The FBI is investigating 2019 failed mercenary plot related to civil war in Libya and what role, if any, Erik Prince had in attempted sale of Jordanian military equipment to help self-declared Libyan leader Khalifa Hifter, per six sources, by @matthewacole theintercept.com/2021/10/30/fbi…
"In particular, FBI agents from the Washington Field Office have inquired into Prince’s role in creating and then trying to market a modified crop duster as a military aircraft for use in conflicts around the world." theintercept.com/2021/10/30/fbi…
The Intercept previously reported on Prince’s effort to develop and sell crop dusters modified into military aircraft and confirms👇reporting FBI agents traveled to Cyrpus to inspect a modified American-manufactured crop duster related to investigation
Per Prince's lawyer he resigned from Chinese majority state owned Frontier Services Group 2 months after UN report on Libya mentioned FSG because of management disagreements
Trump’s social media deal partner took advice from ARC Group run by execs who had 3 companies sued by SEC to block their IPO - execs were a no show at hearings & received rare stop-order, only 5 have been issued by SEC since ARC @DEER_ECHO_@readkrystalhu reuters.com/article/usa-tr…
I tweeted the information about ARC execs SEC stop order a week ago - the Reuters story is the first detailed coverage I've seen and has important details, but does not mention that Trump's new partner Patrick Orlando was advised by ARC on 4 SPAC deals
ARC execs not only advised Trump's partner Orlando on 4 SPAC deals, @ktskts11 found 1st SEC filing for Orlando's firm Benessere Capital was subscription agmt which sold 2,875,000 shares to ARC Global Investments for $25k & signator was Hoyos (Arc Capital)
Trump’s new partner Patrick Orlando is CEO of another publicly listed special acquisition purpose corp (not linked to Trump) Yunhong International based in China
Yuhong and Giga Energy announced $7 billion deal in May but in September deal was cancelled
A quick clarification on "Luis Orleans-Braganza, a royal prince from Brazil" - Brazil does not have a ruling monarchy, but he is often referred to as a prince and is a member of the former imperial family
Not sure if this is related but this October 2019 Bloomberg story described raid on Oleg Deripaska-Linked real estate company Terra Services Ltd, US prosecutors were seeking filings in criminal probe, laundering investigation grew out of Mueller's work
The FBI are at Oleg Deripaska's DC mansion which WaPo story is owned by Hestia International and operated by Gracetown Inc - the chief exec of Gracetown is Graham Bonham-Carter who worked for Terra Services
Thread on Paolo Zampolli, a close friend of the Trumps who managed Melania's modeling career and claims he introduced her to Donald
Zampolli has links to Trump's real estate business including Trump Soho and an interesting link to Icelandic group that financed Trump & Bayrock
Paolo Zampolli was a partner at modeling agency Metropolitan Models and secured a work visa for Melania Knauss (Trump) in the 1990s cbsnews.com/news/former-mo…
Zampolli says he introduced Melania to Donald and, per this NY Times article, after the modeling business Zampolli entered the real estate business as Trump's director of international development before Zampolli went on to found Paramount Group
Pandora Papers: An offshore data tsunami
The Pandora Papers’s 11.9 million records arrived from 14 different offshore services firms in a jumble of files and formats – even ink-on-paper – presenting a massive data-management challenge
This week in an unusual move the US sent Aleksei Burkov - a Russian national sentenced to 9 years in prison for operating 2 cybercrime forums and stealing $20+ million from US consumers through credit card fraud scheme - back to Russia
Why the Hell Did America Just Send This Master Cybercriminal Back to Russia? The U.S. spent years tracking down elite Russian cybercriminal Burkov and putting him in jail. The decision to let him return to Moscow raises thorny questions, by @shanvav