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Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal w/ Bulat Utemuratov - Kazakhstan billionaire in 2019 somagnews.com/nadal-djokovic…

> Glencore

Glencore is under investigation by the US Department of Justice in relation to potential violations of bribery and corruption laws.

kiar.center/bulat-utemurat…

> Prince Andrew , trade envoy > elite education

https://twitter.com/jebrittan2/status/1479824365411786753

HSBC [HQ in London] > Clinton & Frank Giustra > Kazakhstan

theworldweekly.com/reader/view/94…

Links to arms dealing emerge repeatedly in the files obtained by ICIJ
theworldweekly.com/reader/view/94…

Guardian reported in 2007 that Vithlani..was an alleged middleman who arranged for the British arms company BAE to secretly pay $12 million into an unspecified Swissbank account in return for the Tanzanian govnt buying an overpriced military radar system

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1476739645744590938

Another HSBC customer linked to BAE was Fana Hlongwane.. The U.K. Serious Fraud Office said in statements submitted to South African prosecutors in 2008 that Hlongwane received money from BAE through a disguised chain of offshore intermediaries in order to promote arms deals.

2008, French prosecutors began proceedings against 40+ people implicated in corrupted arms sales to Angola .. The scandal .. alleged to have involved more than $50 million in bribes exchanged for contracts worth nearly $800 million, named .. the son of Francois Mitterrand

The HSBC documents show conversations between Wang Chia-Hsing, who is described as an interior decorator and shown with an upmarket London address .. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

An analysis by ICIJ shows that almost 2,000 of HSBC clients who appear in the files are associated with the diamond industry. Among them is Emmanuel Shallop, who was subsequently convicted of dealing in blood diamonds

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…

"A Belgian curator does not have a good word for the extremely wealthy Belgian-Israeli diamond collector businessman Erez Daleyot, who fled to South Africa with a huge debt of 360 million euros"
netherlandsnewslive.com/belgian-busine…

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