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Trump, Bayrock, Doyen, soccer and the Kazakh gangster
By: Firestarter Date: November 14, 2018, 11:12 am
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There are some stories on the internet on Trump’s involvement
with the money laundering Bayrock group that focus on long-time
friend of Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen, Felix Sater.
Sater is a small catch compared to the “Kazakh gangster” Tevfik
“Skip” Arif (born Tofic Arifov). Arif is one of those crooks
who’s too big for jail, while Sater is nothing more than a
gopher for the big shots. Arif isn’t only close to the President
of the USA, but also with the leaders of Kazakhstan, Russia and
Turkey.
Felix Sater was born in the Soviet Union in 1966, and immigrated
with his family to the USA when he was 8 years. At 24 he was a
successful Wall Street broker, at 27 he lost his job (at Lehman)
after cutting somebody up in a bar, who needed 110 stitches, and
at 32 he was accused of conspiring with the Mafia to launder
money.
In 1993, after being locked up in prison for the “bar fight”,
Sater, Gennady “Gene” Klotsman, Salvatore Lauria and partners
gained control of White Rock Partners (later named State Street
Capital Markets). They would gain control of large blocks of
stock in 4 companies through offshore accounts. Through an
illegal “pump and dump” scheme, they would inflate the value of
the shares through under-the-table payoffs to brokers and
swindled investors out of $40 million.
In 1998, Sater and Klotsman pleaded guilty for this fraud, and
Sater became an informant for the police.
Sater was also involved in a plan to buy anti-aircraft missiles
on the black market in either Russia or Afghanistan for the CIA.
Since 2003, Sater and Arif - Bayrock – are co-conspirators with
Donald Trump.
Trump and Sater have been repeatedly seen together. Sater even
had a business card of the Trump Organization in which he’s
labelled “senior advisor to Donald Trump”:
HTML http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/nyregion/17trump.html
The wife of Viktor Khrapunov was the owner of Helvetic Capital
SA. Former Kazakh minister Khrapunov has been accused by the
Kazakh government of embezzlement of hundreds of millions of tax
money.
In 2005, Donald Trump owned 18% of Trump SoHo; Bayrock owned the
rest of it. In 2013, the Khrapunov family used shell companies
to buy 3 apartments in Trump SoHo for $3.1 million.
After it became public knowledge that Felix Sater had been
involved in a variety of criminal activity, including money
laundering, Donald Trump exploited this situation by demanding
more money; see the mail of Sater of 28 January 2008:
HTML https://zembla.bnnvara.nl/data/files/3444027513.pdf
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The Iceland investment fund FL-Group is a strategic partner of
Bayrock. FL was funded by Russian investors close to Vladimir
Putin. FL and Bayrock planned to commit tax fraud for $250
million.
The agreement between Bayrock and FL was signed by Donald Trump:
HTML https://zembla.bnnvara.nl/data/files/2350754984.pdf
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More from the Dutch Zembla:
HTML https://zembla.bnnvara.nl/nieuws/the-dubious-friends-of-donald-trump-the-russians
(archived here:
HTML http://archive.is/FJOlS)
In 2007, Donald Trump celebrated the launch of Trump SoHo with
partners Tevfik Arif (centre) and Felix Sater (right).
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Here’s some more on the child trafficking charges against Tevfik
Arif in Turkey in 2010 (Arif has been a resident of New York
City since the 1990s).
On 28 September 2010, Arif was arrested by the Turkish police
for running a prostitution ring onboard a luxury yacht. The 9
young women between 18 and 23 from Russia on board were
suspected of being prostitutes.
The yacht had been rented by the Kazakh-based billionaire and
Belgian citizen Alexander Mashkevitch, the president of metal
and mining Eurasian National Resources Corporation (ENRC) and a
member of the World Jewish Congress. Mashkevitch was also a
strategic partner with Bayrock, and a friend of Kazakh President
Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Among the other guests on board were Mashkevitch’s colleagues at
ENRC, Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov (together called the
“Kazakh trio”, although they’re not Kazakhs). It was also
reported that Telman Ismailov, a Kazakh-American businessman and
senior aide to the Kazakh prime minister, was on board.
The Turkish newspaper Vatan, reported that Kanat Saudabayev,
secretary of state in Kazakhstan, was also on the yacht, which
was quickly denied. Saudabayev has been a friend of Kazakh
President Nazarbayev since 1968, and is a former Ambassador to
Turkey, the UK and the USA. Saudabayev was a close associate of
Mashkevitch, and according to Wikileaks cables had used
Mashkevitch's homes in Almaty and Astana, Kazakhstan, to host
visiting American dignitaries.
A former employee of Alexander Mashkevitch said that:
[quote]Mashkevitch and Bazhaev were sometimes talking everyday
to each other. (…)
Chodiev and Ibragimov don't like to work with him, but
Mashkevitch is still in business with him.[/quote]
Bazhaev is close to none other than Vladimir Putin. Last year he
was entertained at the Kremlin, where he presented a $46 million
project for a sports and music centre in Bethlehem in the
Occupied Territories. Putin spoke the following words to Bazhaev
at this occasion:
[quote]I congratulate you on this project. I think that people
in Palestine will enjoy it and remember those who actually
carried out the project.[/quote]
See Musa Bazhaev and Putin.
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Tevfik Arif was charged with trafficking girls as young as 15
for sex from modelling agencies in Russia, which he denied.
In early 2010, the police was informed that Musa Celik and
Gunduz Akdeniz were involved in providing underage prostitutes
to rich clients. Gunduz was called “The Uncle”, Tevfik was “The
Boss, and the girls were called “models”.
“The Uncle” would call Celik to supply teenagers from Russia
(particularly, girls of 16 and younger).
On 20 February 2010, Musa Celik asks Olga via SMS for women from
Eastern Europe. Olga asks “Do you want all models for sex?”, to
which Celik replies “Olga, client wants sex”.
On 4 March 2010, Akdeniz asks Celik about a girl called Vasilisa
“the one who is 15” and asks if her friends will also come to
Turkey. The next day, Akdeniz tells him that “The Boss, demands
more photos of better looking girls”.
On 12 March, Akdeniz tells Celik that the price is raised from
$1,000 to $1,500 for girls of 16 or younger.
On 15 March, the cops stop a black 2005 Mercedes Vito on the
suburbs of Belek. Tevfik Arif’s driver, Kemal Tokay, is
transporting foreign girls, including the 15 year-old Vasilisa
and 16 year-old German Stefania. Vasilisa and her friend later
released a statement that they were not prostitutes.
On 16 March, at the Rixos Premium Hotel the girls walk through
the corridors without checking in. The receptionist demands
information; Celik answers they are guests of Gunduz. During
this time, Tevfik Arif stays at the hotel.
After Gunduz informs Arif that he’s being watched by the police,
they only hire and transport women over 18, which is still human
trafficking according to Turkish law.
In the trial, Tevfik and his gang are charged with trafficking
girls under 18 to Turkey for prostitution. Tevfik and Akdeniz
deny all accusations, but Celik admits:
[quote]In March of 2010 I brought in very young girls. They were
16 or 17. I brought them in at Tevfik Arif’s request. To be
precise, Gunduz Akdeniz phoned me with that request.[/quote]
On 11 April 2011, the court acquits Tevfik Arif, but Musa Celik,
Gunduz Akdeniz and 2 others, are sentenced to 2 years in prison
for “mediation in prostitution, finding a place and inducing to
prostitution”:
HTML https://theblacksea.eu/index.php?idT=88&idC=88&idRec=1274&recType=story
(archived here:
HTML http://archive.is/QLNLU)
Tevfik Arif (Tofic Arifov) moved to Turkey in 1993, and shortly
after that emigrated to the US with wife and children.
Musa Bazhaev, head of Alliance Group in Russia, was also on the
Savarona boat with the prostitutes in September 2010…
Bazhaev inherited Alliance Group in 2000, after the death of his
brother Zia (son-in-law of Nazarbayev). Bazhaev tried to get
Mashkevich to join a possible oil deal between Alliance Group
and CapFox Congo, owned by Khulubuse Zuma, nephew of Jacob Zuma
(the South African president).
See from left to right: Bazhaev, Alexander Mashkevich, and
Tevfik Arif:
HTML https://archive.is/QLNLU/8bfd9a69dd5437ad244355325ade2fa9a92ba7ce.jpg
Patokh Chodiev has said that the “Kazakh trio” (Chodiev,
Mashkevich and Alijan Ibragimov) first met the London based
billionaires, David and Simon Reuben, in the spring of 1992.
Tevfik was recruited by the Trans World Group because of his
good connections in Kazakhstan. Tevfik’s younger brother, Refik
Arif, was senior manager at the Kazakh Ministry of Industry from
1991 to 1999.
Trans World was started around 1991 by the Reubens and
Uzbekistan-born Israeli oligarchs, Lev and Michael Cherney. It
was the successor to Trans Commodities, an import/export
business of the Ukrainian Semyon “Sam” Kislin, who employed the
Cherneys in the late 1980s.
Sam Kislin, who emigrated from the Soviet Union to the USA in
the early 1970s, is part of the Solntsevskaya Russian
(Yaponchik) mafia group based in New York of Vyacheslav Ivankov
(according to FBI reports). Ivankov, who once owned a condo in
Trump Tower, was the right hand man of Semion Mogilevich, who
was considered one of the most powerful crime bosses in the
Soviet Union. Ivankov was assassinated in Moscow in 2009.
The “Kazakh trio” and the Reubens set up a network of offshore
companies in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), including
KazChrome. It is alleged that the Reubens and Cherneys hired
contract killers to murder their competition in the aluminium
sector.
I can remember the Reuben brothers, who own the Millbank tower,
from where the video of the see-through car that reportedly
smashed pedestrians on Westminster Bridge on 22 March was made.
Millbank tower is home to the Henry Jackson Society (think
tank), whose members include MP’s, former heads of British
intelligence agencies, CFR, Homeland security, Israel, NATO, and
former CIA-director James Woolsey...
The Reuben brothers have contributed to a campaign of Boris
Johnson (who was in the Bullingdon club with Nat Rothschild and
David Cameron).
Rixos owns 20 hotels across the world, mostly in Turkey,
Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Russia and UAE, with an annual revenue
of around half a billion euro. Sembol is one of Turkey’s leading
construction companies; its turnover is estimated at nearly $1.5
billion, mostly through public contracts in Kazakhstan, and also
building 4 Rixos hotels. Secret documents disclosed by Football
Leaks show that by a hidden arrangement Tevfik Arif owns a
majority share in Rixos and Sembol.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) decrees that a new committee
will decide on investments, which includes Tevfik, Fettah
Tamince, Mutlu Simayli, and Eugene Jaffe of [B]Salford Capital
Partners[/B]. Salford is a London based investment firm that was
reputedly owned by the deceased oligarchs Badri Patarkatsishvili
(from Georgia) and Boris Berezovsky (from Russia). In 2010 and
2011, the Arifs provided Berezovsky – under his alias “Platon
Elenin” - with 2 unsecured loans totalling 6.5 million GBP
(around 8 million Euros).
In the mid-2000s, Felix Sater became a senior advisor to Rixos
and Sembol, a position he still holds.
On the Rixos board is the Ukrainian Igor Gumenyuk, an associate
of Rinat Akhmetov, owner of the Shaktar Donetsk soccer team.
Bayrock Capital was housed in the Trump Towers in New York.
Tevfik appointed Burak Yeneroglu as president of Bayrock.
Yeneroglu lives in a mansion opposite Tevfik in Miami. Yeneroglu
raised $652,000 for Obama's re-election campaign.
The Sapir Organization, owned by Georgian property developer
Sapir Tamir, partnered with Bayrock. Sapir and Sam Kislin were
guests at the weddings of Tevfik’s children - along with the
Kazakh trio, Musa Bazhaev, the Reuben brothers, Telman Ismailov,
and Leonid Bilunov (reportedly a Russian mobster operating from
Monaco).
In March 2012, Ali Demirhan introduced Doyen Capital's vice
president, Tevfik Eren to Sadik Albayrak (father of Berat
Albayrak) Murat Ulgen (CEO of Besiktas), and Ali Agaoglu (a real
estate magnate close to Erdogan). Agaoglu has been accused of
bribing Bilal Erdogan, by donating millions to his education
foundation Turgev.
There was also an obvious fraud involving Doyen Natural
Resources (DNR) based in Panama, Efendi Arif's Lomisa Trust and
Kamelot Enerji (Doyen’s Turkish coal company) – all 3 Arif
companies.
DNR bought coal for around $180 per tonne, and then traded it to
Kamelot for ten dollars more. Kamelot’s financial records for
2014 and 2015 show millions in losses, while continuing to buy
and sell coal. DNR's Credit Suisse statements show millions
being paid into the family’s trusts, including the Carlyle
Trust, based in the BVI that owns the London mansion.
The profits should have been taxed in Britain or Turkey, but DNR
was quickly liquidated, when the money had disappeared.
In 2012, Gubre Gida Kimya (GGK, also part of the Doyen Group)
purchased Kamelot Enerji for $12.1 million.
Starting in August 2014, DNR began gifting money to Lomisa. A
letter shows that DNR “[I]gifted an additional amount of USD
$41,100,000.00 (forty one million one hundred thousand US
dollars)” to Lomisa Trust, which brings "the total amount gifted
to the Trust to $46.100.000.00[/I]”.
The mentioned Eristavi Limited is a Guernsey-based company owned
by the Lomisa Trust.
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HTML https://theblacksea.eu/index.php?idT=88&idC=88&idRec=1278&recType=story
(archived here:
HTML http://archive.fo/nzDL3)
Salford was also involved in how Rothschild, with the aid of
George Soros and Mabel of Orange, destroyed and took over the
complete economy of former Yugoslavia.
Johannes Sittard was Mittal's second in command from 1995-2001.
Sittard has admitted that Rothschild agent Lakshmi Mittal paid
the Chodiev group (of the Kazakh trio) $100 million to acquire
Karmet steelworks in Kazakhstan for $310 million in 1995.
Sittard said that he used the Chodiev group to bribe Kazakh
President Nursultan Nazarbayev, and admitted paying a huge
commission.
The Kazakh businessman and politician, Bolat Abilov, said that
Mittal's company used the Belgian company Tractebel to buy a
power grid in Almaty with a bribe of $50 million.
In 2002, it was discovered that Mittal donated £125,000 to the
Labour Party just 2 months before PM Tony Blair wrote to the
Romanian prime minister in support of Mittal's bid to buy the
country's largest steel plant, Sidex:
HTML http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2146757.stm
(archived here:
HTML http://archive.is/8NbK)
Following is an official document by the Turkish prosecutor on
the human trafficking case against Tevfik Arif and his gang of
paedophiles.
The most important addition to what is already in this thread
about the prostitute scandal (including sexual abuse of underage
girls), is that at least one 16-year-old flew to Miami to
satisfy the sexual pleasures of some dirty old men:
[quote]Erkan Akdeniz: but, as far as I know, the 16 years old
girl went to Miami, apparently, it was earlier, no, it's not
important, forget it
(…)
Erkan Akdeniz: 16 years old already were, she is already 17, and
she went to America 4-5 times
(…)
Erkan Akdeniz: the 16-year-olds went to Miami earlier, as far as
I know, but OK, it doesn't matter, I'm not going to mix anything
up[/quote] EDIT - document has been deleted by the Blacksea
site:
HTML https://theblacksea.eu/RES/uploads/files/Savarona%20prosecution%20docs_ocr.pdf
Trump said that most of his dealings with Bayrock had been with
Tevfik Arif.
Tefvik Arif was born in Kazakhstan, but is now a Turkish
citizen. The Arif family controls Doyen. Doyen Sports employs
international superstars like David Beckham, Usain Bolt and
Neymar.
Refik Arif, Tefviks brother, partnered with Sitki Ayan in a deal
involving a gas pipeline from Iran to Europe. Part of the
pipeline would go through Turkmenistan, in which Calik Holding
was involved, where Erdogan’s son-in-law Berat Albayrak was CEO
until 2013. Sitki Ayan is a childhood friend of President
Erdogan, and is so close that he calls the president by his
first name in public and occasionally joins him on official
trips abroad.
The gas was paid for in gold to circumvent that Iran was blocked
by international sanctions, with over ten billion dollars in
revenue. President Erdogan and his son Bilal were caught on tape
in conversations in which they appeared to discuss the bribes to
be received with Sitki Ayan.
In 2012, Ali Demirhan, stalwart of President Erdogan's AKP
Party, became Doyen's new legal advisor. Demirhan is described
as a “close friend and partner” of the Arifs.
Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson, ex- wife of Prince “Randy Andy”
Andrew became embroiled in a scandal involving children. The
Turkish Ministry of Justice even issued an international arrest
warrant. Ferguson turned for help to her Turkish friends in
London, Arif “Arif” Efendi, son of Tevfik Arif, and Demirhan.
Doyen drafted an apology letter addressed to Erdogan explaining
the misunderstanding. The charges against Ferguson were
subsequently dropped:
HTML https://theblacksea.eu/index.php?idT=88&idC=88&idRec=1281&recType=story
See Recep Tayyip Erdogan with Arif “Arif” Efendi in Yalta,
Ukraine.
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#Post#: 2198--------------------------------------------------
Re: Trump, Bayrock, Doyen, soccer and the Kazakh gangster
By: Firestarter Date: November 15, 2018, 9:36 am
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In 2008, the hedge fund Doyen Group of the Arif family began
“investing” in professional football. Doyen Sports Investments
Limited, of the Doyen Group, is very active in financing
Third-Party Ownership (TPO) of contracts for soccer players.
Nélio Freire Lucas founded Doyen Sports in 2011, and describes
this process as "Third Party Investment". As opposed to TPO,
which has recently been banned by the FIFA.
From 2011 to 2016, Doyen invested €170 million in association
football.
Doyen Sports lends money to professional football clubs for
transfers. The club has 3 years to repay its debt, if they can’t
they are forced to resell the players. Doyen gets a percentage
of the transfer. In this way Doyen (and affiliated funds and
club owners) can keep on inflating the prices indefinitely
(controlling both the selling and the buying club)…
Doyen Group's financial division, Doyen Capital LLP, is based in
London. Doyen Capital has the same address as Doyen Group and is
headed by Nélio Lucas, Simon Oliveira, and Matthew Kay.
Doyen Capital LLP is the origin of funding for Doyen Sports and
Doyen Sports Investments Limited, which has 4 shareholders:
Malik Ali; Claudio Tonolla (Swiss investor, residing in Malta);
Nelio Lucas and Ali Lüftü Ethem Kadirgan.
Nélio Lucas owns 20% of the Doyen Group subsidiary Doyen Natural
Resources through shell corporations in tax havens.
The nucleus of shareholders at Doyen Group are, Tevfik Arif and
3 of his sons: Refik (Doyen Capital LLP and Doyen Global
Limited); Efendi (Doyen Capital Services Limited) and Kemal
(Doyen Capital).
Benington Group Assets also holds 80% of the shares of Doyen
Sports Investments Limited.
Doyen Sports reportedly paid €10.8 million in secret commissions
for the transfer of various players (including the French
Kondogbia and Mangala and the Colombian Radamel Falcao), using
shell companies. According to Football Leaks, the companies
Rixos, Denos and PMCI, are used.
For some reason the “independent” Wikipedia has deleted
interesting information…
I think that this is the most interesting of the archived
versions of this page, with quoted below the part that has been
deleted
[quote]Investors
According to Bloomberg News as of 2015, the main investors of
the Doyen Group remained anonymous, except for three people:
• [B]Fettah Tamince[/B], a relative of Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan; runs and owns the Turkish hotel /Bchain Rixos
and Star Media Group;
• [B]Tevfik Arif[/B], Turkish Kazakh owner of the Bayrock
Group,[15][16] a New York-based real estate developer and
partner of Fettah Tamince and Donald Trump.[17]
• [B]Erick Thohir[/B], an Indonesian billionaire who bought
Inter Milan
Four members of the Arif family form the nucleus of shareholders
at Doyen Group: Tevfik Arif and three of his sons: Refik (Doyen
Capital LLP and Doyen Global Limited); Efendi (Doyen Capital
Services Limited) and Kemal (Doyen Capital; 2011–2013);[1]
The Arif family made a fortune through the privatization of a
chemical plant in Kazakhstan during the collapse of the USSR
before financing the investment fund "Doyen Sports" to the tune
of €75 million and hiding this money in dozens of offshore
companies in "tax havens such as Panama, Isle of Man, the
Netherlands, Malta or the British Virgin Islands".[6] The Doyen
Group has always kept the source of its funds secret; According
to the newspaper L'Équipe (based on information from the
"Football Leaks"), this could be motivated by "fiscal reasons"
but also by the origin of the family fortune of the "Arif clan"
built from the ruins of the former USSR by "appropriating mines
and factories at low prices, with the support of corrupt
politicians and organized crime (...) protectors apparently so
dangerous that they can ruin The Arif family with a finger
snap."
It is this sulphurous silver (€300 million siphoned in a Kazakh
chemical factory) that financed Doyen Sports. €75 million paid
by Refik Arif, which affects interest but does not appear
anywhere, hidden behind an offshore shell driven by a nominee, a
nephew Arif"[6] who specifies that Bloomberg had identified in
2013 one of the shareholders of the Doyen group, Turkish
naturalized Kazakh businessman Tevfik Arif.[/quote]
Compare the previous version (including the last quote):
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doyen_Group&oldid=768855025
With the current version:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doyen_Group
(Here an archived version of this Wikipedia page:
HTML http://archive.fo/LVvLV)
The Blacksea site (also) has an interesting story on the
transfer of Kondogbia.
Sevilla only wished to sell the Frenchman for 20 million Euros,
and Fifa rules prohibit investment funds from influencing
transfers.
In August 2013, Nelio Lucas arranged a party in Miami, involving
prostitutes, to convince Real Madrid president Florentino Perez,
to buy [B]Kondogbia[/B] for 20 million Euros. The location was
the Arif residence on Fisher Island, a short distance from Miami
Beach.
The transfer to Real didn’t work out, and it was Monaco that
paid the 20 million for Kondogbia.
Lucas texted to Arif “Great deal for us”, Arif replied:
“Congrats bro!!!!!!!”.
The transfer gave Doyen Sport a net profit of 7.8 million Euros,
a return on its initial “investment” of 524% in only one year
(that’s money laundering in a fast way…).
One year after the transfers, Lucas used the Denos limited shell
company, registered in Ras al-Khaimah (part of the United Arab
Emirates). On 17 July 2014, Doyen Sports paid 1.3 million Euro
to Denos, 785,865 Euro for the transfer of Kondogbia and 533,190
Euro for Falcao. The Football Leaks documents don’t reveal to
whom the money ultimately went.
In December 2014, Italian football agent Gianluca Fiorini filed
a complaint, in which he accused Doyen Sports of committing
“grave abuse” in Kondogbia’s transfer to Monaco because it
controlled both the player’s agent and the agent for then Monaco
manager Claudio Ranieri.
Fiorini said Spanish agent Juan Manuel Lopez (who was
Kondogbia’s agent) had “invested” in Doyen Sports, just like his
Italian colleague Giuseppe Bozzo, who was Ranieri’s agent. Lopez
is one of Nelio Lucas’s professional collaborators, and Bozzo
has been appointed by Nelio Lucas as the exclusive
representative for Doyen Sports in Italy.
Fifa also suspected that a secret payment of 500,000 Euro was
made during Kondogbia’s transfer from French club Lens to
Sevilla in 2012.
At the beginning of 2016, the Fifa sentenced Sevilla to a formal
warning and a fine of 55,000 Swiss francs. Sevilla appealed the
sentence:
HTML https://theblacksea.eu/index.php?idT=88&idC=88&idRec=1276&recType=story
(archived here:
HTML http://archive.fo/Ej9CI)
Over here in the Netherlands, the money laundering Doyen Group
has gotten negative publicity for manipulating transfers of Ajax
Amsterdam and FC Twente.
Twente even got threatened to be degraded (which didn’t go
through) and was banned from European competitions for 3 years
by the KNVB.
In the Dutch press the affair surrounding Twente has gotten
publicity, but nothing has been revealed about the money
laundering Doyen Group of the Arif family and its affiliation to
Donald Trump.
In 2012, [B]FC Twente[/B] bought the Serbian Dusan Tadic from FC
Groningen (also from the Netherlands). In 2014, FC Twente made a
deal with Doyen Sports Investments. In return for a 5 million
Euro “loan”, Doyen obtained part of the transfer rights for 7
Twente-players, including Tadic.
In 2014, Tadic was sold to the English club Southampton for some
13 million Euros - Doyen received 10% of that sum. FC Twente had
to pay Tadic’s agent Zoran Pavlovic an additional 3.6 million
Euro.
In 2013, FC Twente, made another deal with Represetanciones
Internacionales Vijai to buy the Mexican Jesús Corona for 3.5
million Euro from Monterrey. In 2015, Corona was sold for some
12 million Euros to FC Porto, of which Vijai got 60%.
I don’t know which money launderers control Vijai.
In March 2015, FC Twente had to retract its annual financial
statement (for 2014-2015) because of irregularities surrounding
the transfer of Dusan Tadic to Southampton (in Dutch):
HTML https://www.volkskrant.nl/sport/de-creatieve-transfers-van-munsterman~a4273514/
[B]Ajax Amsterdam[/B] made deals with the British agent Matthew
Kay of Doyen to get high transfer sums for 4 youth players by
selling them before the end of their contracts (in Dutch):
HTML https://nos.nl/artikel/2091602-ajax-betaalde-doyen-bij-contracten-jeugdspelers.html
In our Brave New World, the Legal system protects the big
crooks…
In December 2015, the CAS ordered [B]Sporting Lisbon[/B] to pay
£12.5 million of the transfer of [B]Marcos Rojo[/B] to
Manchester United. Plus 75% of any transfer fee over £17 million
if Rojo is sold by Manchester United.
Doyen Sports was also behind Manchester City’s £42 million
transfer of [B]Eliaquim Mangala[/B]:
HTML http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/doyen-sports-wins-legal-dispute-with-sporting-lisbon-over-compensation-claim-for-transfer-of-maros-a6787046.html
On 20 January 20 2014, Doyen’s Nelio Lucas celebrated his 35th
birthday in the presence of [B]Real Madrid president Florentino
Perez, CEO of Atlético de Madrid Miguel Angel Gil, AC Milan
vice-president Adriano Galliani and his daughter (that was hired
by Doyen), Inter Milan’s sporting director, the directors of
English club Fulham, Portuguese side Sporting and Spanish club
Sevilla, and the son of the president of Portuguese club
Porto[/B] as well.
Lucas also had excellent relations with [B]Vincent Labrune[/B],
who from 2011 to 2016 was president of the French club
Marseille.
On 14 occasions in 2014, 2015, Lucas brought pretty young women
to “help with business deals”, the plane tickets paid by his
offshore company Vela.
In 2014, Efendi Arif wrote to Lucas about “his” players in that
year’s World Cup in Brazil: [B]Mangala, Promes, Defour, Januzaj,
Xavi, Falcao, Rojo, Negredo, de Gea, and Neymar[/B].
Doyen Sports owned 60% of the transfer rights in the Moroccan
Abdel Barrada. In 2013, Barrada left the Spanish Getafe, for
United Arab Emirates side Al-Jazira. The mere 3.35 million Euro
Doyen – twice what it paid only 2 years earlier – was considered
a disappointment.
The move of the Colombian [B]Radamel Falcao from Atlético Madrid
to Monaco[/B] in 2013, in which Doyen owned a 33% stake, made a
profit of 5.3 million Euro, which was again disappointing.
In 2014, English club Manchester City bought the French
[B]Eliaquim Mangala from FC Porto[/B] for 45 million Euros,
Doyen Sports earned 10 million Euro in the deal, which was 4
times the price they had paid.
Just 5 days later, Lucas arranged for 2 million Euros be
transferred to shell company PMCI in Abu Dhabi, labelled as
“consultancy”.
Porto defender [B]Sergio de Oliveira[/B] got a free transfer by
his club Porto. In January 2015, shortly after Doyen Sports had
begun representing the player, Porto decided to buy him back
with Doyen Sport’s “help”.
Doyen Sports was De Oliveira’s agent, with a 25% stake in the
player, bought for 500,000 Euro from Porto with a 300,000 Euro
commission.
Because Portuguese law prohibits a person or company to
represent more than 1 party, Lucas turned to Fifa-licensed agent
Kevin Caruana who signed for the 300,000 Euro-commission (to be
paid via Vela). Caruana was paid 2,000 Euro for his services.
In 2014, Porto announced that it had bought [B]Yacine
Brahimi[/B] for 6.5 million Euro. In reality, Brahimi had cost
9.5 million Euro, of which 8 million Euro was paid by Doyen
Sports for 80% in the transfer rights.
Porto paid a commission of 500,000 Euro into the account of
Doyen Sports shell company Denos, in Dubai. Because Lucas did
not have an agent’s licence, his colleague Juan Manuel Lopez
signed the contract.
A year later, on 29 July 2015, Lucas secretly paid 1.5 million
Euro for Brahimi, through Denos.
A little more than a month later, Brahimi renegotiated his
contract with Porto including the club buying his image rights
for 4 million Euros. Lucas received 500,000 Euro in a commission
payment from Porto, which was sent into Lucas’s
Maltese-registered company Vela via its Liechtenstein bank
account.
Vela was also given a mandate for the future sale of Brahimi,
with 10% of the transfer rights.
In February 2014, Doyen Sports bought a stake in Adnan Januzaj’s
image rights, for 1.5 million Euros.
Januzaj was paid another 500,000 Euro bonus through offshore
structures.
Doyen Sports has transferred 10.8 million Euros in secret
commissions into the companies Denos, Rixos and PMCI.
When Nelio Lucas was negotiating mining deals in Brazil, Sierra
Leone and Angola; he asked Efendi Arif “Do you thing I should
bribe them???” to which Efendi answered “Yes bro”:
HTML https://theblacksea.eu/index.php?idT=88&idC=88&idRec=1277&recType=story
(archived here:
HTML http://archive.is/Ln3T5)
See Donald Trump with Tevfik and Efendi Arif.
[IMG]
HTML https://archive.fo/nzDL3/4b7bdfd842c3f353741ecb8bd65264a45d5477a5.jpg[/img]
#Post#: 2200--------------------------------------------------
Re: Trump, Bayrock, Doyen, soccer and the Kazakh gangster
By: guest8 Date: November 15, 2018, 9:48 am
---------------------------------------------------------
[quote author=Firestarter link=topic=235.msg2198#msg2198
date=1542296196]
In 2008, the hedge fund Doyen Group of the Arif family began
“investing” in professional football. Doyen Sports Investments
Limited, of the Doyen Group, is very active in financing
Third-Party Ownership (TPO) of contracts for soccer players.
Nélio Freire Lucas founded Doyen Sports in 2011, and describes
this process as "Third Party Investment". As opposed to TPO,
which has recently been banned by the FIFA.
From 2011 to 2016, Doyen invested €170 million in association
football.
Doyen Sports lends money to professional football clubs for
transfers. The club has 3 years to repay its debt, if they can’t
they are forced to resell the players. Doyen gets a percentage
of the transfer. In this way Doyen (and affiliated funds and
club owners) can keep on inflating the prices indefinitely
(controlling both the selling and the buying club)…
Doyen Group's financial division, Doyen Capital LLP, is based in
London. Doyen Capital has the same address as Doyen Group and is
headed by Nélio Lucas, Simon Oliveira, and Matthew Kay.
Doyen Capital LLP is the origin of funding for Doyen Sports and
Doyen Sports Investments Limited, which has 4 shareholders:
Malik Ali; Claudio Tonolla (Swiss investor, residing in Malta);
Nelio Lucas and Ali Lüftü Ethem Kadirgan.
Nélio Lucas owns 20% of the Doyen Group subsidiary Doyen Natural
Resources through shell corporations in tax havens.
The nucleus of shareholders at Doyen Group are, Tevfik Arif and
3 of his sons: Refik (Doyen Capital LLP and Doyen Global
Limited); Efendi (Doyen Capital Services Limited) and Kemal
(Doyen Capital).
Benington Group Assets also holds 80% of the shares of Doyen
Sports Investments Limited.
Doyen Sports reportedly paid €10.8 million in secret commissions
for the transfer of various players (including the French
Kondogbia and Mangala and the Colombian Radamel Falcao), using
shell companies. According to Football Leaks, the companies
Rixos, Denos and PMCI, are used.
For some reason the “independent” Wikipedia has deleted
interesting information…
I think that this is the most interesting of the archived
versions of this page, with quoted below the part that has been
deleted
[quote]Investors
According to Bloomberg News as of 2015, the main investors of
the Doyen Group remained anonymous, except for three people:
• [B]Fettah Tamince[/B], a relative of Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan; runs and owns the Turkish hotel /Bchain Rixos
and Star Media Group;
• [B]Tevfik Arif[/B], Turkish Kazakh owner of the Bayrock
Group,[15][16] a New York-based real estate developer and
partner of Fettah Tamince and Donald Trump.[17]
• [B]Erick Thohir[/B], an Indonesian billionaire who bought
Inter Milan
Four members of the Arif family form the nucleus of shareholders
at Doyen Group: Tevfik Arif and three of his sons: Refik (Doyen
Capital LLP and Doyen Global Limited); Efendi (Doyen Capital
Services Limited) and Kemal (Doyen Capital; 2011–2013);[1]
The Arif family made a fortune through the privatization of a
chemical plant in Kazakhstan during the collapse of the USSR
before financing the investment fund "Doyen Sports" to the tune
of €75 million and hiding this money in dozens of offshore
companies in "tax havens such as Panama, Isle of Man, the
Netherlands, Malta or the British Virgin Islands".[6] The Doyen
Group has always kept the source of its funds secret; According
to the newspaper L'Équipe (based on information from the
"Football Leaks"), this could be motivated by "fiscal reasons"
but also by the origin of the family fortune of the "Arif clan"
built from the ruins of the former USSR by "appropriating mines
and factories at low prices, with the support of corrupt
politicians and organized crime (...) protectors apparently so
dangerous that they can ruin The Arif family with a finger
snap."
It is this sulphurous silver (€300 million siphoned in a Kazakh
chemical factory) that financed Doyen Sports. €75 million paid
by Refik Arif, which affects interest but does not appear
anywhere, hidden behind an offshore shell driven by a nominee, a
nephew Arif"[6] who specifies that Bloomberg had identified in
2013 one of the shareholders of the Doyen group, Turkish
naturalized Kazakh businessman Tevfik Arif.[/quote]
Compare the previous version (including the last quote):
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doyen_Group&oldid=768855025
With the current version:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doyen_Group
(Here an archived version of this Wikipedia page:
HTML http://archive.fo/LVvLV)
The Blacksea site (also) has an interesting story on the
transfer of Kondogbia.
Sevilla only wished to sell the Frenchman for 20 million Euros,
and Fifa rules prohibit investment funds from influencing
transfers.
In August 2013, Nelio Lucas arranged a party in Miami, involving
prostitutes, to convince Real Madrid president Florentino Perez,
to buy [B]Kondogbia[/B] for 20 million Euros. The location was
the Arif residence on Fisher Island, a short distance from Miami
Beach.
The transfer to Real didn’t work out, and it was Monaco that
paid the 20 million for Kondogbia.
Lucas texted to Arif “Great deal for us”, Arif replied:
“Congrats bro!!!!!!!”.
The transfer gave Doyen Sport a net profit of 7.8 million Euros,
a return on its initial “investment” of 524% in only one year
(that’s money laundering in a fast way…).
One year after the transfers, Lucas used the Denos limited shell
company, registered in Ras al-Khaimah (part of the United Arab
Emirates). On 17 July 2014, Doyen Sports paid 1.3 million Euro
to Denos, 785,865 Euro for the transfer of Kondogbia and 533,190
Euro for Falcao. The Football Leaks documents don’t reveal to
whom the money ultimately went.
In December 2014, Italian football agent Gianluca Fiorini filed
a complaint, in which he accused Doyen Sports of committing
“grave abuse” in Kondogbia’s transfer to Monaco because it
controlled both the player’s agent and the agent for then Monaco
manager Claudio Ranieri.
Fiorini said Spanish agent Juan Manuel Lopez (who was
Kondogbia’s agent) had “invested” in Doyen Sports, just like his
Italian colleague Giuseppe Bozzo, who was Ranieri’s agent. Lopez
is one of Nelio Lucas’s professional collaborators, and Bozzo
has been appointed by Nelio Lucas as the exclusive
representative for Doyen Sports in Italy.
Fifa also suspected that a secret payment of 500,000 Euro was
made during Kondogbia’s transfer from French club Lens to
Sevilla in 2012.
At the beginning of 2016, the Fifa sentenced Sevilla to a formal
warning and a fine of 55,000 Swiss francs. Sevilla appealed the
sentence:
HTML https://theblacksea.eu/index.php?idT=88&idC=88&idRec=1276&recType=story
(archived here:
HTML http://archive.fo/Ej9CI)
Over here in the Netherlands, the money laundering Doyen Group
has gotten negative publicity for manipulating transfers of Ajax
Amsterdam and FC Twente.
Twente even got threatened to be degraded (which didn’t go
through) and was banned from European competitions for 3 years
by the KNVB.
In the Dutch press the affair surrounding Twente has gotten
publicity, but nothing has been revealed about the money
laundering Doyen Group of the Arif family and its affiliation to
Donald Trump.
In 2012, [B]FC Twente[/B] bought the Serbian Dusan Tadic from FC
Groningen (also from the Netherlands). In 2014, FC Twente made a
deal with Doyen Sports Investments. In return for a 5 million
Euro “loan”, Doyen obtained part of the transfer rights for 7
Twente-players, including Tadic.
In 2014, Tadic was sold to the English club Southampton for some
13 million Euros - Doyen received 10% of that sum. FC Twente had
to pay Tadic’s agent Zoran Pavlovic an additional 3.6 million
Euro.
In 2013, FC Twente, made another deal with Represetanciones
Internacionales Vijai to buy the Mexican Jesús Corona for 3.5
million Euro from Monterrey. In 2015, Corona was sold for some
12 million Euros to FC Porto, of which Vijai got 60%.
I don’t know which money launderers control Vijai.
In March 2015, FC Twente had to retract its annual financial
statement (for 2014-2015) because of irregularities surrounding
the transfer of Dusan Tadic to Southampton (in Dutch):
HTML https://www.volkskrant.nl/sport/de-creatieve-transfers-van-munsterman~a4273514/
[B]Ajax Amsterdam[/B] made deals with the British agent Matthew
Kay of Doyen to get high transfer sums for 4 youth players by
selling them before the end of their contracts (in Dutch):
HTML https://nos.nl/artikel/2091602-ajax-betaalde-doyen-bij-contracten-jeugdspelers.html
In our Brave New World, the Legal system protects the big
crooks…
In December 2015, the CAS ordered [B]Sporting Lisbon[/B] to pay
£12.5 million of the transfer of [B]Marcos Rojo[/B] to
Manchester United. Plus 75% of any transfer fee over £17 million
if Rojo is sold by Manchester United.
Doyen Sports was also behind Manchester City’s £42 million
transfer of [B]Eliaquim Mangala[/B]:
HTML http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/doyen-sports-wins-legal-dispute-with-sporting-lisbon-over-compensation-claim-for-transfer-of-maros-a6787046.html
On 20 January 20 2014, Doyen’s Nelio Lucas celebrated his 35th
birthday in the presence of [B]Real Madrid president Florentino
Perez, CEO of Atlético de Madrid Miguel Angel Gil, AC Milan
vice-president Adriano Galliani and his daughter (that was hired
by Doyen), Inter Milan’s sporting director, the directors of
English club Fulham, Portuguese side Sporting and Spanish club
Sevilla, and the son of the president of Portuguese club
Porto[/B] as well.
Lucas also had excellent relations with [B]Vincent Labrune[/B],
who from 2011 to 2016 was president of the French club
Marseille.
On 14 occasions in 2014, 2015, Lucas brought pretty young women
to “help with business deals”, the plane tickets paid by his
offshore company Vela.
In 2014, Efendi Arif wrote to Lucas about “his” players in that
year’s World Cup in Brazil: [B]Mangala, Promes, Defour, Januzaj,
Xavi, Falcao, Rojo, Negredo, de Gea, and Neymar[/B].
Doyen Sports owned 60% of the transfer rights in the Moroccan
Abdel Barrada. In 2013, Barrada left the Spanish Getafe, for
United Arab Emirates side Al-Jazira. The mere 3.35 million Euro
Doyen – twice what it paid only 2 years earlier – was considered
a disappointment.
The move of the Colombian [B]Radamel Falcao from Atlético Madrid
to Monaco[/B] in 2013, in which Doyen owned a 33% stake, made a
profit of 5.3 million Euro, which was again disappointing.
In 2014, English club Manchester City bought the French
[B]Eliaquim Mangala from FC Porto[/B] for 45 million Euros,
Doyen Sports earned 10 million Euro in the deal, which was 4
times the price they had paid.
Just 5 days later, Lucas arranged for 2 million Euros be
transferred to shell company PMCI in Abu Dhabi, labelled as
“consultancy”.
Porto defender [B]Sergio de Oliveira[/B] got a free transfer by
his club Porto. In January 2015, shortly after Doyen Sports had
begun representing the player, Porto decided to buy him back
with Doyen Sport’s “help”.
Doyen Sports was De Oliveira’s agent, with a 25% stake in the
player, bought for 500,000 Euro from Porto with a 300,000 Euro
commission.
Because Portuguese law prohibits a person or company to
represent more than 1 party, Lucas turned to Fifa-licensed agent
Kevin Caruana who signed for the 300,000 Euro-commission (to be
paid via Vela). Caruana was paid 2,000 Euro for his services.
In 2014, Porto announced that it had bought [B]Yacine
Brahimi[/B] for 6.5 million Euro. In reality, Brahimi had cost
9.5 million Euro, of which 8 million Euro was paid by Doyen
Sports for 80% in the transfer rights.
Porto paid a commission of 500,000 Euro into the account of
Doyen Sports shell company Denos, in Dubai. Because Lucas did
not have an agent’s licence, his colleague Juan Manuel Lopez
signed the contract.
A year later, on 29 July 2015, Lucas secretly paid 1.5 million
Euro for Brahimi, through Denos.
A little more than a month later, Brahimi renegotiated his
contract with Porto including the club buying his image rights
for 4 million Euros. Lucas received 500,000 Euro in a commission
payment from Porto, which was sent into Lucas’s
Maltese-registered company Vela via its Liechtenstein bank
account.
Vela was also given a mandate for the future sale of Brahimi,
with 10% of the transfer rights.
In February 2014, Doyen Sports bought a stake in Adnan Januzaj’s
image rights, for 1.5 million Euros.
Januzaj was paid another 500,000 Euro bonus through offshore
structures.
Doyen Sports has transferred 10.8 million Euros in secret
commissions into the companies Denos, Rixos and PMCI.
When Nelio Lucas was negotiating mining deals in Brazil, Sierra
Leone and Angola; he asked Efendi Arif “Do you thing I should
bribe them???” to which Efendi answered “Yes bro”:
HTML https://theblacksea.eu/index.php?idT=88&idC=88&idRec=1277&recType=story
(archived here:
HTML http://archive.is/Ln3T5)
See Donald Trump with Tevfik and Efendi Arif.
[IMG]
HTML https://archive.fo/nzDL3/4b7bdfd842c3f353741ecb8bd65264a45d5477a5.jpg[/img]
[/quote]
[shadow=blue,left]Hey firestarter... All of your post above is
very informative but can you break it down in manageable pieces
for us beginners. lol... In the business world, one looks up
the information and uses it to create points of interest He or
she want to convey to the higher ups.
While we or I are certainly not the higher ups, I ask that you
break it down into points of interest along with your opinions
to and fro so we/I might digest it a little better. Thank you!
Blade[/shadow]
#Post#: 2210--------------------------------------------------
Re: Trump, Bayrock, Doyen, soccer and the Kazakh gangster
By: guest17 Date: November 15, 2018, 3:40 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[quote author=Firestarter link=topic=235.msg2198#msg2198
date=1542296196]
In 2008, the hedge fund Doyen Group of the Arif family began
“investing” in professional football. Doyen Sports Investments
Limited, of the Doyen Group, is very active in financing
Third-Party Ownership (TPO) of contracts for soccer players.
Nélio Freire Lucas founded Doyen Sports in 2011, and describes
this process as "Third Party Investment". As opposed to TPO,
which has recently been banned by the FIFA.
From 2011 to 2016, Doyen invested €170 million in association
football.
Doyen Sports lends money to professional football clubs for
transfers. The club has 3 years to repay its debt, if they can’t
they are forced to resell the players. Doyen gets a percentage
of the transfer. In this way Doyen (and affiliated funds and
club owners) can keep on inflating the prices indefinitely
(controlling both the selling and the buying club)…
Doyen Group's financial division, Doyen Capital LLP, is based in
London. Doyen Capital has the same address as Doyen Group and is
headed by Nélio Lucas, Simon Oliveira, and Matthew Kay.
Doyen Capital LLP is the origin of funding for Doyen Sports and
Doyen Sports Investments Limited, which has 4 shareholders:
Malik Ali; Claudio Tonolla (Swiss investor, residing in Malta);
Nelio Lucas and Ali Lüftü Ethem Kadirgan.
Nélio Lucas owns 20% of the Doyen Group subsidiary Doyen Natural
Resources through shell corporations in tax havens.
The nucleus of shareholders at Doyen Group are, Tevfik Arif and
3 of his sons: Refik (Doyen Capital LLP and Doyen Global
Limited); Efendi (Doyen Capital Services Limited) and Kemal
(Doyen Capital).
Benington Group Assets also holds 80% of the shares of Doyen
Sports Investments Limited.
Doyen Sports reportedly paid €10.8 million in secret commissions
for the transfer of various players (including the French
Kondogbia and Mangala and the Colombian Radamel Falcao), using
shell companies. According to Football Leaks, the companies
Rixos, Denos and PMCI, are used.
For some reason the “independent” Wikipedia has deleted
interesting information…
I think that this is the most interesting of the archived
versions of this page, with quoted below the part that has been
deleted
[quote]Investors
According to Bloomberg News as of 2015, the main investors of
the Doyen Group remained anonymous, except for three people:
• [B]Fettah Tamince[/B], a relative of Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan; runs and owns the Turkish hotel /Bchain Rixos
and Star Media Group;
• [B]Tevfik Arif[/B], Turkish Kazakh owner of the Bayrock
Group,[15][16] a New York-based real estate developer and
partner of Fettah Tamince and Donald Trump.[17]
• [B]Erick Thohir[/B], an Indonesian billionaire who bought
Inter Milan
Four members of the Arif family form the nucleus of shareholders
at Doyen Group: Tevfik Arif and three of his sons: Refik (Doyen
Capital LLP and Doyen Global Limited); Efendi (Doyen Capital
Services Limited) and Kemal (Doyen Capital; 2011–2013);[1]
The Arif family made a fortune through the privatization of a
chemical plant in Kazakhstan during the collapse of the USSR
before financing the investment fund "Doyen Sports" to the tune
of €75 million and hiding this money in dozens of offshore
companies in "tax havens such as Panama, Isle of Man, the
Netherlands, Malta or the British Virgin Islands".[6] The Doyen
Group has always kept the source of its funds secret; According
to the newspaper L'Équipe (based on information from the
"Football Leaks"), this could be motivated by "fiscal reasons"
but also by the origin of the family fortune of the "Arif clan"
built from the ruins of the former USSR by "appropriating mines
and factories at low prices, with the support of corrupt
politicians and organized crime (...) protectors apparently so
dangerous that they can ruin The Arif family with a finger
snap."
It is this sulphurous silver (€300 million siphoned in a Kazakh
chemical factory) that financed Doyen Sports. €75 million paid
by Refik Arif, which affects interest but does not appear
anywhere, hidden behind an offshore shell driven by a nominee, a
nephew Arif"[6] who specifies that Bloomberg had identified in
2013 one of the shareholders of the Doyen group, Turkish
naturalized Kazakh businessman Tevfik Arif.[/quote]
Compare the previous version (including the last quote):
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doyen_Group&oldid=768855025
With the current version:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doyen_Group
(Here an archived version of this Wikipedia page:
HTML http://archive.fo/LVvLV)
The Blacksea site (also) has an interesting story on the
transfer of Kondogbia.
Sevilla only wished to sell the Frenchman for 20 million Euros,
and Fifa rules prohibit investment funds from influencing
transfers.
In August 2013, Nelio Lucas arranged a party in Miami, involving
prostitutes, to convince Real Madrid president Florentino Perez,
to buy [B]Kondogbia[/B] for 20 million Euros. The location was
the Arif residence on Fisher Island, a short distance from Miami
Beach.
The transfer to Real didn’t work out, and it was Monaco that
paid the 20 million for Kondogbia.
Lucas texted to Arif “Great deal for us”, Arif replied:
“Congrats bro!!!!!!!”.
The transfer gave Doyen Sport a net profit of 7.8 million Euros,
a return on its initial “investment” of 524% in only one year
(that’s money laundering in a fast way…).
One year after the transfers, Lucas used the Denos limited shell
company, registered in Ras al-Khaimah (part of the United Arab
Emirates). On 17 July 2014, Doyen Sports paid 1.3 million Euro
to Denos, 785,865 Euro for the transfer of Kondogbia and 533,190
Euro for Falcao. The Football Leaks documents don’t reveal to
whom the money ultimately went.
In December 2014, Italian football agent Gianluca Fiorini filed
a complaint, in which he accused Doyen Sports of committing
“grave abuse” in Kondogbia’s transfer to Monaco because it
controlled both the player’s agent and the agent for then Monaco
manager Claudio Ranieri.
Fiorini said Spanish agent Juan Manuel Lopez (who was
Kondogbia’s agent) had “invested” in Doyen Sports, just like his
Italian colleague Giuseppe Bozzo, who was Ranieri’s agent. Lopez
is one of Nelio Lucas’s professional collaborators, and Bozzo
has been appointed by Nelio Lucas as the exclusive
representative for Doyen Sports in Italy.
Fifa also suspected that a secret payment of 500,000 Euro was
made during Kondogbia’s transfer from French club Lens to
Sevilla in 2012.
At the beginning of 2016, the Fifa sentenced Sevilla to a formal
warning and a fine of 55,000 Swiss francs. Sevilla appealed the
sentence:
HTML https://theblacksea.eu/index.php?idT=88&idC=88&idRec=1276&recType=story
(archived here:
HTML http://archive.fo/Ej9CI)
Over here in the Netherlands, the money laundering Doyen Group
has gotten negative publicity for manipulating transfers of Ajax
Amsterdam and FC Twente.
Twente even got threatened to be degraded (which didn’t go
through) and was banned from European competitions for 3 years
by the KNVB.
In the Dutch press the affair surrounding Twente has gotten
publicity, but nothing has been revealed about the money
laundering Doyen Group of the Arif family and its affiliation to
Donald Trump.
In 2012, [B]FC Twente[/B] bought the Serbian Dusan Tadic from FC
Groningen (also from the Netherlands). In 2014, FC Twente made a
deal with Doyen Sports Investments. In return for a 5 million
Euro “loan”, Doyen obtained part of the transfer rights for 7
Twente-players, including Tadic.
In 2014, Tadic was sold to the English club Southampton for some
13 million Euros - Doyen received 10% of that sum. FC Twente had
to pay Tadic’s agent Zoran Pavlovic an additional 3.6 million
Euro.
In 2013, FC Twente, made another deal with Represetanciones
Internacionales Vijai to buy the Mexican Jesús Corona for 3.5
million Euro from Monterrey. In 2015, Corona was sold for some
12 million Euros to FC Porto, of which Vijai got 60%.
I don’t know which money launderers control Vijai.
In March 2015, FC Twente had to retract its annual financial
statement (for 2014-2015) because of irregularities surrounding
the transfer of Dusan Tadic to Southampton (in Dutch):
HTML https://www.volkskrant.nl/sport/de-creatieve-transfers-van-munsterman~a4273514/
[B]Ajax Amsterdam[/B] made deals with the British agent Matthew
Kay of Doyen to get high transfer sums for 4 youth players by
selling them before the end of their contracts (in Dutch):
HTML https://nos.nl/artikel/2091602-ajax-betaalde-doyen-bij-contracten-jeugdspelers.html
In our Brave New World, the Legal system protects the big
crooks…
In December 2015, the CAS ordered [B]Sporting Lisbon[/B] to pay
£12.5 million of the transfer of [B]Marcos Rojo[/B] to
Manchester United. Plus 75% of any transfer fee over £17 million
if Rojo is sold by Manchester United.
Doyen Sports was also behind Manchester City’s £42 million
transfer of [B]Eliaquim Mangala[/B]:
HTML http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/doyen-sports-wins-legal-dispute-with-sporting-lisbon-over-compensation-claim-for-transfer-of-maros-a6787046.html
On 20 January 20 2014, Doyen’s Nelio Lucas celebrated his 35th
birthday in the presence of [B]Real Madrid president Florentino
Perez, CEO of Atlético de Madrid Miguel Angel Gil, AC Milan
vice-president Adriano Galliani and his daughter (that was hired
by Doyen), Inter Milan’s sporting director, the directors of
English club Fulham, Portuguese side Sporting and Spanish club
Sevilla, and the son of the president of Portuguese club
Porto[/B] as well.
Lucas also had excellent relations with [B]Vincent Labrune[/B],
who from 2011 to 2016 was president of the French club
Marseille.
On 14 occasions in 2014, 2015, Lucas brought pretty young women
to “help with business deals”, the plane tickets paid by his
offshore company Vela.
In 2014, Efendi Arif wrote to Lucas about “his” players in that
year’s World Cup in Brazil: [B]Mangala, Promes, Defour, Januzaj,
Xavi, Falcao, Rojo, Negredo, de Gea, and Neymar[/B].
Doyen Sports owned 60% of the transfer rights in the Moroccan
Abdel Barrada. In 2013, Barrada left the Spanish Getafe, for
United Arab Emirates side Al-Jazira. The mere 3.35 million Euro
Doyen – twice what it paid only 2 years earlier – was considered
a disappointment.
The move of the Colombian [B]Radamel Falcao from Atlético Madrid
to Monaco[/B] in 2013, in which Doyen owned a 33% stake, made a
profit of 5.3 million Euro, which was again disappointing.
In 2014, English club Manchester City bought the French
[B]Eliaquim Mangala from FC Porto[/B] for 45 million Euros,
Doyen Sports earned 10 million Euro in the deal, which was 4
times the price they had paid.
Just 5 days later, Lucas arranged for 2 million Euros be
transferred to shell company PMCI in Abu Dhabi, labelled as
“consultancy”.
Porto defender [B]Sergio de Oliveira[/B] got a free transfer by
his club Porto. In January 2015, shortly after Doyen Sports had
begun representing the player, Porto decided to buy him back
with Doyen Sport’s “help”.
Doyen Sports was De Oliveira’s agent, with a 25% stake in the
player, bought for 500,000 Euro from Porto with a 300,000 Euro
commission.
Because Portuguese law prohibits a person or company to
represent more than 1 party, Lucas turned to Fifa-licensed agent
Kevin Caruana who signed for the 300,000 Euro-commission (to be
paid via Vela). Caruana was paid 2,000 Euro for his services.
In 2014, Porto announced that it had bought [B]Yacine
Brahimi[/B] for 6.5 million Euro. In reality, Brahimi had cost
9.5 million Euro, of which 8 million Euro was paid by Doyen
Sports for 80% in the transfer rights.
Porto paid a commission of 500,000 Euro into the account of
Doyen Sports shell company Denos, in Dubai. Because Lucas did
not have an agent’s licence, his colleague Juan Manuel Lopez
signed the contract.
A year later, on 29 July 2015, Lucas secretly paid 1.5 million
Euro for Brahimi, through Denos.
A little more than a month later, Brahimi renegotiated his
contract with Porto including the club buying his image rights
for 4 million Euros. Lucas received 500,000 Euro in a commission
payment from Porto, which was sent into Lucas’s
Maltese-registered company Vela via its Liechtenstein bank
account.
Vela was also given a mandate for the future sale of Brahimi,
with 10% of the transfer rights.
In February 2014, Doyen Sports bought a stake in Adnan Januzaj’s
image rights, for 1.5 million Euros.
Januzaj was paid another 500,000 Euro bonus through offshore
structures.
Doyen Sports has transferred 10.8 million Euros in secret
commissions into the companies Denos, Rixos and PMCI.
When Nelio Lucas was negotiating mining deals in Brazil, Sierra
Leone and Angola; he asked Efendi Arif “Do you thing I should
bribe them???” to which Efendi answered “Yes bro”:
HTML https://theblacksea.eu/index.php?idT=88&idC=88&idRec=1277&recType=story
(archived here:
HTML http://archive.is/Ln3T5)
See Donald Trump with Tevfik and Efendi Arif.
[IMG]
HTML https://archive.fo/nzDL3/4b7bdfd842c3f353741ecb8bd65264a45d5477a5.jpg[/img]
[/quote]
I posted a video about a whistleblower named Ronald Bernard who
was a Dutch banker. He talked about money laundering and the
various agencies and people used to do that. He said that all
the countries have their people who do the same thing. He talked
too about how they could manipulate the economies of different
countries and bankrupt companies. He said he was part of the
ruling Elite made up of over 8.000 people. He said he was told
that he would have to put his conscience in the freezer in order
to do all this. He thought he could do that till he went to the
next level and was asked to do something that broke him and that
he couldn't do so he left that life with consequences of course.
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Re: Trump, Bayrock, Doyen, soccer and the Kazakh gangster
By: Firestarter Date: November 16, 2018, 4:43 am
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[quote author=Bladerunner link=topic=235.msg2200#msg2200
date=1542296922]While we or I are certainly not the higher ups,
I ask that you break it down into points of interest along with
your opinions to and fro so we/I might digest it a little
better. Thank you![/quote] I think I understand what you mean,
but I'm afraid that what you're asking is a practical
impossibility...
I've made summaries, with paragraphs that is already much, much
shorter than the original articles. These posts are based on a
huge amount of information.
You can look at the articles that I've linked to written by
professionals for comparison.
That's besides the fact that English isn't even my first
language.
I don't understand why you had to quote my entire post to tell
me that...
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Re: Trump, Bayrock, Doyen, soccer and the Kazakh gangster
By: Firestarter Date: November 16, 2018, 4:44 am
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[quote author=truthjourney link=topic=235.msg2210#msg2210
date=1542318047]I posted a video about a whistleblower named
Ronald Bernard who was a Dutch banker. He talked about money
laundering and the various agencies and people used to do that.
He said that all the countries have their people who do the same
thing. He talked too about how they could manipulate the
economies of different countries and bankrupt companies. He said
he was part of the ruling Elite made up of over 8.000 people. He
said he was told that he would have to put his conscience in the
freezer in order to do all this. He thought he could do that
till he went to the next level and was asked to do something
that broke him and that he couldn't do so he left that life with
consequences of course.[/quote] I don't understand why you had
to quote my entire post to tell me that...
I’m certainly not the only one to think that Ronald Bernard was
pushed in the spotlight (including articles in the Dutch
newspapers) as “controlled opposition” while “real”
whistleblowers are ignored by the media.
HTML https://youtu.be/J3smPOZ4UwI
Ronald Bernard didn’t name any of the financial institutions
that he supposedly worked for, nor any of the satanic
paedophiles. To add insult to injury, he claimed that the
satanic child sex, sacrifice parties where he was present were
outside the Netherlands.
Maybe the most damaging to Ronald Bernard’s credibility is that
he’s involved in “sustained development”, which is the political
correct name for dealing with the”problem” of overpopulation and
(still) connected to the Dutch elite.
In 2015, Ronald Bernard and his [I]De Blije B[/I] (Joyful bank)
was affiliated with the “Groene Zaak” (the Green business), an
organisation that pushes for sustainable development (the
problem of overpopulation).
Some of the more interesting names involved in the “Groene Zaak”
are Alliander, Nationale Postcode Loterij, and Nederlandse
Spoorwegen.
Best of all – none other than Herman Wijffels (in Dutch):
HTML http://degroenezaak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Jaarverslag-DGZ-2015.pdf
Here’s some information on Herman Wijffels: [quote]H.H.F.
"Herman" Wijffels (IJzendijke, 13 March 1942) is a Dutch
economist and politician for the CDA. From 1981 to 1999 he
worked for the Rabobank ultimately as chairman of the board of
directors and from 15 March 1999 until 1 April 2006 he was
chairman of the Social-Economic Council (Sociaal-Economische
Raad, SER). From 2006 to 2008 he was the Dutch representative at
the World Bank, succeeding Ad Melkert. For the 2006-2007 Dutch
cabinet formation, Wijffels was recommended by informateur Rein
Jan Hoekstra to lead the negotiations between the CDA, PvdA and
ChristianUnion. On 22 December 2006 Queen Beatrix appointed him
as Hoekstra's successor as informateur. He has been referred to
as "the best prime minister the Netherlands never had".[/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Wijffels
[I]De Blije B[/I] does not only support sustainable development,
but also the terrorist UN...
[I]De Blije B[/I] is part of the [I]United People
Foundation[/I]: [quote]The goal of UPF is to contribute to the
realization of a 'Good Stewardship of All Life', as is described
in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). On the 10th
of December 1948 the UDHR was signed by 48 United Nations (UN).
At the present time 192 countries are members of the UN.[/quote]
HTML https://www.unitedpeople-foundation.org/en
I’ve posted in the following thread on Ronald Bernard on another
forum (as st jimmy):
HTML https://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?p=1062915733#post1062915733
In the following video, disbarred attorney Anne Marie van
Blijenburgh tells that she was present at parties in the
Netherlands where children from child detention centres were
brutally raped and murdered.
Some of the notable guests present at these “parties”:
Prince Friso; Mabel Wisse Smit (Friso’s wife); An elderly man
(probably) George Soros;
Piet Hein Donner (Vice President of the Council of State and
former minister); PM Mark Rutte;
Geert Wilders (Israel’s favourite Dutch politician); Ernst
Hirsch Ballin (former Minister, member of the Council of State);
Gerlof Leistra (journalist of Elsevier magazine); Carla Eradus
(former President of the Court in Amsterdam).
HTML https://youtu.be/SbhMfZRhsXw
There’s also a similar video of Toos Nijenhuis who testified
that she was present at child sacrifice ceremonies (including
paedophilia) in the presence of Prince Bernhard and Joseph
Ratzinger (better known as the resigned pope Benedict).
I don’t post a link as I find Nijenhuis hard to follow as she
doesn’t speak English very well.
For more stories on the endless scandals in the Netherlands,
including money laundering and supporting terrorists in Syria:
HTML https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1355
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By: guest17 Date: November 16, 2018, 11:24 am
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I'm a member of a private group of survivors of this kind of
thing. Whenever I hear other people speaking about this and what
happened to them, I try to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Because that's what I would want people to do for me.
I know how hard it is to talk about this. I tried to talk about
it on another forum. It didn't go over very well so I asked for
it to be deleted. It was not my intention to sound like a fear
monger or to raise doubts about God's power of protection. I
guess some things can only be discussed in a private group with
other people who know what I'm talking about and who don't judge
me that way.
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Re: Trump, Bayrock, Doyen, soccer and the Kazakh gangster
By: Firestarter Date: November 16, 2018, 11:56 am
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[quote author=truthjourney link=topic=235.msg2240#msg2240
date=1542389081]I know how hard it is to talk about this. I
tried to talk about it on another forum. It didn't go over very
well so I asked for it to be deleted. It was not my intention to
sound like a fear monger or to raise doubts about God's power of
protection. I guess some things can only be discussed in a
private group with other people who know what I'm talking about
and who don't judge me that way.[/quote] I'm sorry to hear that,
maybe I should have expressed myself more clearly.
These things happen, including in the Netherlands. I've seen
lots of videos of survivors/witnesses that are very similar.
The problem with most of these videos/stories is that they're
often based on a single source. Not all of these sources are
reliable. I don't believe Cathy O' Brien for example...
There's the Franklin scandal, but most (if not all) of the
stories are censored.
There's also a huge amount of information on the genocide and
sex abuse of Native American children in Catholic residential
schools in Canada, but I haven't seen much on the "Satanic"
part.
I've already posted about Paul Bonacci and the Franklin scandal.
I have, besides Nijenhuis and Van Blijenburgh, at least 2 other
videos from victims/witnesses of ritual Satanic abuse.
If you're interested, let me know in which thread to post these.
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Re: Trump, Bayrock, Doyen, soccer and the Kazakh gangster
By: guest17 Date: November 16, 2018, 12:44 pm
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This is also very connected with the foster care system. I was
in foster care for ten years along with my two sisters and
brother. I was the youngest. Children in foster care are easy
access by these people. There are a lot of foster care children
missing. I heard that the rate of missing foster care children
is especially high in Florida. I heard cases where these
children weren't even reported missing until much later. So then
that leads to CPS and so called child protection services. The
courts are involved, judges, social workers, law enforcement and
on up to the governor of a state and even higher. State and
national levels. Also let's not forget churches. And I need to
say that I'm not referring to all churches but there are many
involved in this. Most people are aware of the Catholic church
but that's not the only one by any means. I know that for a fact
because I've seen it. I went to a lot of churches in foster care
since I was moved around so much. They have their people
everywhere even in churches. And of course in foster care with
the foster parents. Also children's homes and I was in a couple
of those. Such easy access to children. They just come and take
them anytime they want to. It happened to me so many times.
I'm not sure where to post the information you mentioned. Maybe
ask PJ where to post it.
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Re: Trump, Bayrock, Doyen, soccer and the Kazakh gangster
By: Firestarter Date: November 17, 2018, 11:03 am
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One of the main investors in the Doyen Group was Indonesian
billionaire, Erick Thohir.
In 2013, media tycoon Erick Thohir, Handy Soetedjo and Rosan
Roeslani bought 70% of Inter Milan for a reported $400 million.
Until December 2012, Rosan Roeslani had been a Director of
Indonesian mining group Bumi plc (he also managed its subsidiary
Berau Coal). Bumi is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Roeslani took $173 million out of Berau, before buying the stake
in Inter Milan, and then promised to put it back “by the end of
the year”.
In 2013, none other than Ivanka Trump’s onetime boyfriend,
Nathaniel “Nat” Rothschild, owned about 15% of Bumi plc.
Rothschild effectively put Bumi together, in partnership with
the Indonesian Bakrie family.
Rothschild claimed to be unhappy with the deal and said:
[quote]Roeslani only has the funds and freedom to do this
because Bumi’s board have failed to take any legal action
whatsoever to date against him.[/quote]
HTML http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2013/10/20/nathaniel-rothschild-fury-as-rosan-roeslani-buys-stake-in-italian-football-club/
(archived here:
HTML http://archive.is/YWE26)
The following article makes a convincing case that Tevfik Arif,
born Toifik Arifov on 15 May 1953 in Kazakhstan, was either a
“[I]Kazakh gangster[/I]” (in the words of Felix Sater) or a KGB
operative.
Reportedly, after finishing his education, Tevfik Arif worked in
the “[I]Soviet Ministry of Commerce and Trade[/I]” for 17 years,
as the “[I]chief economist and deputy director[/I]” of the
“[I]Department of Hotel Management[/I]”.
On the internet there is no reference to any “[I]Soviet Ministry
of Commerce and Trade[/I]”. There was however a “[I]USS Chamber
of Commerce and Industry[/I]” with a hotel division, “[I]V/0
Sovintsentr[/I]”. According to a US State Department report with
CIA information, a third of their staff was KGB.
In a court case in Turkey, Arif testified that he went on to
work in the energy, chemical and metallurgy sector. Arif said he
produced (or organised) coal in Russia and copper in Kazakhstan.
Then he went to work for [I]Trans World Group[/I] (TWG), a
British company headed by the brothers David and Simon Reuben.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Reubens moved
aggressively into metals production.
According to the reports, we have to conclude that Arif became a
fixer for TWG in Kazakhstan, for which he needed deep
connections in political and business circles. The kind of
people who had those connections in the former Soviet Union was
either (ex-)KGB, or mobsters.
The Arifs managed to buy a highly lucrative chemical plant. How
could they?
The real money-maker for the family was [I]Castello Global
Ltd.[/I], which handled the profits from the chrome trading
business. Here is a breakdown of [I]Castello Global[/I]’s
profits:
2004 - $19.85 million
2005 - $31.04 million
2006 - $39.20 million
2007 - $18.59 million
2008 - $43.87 million
After Arif got a Turkish passport, he moved to New York, set up
his new company [I]Bayrock Group[/I] in Trump Tower, and
partnered with Donald Trump and Felix Sater.
Another pair of fixers, who started working with TWG in 1992, is
the brothers Lev and Michael Cherney, who formed a 50-50
partnership with TWG. In 1996, the Swiss authorities accused
Michael Cherney of “[I]drug trafficking, money laundering, fraud
and sponsoring murder[/I]” on behalf of the crime organisation
of Russian mob boss V. Ivankov, nicknamed “Yaponchik”. The
Reubens quickly bought out Cherney’s share in TWG for $410
million.
The federal Swiss court exonerated him of the charges, but 2
years later Spain issued an international warrant for Michael
Cherney’s arrest for money laundering:
HTML https://trump-russia.com/2017/09/30/who-is-tevfik-arif-part-i/
Here’s a bizarre transcript from 2008, where Tevfik Arif
explains how they’ve bought 2 coal fields for $400,000-$500,000
that they don’t own.
They also talk about “Khrapunov and his son” who own the coal
field (if I understand correctly):
HTML https://www.scribd.com/document/348218683/Audio-Excerpts-May-2008
Following is a description and some excerpts from the court
document that describes the complaint of attorney Frederick
Oberlander, against Bayrock, Tevfik Arif and Felix “Satter”
Sater of 10 May 2010.
It really is a strange legal strategy. This was a civil case,
where the attorney describes criminal wrongdoing. It’s more like
a description of how the Department of Justice and IRS are
helping Arif and Sater in their criminal activities.
Then Oberlander argues that because the defendants hid the money
they took, his clients (that were working for this criminal
organisation) are entitled to part of the money they “skimmed”.
There are 2 main topics in this document:
1) Tax evasion.
2) Taking millions of dollars.
I find the tax evasion boring.
They simply booked “profits” as “loans” (with the help of deaf,
dumb and blind accountants) and, when you borrow money, you
can’t be expected to pay taxes… [quote]40. One way they did this
was to use Bayrock to skim millions of dollars of cash, giving
Satter a million dollar a year unreported income and causing
Bayrock Group to execute a sham “note” with him, a note Arif and
Schwarz have admitted on MP3 was never meant to be repaid
(…)
125. The Satter Frauds II. By late 2007, Satter’s $1,000,000
skims had reached $3,750,000[/quote]
They showed the FL group from Iceland, since 2008 known as
Stodir, a portfolio that included developing property for
hundreds of millions of dollars, and sold FL a stake in the
“Four Subs” enterprise for $50 million, which they skimmed:
[quote]534. The terms of FL’s partnership and “trial merger”
with Bayrock called for FL to transfer S50.000.000 and other
consideration in return for. inter alia, a partner’s share of
the distributions expected to flow up front the Four Projects
into the Four Subs, 1(518.
(…)
560. So all through January, February, March, and April, Arif,
Satter, and Schwarz were negotiating a deal that would repay
hidden interests in Russia and Kazakhstan on behalf of Arif,
would give Arif $8,000,000, millions more than he had in
personally given what he had already taken out from Michael
Samuel’s payment and other withdrawals, would pay Arifs taxes,
would pay an old Mafia buddy of Satter’s, possibly do other
things for Satter with or without kickback from Lauria, but
otherwise do nothing for Bayrock or anyone else, particularly
Schwarz.[/quote]
What’s also interesting is that Felix Sater had been partners in
crime with the Gambino crime family in this $40 million fraud:
[quote]209. Twenty of Satter’s White Rock confederates,
including members of the Bonanno, Gambino, and Colombo Mafia
organized crime families, were also convicted, many on
racketeering charges. Most were sentenced to prison terms and
multimillion dollar restitution.[/quote]
(6 MB, 165 pages):
HTML https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2638421/Kriss-v-Bayrock-Complaint.pdf
This is all the more interesting, because in one of those
strange coincidences, President elect Donald Trump rang in the
New Year at the Mar-a-Lago with Joseph Cinque - a convicted
felon with ties to the Gambino crime family boss John Gotti.
The American Academy of Hospitality Sciences, owned and operated
by Cinque, has awarded more than a dozen of Trump's golf
courses, hotels, casinos and private clubs with so-called "Star
Diamond" awards. Trump was listed on the company's website as
its "ambassador extraordinaire", and he appeared in a 2009 video
in which he complemented Cinque: "[I]There's nobody like him.
He's a special guy[/I]". About half of the roughly 30 people
listed as "trustees" to the Academy are associates of Trump.
Donald simply denied knowing anything about his criminal past:
HTML http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-appears-mobster-affiliated-felon-new-year-bash-article-1.2932315
(archived here:
HTML http://archive.is/tdW44)
In the spring of 2012, Donald Trump’s eldest children, Ivanka
Trump and Donald Trump Jr., were in a precarious legal position.
Emails showed that the Trumps intentionally inflated figures
about how well the condos in [I]Trump SoHo[/I] were selling to
lure buyers. According to a source who saw the emails: there is
“[I]no doubt[/I]” that the Trump children “[I]approved, knew of,
agreed to, and intentionally inflated the numbers to make more
sales. They knew it was wrong[/I]”.
[I]Trump SoHo[/I] was the project for which Trump partnered with
Bayrock and Sapir.
Business was slow, but the Trump family claimed the opposite. In
April 2008, they said that 31% of the condos in the building had
already been sold. Donald Jr. even boasted that 55% had been
bought. In June 2008, Ivanka announced to the foreign press at
[I]Trump Tower[/I] in Manhattan that 60% had been snapped up.
According to a sworn affidavit by a Trump partner: in March
2010, only 15.8% of units had been sold. By law, the sales
couldn’t close with less than 15% of the units sold, or Trump
and partners had to return the down payments.
The lawyers in the [I]Major Economic Crimes Bureau[/I] believed
Ivanka and Donald Jr. could have violated the Martin Act, which
bans false statements to sell real estate.
The defence team for Trump later acknowledged that some
exaggerated statements were made to increase sales. They claimed
this was mere “[I]puffery[/I]”, harmless exaggeration that
didn’t amount to criminal conduct.
Donald Trump Sr. got his personal lawyer for a decade, Marc
Kasowitz, to handle the case. On 11 January 2012, Kasowitz
donated $25,000 to the re-election campaign of Manhattan
district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr that returned the $25,000
contribution.
On 16 May 2012, Kasowitz visited Vance’s office, in the presence
of Dan Alonso and Adam Kaufmann. Vance later overruled his
prosecutors and told them to drop the case. On 3 August 2012,
assistant district attorney Peirce Moser called the Trumps’
defence attorneys and said they were dropping the investigation.
Kasowitz subsequently boasted to colleagues that it was
“[I]amazing I got them off[/I]”. Kasowitz has denied making this
statement.
Then, in September 2012, Kasowitz contacted Vance’s campaign
about hosting a fundraiser. The event was held January 2013, for
which Kasowitz personally donated almost $32,000, and 20 of his
law firm’s partners and employees kicked in at least another
$9,000. In October 2013, as Election Day approached, Kasowitz
hosted a breakfast which raised another $9,000 for Vance’s
campaign.
Vance later said that New York law allowed him to accept the
contributions, but he plans to give Kasowitz’s second
contribution back anyway, because: “[I]I don’t want the money to
be a millstone around anybody’s neck, including the
office’s[/I]”.
Kasowitz said his donations to Vance were unrelated to the case:
[quote]I donated to Cy Vance’s campaign because I was and remain
extremely impressed by him as a person of [B]impeccable
integrity[/B], as a brilliant lawyer and as a public servant
with creative ideas and tremendous ability.
I have never made a contribution to anyone’s campaign, including
Cy Vance’s, as a ‘quid-pro-quo’ for anything.[/quote]
Paul Grand, who earlier had been a partner of Vance’s when the
district attorney was in private practice, was part of the
Morvillo Abramowitz law firm that defended the [I]Trump SoHo[/I]
project, said: [quote]Dropping the case was reasonable.
The manner in which it was accomplished is curious.[/quote]
Five months earlier, Trump and partners had reached a settlement
with the disgruntled buyers. Their complaint accused the
sellers, including the Trumps, of “[I]a consistent and concerted
pattern of outright lies[/I]”.
They agreed to return 90% of the buyers’ deposits, plus their
attorneys’ fees. Part of the deal was that the plaintiffs
wouldn’t cooperate with prosecutors unless they were subpoenaed:
HTML https://www.wnyc.org/story/ivanka-donald-trump-jr-close-charged-felony-fraud/
(archived here:
HTML http://archive.is/OtuUC)
See Eric Trump, Tevfik Arif, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump,
Donald Trump, Tamir Sapir, Alex Sapir, Julius Schwarz and Zina
Sapir at Trump Soho Construction Site, 19 September 2007.
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