Very interesting, the corruption that #DaphneCaruanaGalizia was covering before her murder lead to China & included Chinese oligarchs buying Maltese citizenship to become EU citizens through bribery. #ButNothingsHappening
The shell company used for the kickbacks, Macbridge, was set up by the mother-in-law of a Chinese executive with Accenture one of the largest & allegedly Swampy global consulting firms. It was a spin off from accounting firm Arthur Anderson implicated in the Enron case.
Accenture (formerly Anderson Consulting) has a long history & been in a variety of questionable issues. Facing pressure in the early 2000s for being a US federal contractor incorporated in Bermuda, a well known tax haven. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture
Accenture got a $297M contract to hire border patrol officers in 2018 at $40k per officer!
The Trump Admin cancelled it in 2019 after they had only hired 2 officers in 10 months during 2019 at a cost of $13M!
Accenture also got a lot of bad press for their contract as fact checkers for Facebook.
Yes the company whose executives are linked to a corruption scheme that included murdering reporters for telling the truth, got to decide what was fake news for Facebook!
So the mother-in-law of a Chinese exective for Accenture set up this shell company MaBridge in Hong Kong & a similar company was set up named Dow's Media Co LTD with the same structure/set up.
The second company was set up by another relative of Chen Cheng an executive with Accenture's China division.
The claim is that the shell company was set up to hide connections to a Chinese state owned enterprise...
That Chinese enterprise was Shanghai Electric Power and Chen was Accenture's representative handling their acquisition of Maltese energy resources. So Accenture was getting paid to engineer this sale which was corrupt & lead to Daphne's murder for exposing it.
The China Malta Visa program was also being run by someone with connections to Chen & his mother-in-law. While some of these companies in the loop for EU citizenship connect back to family members of Maltese politicians & Swamp creatures.
I am wondering if this connects to the German lawyer Henning Schwarzkopf who plead guilty in NY last week for money laundering. One of his specialties? Setting up shell companies in Hong Kong to hide assets for oligarchs...
Looks like Accenture gave Chen verification that he was acting for them so that he could open the off-shore bank account. An account opened with Mossack Fonseca exposed in the #PanamaPapersdaphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/05/money-…
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I guess for April Fools Day the @nytimes will publish a real news story today!
IRS caught Big Pharma company Bristol Myers dodging $1.4B by assigning patents to it's Ireland office. A common tactic to pay royalties on it's products into a low tax nation. #ButNothingsHappening
Multinational corporations buy off Swamp creatures around the world to make loopholes that they can drive billions in profits through to evade taxes.
Relying upon the corruption services industry (accountants, lawyers, & others) to hide the arrangements & defend them if caught.
Ah, now we see why the NY Times cares today. It wants to use it as an excuse to support the infrastructure tax increases. Of course these multinationals will just invent new tax avoidance schemes & small businesses will pay all the taxes just as it is not.
Something smells wrong with the fraud, Tyson & Company1 paid this guy $244M to but & feed cattle from 2016-2020 without them noticing there were no cattle? Really?
The fake cattle were then used to manipulate cattle prices in the markets?
Nothing but a billionaire global Swamp creature flipping on the politicians he was illegally funding in 2019 & DOJ using his cooperation in secret until today!
According to DOJ, he has been providing unique & extremely important cooperation during the 18 months since he confessed his guilt & handed over the #Receipts
Zurich's oldest private bank flips on it's customers, pay a $22M fine & confess to helping them evade $16M in US taxes. Agrees to hand over the #receipts & help the US prosecute these American oligarchs.
Rahn & Bodmer admitted to helping 340 US taxpayers evade taxes from 2004-2012 by concealing their identities from US authorities. They had a peak of $391M stashed in the bank to hide it from the IRS.
Looks like they got caught moving assets to shell companies in Panama after assets in Liechtenstein shell companies became exposed to US authority in 2008.
I bet the #PanamaPapers gave them the keys to understanding these shell companies & enabled authorities to track it.
Interesting, a German politician serving in the Bundestag was secretly getting abut $2M a year from a billionaire as 'consulting fees' to his law firm. Payments stopped a few months after he left office but exceeded 12M Euro from 2008-2015. #ButNothingsHappening.
Emilio Jose Heredia Collado, an oil trader for Swampy commodity trader Glencore has pled guilty & is cooperating with the DOJ for manipulating oil market prices to rig profitable trades for his employer. #ButNothingsHappening morningstar.com/news/dow-jones…
Glencore's activities are under investigation in dozens of countries & since the 1970s they have played a role in everything from illegal CIA operations, UN programs, Russian arms deals, and bribery of dictators & politicians on a global scale.
The founder of Glencore, Marc Rich, was infamously pardoned by Bill Clinton on his final day in office to sabotage the prosecutions of Rich & his enablers by the Republican lead DOJ.