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May 30, 2021 • 97 tweets • 31 min read • Read on X
Quick thread on the Nowruz Commission.

nowruzcommission.org/our-history-mi…
They claim that their purpose is: “To help cause a positive and measurable change in the lives of the people of Nowruz countries, their health, their education, their environment and their degree of care about “people” all over the world.”
Nowruz countries being the modern states that traditionally celebrate the Persian New Year: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine
The Nowruz Commission was founded by three men:
Nasser Kazeminy
Erlan Idrissov
Bijan R. Kian
The Nowruz Commission’s Secretary General is Robert Kelley.
Robert Kelley is the former in-house counsel for Flynn Intel Group.

politico.com/story/2019/03/…
“A former in-house lawyer for Flynn’s firm, Robert Kelley, also submitted to an interview, court papers say.”
Bijan Kian (aka Bijan Rafiekian) is Mike Flynn’s former business partner at Flynn Intel Group who was convicted of serving as an illegal unregistered foreign agent for Turkey.

ktla.com/news/nationwor…
Erlan Idrissov is a diplomat from the country of Kazakhstan. He served as Kazakhstan’s foreign minister from 2012-2016. He was ambassador to the United States from 2007-2012. He was ambassador to the UK from 2002-2007 and from 2017-present day.

thediplomat.com/2016/12/kazakh…
Erlan Idrissov received his degree in international economic relations from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

thebusinessyear.com/kazakhstan-201…
Kazakhstan is a former Soviet nation considered to be a hotspot of public corruption and financial crime.

riskscreen.com/kyc360/article…
Kazakhstan fugitive ex-Kazakh minister Mukhtar Ablyazov committed “fraud at an epic scale”.

thediplomat.com/2018/02/the-ab…
It was money that Mukhtar Ablyazov’s stole from Kazakhstan that Felix Sater laundered into the Trump Soho project via the shady criminal Bayrock deal.

occrp.org/en/investigati…
Remember the law firm of Morgan Lewis & Bockius? 2016 Russia Law Firm of the Year. Former tax counsel for Trump Org. Former firm of Timothy Shea, whom Billy Barr tapped to sabotage the Flynn and Stone sentencings. Yeah, well they maintain an office in Kazakhstan.
Nasser Kazeminy founded NJK Holding Corporation in 1988 and commenced the acquisition of a multitude of privately held businesses.
NJK paid Mike Flynn $140,000 to serve as an “advisor and consultant”.

detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…
“Flynn’s new filing also provided more details about his consulting work for NJK Holding Corporation, a firm headed by Iranian-American multi-millionaire Nasser Kazeminy. The filing shows that Flynn was paid more than $140,000 for his roles as adviser and consultant to…NJK.”
“Flynn also served as vice chairman at GreenZone Systems, a tech firm funded by NJK and headed by Bijan Kian, who was Flynn’s business partner in Flynn Intel Group”
Nasser Kazeminy has been accused by senior executives of the companies that he owns through NJK of using those companies to launder bribes to Republican senators.

m.startribune.com/exec-says-cole…
The FBI says that private investment firms like NJK are often used as money laundering vehicles.

reuters.com/article/bc-fin…
Where there is smoke…
Kazeminy’s son, Nader, divorced his wife in 2014, leading to a battle for a massive collection of wealth and exposing a grotesque lifestyle of excess.
m.startribune.com/millions-of-do…
“Nasser Kazeminy…admitted giving gifts worth more than $100,000 — including suits from Neiman Marcus — to Coleman, then a U.S. senator. Nasser Kazeminy hired former FBI Director Louis Freeh to investigate the gifts; Freeh issued a report saying they weren’t illegal.”
“Days after Freeh concluded his investigation, court documents show, Nasser Kazeminy gave Freeh’s wife a half-interest in a penthouse condominium on Worth Drive in Palm Beach, Fla., perhaps the most prestigious oceanfront address in the wealthy resort area.”
“Freeh later became a trustee of Nader Kazeminy’s trust funds, a job in which he apparently took little interest.
“He was not all that informed about anything,” a special magistrate handling the divorce case said in a hearing after Freeh testified about his mgmt of the trusts.”
“Freeh isn’t the only powerful official in the Kazeminys’ orbit. The board of GreenZone Systems, a Kazeminy-affiliated company, includes former CIA Director James Woolsey and the nation’s first Homeland Security secretary, former congressman and Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge.”
Reminder (since this thread has gotten a bit long): Greenzone was headed by former Flynn Intel Group business partner Bijan Kian.
Who was later convicted of working as an illegal unregistered foreign agent for Turkey.
So James Woolsey was on the board at GreenZone. Remember when Woolsey traveled to Turkey with Trump fundraiser Tommy Hicks and a Catholic priest on a plane owned by organized crime bosses to negotiate the release of a detained Mormon pastor?
Woolsey’s since-deceased wife Nancye Miller was a registered foreign agent for Turkey.

reuters.com/article/us-usa…
“Just eight days after formally joining Trump's campaign as an adviser on national security issues, Woolsey met on Sept. 20, 2016 with businessmen Ekim Alptekin and Sezgin Baran Korkmaz over lunch at the Peninsula Hotel in New York”
“Alptekin, an ally of Erdogan, had already agreed through one of his companies to a $600,000 contract with the consulting firm of Michael Flynn to research Gulen.”
Side note: Certain people living and working in Turkey with the blessing of the Erdogan government recently freaked out, when I suggested that Erdogan’s ties to organized crime are reason to doubt his loyalty to NATO.
And that those crime ties combined with China’s willingness to underwrite the Kanal Istanbul project might be reason to view Kanal Istanbul as a threat to western security. Is this really just a ploy to get Russian aircraft carriers from the base in Crimea to the Mediterranean?
Anyway back to the point. Remember how this thread started about the Nowruz Commission? Well as of 2017, Apltekin was listed as the commission’s vice chairman and a member of the board of directors. He has since been removed from their website. 🤔

talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/nowruz-comm…
“Alptekin, who paid Flynn Intel Group $530,000 to research and produce negative PR materials on exiled Turkish cleric Fetullah Gulen during the 2016 campaign, is listed as the commission’s vice chairman, a member of the board of directors and an ambassador representing Turkey.”
Now back to Woolsey:
“Woolsey was a member of Flynn's firm, the Flynn Intel Group, according to a Justice Department filing by the firm and an archive of the company's website”

reuters.com/article/us-usa…
So one more thing, and then I’ll stop. So remember how Kazeminy is a founder of Nowruz. And Kazeminy owns NJK. And NJK owned GreenZone. And Flynn, Kian, and Woolsey are all associated with GreenZone. And Freeh works for Kazeminy & NJK.
Well…in 2017, GreenZone was acquired by SAIFE.

prweb.com/releases/2017/…
And at one point, Louis Freeh’s son, Justin, was the vice president of operations and chief legal counsel for SAIFE.
Ok seriously now, this is the last thing for reals: Louis Freeh is an Opus Dei member who attended the same St Catherine of Siena church as convicted Russian spy Robert Hanssen, Billy Barr, Antonin Scalia, Rick Santorum, and Dick Gephardt.
Oh and sorry but Dick Gephardt is also a registered foreign agent for Turkey.
And remember how SAIFE acquired the assets of GreenZone? Well SAIFE is also a NJK company.
This is a little difficult to verify through OSINT, but according to Steve Sullivan’s LinkedIn profile, “NJK's primary holding, SAIFE, Inc. was initially a defense contractor and wanted to expand to the public sector.”

linkedin.com/in/stephensull…
Remember that Louis Freeh represented Russian real estate firm Prevezon in their money laundering case involving money stolen from the Russian people by senior Kremlin officials. This is the money over which Magnitsky was murdered.

businessinsider.com/fbi-director-l…
In the Prevezon case, he worked alongside Russian spy Natalia Veselnitskaya.

reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Traveling to Moscow to help senior Kremlin officials launder stolen money earned Freeh a mention in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Russia report.
Given that Freeh helps Kremlin spys launder stolen money and that Freeh & convicted Russian spy Robert Hanssen are both Opus Dei members who attended the same church, does it make you question how/why Freeh’s FBI failed to act on Mark Wauck’s tip about Hanssen for 10 years?
Mark Wauck reported Hanssen in 1991. Freeh was DIRFBI from 1993-June 2001. (He announced his resignation in May.) Hanssen was arrested in February 2001.
By the way, @FactFreeh challenges us to ask about Louis Freeh’s missing eye. So who falls asleep at noon a few miles from their vacation house, while the new DIRFBI and their congressman friend just happen to be in town visiting the local university?

burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/loc…
BTW, I apologize for some of these non-linear posts, but remember Woolsey’s wife the registered foreign agent for Turkey, Nancye Miller? Yeah well she is one of the Nowruz Commission ambassadors. Along with Sergei Kislyak. 🤦‍♂️

nowruzcommission.org/our-history-mi…
Was an ambassador. She is now deceased.
The Nowruz ambassador for Turkey is Ahmet Calik, chairman of Calik Holding.

nowruzcommission.org/nowruz-commiss…
@karolcummins any insight into the relationship of Calik Holding or Aktif Bank with the Reza Zarrab/Halkbank/Giuliani money laundering scandal?

courthousenews.com/turkeys-state-…
“In testimony, Zarrab said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ordered the illicit trade. Zarrab also accused former senior Turkish officials, including former Economy Minister Zafer Çağlayan, of accepting enormous bribes to look the other way.”
“Zarrab, whose company Royal Holding had an office in Trump Tower Istanbul, was previously represented by the president’s attorney Rudy Giuliani.”
“Karahan alleged that Erdoğan’s son-in-law Berat Albayrak helped Zarrab open a bank account at Turkey’s Aktif Bank.”
👇👇
“Albayrak, who had been the CEO of Aktif Bank’s corporate parent Çalık Holding at the time, was implicated in Halkbank’s indictment.”
Connecting back to Russia AGAIN! Calik’s Aktif Bank laundered money for Wirecard, which means that they laundered money for Russian intelligence services.
Wirecard is at the nexus between Russian geopolitical fuckery and global organized crime. So everybody understands why Freeh, Giuliani, Woolsey, Trump, etc keep working with money laundering networks of the Russian govt and global organized crime??

businessinsider.com/wirecard-why-r…
Thanks to @arapaho415 for reminding me about this thread. Woolsey’s buddy Korkmaz was in the news last week (June 2021) because DOJ is working to extradite him to face money laundering and fraud charges.

reuters.com/legal/governme…
Whoops, can’t believe I missed this the first time around! @jimstewartson @arapaho415 @karolcummins @sisu_sanity @clearing_fog

heavy.com/news/thomas-sc…
“Schoenberger has a son named Wolfgang from his marriage to Iranian American musician Faranak “Fara” Shahroozi, the cousin of NJK Holding Corporation founder and chairman Nasser Kazeminy…Kazeminy is also the godfather to Schoenberger and Shahroozi’s son.” Image
“In 2005, Schoenberger and Kazeminy formed Amadeus Investors LLC, which over time would pay Schoenberger in excess of $100,000,” Heavy’s source said.” Image
“In a 2015 deposition, Schoenberger claims that he worked on a covert operation planned for Afganistan with Bijan Kian in 2011. Kian was a partner with Flynn in the Flynn Intel Group and he was indicted in the Mueller investigation,” Heavy’s source clarified. Image
While Thomas Schoenberger has not been identified as the sole creator of QAnon…he’s been identified as a key player in the cult’s growth and widespread misinformation campaign, a source investigating the manipulating forces behind QAnon told Heavy. Image
Reminder (since this thread has gotten pretty long): Nasser Kazeminy and Bijan Kian, who both have alleged connections to Qanon player Thomas Schoenberger, are also founders of the Nowruz Commission.
Another Nowruz Commission member worth studying is Reza Vaziri.

nowruzcommission.org/our-history-mi…
On September 12, 2013 Mr. Reza Vaziri, former NC Country Ambassador in Azerbaijan, was elected as a member of the Board of Directors and appointed as Vice Chairman of the Nowruz Commission. Image
Reza Vaziri held a number of high-ranking positions in the pre-revolutionary Iranian Govt. He was the Head of Foreign Relations Office at the Ministry of the Imperial Court of Iran. At the time of the revolution, he was Chief of the Office of Political and International Affairs. Image
Reza Vaziri, Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Anglo Asian Mining Plc a publicly listed company in London Stock Exchange AIM Market, has been actively involved in business with Azerbaijan since just after its independence. Image
Mr. Vaziri is the founder of the US Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce since 1995, and has been appointed Co-Chairman for life. In his role with USACC, he has arranged & participated in a number of economic delegations to Azerbaijan & played a key role in bringing in US investment. Image
🚨🚨🚨
His former co-chairmen include James Baker, Dick Cheney, Richard Armitage and Terry Koonce. Image
Side note: This is the same James Baker who was working with Paul Manafort, just before Manafort went to work for the bin Ladin family construction business in Beirut.
The same James Baker who worked with the bin Ladin family to make investments in the Carlyle Group private equity firm and was meeting with Osama bin Ladin’s brother on 9/11.
The bin Ladin family was certainly concerned about finding appropriate investment opportunities at that time, since by some amazing incredible remarkable unbelievable coincidence, they had just made $770 million in a debt deal with the Russian govt arranged by Putin.
But hey, fortunately the FBI considers private equity to be an excellent vehicle for criminal money laundering.
Sorry for the brief detour. Now what is that we’re supposed to be threading about? Oh right, Reza Vaziri’s bio from the Nowruz Commission website!
Mr. Vaziri was awarded the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations (NECO) Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2012 along with General Raymond T. Odierno, Chief of Staff of US Army, and Admiral Robert Harward, the then-Deputy Commander of US Central Command. Image
Other recipients of this important medal are former US presidents Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and also Hillary Clinton and Tony Blair.
🤔🤔🤔 Image
The reason that I mention Vaziri here and now is because he is considered to be a central player in the Unaoil bribery and corruption scandal.

theage.com.au/interactive/20…
The Other Reza: Unaoil had another well-connected man named Reza helping out in Azerbaijan. His name was Reza Vaziri, an Iranian-expat and chief executive of UK listed company Anglo Asian Mining. Image
Like Reza Raein, Vaziri was a well-known figure among the elite business and political crowd in the US, and sat alongside former US secretaries of state James Baker and Henry Kissinger on the board of the highly respected US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce. Image
Former Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney sat on the board until 2000, when he became Vice-President of the US. Image
Speaking of Dick Cheney, let’s take another detour. Journalist Seymour Hersh reported that in the first few days of the Afghanistan war, someone from the White House ordered USSOF to stand down and allow Al Qaeda and Taliban forces to be airlifted to Pakistan.
Also speaking of Pakistan, did you know that in 1993, Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto hooked up Paul Manafort with the Pakistani secret intelligence service (ISI)?
The same Pakistani ISI that has been training and supporting Al Qaeda for decades.
Ok once again, I apologize for getting sidetracked. Let’s get back to Vaziri’s involvement with Unaoil:

Vaziri was also a big fish in Azerbaijan, where he started assisting Unaoil in 2001.

Huh…curious timing. 🤔 Image
In a leaked email sent by a Unaoil executive, Vaziri was described as being able to set up a meeting with Azerbaijan oil minister Natig Aliyev and prime minister Artur Rasizade “anytime”. Vaziri could get oil minister Natig to “say exactly what we want”. Image
The leaked Unaoil files show Vaziri provided inside information from a “friend” in Azerbaijan about project milestones and shortlists of bidders for work on a major pipeline project connecting several countries in the Caspian region. Image
In 2004, Unaoil paid Vaziri $400,000 for his help in Azerbaijan. The funds were paid to Vaziri's Swiss-based company Marian. Image
There is no suggestion in the emails that Unaoil’s payments to Vaziri were used to reward Azerbaijan officials or politicians.
Unaoil continued to work with Vaziri until at least 2009. Image
By the way, I’m not going to do a play-by-play on this entire Unaoil article here. But if you haven’t already, then you should read it. And note that it involves corruption within Azerbaijan's state oil company, SOCAR.

theage.com.au/interactive/20… Image
And understand that exposing the corruption between SOCAR and government officials in Malta concerning the purchase of natural gas for electricity production is what got journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia murdered.

occrp.org/en/thedaphnepr…
@arapaho415 I’ve added a few things to this “short thread”. 😉🤣🤣
It’s also important to understand how all of this connects to a Putin-connected Russian businessman named Zaikin and Turkish PM Erdogan’s son in law Albayrak here 🧵:
@beth_kania The Aktif Bank/Nowruz Commission/Reza Zarrab saga is one of the keys to understanding the much larger shadow policy agenda in the Middle East.
@beth_kania Which is prioritized around confronting Iran.

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