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The Russians Are Listening And Cooking Your Goose, 1.

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The Russians are Listening.

For some this is an irrelevancy. For others it shows, and not for the first or last time, that 3rd world countries with weak systems and weak or panicked morals are easy prey to the roving corporate gangsters of the world who look for rich pickings in soft targets. Some roving the world at the moment put Egyptian 'excellence' in this area and the Mafia to shame.

The background to the telephone system. Naguib Sawiris has always specialized in joint business with dirt. North Korea, Cuba, Zimbabwe, the PLO, Syria, Iraq and Libya. He always makes money one way or another in corrupt places with brutal, killer, corrupt leaders.

Likes attract alike and Orascom Telecom – his Dutch company where his Mobinil assets were moved a long time ago to avoid Mubarak’s, Morsis’s and Sisi’s grasp was acquired in 2012 by Russian Jewish billionaire, Mikail Fridman (friend of Putin, 7th Richest Russian and citizen of Israel). The company is known as Vimpelcorp (now after various criminal prosecutions known as VEON). https://www.ft.com/content/56084f6e-507 ... 144feab49a

It appears to control Global Telecom Holding of Egypt which was suspended by the Cairo Exchange the other day because its shares rose 10%. That is the joke – a state of emergency because the Cairo Borse faced an unparalleled event – a share rising on an exchange which is disastrously behind its index level in 2008 and about 50% of its real value when you take account of the devaluation and inflation. It’s a burning pyre if ever I saw one – and corrupt as well,

For years after the sale of his telecoms the peacock Sawiris paraded himself or allowed others to continue to believe he owned it. Deception is a strength of the Sawiris DNA. I don’t think Sawiris has owned a share since 2012 but his image/ego was necessary to maintain Egyptian ‘dignity’ and ‘pride’ in this ‘Egyptian’ manly asset whereas the truth was that its ownership moved from one mafia family to another for a few years. https://www.ft.com/content/56084f6e-507 ... 144feab49a http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Article.asp ... twork.ashx

That means that Mobinil Egypt was controlled by this dangerous person. It’s a bit academic because the Russian crook and his Egyptian PR friend were kicked out/bought out by the French Orange in 2015. However, that any country would allow a large part of its phone/information network to be owned by Fridman for ¾ years who is an evil and dangerous man shows how slack the Munificent Military are at protecting the Egyptian interest.

That he now owns major Egyptian oil and gas assets would make most normal people very anxious.

Around 2015 he sold his Egyptian phone interests to the French but maintained a major shareholding in the Egyptian based but Amsterdam registered GTH Global Telecom Holding which has mobile phone systems in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Algeria (?) and our favorite the Sawiris paradise of North Korea. At the moment Fridman’s front company for he and his gangster friends Veon of Luxembourg has majority control of the board http://www.gtelecom.com/web/guest/board-members but, oddly and in a way I can’t understand, has been prevented by Egypt from taking 100% - probably the Egyptians acted to preserve Naguib’s ‘interests’. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... lion-euros. Why an Amsterdam company with no interests in Egypt continues to be registered in Egypt is a paradox you would need to ask an international commercial, criminal defense lawyer about.

Back to the past and my favorite oily eel. About the only thing certain of Sawiris and his friends is lack of certainty. For example Sawiris said he was in telecoms in Egypt but out of the evil North Korea ages ago but Fox News wrote this a while ago:

“In its financial statements for the six-month period ending in June, the company reported a 75% ownership stake in a mobile phone joint venture with North Korea's Postal and Telecommunications Co. It also lists a stake in a North Korean lender called Orabank which it had previously said it had liquidated. Orascom recorded net assets from the mobile phone venture to be worth $1.2 billion, and said it received dividends from it worth $15 million in 2016 and around $39 million in the first two months of 2017. No more recent information was available.”
https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/op ... -crackdown

I think you can be certain of one thing – Naguib Sawiris has an aversion to the truth.

He should go back to his happy hunting ground and sell nuclear fallout shelters to North Korea. Maybe nuclear material. There are recent unsubstantiated and anonymous claims put out by them that the UN will let Sawiris back in but these are not reported by the UN or any reputable papers.

A year ago the loons in North Korea got a rush of blood to the trigger finger and did an IT attack on at least Sawiris and probably Fridman,

Here is Sawiris with the great leader/mass murderer who was also a close friend of Mubarak (4 State Visits to that Blood Bank). Naguib should tell his friend the Coptic Pope the advantages in Korea of suppressing Christianity and killing priests, nuns and believers. He should have included this in his religious speech about a moral life that he gave at the request of the Pope to the young Copts of Egypt at a monastery in October.:

https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/ima ... 042028.jpg

The man on the left was the uncle to the current crazed and obese young leader and was blown into hundreds of pieces out of a military cannon in front of a crowd of school children. His wife and children were also executed. Others said he was fed to scores of starving dogs. All this was at precisely the same time that Sawriris was still active in and travelling to North Korea. It was well covered in the media, along with other executions of unbelievable savagery, so he must have known. https://www.thedailybeast.com/kim-jong- ... executions and would also have known that .5-3.5 million North Koreans had died of starvation to fund the living standards of regime supporters so they could buy Orascom phones or use the Sawiris owned North Korean bank.

Back to the Russian evil who bought Orascom. Fridman who owned the Egyptian phone company for 3 years has an interesting history – none of it nice.

Fridman’s right hand man was recently arrested for corruption in Spain. https://en.crimerussia.com/gromkie-dela ... -in-spain/ It is possible that the Spain ‘problems’ also involve a fraudulent takeover and bribes to the current Russian Interior Minister, Vladimir Kolokoltsev.

The former Chief Executive of his company Vimplecom, Mikhail Slobodin, is in hiding, pursued for Russian corruption – whatever that means.

In 2006 the US sued Fridman’s ‘bank’/him (Alfa Group half owned by another brute oligarch Khan) for racketeering and worse. The Alfa group has been a front for investing/cleaning tens of billions of dirty Russian money in the west and is associated with Trump. The Mueller investigation has examined and convicted one employee of Fridman’s bank for illegal connection with Trump’s campaign. This stooge is married to Fridman’s daughter – or was when last seen going into jail. https://www.forbes.com/2006/06/09/fridm ... 6c66f06abd

His companies are part of either the plot to entice Trump or to corrupt the US election. and Trump’s current Assistant Attorney General (unqualified for this job but with an influence on the Trump-Russia investigation) was an employee of Fridman’s Alfa bank, lied about it and concealed his association. https://www.thedailybeast.com/brian-ben ... at-justice

Late last year his bank, Alfa, was raided by the Dutch for money laundering.
Fortune, the magazine, says this bank has ties to Trump which are at the least questionable. http://fortune.com/2016/11/02/donald-trump-alfa-bank/

Fridman has recently and personally hired Gregory Shenkman as a key executive even though this creature is currently facing multiple court claims in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and California for millions of dollars in unpaid debts, alleged embezzlement, and sexual harassment.

On the other hand he has several peers of the realm sitting on his boards and as chief executive and Lord Browne and his Russian friend own/manage a major North Sea gas/oil thing. In 2015 the UK government in an unprecedented move forced him to sell the North Sea asset – presumably because he was an ‘undesirable person’. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/new ... ields.html

letterOne is another of his companies which acts as a front for other Russian oligarchs. Many of the filth are on its board as well as the ‘esteemed’ Lord Davies of Abersoch a labor luminary of limited achievement and briefly CEO of Standard Chartered who obviously likes his truckloads. Unrelated Lord Goldsmith defends this same filth against the tsunami of criminal charges. The financial appetites of ex-politicians are insatiable and the former PM of Sweden, Bildt, took the money and became an advisor to LetterOne following Fridman’s toss-out from the UK. https://sputniknews.com/business/201505151022193045/

Stratfor a high status US corporate/security advisory firm says in secret document leaked by Wikileaks that Fridman has ties to the Solntsevskaya Bratva Russian mafia since the 1990’s. It is certain that this mafia is connected to the Russian Security Service but precise details are scant. Even by Italian standards the Russian mafia is gross but its members and its ‘boss of bosses’ live openly in Moscow. In 2005 Fridman sued in a US for a public libel that he was involved with organized crime, drug trafficking, assassination and money laundering. He lost the case. http://old.themoscowtimes.com/sitemap/f ... 09607.html

He is/was a major partner in Russia with BP in the big TKN oil company – but BP are comfortable with people like him. Friedman fixed the courts, politicians, media, workforce, competitors and security protection. It is probable BP knew all this. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/new ... cases.html

In legal cases he was involved in his staff affected by the charges have been murdered.

Of course all his companies, and profits, are based in Bermuda/Jersey/Gurnsey/British Virgin Isles and he appears to have some residency rights at the gift of British citizens.

Nevertheless a deal of his deals and money pass through the predictable sinkholes. He uses Luxembourg to skirt Western sanctions against Russia. https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/a ... est-abroad

Its possible he is personally funding Russian troops fighting in the Ukraine. http://johnhelmer.net/mikhail-fridman-a ... rk-agai-n/

In 2016 Vimpelcorp (the new name for the telecoms company) paid a legal settlement of $US835 million because of large bribes to break into Uzbekistan’s telecom market.

The Brit and ex spook Steele who advised on Russian influence on the US election said that Fridman was close to Putin and influentially advised him on the US.

In January he was placed on the US Treasury sanctions list as a person prohibited from the US financial system – but not the UK system.


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