"...the private equity and impact investing industries still don't want to even utter the word 'Abraaj,'...ostriches with their heads in the sand, hoping to whole thing will go away."
"He'd fill the holes he created by raising new capital, with fundraising bolstered by falsified valuations. If that failed, he'd surreptitiously borrow money so that Abraaj's bank accounts looked 'full' in quarterly statements sent to LPs."
November 13, 2021
"This same test is also at the heart of Julian Assange’s defence against the United States government in his own extradition challenge that he faces at a UK jail."👀
"...Egyptian-born Mustafa Abdel Wadood & Sri-Lankan born Sev Vettivetpillai have now admitted guilt to most charges after striking deals with the US authorities."
"The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) on Tuesday announced that it will fine two Abraaj-affiliated companies 1.15 billion dirhams ($315 million)."
Dubai fines two Abraaj companies $315 million ara.tv/ykdhf
June 20, 2018
"The U.S. asset manager reached an initial agreement to acquire Abraaj’s Latin American, sub-Saharan African, North African and Turkish fund-management businesses..."👀
"Zelenskiy laid out the charges at a rapidly scheduled press conference Friday, saying he had recordings of people from Akhmetov’s circle, in Ukraine and Russia, discussing a coup with $1 billion price tag."
"The plan to remove the FARC from the list, the official said, comes after an annual review that included input from the intelligence community, law enforcement, the U.S. embassy & the State Department."
"Recognizing the sensitivity of the issue, the White House was quick to hold a conference call on Wednesday to explain the decision, which was not supposed to be made public for days but surfaced on Tuesday afternoon when The Wall Street Journal reported on the impending move."👀
Who owns Wall St. Journal again?
"...Rupert Murdoch's cherished newspaper, which is a key part of the News Corp portfolio."
Wall Street Journal reporters object while opinion section prints Trump's letter to the editor cnn.com/2021/10/27/med…
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"The Macau government confirmed in a press release issued on Saturday that Alvin Chau Cheok Wa – the head of junket operator Suncity Group – has been detained in Macau."
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"...Chau’s gaming group has a controlling stake in Tigre de Cristal in Russia’s Far East and is readying to begin the construction of a massive integrated resort casino in Manila."
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"It accuses him and another individual...of being involved in a cross-border gambling outfit that had allegedly established casino operations in mainland China."
Suncity CEO Alvin Chau Warrant: World’s Biggest Junket Boss Faces China Arrest casino.org/news/suncity-r…
"The two intelligence agencies secretly arranged for 9 FBI agents to temporarily become CIA operatives in the overseas prison network where the spy agency used torture to interrogate prisoners."
"The once-secret program came to light in pretrial proceedings in the death penalty case. The proceedings are examining whether the accused mastermind of the [9/11] plot, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and his 4 co-defendants voluntarily confessed after years in the black site network."
"At issue is whether the military judge will exclude from the eventual trial the testimony of FBI agents who questioned the defendants in 2007 at Guantánamo and also forbid the use of reports that the agents wrote about each man’s account of his role in the hijacking conspiracy."
"It is not clear why the Rowlands would choose to refinance properties owned by Dmytro Firtash, who has been under an FBI indictment since 2013 and is currently under house arrest in Vienna..."👀
"The questions follow revelations about a group of wealthy donors who have given money to the Conservatives and have business links to Russia or other wealthy Russians."