"Petrescu, 68, was one of Romania's richest men. He headed a major construction firm and owned a string of hypermarkets and malls. He also held Germany nationality,.."
"Moreover, he and Ion Tiriac did business together, after his return from Germany, after the Revolution."
[Who was the millionaire Dan Petrescu, Ion Țiriac's business partner. 'The richest Romanian' died in a plane crash in Milan] fanatik.ro/cine-era-milio…
"Through clever licensing, founding the first private bank of Romania to setting up retail, insurance, auto leasing, and airlines firms, the money began to roll in."
Meet tennis legend Ion Tiriac who's £1.2bn fortune makes him richer than Federer the-sun.com/sport/3658548/…
"...his assets range from one to three billion euros. In reality, Petrescu had moved his residence to the Principality of Monaco and therefore any account could be approximate to date."
[Sunday's tragedy has a strange coincidence. The plane crashed at the intersection of 'Marignano' & '8 ottobre 2001' streets in San Donato Milanese. The name 'October 8, 2001' was given in memory of another air disaster.]
"Investigators attributed Italy's worst air accident for 30 years to a combination of pilot error and poor visibility caused by fog, ruling out the initial suspicion of terrorist action."
"Now former H. Brooks employees say their employer stole money from them, including wages, health care premiums & contributions to retirement accounts."
Employees, former owners left in lurch after major Twin Cities produce company folds under new owner strib.mn/3z814q2
May 7, 2021
"Two years after a private equity firm acquired 2 iconic Twin Cities’ fresh produce operations, bankruptcy appears imminent as bills go unpaid & lawsuits accumulate."
"Gretchen Peters, who runs the Center on Illicit Networks & Transnational Organized Crime, was part of a 2012 US delegation to London to 'beg' [them] to take [it] seriously."
"This report confirms Britain’s ongoing role as a ‘laundromat’ for dirty money & reputations and has major national security implications. Action needs to be taken urgently to root out illicit wealth & nefarious influence."
"For example, Hambali and his subordinates met with at least two of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers in Malaysia as far back as January 2000, officials here say."
"Another investigation was conducted by Aleksandr Litvinenko...who worked with historian Yury Felshtinsky & published their conclusions in 2001, in Novaya Gazeta."
2 Decades On, Smoldering Questions About The Russian President's Vault To Power rferl.org/a/putin-russia…