QATARI GOVERNMENT LETTER ORDERED PAYMENT OF $27m IN BRIBES TO FIFA OFFICIALS

 

 

An Order of Payment, appearing to be from the Government of Qatar, specifying the payment of one hundred Million Qatari Rials (approximately USD$27.75m) to fifteen FIFA officials, has again stirred up the controversy over the global football scandal. As newly discovered evidence, it may ultimately be considered the proverbial "Smoking Gun" in the FIFA bribery scandal, implicating Qatar.

Here is an accurate translation;

Youssef Hussein Kamal,  Finance & Economy Ministry

"I would like to inform you about the letter Number MRW 2009/01/62 , dated 12/02/2009, based upon the recommendations of  His Excellency Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, the revered Prince of the Country, to donate money of one hundred million Qatari Rials, for fifteen members of the FIFA Executive Committee, whose names are listed on the Annex. The sum will be paid under the control of Mr. Mohammed Bin Hamman Abdallah, Chairman of the specific committee in charge of the follow-up of Qatar's bid to host the 2022 World Cup Finals.

This letter includes instructions for the transfer of this sum to the account of Kemko Group (contracts, services and business)as a matter of urgency.

I would like to inform you that according to your instructions, the sum of 100 million Qatari Rials was transferred to the account of the aforementioned company Kemko."

YOUSSEF HUSSEIN  KAMAL

Ministry of Finance & Economy

The above document was delivered to the Anti-corruption Police of France, and Swiss authorities, this week, and is scheduled to be made public today in Europe. We also expect that US authorities have circulated it to the appropriate recipients in the Federal case in SDNY, which is on appeal to the 2nd Circuit.

The names in the Annex shall be released in the near future; stay tuned.

For further information ; https://www.blast-info.fr/articles/2021/qatar-connection-comment-le-qatar-sest-offert-la-coupe-du-monde-2022-ikgi8tVSRb6CM1gtBqd8ka

 

WILL MUSCAT'S CHIEF OF STAFF REVEAL ALL ON HIS DEATHBED ?

 

                                          KS as Cooperating Individual  by COSIMO
 

Though major media is dancing around the subject, calling it "Serious Illness" before disclosing it as terminal cancer, a term that apparently frightens the Maltese, Schembri's eye cancer has spread to his brain and spine, according to informed medical sources not afraid to speak the truth. His doctors have reportedly given him a month to live.

Keith Schembri's death will have wide-ranging consequences:

(1) The millions in unsecured loans that he has received from several banks will not be repaid. His remaining assets are all held overseas. Domestic funds have long been frozen in his money laundering case, and will probably end up being seized and forfeited.

(2) Will he give up JM on his deathbed, to insure that at least some of his assets remain in family hands ? Considering that he probably thought that Muscat, through the efforts of the current PM, Robert Abela, Muscat's protege', would shield him from arrest, he may now turn on him, to exact his revenge, in a final act of malice.

(3) What about his control of the Malta Security Services  (MSS) ? That local version of the secret police, which engages in dirty tricks, including homicide, may be disbanded, without its leader.

After Schembri is gone, JM without his second in command may be unable to command the same level of respect in Malta's underworld as he does now. Will this hasten his end ? Stay tuned.

JOSEPH MUSCAT; A MARITAL LIFE IN CHAOS DISSECTED

 

                                                         

                                                             Q by COSIMO

Our Labour Party insiders advise that the relationship between former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and his estranged wife Michelle is tenuous at best. Here's what we know, after contacting both our best PL sources, as well as close friends of MM:

(1) JM is literally controlling his very unhappy wife, by threatening to withhold his fortune from her.

(2) She doesn't want to be anywhere near him.

(3) She fears she will be in the line of fire when assassins catch up to him.

(4) MM caught JM lying to her about several major issues, which we cannot disclose, lest our sources be unmasked.

(5) JM is afraid that their separation status will eventually cause him problems when criminal cases against him surface.

(6) You can see from the contrived social media postings that JM is playing the happy family, using pictures from last Summer, and posting them as if they are current. It's a obvious fiction.

The relationship, already damaged beyond repair, is about to implode.

UPDATE FROM MALTA'S WHISTLEBLOWER, MARIA EFIMOVA

 

 

                                                   Busted Flush & Checkmate by COSIMO

Given the amount of interest our readers have confirmed by the large number of hits recently on our articles regarding Maria Efimova, we are again updating you on her situation.

(1) The extradition hearing for her husband,  Pantelis Varnavas, has been set for May 21 in Crete. We have previously reported that the charges against him have no basis in fact, are completely bogus, and were obviously filed in Cyprus, by associates of Maltese leaders attempting to uses his case to force Ms. Efimova to return to Malta, where she faces politically-based charges, designed to discredit her testimony and evidence against Michelle Muscat, the estranged wife of former Malta PM Joseph Muscat.

(2) Maria has given a major interview to Greek Channel 1 ( EPT1),  concerning her personal experience as a whistleblower in Malta, and the present situation with whistleblowers in Europe. We hope to have a written translation after the interview appears.

(3) No Maltese officials have responded to Maria's outstanding offer to return to testify in Malta. She requires whistleblower status to be granted, and immunity from prosecution on the bogus charges. It appears that the voters in Malta will have to wait longer for the evidence, since the Maltese leaders refuse to agree, due to the obvious fact that it will further implicate the Muscats, as well as others.

MAJOR US LAW FIRMS AND FORECLOSURE MILLS TOOK CARES ACT MILLIONS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC WHILE BRINGING FORECLOSURE SUITS AGAINST SENIORS' MORTGAGES

 

 We call it the Law of Unintended Consequences; senior citizens, the very people that Federal Assistance was designed to keep in their homes during the COVID-19 Pandemic, were foreclosed by law firms and foreclosure mills that received CARES Act money to support their employees. According to public records, several major law firms, as well as the notorious foreclosure mill known as FAY SERVICING, all received millions of Federal Assistance dollars, ostensibly to pay their employees, all the while engaged in the lucrative business of foreclosing upon destitute senior citizens confined to their homes, and unable to pay their mortgages. Did they really needs that government money to stay open ? We doubt it.

 We are certain that the US Congress, when enacting the CARES Act, did not intend to pay the overhead ( salaries, rent, office expenses) of law firms which were earning handsome fees from foreclosing upon the same senior citizens whom lawmakers had designated their primary concern. How can seniors keep their homes, when, notwithstanding the stated goal of our government was to freeze unnecessary foreclosures, to keep seniors at risk for dying of COVID, at home and safe ? The answer is that Congress failed to anticipate law firms and lawyers engaged in foreclosing for America's banks would zealously foreclosure on defenseless senior citizens, and collective lucrative fees, while simultaneously accepting CARES Act money, to increase their profits.

 

Some of the law firms and foreclosure mills exposed in the media, after combing public records, and whistleblower websites, include:

(1) Barret Daffin Fappier Law Group (Texas): $2.5m.

(2) Wright, Findlay & Zak (California): $5,600,00.; $1,758,156.

(30 Fay Servicing LLC (Illinois) $10,000,000.

 

Where is the Department of Justice on this important issue ? Were the payments lawful ? We call on DOJ to immediately initiate an investigation, to determine whether the payments were properly made, and on examining the applications, and application process. The payments took advantage a major loophole in the law, to allow lawyers who were acting against the stated national policy, to not only foreclose, but to be supported by the US Treasury to do so. What's wrong with this picture ?

We hope and trust that these recipients will be, sooner or later, be require to disgorge their CARES Act payments, as they were inconsistent with the intent of Congress, who authorized them.

 

JUDGE WHO SIGNED THE ORDER FREEING FUNDS FOR OFAC-SANCTIONED SMUGGLER HAS A LONG AND SORDID HISTORY

 

If you were wondering why Maltese Justice Grazio Mercieca entered the order approving the disbursement of funds to accused smuggler and money launderer Darren Debono, when Debono is OFAC-sanctioned by the United States, he has a history of ruling in favour of his Labour Party, and against the Rule of Law. As soon as the article, Judge in Malta orders Release of Funds to OFAC-Sanctioned Reputed Smuggler and Money Launderer (May 11, 2021), was published, I was contacted by individuals who told tales of human and civil rights violations, and specifically of the judge entering rulings contrary to the law, and in favour of  Labour Party members.

In one case, where the individual is a known whistleblower, and an obvious threat to certain government officials, due to his first-hand knowledge of corruption, Judge Mercieca not only repeatedly entered rulings against him, but have actually threatened his ability to support himself. His anti-corruption position being well known, the individual correctly concluded that the rulings were based solely to support a political advantage, and to protect certain current or previous government officials, who wish to remove him from Malta altogether.

When the courts of a country follow the orders of political leaders, rather than the Rule of Law, such as we see in Communist China  and Russia, democracy dies. Until Malta changes its Constitution, to allow free and fair non-partisan election of qualified members of the judiciary, this corrupt pattern will continue.

 

A NEW COOPERATOR POSES A DIRECT THREAT TO THE MALTA MONEY LAUNDERERS

                                                JM: Cloud Hat and Snake Scarf by COSIMO
 

A new cooperating individual has surfaced in the Malta money laundering investigation who has sufficient first-hand knowledge of criminal activity of present and former government officials to seal their fate at any case they would take to trial is a game-changer in the case. While prudence dictates that we conceal that individual's name, this person represents the most significant threat to date, not only as a witness, but as a direct participant in major criminal activity. Their identity has appeared only in rumours.

Whoever the defence lawyers are who have been charged with representing the major targets, they must surely understand that any chance of an acquittal on money laundering charges, on any case brought outside of Malta, now must be assessed at close to zero. We trust that plea negotiations will ensure, so that they may properly serve their client's best interests, as given the many millions of dollars laundered, the probable sentences handed down after guilty jury verdicts will be Draconian. Any possible defence now by the senior targets would be not only futile, it might constitute legal malpractice, given the probable evidence available, which is believed to be overwhelming.

 The probable outcome in any US trial involving the Malta money laundering targets may now closely resemble the related Miami money laundering case, where Swiss banker Matthias Krull's testimony, or availability to testify, was responsible for several guilty pleas. Though obviously there are other factors, including the egos and personalities of some of the targets, which may affect whether other Malta players initially cooperate, it appears that we probably won't see a public trial, in America, of the individuals who moved hundreds of millions of dollars through Malta.

FEDERAL JUDGE DISMISSES PILATUS BANK AMERICAN CASE, REMOVING MALTAS EXCUSE FROM BRINGING CRIMINAL CHARGES

 

A District Judge in New Hampshire has put an end to Pilatus Bank owner Ali Sadr Hashi Nejad's attempt to secure Discovery from Lawrence Connell, the former Competent Person (Administrator) in charge of winding down Pilatus, after the European Central Bank cancelled its banking license. 

Pilatus, which claimed that the evidence it sought to obtain from Connell would assist it in reinstating its operating license, and in a potential civil suit against the ECB for damages, failed to satisfy the statutory requirements to obtain Discovery. In a 32-page opinion, the Court detailed the deficiencies in Pilatus' Amended Petition, most of which it previously enumerated in the order responding to the original Petition. You can find its treatment of those issues in an article which previously appeared in this Blog, entitled Is Pilatus Bank Petition a backhanded way to Obtain Discovery in Expected Miami or Malta Criminal Case ?

Regular readers of our running commentary on this unusual case know that we have been extremely critical of the way the case was managed by Pilatus counsel, due to obvious fact that the bank's arguments in the Petition, and the Amended Petition, failed to show that it was entitled to the requested relief . 

Now that the case is closed, Malta's Police, who have unofficially stated that they were not bringing any criminal charges against the Pilatus Bank officers and directors for money laundering, so long as the US case was pending, no longer have that as as excuse; they must now act, or be exposed as corrupt, and under the influence of the same individuals that they are required to arrest and charge. We trust that the appropriate pressure will now be exerted by the people of Malta against their elected officials, to see that justice is done regzrding Pilatus Bank's money launderers.

a final note; The Order dismissing the case ruled that costs incurred by the Respondent, Lawrence Connell, will be taxed against the bank. This means that Pilatus must pay Connell's costs in the case.

JUDGE IN MALTA ORDERS RELEASE OF FUNDS TO OFAC-SANCTIONED REPUTED SMUGGLER AND MONEY LAUNDERER

A court in the Republic of Malta, pointedly ignoring the fact that the individual seeking to have access to funds was not only a suspected smuggler and money launderer, but is sanctioned by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), ordered their release by a subsidiary of HSBC, HSBC Life Assurance. This action potentially exposes HSBC, the parent company, to "serious implications" (costly sanctions) in the United States, an issue which was brought up by the country's financial regulator, the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), but disregarded by the Court for obvious political reasons.

                                                               Justice Mercieca
 

The presiding judge, Grazio Mercieca, an appointee of the ruling Labour Party. appears to have disregarded both the principles of Comity, as well as diplomatic common sense, as Malta's previous less than satisfactory interaction between Prime Minister Robert Abela, and the then-US Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, certainly left the relationship between the two nations in a poor state. Abela reportedly retreated from an implicit promise of an agreement regarding the status of US military forces in Malta, after the US official traveled, with a large entourage, to meet him in person.

 

HSBC, which has a long history of issues with American regulators, will now be placed in a difficult position; whether to obey a court ruling in Malta, where it also does business, or to rely upon the OFAC sanction. Either way, there will be consequences. 

This could not have come at a worse time for Malta, which is just now exposing massive corruption and financial crime, and whose senior officials are expecting to be indicted in the United States any day now, if it hasn't already occurred. The judge based his ruling upon Maltese sovereignty, which was clearly the wrong decision at the wrong time. How HSBC will respond to the order is not known.

WE KEEP WARNING MALTA, BUT NOBODY'S LISTENING

                                    The Devil pushes Malta off the High Wire by COSIMO
 

 Time after time, this blog has reported on specific corruption, money laundering and financial crimes being committed by Cabinet-level officials of the Government of Malta, before any other media, and our information has been met with either disbelief or derision. Whether it is Carmelo Abela, Chris Cardona, Joseph Muscat, Michelle Muscat, or any one of a dozen others, we have, exclusively, exposed their vile deeds and acts, long before you read it anywhere else.

We trust that you read our March 18 article, We warned our readers about the Key cards Weeks Ago .

 

Unfortunately, the criminal conduct has continued unabated and without any meaningful response. Just this morning, a reader wondered aloud why Joseph Muscat, disgraced and shamed, continues to have government-paid security, and why nobody in public office has raised this issue in Parliament. The people are paying for this criminal's security detail, so that he may escape accountability for his evil past.

                                                  The Face of the Enemy by COSIMO

                                                     

Thomas Jefferson said "The people elect the government they deserve." When voters continue to reelect a thoroughly corrupt government, because they are sharing in the proceeds of the corruption, then they may not complain when it results in a failed state. Since the people will not clean up Malta, someone else must, regretfully, do so, but to do so there will be a lot of what we call unintended consequences. 

Will the last honest person leaving Malta remember to turn out the lights ? 

                                             Carmelo loses his footing  by COSIMO

RUNNING FOR HIS LIFE, MALTA'S DISGRACED FORMER PRIME MINISTER FEARS ASSASSINATION

                                         His Sins keep Pulling him Back by COSIMO
 

 

In what can only be described as karma, Malta's cashiered Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat remains in hiding, seeking to avoid assassins reportedly hired to keep him from testifying against his organized crime  partners. Muscat's associates in the underworld know that, once in custody, he will seek to barter his knowledge of Malta's money laundering machine for a reduced sentence, and witness protection. The most senior government official to be linked to the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia is now himself a target of Malta's well-oiled assassination business. Call it payback, in a currency he understands.

One source has asserted that his estranged wife, Michelle, has been advised by friends to cooperate, even if that means implicating her husband and her friends, to save herself years in prison, far away from their children, who are rumoured to have been sent to an international boarding school favoured by dictators.  Since her prominent role in a fashion industry money laundering scheme, to clean her husband's bribes and kickbacks, was made public, she knows that there will be no happy ending to her story unless she becomes useful to the authorities. 

Muscat has been self-medicating, to cope with the stress he has told others he is suffering from, and his mental condition has been described as unstable. Sooner or later, either law enforcement or those who wish to impose a more permanent penalty will catch up to him, and the outcome, either way, will be ugly. 

 

SAINT LUCIA PEP INTERFERED WITH AMERICAN CITIZEN'S FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE USA

 

Media consultant SUE MONPLAISIR, acting as the Government public relations spokesperson for Saint Lucia, who is therefore classified as a Politically Exposed Person, or PEP, impeded and violated my Right of Freedom of Speech as American citizen in the United States, when she threatened my blog sponsor. A complaint has been filed in my behalf, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of State has been notified. Americans have an absolute right of uncensored free speech, and her actions affected that Constitutional Right. Compliance officers will kindly note her status as a Politically Exposed Person when conducting due diligence inquiries, or for any other purpose.

The East Caribbean state of Saint Lucia, acting by and through Monplaisir. seeks to censor any news about corruption in that country, notwithstanding its publication in the United States. Therefore, pursuant to Proclamation 7750, and Section 7031(c) of the Department of State Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Operations Act of 2019,  she is hereby ineligible to enter the US. for any purpose. This ban is effective whether she has been charged with a crime or not, nor must a pending US visa application exist.

She can also be considered a Cybercriminal,  pursuant to the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,  18 U.S.C. §1030,  the primary  statutory mechanism for prosecuting Cybercrime,which provides for both civil and criminal penalties, up to twenty years in Federal Prison.

There is evidence to support the finding that Politically Exposed Persons, and crooked lawyers, conspired to conduct Brute Force Cyberattacks on a website that has been exposing their  corruption, and other crimes. against US Citizens.

 

 

Our investigation into fraud and land theft in Saint Lucia shall continue; we have been contacted by a number of Saint Lucians who assert that their families are also victims of fraud and theft. Stay tuned to this blog for more information.

MALTA IS A LEGAL MESS; ITALY MOVES TO FILL THE VOID

 

 

 

 If you thought that the rest of the European Union was going to sit around indefinitely and allow Malta's organized crime elements to operate into, and through, the EU, you haven't been paying attention to the articles in this blog. Italian law enforcement agencies, who feel the clear and present danger that Malta's small but lethal version of the Mafia pose, not only to neighboring Sicily, but to the rest of the country, are actively investigating Maltese crime that impacts Italy. 

Italy knows well the close affiliation between the Maltese Mafia and their Sicilian cousins. After all, the damn PM of Malta regularly takes his yacht to Sicily, and he's not going there for the cuisine. Money laundering through Italian fashion houses has been repeatedly reported on this blog , as has the gasoil scandal, which employs Sicily as part of its delivery and sales chain. Don't forget that Mafia syndicates are laundering money through remote gaming companies based in Malta, and Italian organized crime is exporting weapons and munitions to militias in Libya, via Maltese arms dealers.

Maltese citizens charged in Italy can look forward to a long term in pre-trial confinement, because as foreign nationals, with no permanent connections to Italy, they are flight risks. Have you ever seen an overcrowded Italian prison cell ? And justice does not come swiftly in Italy; some defendants linger in the system for an extended period of time, before the cases are concluded.

Therefore, we hope that Italian justice soon reaches out an touches those Maltese who arrogantly break its laws, so that those who live in a country where crime is never punished, see what may happen to them as well.

LIBAN HAJI MOHAMED, WANTED BY FBI, AMERICAN CITIZEN SUPPORTING AL-SHABAAB AND AL-QAEDA

 

HACKERS ATTEMPT TO SHUT DOWN OUR EXPOSURE OF CORRUPTION IN SAINT LUCIA

   

If you read my recent article entitled Government of Saint Lucia Censors News from the United States and threatens U.S. Search Engine, you know that forces in Saint Lucia demanded that one of our blog articles on widespread corruption in that East Caribbean state be removed, and the sponsoring entity thereafter complied. The article was removed for alleged violation of "Community Standards," although the specific grounds were never stated. Failure to detail specific violations has been cited in a number of commentaries as an improper infringement upon the expression of truth on the Web.

While our other articles remain online,  our most recent article on the subject, Investigative Journalists in Saint Lucia fear for their Personal Safety if they Report on Corruption,  May 1, 2021, which was widely read when it appeared on a major website, was subject to massive hacker DDOS attacks, seeking to crash the site, to deny site visitors the opportunity to read it. Fortunately, service to that site was only momentarily interrupted, and the article, which is enjoying serious attention in the Caribbean, remains available to readers.

This appears to be a regular event, regarding investigative journalists reporting on corruption in Saint Lucia. A local blogger, who reported on corruption, named Jason Sifflet, suffered the same fate when his blog was taken down for the same undefined reason, although through intervention by his supporters later resulted in it being restored to the Internet. Additionally, his wife was  arbitrarily fired from her hotel job. His story has been featured in a number of local articles, though it has not yet received international attention from journalists.

 

 

We shall continue to report in corruption, at the highest levels, in Saint Lucia, to bring it to the attention of compliance officers at international banks abroad, lest they unwittingly open accounts for corrupt Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), and launder the Proceeds of Crime, which exposes their banks to money laundering charges.