For those who aren’t aware, the 1MDB corruption case is touted as the world’s largest financial scandal. Global in scope, it involves not just the Malaysian government, it encompasses banks such as Goldman Sachs, various private Swiss banks, American celebrities.
(And connections to some major players in New York and London, but that’s for another time.)
For a short summary (though this article does no justice to the scale and scope of the scandal): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-33447456
A longer version here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/28/1mdb-inside-story-worlds-biggest-financial-scandal-malaysia
Here are a couple of Hollywood connections with 1MDB (there are many others). I’m highlighting the Hollyweird angle because of the proliferation of various celebrity led ‘charities’ and ‘foundations’.
Back to Washington:
Malaysia pays lobbyists to influence US politicians says report
The report said, to boost their nation’s visibility, governments often paid lobbyists to get the media and bloggers to write positive stories about them.
It said between 2008 and 2011, US-based blogger Joshua Trevino was reportedly paid almost USD400,000 to write opinion articles extolling the Malaysian Government and attacking the country’s political opposition, particularly Anwar Ibrahim. Trevino was not paid directly by the Malaysian Government but by APCO worldwide, which, the report said, had been hired by Putrajaya for an alleged USD20 million to manage its international image.
[APCO and the Clinton Global Initiative](https://www.rt.com/usa/365394-clinton-cgi-diplomatic-post-wikileaks/))
Beth Jones is Executive VP at the public relations firm APCO Worldwide, which happens to be a Clinton Global Initiative partner and donor. APCO, which gives free PR for the Clinton Global Initiative, according to the Daily Caller, has multiple ties to the Democratic presidential candidate.
APCO has reportedly contributed up to $50,000 to the Clinton Foundation, and has worked alongside it for more than eight years.
Here’s an article that, though not well sourced in terms of allegations, makes some interesting connections for consideration:
Trump should drop 1MDB Corruption Bombshell, which linked Obama and Clinton
http://www.financetwitter.com/2016/10/trump-should-drop-1mdb-corruption-bombshell-which-linked-obama-clinton.html
Human trafficking in Malaysia: wikileaks email: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/55998
The Obama administration will remove Malaysia from its official list of the world's worst human trafficking offenders, according to Reuters.
The maneuver would allow the administration to continue negotiating a controversial trade agreement with Malaysia and 10 other Pacific nations. Legislation authored by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) effectively bars the U.S. from enacting trade deals with countries deemed "Tier 3" violators of human trafficking standards -- the worst of the worst in the State Department's formal reckoning of governments that facilitate modern-day slavery.
This story is set to run and run...
SpikyAube ago
Along with all the child/human trafficking and the drug trafficking and the illegal weapons sales etc, I expect that many governments and banks are working together to basically defraud citizens and steal enormous sums of money from the public. Some guy did a lot of research into this in the UK, with UK politicians basically setting up shell companies that win fraudulent mining, oil and gas contracts and then basically pocket billions, stashing it in off shore accounts. Perhaps the way this Malaysian fraud has operated could provide information on what to look for with other similar scams. This kind of thing could be another way to raise awareness of just how criminal most governments are and is easier for most to believe than the child abuse/trafficking rings, but once they accept that their governments are operating as organised criminal enterprises, it will be much easier to then accept the other more horrific crimes they are guilty of.
One thing that has always stuck with me is when a British Lord stood up int he House of Lords in 2012 and said he had found a huge scandal involving the Federal Reserve and British banks, whereby the Federal reserve had transferred $15 TRILLION to UK banks (HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland) in 2009. The money came from government bonds held by someone called Johannes Riyadh, and was supposedly backed by 700,00 tons of gold in Riyadh's possession, but it turned out that not even close to that amount of gold has ever even been mined in human history, so it was a complete lie and therefore the money was not real. Yet HSBC and RBS signed it off and the 'money' was therefore in the European banking system, making someone enormous untaxed profits and risking the stability of the entire international monetary system.
Lord Blackheath revealing this in the House of Lords: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm4z98QzWlg
Something relating to this is mentioned in the Stratfor Wikileaks emails, where they discuss an incident in 2009 when two Japanese men were found to be carrying billions worth of US govt bonds hidden in the bottom of their suitcases, when they were travelling in Italy. In the emails the Stratfor staff are sharing information about whether the bonds are forgeries or not, and talk about how strange a case it is. Yohannes Riyadi is also mentioned in these emails: https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/16/1676519_re-ct-eastasia-u-s-says-treasury-bonds-seized-in-italy-are.html
I don't really understand it all, and none of it was ever mentioned again in the MSM (quell surprise). That amount of money could save the debt problems of several countries if it's real, and if it's fake it could crash the global economy apparently, so it seems like it should have been important to follow up on.
I know this is a bit tangential, but given the talk about financial crimes related to all this, I thought I'd mention it in case anyone can look into it and get a handle on what's going on and who's involved.
PizzaGateDiscovery ago
Financial shenanigans is what brought the Franklin scandal to light. So it may be the key here too. This financial scandal is on a much larger scale than the illegal finances involved in the Franklin Scandal.
Jem777 ago
This is a direct pay for play from the Oval Office by a sitting president. Involving exchanging connections through family, position,fame, for an obvious "play" trip to Malaysia and money involved.
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derram ago
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