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Scottish police are investigating claims by Libyan authorities that a powerful member of Muammar Gaddafi’s inner circle used money meant for hospitals and housing to buy luxury hotels in the Highlands and a string of multimillion pound homes...
Ali Ibrahim Dabaiba may have awarded contracts worth more than £200m to companies that he ultimately controlled, Libyan prosecutors claim. They allege he then laundered the proceeds in England and Scotland. .. helped by his sons, his brother, and a group of British associates
based in Dunfermline, near Edinburgh...The information originally came to light through the Panama Papers. A network of more than 100 companies in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Malta, Liechtenstein and Britain connected to the Dabaibas and their suspected associates has been
identified by asset trackers appointed by the Libyan government. ..Dabaiba’s suspected assets include the 500-year-old Kenmore hotel on the banks of the river Tay, which claims to be Scotland’s oldest inn. The Kenmore is managed by the Aurora Hotel Collection, a small but
growing portfolio of boutique Scottish hotels...
The dossier also calls for help in investigating taxpayer-funded deals worth more than 437m Libyan dinars (now £225m) for consultancy work on hospital and archaeology projects in Libya, allegedly awarded in 2008 by Dabaiba to
companies controlled by twin brothers Malcolm and Andrew Flinn and their associate Steven Turnbull, who operate from an office at Dunfermline
Filings show Marco Polo Storica, a Scottish company awarded two contracts for planning restoration work at ancient Greek and Roman sites along the Libyan coast, was originally wholly owned by the Flinns,whose background is in banking; Turnbull, who is a business graduate; and
Walter Calesso, an Italian living in Scotland whose previous work was in interior design..
“It is likely that Marco Polo Storica was set up … to misappropriate Libyan state funds ..
The same claim is made of Evergreen Consulting Ltd, based in Malta. Part owned by Calesso, the Flinns and Turnbull, according to the Libyan litigation department, from 2008 until 2010,
Evergreen signed six contracts with ODAC for supervising construction work on a series of hospitals.
In UK company filings, Turnbull &the Flinns appear as directors &shareholders in dozens of concerns. Of these companies, 35 shared the same address: 16 Comely Park in Dunfermline
Arrgh, so now I've bumped into something else which I need to look at now
Colin Turnbull also owns restaurants and bars in an upmarket area of Edinburgh , like
Less than 1/2 mile away from the restaurant of renowned chef Paul Kitching who passed away suddenly in December 2022 bighospitality.co.uk/Article/2023/0…
I spent some time looking at that when it happened..
I couldn't remember his name , and did a search
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"Using its provisions, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown held a meeting with the executives of the top airlines, later dubbed the "Spoils Conference", in which the airlines effectively divided among themselves the air mail routes".. 🎶 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Mail_…
Kety : "It was then I thought there was a better way of separating the environmental from the genetic factors and that would be the study of adopted individuals who developed schizophrenia."..
"In order to do this, I decided that one would need a national study & I suggested this in the review I published in 1959. I laid out the strategy one could use for studying the distribution of schizophrenia in the biological & the adoptive families of
adopted schizophrenics,"🎶
The book that Thomas Detre co-wrote with Epstein psychiatrist Henry Jareki was published by J. B. Lippincott in 1971.. The two men mentioned in :
AN ORAL HISTORY OF NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS
Usha Vance is the daughter of Telugu-speaking Indian immigrants Krish (SDSU) and Lakshmi Chilukuri, both professors. Her parents hail from Andhra Pradesh state of India.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usha_Vance
X removed my pinned thread on this topic a while back..
"the supper conferences, .., and summer seminars, all of which were designed to push participants out of their academic comfort zones by resituating them in settings of Old World glamour at the foundation’s elegant New York brownstone & Austrian castle" journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/68…
Great Apes Queen Jane Goodall and David Hamburg of the Wenner-Gren Foundation (WGF) aka the Viking Fund, would hold their conferences at Wartenstein Castle, just outside of Vienna in Austria.
Wartenstein Castle is a well-preserved castle complex in the cadastral community of the same name, Wartenstein, in the municipality of Raach am Hochgebirge near Gloggnitz in the district of Neunkirchen in southern Lower Austria..
"According to legend, Wartenstein Castle was connected to the former Benedictine monastery of Gloggnitz -today Gloggnitz Castle-by an underground passage, possibly an escape route. Underground passages were discovered there,but they have since collapsed." de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burg_Wart…