VIKTOR BOUT SEEKS TO VACATE HIS CONVICTION AND OBTAIN A NEW TRIAL

Viktor Bout, the former Soviet Air Force officer turned arms trafficker, has filed a Motion to Vacate Judgment of Conviction, and for an Order for Retrial, Pursuant to 28 USC §2255, by a person in Federal Custody. Having been convicted in District Court of four counts, Bout's appeal to the Second Circuit was denied, and the US Supreme Court denied Certiorari. He is serving his sentence of 300 months as USP Marion, in a unit designed for terrorists where contact with the outside world

The issues he has presented in his motion:

(1) Ineffective assistance of counsel, pursuant to the Sixth Amendment, stemming from a conflict of interest that hampered the defense attorney. He alleges his defense counsel would not receive the full attorneys' fee unless the defendant was convicted, and the Court and the US Attorney were implicated, and that prejudice was proven.

(2) Defense counsel concealed what Bout called "Brady material" from the jury, which would tend to prove his innocence, and agreed to not call a law enforcement witness whose testimony would damage the Government's case.

(3) There is Newly-Discovered Evidence in the case.

Any reader who requires a copy of the 36-page Motion, which contains exhibits, will kindly contact me at; miamicompliance@gmail.com and supply their email address.

READ REPORT TO US CONGRESS "HAS PRESIDENT TRUMP RECEIVED CRIMINAL PROCEEDS WHILE SERVING AS PRESIDENT ?"

Longtime readers of this blog are familiar with the roles that a number of individuals, including Gary James Lundgren, David Murcia Guzmán, Roger Khafif, Alexandre Ventura Nogueira and Ricardo Martinelli, allegedly played in money laundering in Panama's Trump Ocean Club. A detailed Memorandum, prepared by Congressional Counsel, and transmitted to the House of Representatives on April 30, 2019, and released at that time, is an outstanding resource on the subject.

Therefore, since the Memorandum, which cites only to public sources, and is obviously unclassified, should be reviewed by all who are interested in the ongoing Congressional Impeachment hearings, we are linking to it in this article. Entitled Has President Trump Received Criminal Proceeds While Serving as President ?, we believe it to be required reading for all Americans.

You may access the complete text of the 21-page Memorandum here.

COMPLIANCE EXCEDRIN HEADACHE NUMBER ONE: VENEZUELA ADOPTS THE US DOLLAR AS ITS CURRENCY

The Government of Venezuela, its economy, as well as its national currency, the Bolivar, in tatters, has taken the remedial step of adopting the US Dollar as currency of the realm. This action will surely prove to be a nightmare for US banks, especially its compliance officers,  for the wide range of US OFAC sanctions in place could mean even more front men for sanctioned entities will be seeking access to the American financial structure, to acquire dollars.

The move to the US Dollar may also spawn a new cottage industry in bulk cash smuggling into Venezuela. from Florida, Texas, and Puerto Rico, and compliance officers may wish to alert their teller staff and customer relations specialists about possible order for cash from bank clients who have never made such requests before.

Finally, banks in the republic of Panama, which are notorious for their "Don't ask, Don't tell" attitude regarding money laundering, may be asking their American correspondents for large cash shipments, to serve the Government of Venezuela, and such requests should be thoroughly checked before funds are issued.

UP TO $25m REWARD FOR INFORMATION ON 9/11 TERRORISTS

RECOMPENSE - 10 MILLIONS DE DOLLARS POUR INFORMATIONS - HEZBOLLAH

DOMINICA DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT HOLDER SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS IN PRISON AND $1.3bn FINE

Monfared on trial in Iran.

If you were wondering about the fate of Alireza Ziba Halat Monfared, after we published several photographs taken at his recent trial in Iran, the judgment has now been made public. He was sentenced to twenty (20) years in prison, and comply with a Restitution order in the amount of USD$1.3bn. Monfared, together with his co-defendant Babak Zanjani, and others, sold Iranian oil, in violation of international and US sanctions, stockpiled and stored oil stores, laundered the proceeds of those crimes, and sold off the tankers. The defendants, stole at least $3bn of the illegal Iranian oil profits for their own use.

Not to be forgotten is the fact that Monfared bought a diplomatic passport from officials in the Commonwealth of Dominica, as well as CBI passports for his family, notwithstanding that he was a well-known sanctions evader and money launderer. He used his nonfunctional "diplomat" status to avoid arrest in Malaysia for fraud and grand theft, and the fact that a known sanctions evader was sold a diplomatic passport, in violation of several provisions of the Vienna Convention, confirmed that Due Diligence was not performed on his application by Dominica's officials, in advance of his acquisition of the passports.

The Monfared scandal exposed Dominica's dodgy CBI, and diplomatic, passport sales industry, which has thrived notwithstanding the country's bleak post-Apocalypse economy, demonstrating that government cash flow from these programs has not trickled down to those in need. Additionally, evidence confirms that Monfared paid six figure bribes to CBI officials, and bought automobiles and trucks for other individuals in local government. He is the Poster Boy for all that is evil concerning Dominica's CBI program, which allows white collar criminals to hide their true identity and nationality behind a passport that gives the holder visa-free entry to the European Union Schengen Zone.   

IS JAZAER DAWODY, CTO AT GRENADA GSA PROJECT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR THE $18m FRAUD ?

JAZAER DAWODY

Some of the victims of the Grenada Sustainable Aquaculture scam have identified Jazaer Dawody, the Chief Technology Officer of the failed project, which was never built, notwithstanding that it received a reported eighteen million dollars. The CTO is the mother of project manager Soren Dawody.

Jazaer is no technology officer; her degree is in the field of Chemistry, and we cannot find any reference to any training or education in aquaculture; she was obviously part of the fraud. She resigned her office at GSA in 2018 when Grenada dropped the project from the government's approved list for CBI investments, but remained on at Soret's UK front company until a few months ago. Her personal liability to investors is currently at issue.

She reportedly has assets in Dubai, UAE; Regarding civil or criminal charges threatened or filed against her or others there, where GSA maintained an office, contact me at: miamicompliance@gmail.com

MOSSACK FONSECA ATTORNEY, WANTED IN US, DECLINES TO APPEAR IN COURT

This is Ramses Genaro Owens Saad, the only former Mossack Fonseca attorney facing Federal criminal charges in the United States. Specifically, the indictment pending against him alleges:

(1) Money Laundering.
(2) Conspiracy to Defraud the United States (5 Counts).
(3) Wire Fraud.
(4) Tax Evasion.

He has not presented himself to the Court in the Southern District of New York, and the US Attorney has not only declared him a Fugitive from Justice, it has asserted that he cannot appear, through counsel, and defend himself. The prosecutors are relying upon the fugitive Entitlement Doctrine, which forbids absent defendants from participating in their case.

Owens Saad alleges that he is prohibited from traveling to the United States from Panama, due to restrictions imposed upon him, due to pending criminal charges in Panama. The US Attorney's Office has stated that Owens has failed to cooperate with it, to obtain travel permission. Given the corrupt nature of the Panamanian court system (no Mossack Fonseca attorney has ever been convicted of any crime in Panama, notwithstanding the massive global scandal), and the distinct possibility that Owens has engineered his own alleged inability to leave Panama, to evade American justice, it is doubtful that he will ever see the inside of that US courtroom in new York, where his co-defendants are facing the consequences of their alleged criminal acts.

Is the Panamanian court system really protecting attorney Owens Saad from being tried in the US for criminal acts committed while he was at Mossack Fonseca ? If he never goes to trial in Panama on the alleged charges, you have your answer.

SALMAN RAOUF SALMAN, WITH HEZBOLLAH'S EXTERNAL SECURITY ORGANIZATION IN WESTERN HEMISPHERE

ANTIGUA'S FINANCIAL REGULATOR LEROY KING FINALLY FACES AMERICAN JUSTICE IN HOUSTON

Leroy King, the corrupt former head of Antigua's Financial Services Regulatory Commission, has been, after ten years, successfully extradited to face criminal charges in the Stanford International Bank/Allen Stanford $7bn Ponzi scheme scandal. King had his First Appearance before a Federal Magistrate in Houston, Texas this week. He is the last defendant in a case which saw Allen Stanford sent to Federal Prison for 110 years, for operating an offshore bank in Antigua that promised large returns on investment in certificates of deposit, but which was a naked Ponzi scheme that defrauded thousands.

King is looking at over 20 counts, including money laundering conspiracy, and obstruction of an SEC investigation; if convicted, he could spend the rest of his life in prison. Sources in Antigua claims he is very ill with cancer, but this has not been confirmed, The decade-long delay in extraditing him to the US  resulted in a major increase in how compliance officers viewed the country, and a significant increase in Country Risk levels, as the delays were connected with a decline in the country's adherence to the Rule of Law in its co

urt system. 

WANTED FOR PROVIDING MATERIAL SUPPORT TO AL-SHABAAB IN MINNESOTA

GRENADA GSA FRAUDSTERS DECEIVED INVESTORS ABOUT THEIR AQUACULTURE EXPERIENCE

Soren Dawody, the principal owner of Grenada Sustainable Aquaculture Ltd., misrepresented to the project's investors that his staff had "over 150 years" of management experience, and "more than 275 years of combined experience, " which led investors to believe that GSA had Aquaculture experts on hand. 

Outside of the well-prepared, and profusely-illustrated website, GSA had no form or substance; It had no built-out construction site. It was basically a sales proposal, seeking financing for a pipe dream, sweetened by the promise of an accompanying CBI passport from Grenada. Dawody had to initially raise $20m, and then secure a similar amount of OPIC financing, which apparently never materialized, Unfortunately, Dawody chose to keep the $18m in funding, and slink away, never to be seen again at the proposed sites in Grenada.

 Soren contemplated perpetrating this scam elsewhere, outside of Grenada and Antigua & Barbuda.  cannot say, but we wonder what Mr. Dawody has been doing since Grenada shut down his GSA project as an approved CBI venture. Will we find other Dawody-operated sustainable aquaculture proposals elsewhere, that end up at failed  operations with unhappy victims ?

CONTRACTORS AND EXPERTS SEEK PAYMENT IN GRENADA GSA SCANDAL FROM GOVERNMENT

Several of the GSA contractors, subject matter experts and consultants have sent demand letters to the Government of Grenada, seeking payment for the fees and costs owed to them by  Grenada Sustainable Aquaculture Ltd, which took in a reported USD$18m, and, outside of primitive groundbreaking, failed to construct the aquaculture shrimp and fish pens and ponds.

The arguments they make is that Government failed to conduct due diligence upon GSA and its principal officer, Soren Dawody, because if they did, it would have come out that it had no experience in the industry, and that there was zero supervision of both escrow deposits, which were mysteriously diverted from Grenada, to the UAE & Singapore. These are serious issues, and if there is any truth in them, a case can certainly be made for negligence, giving rise to liability.

Where these civil suits might be brought has not yet been discussed, and whether there is any sovereign immunity under Grenadian, or international, law, that might bar recovery, is an important issue that requires prior adjudication. Given that the Government shut down the GSA program last year, and did not initiate an official investigation, there are other issues also that require rulings.




  

ALICEM - DECRET No 2019-452 DE 13 MAI 2019 AUTHORISANT LA CREATION D'UN IDENTIFICATION ELECTRONIQUE DEMONNE E AUTHENTIFICATION EN LIGNE CERTIFIEE SUR MOBILE

On the subject of facial recognition software technology, readers who wish to review the complete text of the French law concerning the implementation of ALICEM,  the mass-usage facial recognition ID program, providing a secure digital identity, may access it here. 

DOMINICA'S PARTY IN POWER DROPPING MILLIONS TO BUY UPCOMING NATIONAL ELECTION

The Commonwealth of Dominica will be holding National Elections on December 6th, and the incumbent Labour Party is spending millions of (US) Dollars to insure that it remains in power. In a display of utter arrogance, Labour published its Campaign Budget past year, and there are all indications that it is currently spending up to the limits specified, if not more, on what is, frankly, the bold purchase of votes.

A nonstop party atmosphere is generated that is calculated to entertain, intoxicate, and instill absolute loyalty among the voters,many of whom suffered major losses in the last hurricane, and who will welcome any interruption in their current situation.


 

Please take the time to review the figures; Labour is buying votes of a thousand or more expats by flying them in for what amounts to a homecoming and visit with family; the voting is cleverly a small. but necessary, component of their trip. While they are in Dominica, their needs will be attended to, courtesy Labour. Huge all-you-can-eat & drink events, open payments to voters, temporary busy-work employment, and many other tricks that place US Dollars in the pockets of unemployed (and often intoxicated) voters, all add up to a fixed, and not free and fair, election.