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letsdothis3 ago

Related: Cambridge Analytica, Atlantic Bridge, Thatcher's govt, Michael Hintze, Espirito Banco and the financier of the Hampstead cult.

Prince Andrew was one of the well-known figures to whom Bell Pottinger claimed to have access in a video covertly recorded by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

David Wilson, managing director of Bell Pottinger Group, told reporters posing as potential clients: 'We have links there'. He added: 'There have been suggestions in the media - if you do a background check - that he [Prince Andrew] is liable to follow where the chequebook is, i.e. people will pay him to go to a certain country.'

...d longtime Tory/Conservative donor named Michael Hintze who provided the majority of those donations and lent his private jet to Fox for schmoozy jaunts to meet with D.C. defence contractors. With a strong interest in geopolitical wargames, a habit of supporting Defence Secretaries, and a predilection for hiring senior military officials at his powerful firm Convertible & Quantitative Strategies, it’s small wonder Hintze sought to establish a Western security superhighway before the Bridge collapsed...A group of bondholders that lost more than 1 billion euros after the transfer of bonds to the failed Portuguese bank Banco Espirito Santo (BES) in 2015 have asked parliament to question the head of the central bank over the decision.

The so-called Novo Note Group, which includes large investors such as Pimco and Blackrock, argue they were treated unfairly when their holdings, initially included in Novo Banco - the “good bank” carved out of BES in 2014 - were transferred back to BES, which is being wound down.

Hampstead connections: Will Draper worked for BES, then went to work at Mirabaud at the same address as Michael Hintze's company - company mentioned in Strafor emails..

letsdothis3 ago

Blackwater: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi

Academi is an American private military company founded in 1997 by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince[2][3] as Blackwater,[4] renamed as Xe Services in 2009 and now known as Academi since 2011 after the company was acquired by a group of private investors.... Academi provides security services to the United States federal government on a contractual basis. Since 2003, the group has provided services to the Central Intelligence Agency.

In 2014, Academi became a division of Constellis Group along with Triple Canopy and other security companies that were part of the Constellis Group as the result of an acquisition.

Private Military Companies: Blackwater - https://silentprofessionals.org/blackwater/

After the departure of Erik Prince from his former company, Prince stayed active in private military interests around the world.

He was hired by the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and moved to Abu Dhabi in 2010. He founded a new company called Reflex Responses (or R2) that entailed a roughly 800-man unit of foreign fighters for the UAE, where Prince retained a majority 51% ownership.

On a separate front, he oversaw recruitment for private military companies, such as Executive Outcomes which is a former South African private military firm that gained fame when they were hired by several African governments during the 1990s to defeat violent rebellions in addition to protecting oil and diamond reserves. Then in January 2011, Prince began training ~2,000 Somalis for anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden. This program was funded by several Arab countries, including the United Arab Emirates and was backed by the United States.

Erik Prince currently heads a private equity firm called Frontier Resource Group (FRG) and is chairman of Frontier Services Group Ltd (FSG Ltd), a Bermuda-incorporated logistics and transport company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Frontier Services Group is backed by China’s state-owned CITIC Group and Hong Kong-based investor Chun Shun Ko. FSG Ltd advises and supports Chinese investment in oil and gas exploration operations in Africa. Prince had planned to build a diesel refinery in South Sudan but the operation was suspended, even though $10 million (USD) had already been invested in the project.