian papers notice that this tax evasion scandal connects to figures involved in Spygate...
And now Italian finance police (similar to IRS) have the #receipts...

While the President of Link Univ. is a former Minister of the Interior with links to crimes to fund Italian intelligence operations & skim money from those operations, the customers are connected too. Including a former Italian Minister of Defense.

Another university official (Athletic Director?) is also a shareholder in one of the companies involved in the scheme.

One of the target companies Defendi Logistica is very interesting. They do courier services for Italian tax authorities & thus have inside information on tax investigations & they do records archiving. Which is very interesting to me.
linkedin.com/company/defend…

I have seen some other cases, where it seems as if records management & archiving companies may have been using their access to client's records (police, govt & tax records in this case) to data mine for insider information. Records are stored using automated OCR & keywords.

I've seen hints that OCR software providers might have kept a back door to find interesting documents. The ultimate insider information & source of material to black mail companies in court for deceiving investors...
Or spying on govt. agencies that use OCR for document retention

There is also an Italian Army Captain under investigation who owns Euralba Service who does a weird mix of business. Housekeeping is a good way to spy on organizations. But providing the staff for corporate parties & events could be too! euralbaservice.it/content/servizi

One of the companies claiming to be a victim is a helicopter rescue service co-owned with his brother by the League mayor of Tarquinia. They claim they were the victims, that they paid some for the project then had the tax credits rejected by the govt.

Their helicopter company has a history of getting sued for not paying for the leases on their helicopters & for allegations of tax evasion. But they have always seemed to get away.
They serve Italy, Kosovo, & Bosnia with services...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitaliana

New article found by @ferny77528037 has more details on the raid at Link Campus! #ButNothingsHappening #Spygate
Investigators took their servers & recordings of teleconferences! Video receipts!
m.dagospia.com/l-indagine-per…

Looks like a lot of #receipts: "accounting and non-accounting documents, agendas, computers, servers, bank documents, videoconferencing recordings"

In addition to the $15M tax fraud, Link is being investigated for selling easy to pass exams.
They also tried to raise a bunch of capital off the 2018 election in Italy, but the Swampy deal fell through. Wonder if someone got exposed in that deal?

That Swampy 2018 deal was allegedly involving Russian oligarchs backing Stephan Roh, but Roh says he was funded by the Ukrainians not the Russians. #Ukraine?

Yeah it kind of makes it hard to keep your Russian Collusion theory when the President of Link Campus is a former cabinet official who was in charge of SIDSE Italy's internal intelligence agency & was in a huge scandal with illegal off the books covert ops money 25 years ago.