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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: April 3, 2020, 10:02 am
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Dan Gertler is another Chabad-Lubavitcher very close to the
gigantic network of scandals surrounding Donald Trump.
There are good stories on Gertler stealing riches from Congo,
from more than 10 years ago…
I’ll start with this story from February 2008 that details
Gertler’s connection to the Chabad-Lubavitch cult of which
Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner are members…
Dan Gertler does nothing without the spiritual guidance of
Brooklyn-born Rabbi Chaim Leibovitch, a friend of Condoleeza
Rice.
When Dan Gertler is in the Congo, his kosher meals come from its
capital Kinshasa, arranged by high priest of the Chabad of
Central Africa Rabbi Shlomo Bentolila. Bentolila has been a
Kinshasa Rabbi since 1991, working with the previous vicious
dictator of Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko.
In one of those strange coincidences, Israeli trained shock
troops became Mobutu’s bodyguards, with Mossad advisers.
In 2000, former Congolese president Laurent Kabila (father of
Joseph) offered Gertler’s International Diamond Industries (IDI)
a monopoly on Congolese diamonds, and 88% of the proceeds, worth
billions in exchange for Israeli military assistance.
In 2000, Congolese military officials flew to Israel to
negotiate the deal.
Africa Confidential called President Kabila’s 2003 visit to the
Bush White House a “coup” for Israeli diamond magnates Dan
Gertler and Beny Steinmetz.
Dan Gertler is also close to Israeli politicians, especially
Avigdor Lieberman, and even closer to the Israeli-American
diamante merchant Beny Steinmetz, a good friend of former Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert. Gertler’s Rabbi Leibovitz, is also very
close to Lieberman and “a regular fixture” in PM Benjamin
Netanyahu’s offices
Steinmetz’s real estate partners include the billionaires David
and Simon Reuben, and the Saudi Arabian investment company
Olayan Group, which is deeply connected with defence insider
Bechtel Corporation (whose chairman Riley Bechtel was on the
board of Theranos in which Rupert Murdoch and Betsy DeVos
invested hundreds of millions of dollars).
Canadian-based Energem (formerly DiamondWorks), whose
director/shareholders include Tony and Mario Teixeira, is
involved in the trans-Uganda-Kenya pipeline, together with
subsidiary of Bechtel, Nexant.
Energem was launched by Tim Hoare and is owned by British
mercenary Tony Buckingham, the Teixeiras, J.P. Morgan, Gertler’s
partner Beny Steinmetz (50%).
Brian Menell is on the board of Energem. Brian Menell is also on
the board of Anglovaal with Nir Livnat, who has also supported
both Joseph Kabila and Jean-Pierre Bemba in Congo’s bloody wars.
Livnat was managing director of the Johannesburg-based
subsidiary of the Steinmetz Group of Diamond Companies, Ascot
Diamonds.
The Portuguese born Anthony Teixeira later moved to South Africa
and his daughter married Congolese warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba.
Bemba’s deadly battle in Congo in March 2007 was a fight between
rival agents — Bemba and president Joseph Kabila — to be the
black front man for the mining cartels run by dynastic families
like Templesman, Oppenheimer, Mendell, Forrest, Blattner,
Hertzov, Gertler and Steinmetz.
Security for mining operations in Congo is provided exclusively
by private security companies like Overseas Security Services
(OSS), owned by Belgian billionaire tycoon Philippe de
Moerloose.
De Moerloose is also an adviser to European Union (EU)
Commissioner, diamante salesman Louis Michel.
In November 2007, Dan Gertler finalized a deal in which the
Canadian Katanga Mining Ltd. bought rival NIKANOR for $2.1
billion so their merged company would become the world’s largest
cobalt company by combining their Congo mining projects,
reportedly worth $3.3 billion.
NIKANOR is registered in offshore tax haven Isle of Man/
Britain’s Earl of Balfour is a director of both NIKANOR and
Bateman.
Former US ambassador to Egypt and Israel, assistant under
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and policy advisor to
Barack Obama, Dan Kurtzer, is on NIKANOR’s board. NIKANOR
partners include Israeli-born Nir Livnat.
The Nikanor company was owned by Benny Steinmetz (50%), Dan
Gertler (20%) and the Anglo-Jewish Gertner family (30%):
HTML https://dissidentvoice.org/2008/02/gertlers-bling-bang-torah-gang/
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HTML https://web.archive.org/web/20190720061854/https://dissidentvoice.org/2008/02/gertlers-bling-bang-torah-gang/)
In 2009, diamond tycoon Dan Gertler at Ben-Gurion International
Airport was asked by officers from the National Fraud
Investigations Unit to accompany them on suspicions of bribing
his friend, Avigdor Lieberman (later Israel's foreign minister).
Gertler simply denied that he had ever transferred money to or
been involved in business with Lieberman.
Katanga’s cash-flow problems forced it to transfer control to
the Swiss-based commodities giant Glencore (maybe best known for
Marc Rich).
In 2003, the Gertler-controlled Emaxon Finance Corporation was
granted a four-year concession by Miba to market 85% of its
diamonds, which Gertler purchased at a 5% discount and on top of
that lent $15 million to Miba.
The signatories on this agreement on behalf of Emaxon were
Gertler's Rabbi Chaim Leibovitch and attorney Yaakov Neeman,
Israel's minister of justice.
Gertler became Joseph Kabila's official personal envoy, and with
Rabbi Leibovitch forged close ties between the Congo and senior
officials in Washington. He personally met with then-secretary
of state Condoleezza Rice to discuss this matter.
According to a confidant: "[I]You can attribute to him, for
example, Congo's abstention in the UN vote on the U.S. invasion
of Iraq[/I]”:
HTML https://www.haaretz.com/1.5072635
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HTML http://web.archive.org/web/20180627024150/https://www.haaretz.com/1.5072635)
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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: April 4, 2020, 9:58 am
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Maybe Congogate, Chabadgate or Wilburgate are objectively
speaking more interesting than “Russiagate” or the impeachment
charade…
Please don’t tell a sole that once again the trail of
corruption, money laundering, bribes and Russia from Dan Gertler
leads to Glencore and Trump’s Secretary of Commerce – long-time
Rothschild banker Wilbur Ross.
In 1997, chief rabbi of Kinshasa’s Chabad-Lubavitch centre
Shlomo Bentolila introduced diamond merchant Dan Gertler to
Kabila’s son Joseph.
In April 2002, Gertler secretly shuttled between Washington,
Kinshasa and Kigali, Rwanda, relaying letters between Kabila and
Condoleezza Rice.
Former special assistant to President George W. Bush, Jendayi
Frazer, said Gertler’s intervention was instrumental to the
“peace” accord.
In June 2010 and March 2011, state-owned Sodimico sold more than
30 mining licenses to Gertler-linked companies for $60 million;
worth an estimated $1.6 billion…
In 2011, companies affiliated with Gertler bought shares in 5
mining ventures from 3 state-owned firms. The state companies
“forgot” to publicly announce the sales.
At the Mutanda project, Gertler paid far less for his 20% than
his partner, Glencore International. One of Gertler’s British
Virgin Islands-based companies bought the 20% stake from
Gecamines for $120 million in March 2011, worth about $849
million.
In May 2012, Glencore paid $340 million plus $140 million in
assumed debt, for 20% of the same mine, increasing its stake to
60%:
HTML http://web.archive.org/web/20180922065124/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/dan-gertler-earns-billions-as-mine-deals-fail-to-enrich-congo/2012/12/27/c37d0100-4e31-11e2-8b49-64675006147f_story.html?utm_term=.80aca62740bf
Gertler’s had allegedly delivered weapons to President Kabila in
2001 in exchange for a monopoly on the sale of Congo diamonds.
In 2007, Glencore first went into business with Gertler.
In 2009, Glencore partnered with Dan Gertler for mining permits
awarded by the Congolese government to extract copper and cobalt
on very favourable terms.
In July 2018, the US Department of Justice demanded that
Glencore publish documents on its activities in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Nigeria and Venezuela. Washington is
“investigating” corruption and money laundering.
The British “anti-corruption” Serious Fraud Office also
announced to “examine” Glencore:
HTML https://www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/commodities-trading/glencore-in-drc
The reported largest shareholder in Glencore Xstrata is the
state-owned Qatar Investment Authority with 8.2%.
Glencore is in business with the Rusal of Oleg Deripaska, Nat
Rothschild, Viktor Vekselberg and Len Blavatnik:
HTML https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1038&p=4931
Long-time business partners Viktor Vekselberg and Len Blavatnik
serve on the board of the Chabad-Lubavitch Schneerson library.
In 2014, Jeffrey Epstein invested $1.5 million in SUM with
Barak. In 2015, that money went into Carbyne.
In September 2017, Russian oligarchs Viktor Vekselberg and
Andrew Intrater bought 24% of Carbyne’s Class A-1 shares through
Intrater’s Columbus Nova Technology Partners (CNTP):
HTML https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1485&p=6125#p6125
In 2014, Wilbur Ross led the €1 billion takeover of the Bank of
Cyprus. The second-largest shareholder of Bank of Cyprus at this
time was the billionaire Russian industrialist Viktor
Vekselberg, head of Renova Corp.
In November 2014, former CEO of Deutsche Bank, Josef Ackerman,
became chairman of the Bank of Cyprus. Ackerman is also on the
board of Renova.
Vekselberg once sold his aluminium company to Oleg Deripaska,
who turned it into Rusal:
HTML https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1038&p=4908#p4908
In 2011, Wilbur Ross’ private equity company, WL Ross, led a
coalition of investors that put about $1 billion into Diamond S
Shipping.
Diamond S Shipping’s business mostly relies on a handful of
customers, including Glencore PLC, which provided more than 10%
of its revenue in 2012- 2013:
HTML https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1038&p=5984#p5984
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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: April 5, 2020, 10:20 am
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In 2013, a panel led by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
wrote that Gertler acquired mining interests in the Congo for an
average of one-sixth of their market price.
Dan Gertler was especially close to Joseph Kabila’s aide
Augustin Katumba Mwanke, who won’t be talking as he died in a
plane crash in 2012.
On one occasion, Gertler, Katumba and their families vacationed
together on a yacht on the Red Sea. Katumba then check into an
Israeli hospital for a scheduled operation. When the operation
went awry, Katumba slipped into a coma, and Gertler rushed in 13
doctors, including 3 from London.
Katumba has praised Gertler for saving his life; see Gertler
visiting him in hospital.
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Mining tycoon Dan Gertler appears in 120 documents of the
Paradise Papers, regarding his relationship with London-listed
Glencore, which uses Appleby’s Bermuda branch.
These documents showed that in 2009 Glencore “loaned” $45
million for 2 years to Gertler for helping to make a deal with
Congo officials over a joint venture with state-owned Gécamines
at the Katanga copper mine in 2009. The loan document stated
that Congo had to agree on the Katanga deal.
Katanga “persuaded” Congo into a signing bonus worth $140
million, instead of more than $580 million. The reduced bonus
meant that Katanga paid one quarter of the market price for
copper at the time.
In February 2009, Katanga announced a sizable loan from a group
that included Glencore and Lora Enterprises, a British Virgin
Islands company owned by a trust that benefits Gertler’s family.
In 2014, it emerged that Glencore first lent the capital that
Gertler’s company in turn lent to Katanga, which then acquired
new shares in Katanga.
In February 2017, Glencore bought Gertler’s stake in major Congo
mines, including Katanga, for more than $500 million.
One of the reports alleged that Gertler agreed to exchange
diamonds for weapons to Congolese armed forces, at a time when
national armies, militias and warlords were killing and raping
indiscriminately.
In September 2016, the US Justice Department settled a bribery
case with New York-based hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital Management
Group under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for $413 million.
This mentioned Lora Enterprises, which was described as
controlled by an unnamed Israeli “DRC partner” (which must have
been Gertler).
The Justice Department accused Och-Ziff for lending Lora
Enterprises $110 million in November 2010 that was used, to make
“[I]approximately $20 million in corrupt payments to be made to
various DRC officials[/I]”, including unnamed “DRC official 2”
believed to be Augustin Katumba Mwanke:
HTML https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/room-of-secrets-reveals-mysteries-of-glencore/
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HTML http://web.archive.org/web/20191001004355/https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/room-of-secrets-reveals-mysteries-of-glencore/)
I first looked into the Chabad, when I investigated the Bayrock
scandal in which Trump was a business partner of Tevfik Arif.
I found out that Lubavitcher Dan Gertler is also in business
with the ENRC of the Chabad-linked Kazakh trio that were/are
business partners of Tevfik Arif…
In 2012, Dan Gertler’s Canada-based Emaxon Finance International
Inc., paid $15 million in cash and loans to the country’s
state-owned diamond miner MIBA, for a four-year contract to sell
88% of its diamonds (a near monopoly of Congo’s diamond trade).
In 2007, Dan Gertler became a shareholder in CAMEC, a company
listed on London’s AIM exchange.
When.
in 2009, the Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation PLC (ENRC),
the Kazakh-founded mining company controlled by the partners in
crime of Trump’s business partner Tevfik Arif – the Kazakh trio
- Alexander Mashkevitch, Alijan Ibragimov, and Patokh Chodiev,
acquired CAMEC.
ENRC bought CAMEC through purchase agreements with a number of
offshore companies which were listed as CAMEC’s shareholders.
Some of these offshore companies appear linked to Gertler.
See Alexander Mashkevitch on the left with a Torah scroll that
was donated to the Chabad Russian Centre of South Florida in
2011.
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In 2009, SMKK (Societe Miniere de Kabolela & Kipese SPRL) was
half-owned by the state’s Gecamines (La Generale des Carrieres &
des Mines), and half-owned by ENRC. ENRC wanted to acquire all
of SMKK but didn’t exercise its right. Instead, ENRC made a deal
with the Gertler-controlled Emerald Star Enterprises Ltd., based
in the British Virgin Islands.
On 21 December, 2009, ENRC paid Emerald Star $25 million for an
option to buy the remaining 50% of SMKK.
In February 2010, Gertler’s Emerald Star made a deal to buy
Gecamines’ stake in SMKK for $15 million. Four months later,
ENRC completed the transaction by buying Gertler’s Emerald Star
for another $50 million (paying a total of $75 million), or 5
times what Gertler had paid.
Gertler also has a copper and cobalt joint venture with ENRC -
Comide SPRL.
ENRC is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
In 2009 and 2010, Congo’s government suddenly cancelled the
Kolwezi, Frontier and Lonshi projects with First Quantum. When
in January 2010, Gecamines cancelled its contract with First
Quantum it secretly awarded its stake in the Kolwezi project to
the Highwind Group, another one of Dan Gertler’s networks of
offshore companies.
In August 2010 Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation PLC (ENRC)
announced to buy indirect control of the Kolwezi licence from
Dan Gertler. This was the day after the ICC Court of Arbitration
had ruled against the Canadian miner First Quantum, which had
protested about the state of Congo revoking its Kolwezi mining
licence.
ENRC loaned the Highwind Group the money to cover the $60
million signature bonus and also paid $175 million to control
50.5% of the stake. This suggests that Highwind promised
financing even before Gecamines sold on its stake in Kolwezi.
In May 2010, the Frontier and Lonshi copper mines were
confiscated from First Quantum and then secretly awarded to 3
offshore companies, of which 2 are linked to Dan Gertler.
That ENRC bought these mines anyway, it looks like ENRC expects
to buy the licenses from these offshore companies.
In January 2012, First Quantum Minerals Ltd. and Eurasian
Natural Resources Corp. (ENRC) agreed on a $1.25-billion
settlement over First Quantum’s misadventures in the Democratic
Republic of Congo. This was only weeks after Kabila was
re-elected as president of the Congo.
Analyst at UBS Securities Matt Murphy concluded that as First
Quantum spent about $1.3-billion to acquire and build Kolwezi
and Frontier, it effectively got its money back.
Global Witness called on Glencore ENRC to publish details of the
transactions as it looks like corrupt Congolese officials
received kickbacks through these offshore companies, in return
for selling assets to Gertler below the market price:
HTML https://cdn.globalwitness.org/archive/files/global%20witness%20memo%20to%20enrc%20shareholders%2012.6.12_1.pdf
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HTML http://archive.is/umZ3Y)
Tevfik Arif, although no Jew is also very close to the Chabad,
was the business partner of Donald Trump in Bayrock.
In September 2010, Arif was arrested by the Turkish police for
running a prostitution ring, on board a luxury yacht, with 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, with his ENRC colleagues, Patokh Chodiev and Alijan
Ibragimov.
The Sapir Organization, owned by Georgian property developer
Sapir Tamir, partnered with Bayrock. Sapir, the Kazakh trio,
Musa Bazhaev, and the Reuben brothers (real estate partners of
Gertler’s business partner Beny Steinmetz,) were guests at the
weddings of Tevfik’s children.
Patokh Chodiev has said that the “Kazakh trio” first met the
London based billionaires, David and Simon Reuben, in the spring
of 1992.
Musa Bazhaev, head of Alliance Group in Russia, was also on the
Savarona boat with the prostitutes, and is close to both
Alexander Mashkevitch and Vladimir Putin.
See from left to right: Bazhaev, Alexander Mashkevitch, and
Tevfik Arif:
HTML https://archive.is/QLNLU/8bfd9a69dd5437ad244355325ade2fa9a92ba7ce.jpg
See Musa Bazhaev with Putin.
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Donald Trump’s Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, occupied a
management position at Mittal. Johannes Sittard was Mittal's
second in command in 1995-2001.
The ENRC and Alferon are both chaired by Johannes Sittard.
Lakshmi Mittal paid $100 million to Alferon to acquire Karmet
steelworks in Kazakhstan for $310 million in 1995. Alferon is
owned by the Kazakh trio, Alexander Mashkevitch, Alijan
Ibragimov, and Patokh Chodiev.
Sittard said that he used the Chodiev group to pay a huge
commission (bribe) to Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev
(Alexander Mashkevitch’s friend, whose son-in-law, Zia, was
Bazhaev’s brother):
HTML https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1359&p=4938#p4938
For more on the connections of the Kazakh trio to Tevfik Arif,
the Chab-Lubavitch friend and business partner of Donald Trump:
HTML https://3169.createaforum.com/firestarter-on-fire/trump-bayrock-doyen-soccer-transfers-and-the-kazakh-gangster/
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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: April 6, 2020, 10:06 am
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In March 2005 Gertler’s DGI (Dan Gertler International) in
partnership with Beny Steinmetz’s Global Resources (BSGR) formed
Global Enterprises Corporate (GEC), with former Congo mines
minister, Simon Tuma-Waku as “special adviser”.
Steinmetz was once named as the biggest buyer of De Beers
diamonds.
An October 2005 presidential decree ratified the KOV agreement
between Gécamines and GEC. Gertler and Steinmetz placed GEC’S
75% share in KOV into the newly founded Nikanor Plc. at the Isle
of Man (UK). Nikanor executive CEO became Jonathan Leslie (Rio
Tinto’s former head of copper operations).
In July 2006, with JP Morgan Cazenove acting as advisors and
brokers, Nikanor’s IPO raised $400 million on the London AIM,
based on its 75% stake in KOV. Nikanor achieved a market
capitalization of $1.5 billion, and was hailed as the most
valuable listing on AIM.
At that time, the 3 key stakeholders were listed as Beny
Steinmetz (37%), the Gertner Family Trust (22%), and Dan Gertler
(14.7%).
In April 2006, Gertler’s DGI took a major stake in Katanga-based
cobalt-copper mining and services company DEM Mining.
In June 2006, Gertler’s DGI paid an alleged $60 million for the
Mukondo mine, owned by controversial Zimbabwe-based businessmen
John Bredenkamp and Billy Rautenbach. In 2002, Bredenkamp and
Rautenbach were charged by the UN Panel of Experts report as
conduits for bribes to President Robert Mugabe and other senior
figures in Zimbabwe’s political and military elite.
Diamond dealer Dan Gertler was one of only 2 white men at the
2006 wedding of Congo president Joseph Kabila.
The other white man at Kabila’s wedding was Philippe de
Moerloose, CEO and apparent owner of Demimpex, which holds sole
Nissan distributorship in the Congo. De Moerloose has also
supplied jets and other presidential toys to Kabila.
The NGO NIZA has argued that the World Bank’s interaction with
the Congolese government had resulted in an “[I]anarchistic and
opaque privatisation process that has stripped Gécamines of all
its assets. The parasitic company is now bound by countless
contracts with, often dubious, private partners that contribute
little or nothing to Gécamines or to the national treasury[/I]”:
HTML https://archive.is/20150405104550/http://www.mineweb.com/archive/nikanors-drc-mining-contract-quandary/
Because Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler arranged mining assets
to be sold at much lower prices than they were worth to offshore
entities linked to him, the Congo lost more than $1.36 billion
in revenues between 2010 and 2012.
In 2013, Gertler sold back to the Congo government drilling
rights to an offshore oil block in Lake Albert for $150 million,
after he had paid only half a million dollars for those rights.
In 2017, the US Department of Treasury issued sanctions against
the Fleurette Group of Gertler for human rights abuse and
corruption. Fleurette held substantial stakes in 2 mines in the
Democratic Republic of Congo.
Fleurette Group sold its Mutanda stake to Glencore:
HTML https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/International/US-Slaps-Sanctions-On-Israeli-Oil-Billionaire.html
It shouldn’t surprise anybody that the Netherlands is also
involved in the plundering of Congo…
Fleurette Properties Limited was incorporated in Gibraltar and
the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This was through a construction
that made it possible to select the most profitable tax laws of
Gibraltar and the Netherlands.
In 2004, Dan founded the Gertler Family Foundation that
supposedly invested millions in health care, infrastructure and
education; this was also placed under sanctions by the US
government.
In 2010, for this construction, the Dutch Rob Drieduite was
chosen as chairman of Fleurette Properties.
Both the Gertler Family Foundation and Fleurette Group are part
of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI),
which supposedly aims for more transparency in the global
commodities trade.
Drieduite is the point of contact for Fleurette Group for
questions on how they can operate ”transparent” in the global
commodities trade. When the “reputable” Dutch newspaper De
Volkskrant contacted Drieduite with questions on Fleurette and
Gertler, he refused to talk.
Drieduite has also chaired the Dutch NV for the porno website
maker Gamma Entertainment of Karl Bernard.
Drieduite has also worked for the MyGuide of former Philips CEO
Roel Pieper that was bankrupted in 2009.
Just like so many others, Beny Steinmetz also used an opaque tax
construction in the Netherlands, set up with the help of a
former tax consultant of KPMG.
In 2000, Gertler’s International Diamond Industries (IDI) paid
only $20 million to then Congolese president Laurent Kabila
(father of Joseph) for a monopoly on Congolese diamonds worth
$600 million a year (in Dutch):
HTML http://web.archive.org/web/20181008195536/https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/zakenman-dan-gertler-verdiende-miljarden-aan-de-uitbuiting-van-congo~b475f31a/
Congolese Doctor Denis Mukwege made the following statement when
he accepted the 2018 Nobel Prize for Peace: [quote]My country is
being systematically looted with the complicity of people
claiming to be our leaders. Looted for their power, their wealth
and their glory. Looted at the expense of millions of innocent
men, women and children abandoned in extreme poverty. While the
profits from our minerals end up in the pockets of a predatory
oligarchy.
(…)
The Congolese people have been humiliated, abused and massacred
for more than two decades in plain sight of the international
community.
Today, with access to the most powerful communication technology
ever, no one can say: “I didn’t know”.
(…)
Finally, after twenty years of bloodshed, rape and massive
population displacements, the Congolese people are desperately
awaiting implementation of the responsibility to protect the
civilian population when their government cannot or does not
want to do so. The people are waiting to explore the path to a
lasting peace.[/quote]
HTML https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2018/mukwege/55721-denis-mukwege-nobel-lecture-2/
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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: April 7, 2020, 10:24 am
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There is an endless amount of dirt on looting of the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, after it was taken over by the same
forces that orchestrated the Rwanda genocide, in Africa’s World
War, with an estimated 5 million dead in Congo alone...
The US has a long history of supporting all sides in the Congo’s
civil wars.
US troops and intelligence agents were transported to Africa to
help the RPF and AFDL-CZ forces in their 1996 attack to get rid
of Mobutu. Vincent Kern, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for African Affairs, said on 4 December 1996 that US
military training was conducted for the RPF.
On 5 May 1998, Kathi Austin (of Human Rights Watch) said that a
senior US embassy official in Kigali described the US Special
Forces training program for the RPF as “[I]killers ... training
killers[/I]”.
The heavily armed and armoured helicopters the US army deployed
in eastern Zaire were fitted with 105 mm cannons, rockets,
machine guns, land mine ejectors and infrared sensors used in
night operations. US military commanders hypocritically claimed
that these armed gunships were there to find and “help” the
refugees.
The Pentagon and US intelligence agencies for some reason have
never disclosed what information they provided to the RPF and
the AFDL–CZ.
Since the end of 1996, US spy satellites were used to estimate
how many refugees were in the jungle. In one of those strange
coincidences, every time an encampment was discovered, Rwanda
and Zaire mercenary forces attacked these sites. This happened
for example in late February, 1997, when 160,000 mainly Hutu
refugees were spotted in a swampy area known as Tingi Tingi and
subsequently attacked.
The Pentagon increasingly relied on so-called Private Military
Contractors (PMCs). Many of these PMC mercenaries have close
links to some of America’s top political leaders and the largest
mining and oil companies involved in Africa (who would
ultimately plunder the Congo of its natural resources).
Mercenaries participate in both types of transports, military
AND (for example) blood diamonds.
America Minerals Fields, Inc. (headquartered in Hope, Arkansas)
was involved in the Congo’s “civil war” in 1996. Its major
stockholders included long-time associates of President Bill
Clinton, including George Bush Sr on its international advisory
board. America Mineral Fields also enjoys a close relationship
with diamond company Lazare Kaplan International, Inc., whose
president is a close confidant of past and current
administrations on Africa.
America Mineral Fields benefited from overthrowing Mobutu by
Kabila’s mercenary army. In 1998, AMF purchased diamond
concessions in the Cuango Valley along the Angolan-Congolese
border from International Defense and Security (IDAS Belgium
SA), a mercenary firm based in Curacao and headquartered in
Belgium.
The Ba-N’Daw Report shows how one US firm was involved in
looting the Congo. It is linked to the Banque de commerce, du
developpement et d’industrie (BCDI) of Kigali, Citibank in New
York, the diamond business and armed rebellion. J.P. Moritz and
Ngandu Kamenda, general managers of Societe miniere de Bakwanga
(MIBA, a Congolese diamond company), ordered to pay $3.5 million
to la Generale de commerce d’import/export du Congo (COMIEX), a
company owned by late President Laurent Kabila and some of his
cronies, including Minister Victor Mpoyo. The transfer was made
through a Citibank account and was paid to finance to the AFDL
war effort.
Members of Barrick’s International Advisory Board have included
former President George Bush Sr. and former President Clinton’s
close confidant Vernon Jordan.
Among the “new” resources looted from the Congo is coltan:
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In May 1997, Laurent Kabila showed himself ungrateful. He
reneged on contracts signed during the war and tried to restrain
the influence of Rwanda, Uganda and their corporate allies on
the Congo. Kabila retracted several mining contracts signed with
US and European companies, including the $1 billion contract
with American Mineral Fields (AMF).
On 2 August 1998, with the consent of the international
community, Rwanda and Uganda launched another invasion that
failed.
Rwandan forces and their allies took thousands of tonnes of
coltan and cassiterite to the Rwandan capital, Kigali.
Ugandan militia confiscated Kisangani’s entire stock of wood.
Their ally Jean-Pierre Bemba, leader of the anti-government
Congolese Liberation Movement, seized all of the available
coffee. It took 2 months to transport the loot to Uganda.
Ugandan generals close to President Museveni took the profits
and generously supplied arms to various militias.
Laurent’s son, Joseph Kabila, succeeded him and implemented a
new policy that most importantly, opened markets to foreign
interests:
HTML https://newint.org/features/2004/05/01/congo
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HTML http://archive.is/4kPVz)
After he became so “ungrateful”, it seems reasonable to
speculate that Laurent Kabila was assassinated.
In early 1997, a trip by a representative for Kabila to Toronto
(Canada) may have raised $50 million for Kabila's forces.
Among Kabila's circle of Canadian advisors was then-leader of
the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Joe Clark (former
Canadian PM and Foreign Minister).
In March 1997, 2 months before the fall of Kinshasa, Laurent
Kabila’s AFDL made a $1 billion deal with Jean Raymond Boulle
(founder of American Mineral Fields) for copper, cobalt and zinc
in the southern province of Katanga. In return for an advance
that financed the war, AMF also received a monopoly over the
diamonds of Kisangani.
As part of this deal, Boulle loaned Kabila his personal jet.
An executive from US-based Bechtel corporation became a close
advisor to Kabila; even assisting him with his war strategy.
The largest gold producers in the world, South Africa's
AngloGold, and Canada’s Barrick Gold, joined together on a
venture encompassing 57,000 km2 of north-eastern Congo.
In 1996, Barrick had made a deal with the Gold Office of
Kilomoto (Mobutu government's gold monopoly), for the mining
rights in almost all of its 82,000 km2 land. This area holds as
estimated 100 tons of gold in reserve. George H.W. Bush was
instrumental in winning this deal.
Reportedly, First Quantum bribed government officials with $100
million in cash and shares, including payments to the national
security minister, the director of the national intelligence
agency and the former minister of the presidency.
Of the $19.5 million in US arms and training to Africa in 1999,
$4.8 million went to nations involved in the Congo war.
Western governments rewarded the Rwandan government for
installing a new puppet regime in the Congo, by doubling aid
from $26.1 million in 1997 to $51.5 million in 1999 (which was
used to wage more war).
The World Bank also looked favourably on the Ugandan and Rwandan
governments, and praised Uganda‘s recent economic performance,
which was almost complete the result of illegal exports of gold
and diamonds from Congo:
HTML http://www2.law.columbia.edu/law_culture/LHworkshop2005/papers/052.doc
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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: April 9, 2020, 10:17 am
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The Canadian Barrick Gold has subcontracted Caleb International,
who has also partnered with Adastra. Caleb is run by Salim
Saleh, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's half-brother.
When Uganda withdrew from the Congo in 2002, Saleh began
training paramilitary groups to help sustain the flow of
minerals into Uganda.
Salim Saleh is also a shareholder in Catalyst Co. of Canada,
which owns Uganda's Kaabong gold fields. Saleh also owns a stake
of private military company Saracen, created by the
mercenaries-for-hire firm Executive Outcomes.
Bechtel's Nexant Company is the prime contractor on the
Uganda-Kenya pipeline project, which will probably transport
petroleum out of the Semliki Basin of Lake Albert.
People associated with Bechtel include: former Secretary of
State George Shultz; former Secretary of Defense Casper
Weinberger; and retired U.S.M.C. general Jack Sheehan (also a
member of the Defense Policy Board at the Pentagon).
Riley P. Bechtel himself is on the Board of J.P. Morgan.
The subsidiary of Halliburton, Brown & Root, helped build a
military base near Cyangugu, Rwanda on the Congo-Rwandan border.
Brown and Root used this base and mercenaries from Military
Professional Resources Inc. (MPRI) to train the RPF and Laurent
Kabila's ADFL for the 1996 invasion of the Congo and the Rwandan
army's re-invasion in 1998.
MPRI is based in Arlington, Virginia and is run by 36 retired
U.S. generals. The Pentagon contracted MPRI for the African
Crisis Responsive Initiative (ACRI). ACRI includes military
training in guerrilla warfare to Ugandan officers at Fort Bragg,
North Carolina in July 1996.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have accused
Ugandan battalions trained by ACRI of rapes, murders, extortion,
and beatings of Ugandan civilians.
In 1998, Ugandan soldiers used ACRI equipment in the invasion of
the Congo.
In 1996, according to French intelligence, US Special Forces and
mercenaries from MPRI participated in the murder of Rwandan Hutu
refugees on the Oso River near Goma.
Tony Buckingham's Heritage Oil & Gas and PMC Sandline
International work to manipulate the petroleum options around
Lake Albert.
Buckingham is also affiliated with Branch Energy that is
operating in the Great Lakes region.
An arms dealer in the region is the Indian-American Kotecha.
Kotecha has substantial interests in South Kivu, and has been
implicated in money laundering, coltan and diamonds.
After the first U.S.-sponsored invasion of the Congo in 1996,
Kotecha has boasted of being the "United States Consulate" in
South Kivu.
U.S.-based Phelps Dodge is involved in Katanga copper/cobalt
mining projects with Lundin's Tenke Mining. Phelps Dodge
director Douglas C. Yearly is also a director of Lockheed
Martin.
The World Wildlife Fund partnered with USAID and CARE in
"conservation" (acquisition) projects in over Congo, with CARE's
"humanitarian" agenda also funded by Lockheed Martin.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has praised the great progress in
preventing illegal mining in the Congo. In HRW’s 2005 report
Ugandan officials and multi-national corporations were exposed
to smuggle gold through local rebel militias (the FNI and FAPC).
HRW accused the western companies Anglo-Ashanti Gold
(headquartered in South Africa), and the Swedish Metalor.
For some reason HRW “forgot” to mention that Anglo-Ashanti is
partnered with Anglo-American, owned by the Oppenheimer family
and partnered with Canada-based Barrick Gold. London-based
Anglo-American Plc. owns a 45% share in DeBeers, part of the
gigantic Oppenheimer empire.
In one of those strange coincidences Sir Mark Moody-Stuart is a
director of Anglo-American, a director of Royal Dutch/Shell and
a member of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's Advisory Board.
The UN has “investigated” the corruption and crime in the Congo,
but has “forgot” the executives of Adastra, Anglo-American,
Sweden's Adolph Lundin (a friend of George H.W. Bush), who
control mining concessions in Lubumbashi, Kolwezi and Mbuji Mayi
areas in the Katanga (Shaba) and Kasai provinces:
HTML https://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/181/33626.html
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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: April 11, 2020, 10:58 am
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Isn’t it strange how the Canadian commander of UNAMIR in Rwanda,
General Romeo Dallaire, has been turned into a real “hero” for
helping the RPF orchestrate the genocide? And that Canadian
companies profit from the subsequent takeover of Zaire (the
Democratic Republic of the Congo)?
In the following publication from the Executive Intelligence
Review of Lyndon LaRouche is a long essay, called “[I]George
Bush's ‘Heart of Darkness’[/I]”, starting page 16.
It is from January 1997, so relatively short after the first
invasion of Zaire, but before Laurent Kabila withdrew from his
dirty deals with Western companies, the re-invasion (that later
became Africa’s World War) and his assassination, after which
his son Joseph Kabila became the new president of the Democratic
Republic of the Congo.
LaRouche argues that it were mainly British companies (in
particular from its colony Canada) that profit from looting
Zaire (Congo), even before Mobuto was forced out.
Belgium granted Zaire independence with a debt of about $5
billion. By the late 1980s, Zaire's debt had climbed to about $8
billion.
In the early 1990s, Zaire defaulted on most of its debt
payments. So naturally the banks, backed by the World Bank,
demanded that Zaire pay the debt, "democratise" its government
and most importantly privatise its state-owned mining concerns.
In 2000 Congo’s debt had grown to $25.7 billion, which by 2018
was down to $7.2 billion.
[B]Barrick Gold, Munk, Khashoggi[/B]
In 1974, Peter Munk became partners with arms-trafficking
billionaire Adnan Khashoggi of Saudi Arabia, who became the main
financer for Munk’s enterprise. According to Munk, their
alliance was cemented at the London headquarters of Peninsular
and Orient, whose hereditary boss was the third Earl of Inchcape
(who was also a Director of British Petroleum).
Since this arrangement was sealed, Munk became member of the
1001 Club (founded by Prince Philip and Prince Bernhard) and a
regular skiing partner of Crown Prince Charles, who attended the
opening of a Munk factory outlet mall in Germany.
In 1985, Khashoggi used his Barrick stock as collateral to
borrow $21 million for the illegal arms to Iran at the request
of Oliver North (at the time there was an official U.S. arms
embargo against Khomeini’s regime). Khashoggi made Donald
Fraser, who allegedly provided the loan, president of
Khashoggi’s Triad American holding company.
The Bank of Credit and Commerce International laundered money
for the Iran arms sales. Barrick Gold Corp. co-founder Kamal
Adham was prosecuted for fraud in the BCCI case, and fined $100
million.
The sister of David Gilmour, Peter Munk's business partner, had
married into the Anglo-Dutch aristocratic Vansittart family.
Vansittart used Sir Henry Keswick, and the Keswick’s merchant
banking firm Jardine Matheson, to lift Munk’s career.
On 25 November 1986, US Attorney General Edwin Meese for some
reason linked the Iran and Contra scandals. The next day, Munk
announced an urgent restructuring plan, which kept the Khashoggi
group in control and eased Khashoggi out of the limelight.
Khashoggi’s long-time attorney, Tariq Kadri, became president of
the Horsham holding company that controlled Barrick.
In 1986-87, Barrick Gold acquired the Goldstrike property in
Nevada for $63 million, with $10 billion in gold from the US
government. After Bush Sr. became President in 1988, his
administration gave Barrick Gold a special dispensation to speed
up the procedures for a mining company to "patent" to the land.
Suddenly Barrick Gold had become one of the biggest gold mining
companies in the world, and Bush himself became a Barrick
Director.
In 1992, Edward Ney quit as US ambassador to Canada and became a
director of the Barrick Gold Corp.
In 1993, Brian Mulroney resigned as Canadian prime minister.
Mulroney as PM had directly aided Barrick's international
ventures and had worked closely with Bush Sr on “free trade”
agreements. Munk immediately hired Mulroney.
In May 1995, the Canada-based Barrick created an international
advisory board around George Bush Sr.
Paul G. Desmarais (the richest man in Canada and a member of Her
Majesty's Council for Canada) was also on Barrick’s
international advisory board. Desmarais runs Power Corp. and
serves on several boards with Maurice Strong (a top operative of
Prince Philip's and Bernhard’s World Wide Fund for Nature).
Desmarais was also part-owner of Europe's largest private TV
network, the banking Groupe Bruxelles Lambert and Belgium's
Petrofina oil giant.
[B]Consolidated Eurocan - Lundin[/B]
In 1996, Eurocan Consolidated of Vancouver finalised a deal to
purchase a 55% interest in the Tenke-Fungurume copper-cobalt
deposits from state mining company Gecamines, for a quarter of a
billion dollars over 72 months.
Consolidated Eurocan is owned and controlled by the Swedish
Adolf Lundin, who in the 1980s was involved with the Heritage
Foundation and founded Reagan’s presidential campaign.
[B]Banro Resources, MDDZ - Anglo American[/B]
In September 1996, the tiny Toronto, Canada-based Banro
Resources Corp., obtained a 36% concession to mine gold in
Zaire's central-east province of Kivu (Sominki). Another large
stake in Sominki was bought by the Belgium-based company Mines
D' or du Zaire (MDDZ). Cluff Mining Co. of London owns 60% of
MDDZ is; Cluff is controlled by Anglo American Corp that owns
65% of it.
On 21 September 1 996, Banro and MDDZ announced their merger,
with Banro selling its shares to MDDZ. The Banro-MDDZ company
held a 72% stake in Sominki, ultimately controlled by Anglo
American.
The rich concession starts in the town of Bukavu, which was the
site of a major Rwandan refugee camp. Banro and Anglo American
Corporation needed this site cleared of people, so in
mid-October Uganda started the invasion of Zaire and cleared
Bukavu of the refugees.
[B]American Mineral Fields - Anglo American[/B]
American Mineral Fields (AMF) was founded, owned by Jean-Raymond
Boulle, a former executive for DeBeers Diamonds.
AMF signed an agreement with Anglo American, which gave Anglo
American the right to invest up to $100 million in any AMF
venture in Shaba province, taking up to 50% equity stake in a
venture.
[B]Anglo American – De Beers Rio Tinto[/B]
The South Africa-based Anglo American is the biggest mining
company in the world, run by the Oppenheimer family. Financing
for Anglo American and its empire came from Rothschild and J.P.
Morgan.
Anglo American, through cross-ownership, owns DeBeers Centenary
and DeBeers Consolidated (which together controls 80% of the
world's diamonds), and the Luxembourg-based Minerals and
Resources Corp. (Minorco) holding company.
The full global reach of Anglo American only becomes clear when
viewed in combination with the London-based Rio Tinto Zinc
(RTZ), the world's second largest raw materials company, in
which (again) the Rothschilds and Queen Elizabeth II own a
substantial stake.
See the combined share of Western world mining production of
Anglo American and Rio Tinto Zinc in 1996 (Uranium only 8%?).
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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: April 12, 2020, 10:18 am
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For some reason the following story on the links between Erik
Prince and Ugandan Yoweri President Museveni’s half-brother Gen.
Salim Saleh was deleted from the internet…
Salim Saleh’s real name is Caleb Akandwanaho.
In January 2011, Saracen International of Uganda; in which Salim
Saleh reportedly owned a 25% stake lost a lucrative contract in
Somalia.
Saracen International is also linked to Erik Prince, who is best
known for the notorious Blackwater mercenary firm. Prince is of
course also the brother of Donald Trump’s Education Secretary
Betsy DeVos.
Saracen International was apparently, like Blackwater, also a
bit too violent in Africa.
Prince’s spokesman claimed that Erik is interested in
"[I]helping Somalia overcome the scourge of piracy[/I]". That
sounds so much better than making millions by killing innocent
people…
United Nations monitors were concerned that Saracen violated the
arms embargo on Somalia.
It is claimed that Sarace (Lebanon) is a distinct entity from
the Ugandan Saracen; even though both have chairmen that were
formerly employed by Executive Outcomes.
We shouldn’t think it’s suspicious that Saracen (Uganda) makes
“introductions” for Saracen (Lebanon).
Lebanese authorities said that the Saracen in Lebanon is really
based in the UAE (at the time also home to Erik Prince).
Former U.S. ambassador Pierre R. Prosper, under George W. Bush,
with former CIA agent Michael Shanklin, coordinated Saracen’s
contract with the Somali government.
Prosper has told they were paid “paid by a Muslim nation”, which
is apparently the United Arab Emirates (UAE):
HTML http://web.archive.org/web/20130516155200/http://warisbusiness.com/2637/features/deal-of-the-month/saracen-international-somalia/
I’m just glad that the UN forgets to mention Erik Prince’s
involvement with Salim Saleh...
Between September 1998 and August 1999, occupied zones of the
Congo were drained of minerals, agricultural and forest products
and livestock.
In January 1999, Jean-Pierre Bemba (leader of MLC) and General
James Kazini, the right hand man of Salim Saleh, confiscated
large stocks of coffee beans in Equateur Province for sale.
Since the Congo was invaded Uganda in 1998 suddenly started
producing much more gold.
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In September 1998, Salim Saleh was already discussing creating a
company to supply Congo with merchandise, in return for natural
resources.
In mid-1999, the Victoria Group, whose key shareholder is Salim
Saleh, made counterfeit Congolese francs to buy coffee. At the
same time Jean-Pierre Bemba ordered the production of 100-franc
Congolese notes.
By the end of 1999, Bemba suspended all 100-franc notes, as to
stop “inflation” in the areas he controlled, including Equateur
Province.
Salim Saleh and his wife Jovia Akandwanaho are at the core of
the illegal exploitation of natural resources in areas
controlled by Uganda in the Congo.
On the Ugandan side, three main private companies were involved:
Air Alexander, whose owner is Jovia Akandwanaho;
Air Navette has dealings with General Salim Saleh and
Jean-Pierre Bemba;
Uganda Air Cargo, which mainly deals with the Ugandan Ministry
of Defence.
Trinity was another shell company owned by Salim Saleh and his
wife Jovia.
Trinity’s primary purpose was to facilitate Saleh’s business
activities in Orientale Province. Tibasima granted a tax
exemption to all Trinity activities in the areas controlled by
Uganda in November 1999. Trinity has imported gold, coffee and
timber without paying any tax from Orientale Province.
Between 1995 and 1999, in the Garamba Park controlled by the
Ugandan and Sudanese mercenaries, nearly 4,000 out of 12,000
elephants were killed. The situation in other parks and reserves
is equally grave, where the number of okapis, gorillas and
elephants has dwindled to small populations. In the Kahuzi-Biega
Park, controlled by the Rwandans and RCD-Goma and rich in
coltan, only 2 out of 350 elephant families remained in 2000.
In August 2000, UPDF Colonel Mugeni and his soldiers were
discovered with 800 kg of elephant tusks in their car near
Garamba Park. Eyewitnesses reported that Rwandan soldiers were
selling elephant and buffalo meat:
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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: April 13, 2020, 10:08 am
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The following is interesting as it presents information on the
Interahamwe from 1992 (almost like a warning)…
In 1991, member of MRND Murenzi Desiree cofounded the
Interahamwe as a “think tank” for young people.
Desiree later became director of Petrorwanda. He took money from
the oil company to fund the Interahamwe:
HTML http://www.rwandadocumentsproject.net/gsdl/collect/mil1docs/index/assoc/HASH0135.dir/doc34470.pdf
Jeannette Nyiramongi was a school friend of Jeannette Urujen,
who became Jeannette Rwigema after she married Salim Saleh’s
friend, Fred Rwigema (or Rwigyema).
Jeannette Nyiramongi became the mistress of the late Joseph
Nzirorera (former MRND's general secretary).
Nyiramongi also had an affair with the married Husi Kajuga, the
older brother of none other than Robert Kajuga, another founding
member and the president of the Interahamwe militias!
After she became pregnant, Husi Kajuga sent Jeannette Nyiramongi
to Nairobi in January of 1987, where Husi paid for her
education. Nyiramongi lived there at the house of Specioza
Kayihura (mother of Paul Kagame’s spokes woman Yolanda Makolo
and director of advertisement at MTN Rwanda Yvonne Makolo).
Husi Kajuga introduced Jeannette Kagame to the extended Kayihura
family in Kenya.
In 1989, Immacule Mirenge introduced Jeannette Nyiramongi to
Paul Kagame and in June of that year they got married.
See the married couple later, as dictator and first lady
(Jeannette Kagame) of Rwanda.
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The Kayihura family was later rewarded by evil Jeannette
Nyiramongi Kagame with nice jobs in Rwanda. Viviane Kayitesi
Kayihura heads Rwanda Development Bank, Teta Rutimirwa Kayihura
heads urban planning, Eugene Kayihura Rwanda’s ambassador to
South Korea, Rema and Minego are board members at New Times:
HTML http://congovox.blogspot.com/2013/09/letter-from-north-jeannette-kagame.html
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Jeannette Rwigema has complained about being targeted by
Kagame’s government.
In June 2008, Andrew Rwigamba (who was also schooled in the US)
was unceremoniously fired as Rwanda’s Inspector General of
Police, together with his colleagues Costa Habyara and Peter
Sano, on the orders of criminal Paul Kagame. The main reason for
the indefinite suspension of the trio was that they offered
protection to Jeannette Rwigema (widow of the assassinated Gen
Fred Rwigema).
In 2011, Rwigamba was appointed as Director of Military
Relations, without an official role or office.
In 2013, Brig Gen Andrew Rwigamba was fired by Paul Kagame.
Years later, the DMI suddenly spread false rumours that Rwigamba
is a long sufferer of a certain (unnamed) disease. This has been
done before...
For example, before Col Steven Ndugute was eliminated, DMI
started spreading rumours that he suffered from a certain
disease and few months later, he died (through poisoning).
The same DMI spread the similar rumour about Col William Bagire,
who died a few months later (also through poisoning).
The DMI also spread this rumour about Col Charles Ngoga, who was
eliminated a couple of months later.
In early September 2019, Rwigamba started vomiting blood, and
his family rushed him to King Faisal Hospital. The doctors
discovered that the cause of his illness were poisonous
substances.
And on 16 October 201919, Andrew Rwigamba died due to internal
organs failure, caused by poisoning.
According to the writer of this interesting piece, Gen James
Kabarebe on the orders of Paul Kagame, was the one who
assassinated Andrew Rwigamba (by poisoning):
HTML https://rpfgakwerere.org/2019/10/18/the-elimination-of-brig-gen-andrew-rwigamba-rwanda-defence-force-intrigue-wars-continues/
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Gen. Salim Saleh (Caleb Akandwanaho) trained together with his
friend Fred Rwigyema and brother Yoweri Museveni in Mozambique
with Samora Machel's Frelimo rebels.
Saleh has been implicated in several scandals, including the
illegal purchase of Uganda Commercial Bank Ltd in 1998. Saleh
admitted that in the sale of the bank to Malaysian firm
Westmont, he helped the Ugandan Greenland bank to buy shares in
the bank, in violation of the sale agreement.
Salim Saleh bought a majority interest in a Malaysian firm,
Westmont Berhad, which had earlier bought a 51% stake in the
Uganda Commercial Bank.
The former managing director of Greenland Investments, Dr
Sulaiman Kiggundu, was prosecuted and sent to jail for six
months, while for some reason Saleh was never prosecuted.
In 1998, Salim Saleh was forced to resign as presidential
advisor (to his half-brother Museveni) over this scandal.
Another corruption scandal involving Saleh is the purchase of 2
"junk" helicopters from the former Soviet republic Belarus in
1997. In which it is claimed that the Ugandan government lost
more than $10 million.
Saleh admitted that he had received a commission of $800,000 in
the deal. His brother, President Museveni, said that Saleh had
told him that he had used the money to finance the war in
northern Uganda.
Dr James Rwanyarare of Uganda People's Congress said that "no
one could prosecute" Saleh.
Erik Prince’s business partner, Salim Saleh, continued his
successful career to become the Ugandan Minister of State for
Microfinance in 2006:
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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: April 14, 2020, 10:01 am
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In 2002, the United Nations accused dozens of multinationals of
facilitating the plunder of the Democratic Republic of Congo
including: Barclays Bank, De Beers, Anglo American, Afrimex,
Mineral Afrika, Euromet, Das Air, A Knight International, A&M
Minerals and Metals, Alex Stewart, Arctic Investment and
Amalgamated Metal Corporation.
The UN reported an additional 29 companies and 54 individuals,
mostly African and Belgian, which were directly involved in the
plunder.
The UN named the Zimbabwean John Bredenkamp of mediating sales
of military equipment from BAE Systems to Congo in violation of
European sanctions.
Bredenkamp was a key investor in the Aviation Consultancy
Service Company, which represents BAE Systems.
The UN’s harshest criticism wasn’t to the profiteers from
Britain, Canada and the US but at the crooked government
officials in several African countries that profit, including
Rwandan army's chief of staff James Kabarebe; Zimbabwe's
parliament speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa; and Uganda's army chief
of staff Major General James Kazini.
Rwanda did everything it could to prolong the fighting,
including collaborating with its “enemies”.
Senior Rwandan official Jean-Pierre Ondekane, urged its army
units to maintain good relations "[I]with our interahamwe and
Mayi-Mayi brothers[/I]", and "[I]if necessary to let them
exploit the sub-soil for their survival[/I]":
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/oct/22/congo.rorycarroll
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In March 2003, before the transitional Congolese government was
established in Kinshasa, a representative of AngloGold Ashanti,
Trevor Schultz, participated in a board meeting with their joint
venture partner OKIMO. They discussed gold drilling in
Mongbwalu.
AngloGold Ashanti (until 2009 a subsidiary of Anglo American)
provided financial and logistical support to the FNI.
Between March and June 2003, the Front des Nationalistes et
Intégrationnistes (FNI) with the help of the Ugandan army took
effective control over the Mongbwalu area. The FNI and its
leaders were responsible for some of the worst atrocities in
this region, for example in Kilo on 10 March 2003 they massacred
at least 100 women and children and abducted many others.
When AngloGold Ashanti was planning gold mining activities in
Mongbwalu in late 2003, the FNI controlled the land, including
the airport and roads. FNI terrorists also controlled entry to
and exit from the mines and collected taxes for entry to
Mongbwalu or the mines.
According to an employee of AngloGold Ashanti, vice-president of
the transitional government for economy and finance Jean-Pierre
Bemba suggested the FNI to AngloGold Ashanti. Bemba told them to
“talk to the little guy” Njabu, who was then residing at the
Grand Hotel in Kinshasa.
The meetings took place just weeks after the FNI combatants had
brutally massacred innocent civilians in Concession 40 (east of
Mongbwalu) in September 2004. In December 2004, AngloGold
Ashanti wrote that Vice President Bemba had assured that Ituri
was safe and had “[I]urged the company to continue with its
exploration program in the region[/I]”.
The denials about financial assistance to the FNI armed group
were contradicted by
In February 2005 AngloGold Ashanti’s spokesman Steven Lenahan,
was quoted with details on payments to the FNI. AngloGold
Ashanti also supported the FNI armed group in Mongbwalu, with
assistance with logistics and transportation:
HTML https://www.hrw.org/reports/2005/drc0505/9.htm
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There have been protests against Barrick Gold…
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In September 2018, Barrick took over Randgold to create the
world’s largest gold company with an aggregate market value of
$18.3 billion. As a result, Barrick became the owner of
Randgold’s 45% stake in the Kibali mine in Congo.
Congolese Mines Minister Martin Kabwelulu said this would still
have to be approved by the government in accordance with the new
mining code:
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In April 2018, 8 mining companies (Barrick Gold is missing!)
Glencore, Randgold Resources, Ivanhoe Mines, Gold Mountain
International (Zijin Mining Group), MMG Ltd., Crystal River
Global, China Molybdenum Co. (CMOC) and AngloGold Ashanti
complained about the new mining code in Congo, and threatened
with legal action:
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And then in January 2019, Felix Tshisekedi (Etienne’s son)
became the new president of the Democratic Republic of the
Congo. Problem solved?!?
Some claim that president Tshisekedi is nothing more than a
puppet of Joseph Kabila:
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