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SpikyAube ago

Guzman is also now on the board of a shipping company... Exmar, which has offices all over the world and various subsidiaries. Their address in the Dominican Republic is particularly odd: 'Torre Chico's' apartments. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Torre+Chico's/@18.4471477,-69.9562905,92m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m8!1m2!2m1!1storre+chicos!3m4!1s0x8ea561f59716ccab:0xd9b111916ec6073!8m2!3d18.4471464!4d-69.9562668!6m1!1e1

This, for a forum about the DR, is the guy who owns the address of Exmar in the Dominican Republic, described here as a 'gangster'.

Does that all sound pretty dodgy to you? These cars he's selling and financing - $200,000? Wonder if this is the same kind of car selling operation James Alefantis has through his Castellum Achilles business, out of the back of that mysterious building he half owns, the one with KIDS painted on the wall out front?

Only weeks after a deal was signed between Forth Ports, who own Tilbury port in the UK, and the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium in 2014, 35 people were found in a P&O freight container at Tilbury, who had been shipped from Zeebrugge. One man was dead, and 13 of them were children. The police talked about a human trafficking operation, and in 2015, the Belgian government announced a new task force to prevent human trafficking, acknowledging that the largest group of people involved in this criminal enterprise is made up of Belgian citizens.

It seems that a lot of human trafficking goes on through the Port of Zeebrugge: http://www.expatica.com/be/news/Flanders-Human-traffickers-caught-red-handed-in-Zeebrugge_750531.html http://www.flanderstoday.eu/current-affairs/refugees-call-police-inside-container-zeebrugge http://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/4007/three-people-arrested-for-human-trafficking-on-a-ferry-at-zeebrugge http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/796791.stm

Also this EU report on an investigation into human trafficking is interesting: https://ec.europa.eu/anti-trafficking/sites/antitrafficking/files/annual-report-2015-trafficking-and-smuggling-full.pdf