British entrepreneur James Caan tried to buy a baby from Pakistan for £725 during 2010 floods, has ties to Prince Charles, BA Trust

British entrepreneur James Caan tried to buy a baby from Pakistan for £725 during 2010 floods, has ties to Prince Charles, BA Trust (pizzagate)

submitted 7.6 years ago by Craic_Cocaine

(...Though the British Asian Trust may be of interest in investigating, as it has a large focus on child trafficking and has the Royal Patronage of the Prince of Wales.)

For those of you who aren't from the UK, James Caan is best known as one of the investors on the British version of Dragon's Den , but this puts him in a new light altogether.

While researching the backgrounds of wealthy British philanthropists, I came upon this interesting story about James Caan, an investor born in Pakistan who has done considerable charity work here.

However, it appears he has used his charity in an attempt to purchase a baby from a family for about £725, about 1100USD at the then-exchange rate.

The event happens as below:

TV cameras filming his charity work captured the multi-millionaire offering 100,000 rupees (£725) for the baby. He told the girl's parents his brother desperately wanted to have a baby and would be able to provide the best possible life for her. Mr Caan said he responded emotionally, rather than rationally. The entrepreneur, born in Pakistan, was looking for a village he could help rebuild in the wake of the August floods that wrought devastation on his country. The flooding across a swathe of Pakistan left some 2,000 people dead and affected up to 20 million people. In one village, Mr Caan came across a newborn and made the offer of money in return for the baby.

That's already suspicious enough, buying a baby for one's brother--but what compounds it further is that James Caan is a close friend of Prince Charles and has ties to his philanthropy organisation, the British Asian Trust:

http://archive.is/jXpPM

With Prince Charles

With The Duke of Buckingham on the day he received a CBE

With James Caan again, in a different change of clothes, implying a different party

And yet again

So obviously, they are very familiar with each other.

and sure enough, The Clinton Foundation was also operating in Pakistan at the time of the 2010 flooding:

http://archive.is/zT34x

Now I'm not trying to make any assumptions (because after all, Caan is Pakistani and perhaps just has an affinity for his homeland), but Pakistan is the world's 3rd largest slave state, has a massive population of orphaned children as well as a major centre for organ trafficking and one of the world's largest exit point for trafficked human beings.

Draw what conclusions that you will from that.

7 comments

strix-varia 7.6 years ago

Love it...mundane entrepreneurs (that's not what they'd think they are)

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cantsleepawink 7.6 years ago

That's how pyramid systems work.

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cantsleepawink 7.6 years ago

Okay, I'm having a quick browse through the Board of Trustees at the British Asian Trust https://www.britishasiantrust.org/who-we-are/trustees

Perhaps a trail of connections tell a story.

So, I'll start with Chris Mathias https://www.crunchbase.com/person/chris-mathias#/entity

Chris Mathias is one of England's most successful Internet entrepreneurs and private equity investors, born and raised in India but now living in the UK. Chris serves on several boards including the advisory board of Barclays Private Wealth Management and is member of the Global Philanthropists Circle. Chris has invested in more than 30 companies either personally or via his two venture capital co

He does some of his philanthropy through the Hummingbird Trust http://thehummingbirdtrust.co.uk/about-the-trust/meet-the-trustees

Here is one initiative http://thehummingbirdtrust.co.uk/the-hummingbird-foundation-2-3/our-programmes

The Hummingbird Raise model is an action research programme that seeks to develop a scalable model for engaging men on prevention of sex trafficking in India, specifically in West Bengal. The programme primarily focuses on men in the age group of 14-17 years from low-income communities and engages them in a series of gradual structured interventions.

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Back to the businesses of Chris Mathias: http://www.arborventures.co.uk/?page_id=7

Arbor is based in Covent Garden, London. It was founded by Chris Mathias in 2000 after nearly a decade of intense organisation building. During that period, Chris founded several other companies, most notably his flagship Conduit Communications, an IT consultancy and service-provider.

Conduit was merged with NASDAQ listed I-cube which was subsequently merged with Razorfish Inc. (another NASDAQ listed internet consultancy)

I-Cube https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/i-cube#/entity One of the co-founders is Professor John Donovan

ACADEMIC: At MIT John Donovan, served as a tenured professor of electrical engineering , of management at the Sloan school and presently affiliated with the Economics Department, At Tufts Medical School he served as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics , at Yale University a Fellow, at Harvard University a Visiting Scholar, lecturer at Oxford, Cambridge,Sorbonne- Paris, a Professor at Texas Tech , He has taught 5,500 students and supervised 54 theses .

RESEARCH: His research focus at MIT is on entrepreneurship, technology and Business At Tufts he first focused on causes of birth defects.and a founder of the Birth Defects center. Professor Donovan has, to date , Authored: 20 books, translated into 14 languages, 84 publications, and 15 patents.

PUBLIC SERVICE: He received commendations from the Red Cross for: research on birth defects, blood safety , work with children. He and his son, John, have created recreational parks in Mass,. . established scholarships at Yale University for the children of city workers and “Donovan Scholars” fellowships at Boston University.

Prof. Donovan's patents : https://professordonovan.com/publications/patents

includes stuff like:

“Method, system and apparatus for discovering user agent DNS settings”
“A VIDEO SURVEILLANCE, STORAGE, AND ALERTING SYSTEM HAVING NETWORK MANAGEMENT, HIERARCHICAL DATA STORAGE, VIDEO TIP PROCESSING, AND VEHICLE PLATE ANALYSIS.”
“Video data storage, search, and retrieval using meta-data and attribute data in a video surveillance system.”

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Interesting.