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Breaking News: NSS revealed criminal corruption scheme involving high-ranking SRC officials

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YEREVAN, MAY 25,  The National Security Service adjunct to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia has revealed a criminal scheme within the framework of its activities aimed at combating corruption and economic crimes through which a large Armenian company has maliciously avoided taxes, duties and other mandatory payments. National Security Service informed “Armenpress” that high level officials of the RA SRC had a direct connection with the formation and organization of the company.

Specifically:

The National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia has received information that in the United Kingdom, Scotland (according to preliminary data, in the United Kingdom, for the purpose of obtaining cargo and customs clearance businesses belonging to small and medium-sized businesses from 9 so-called “coca” firms and concentrating on one company in a monopoly position, offshore zone), registered by Norfolk Project LP LLC in June 2017, was founded by Norfolk Consulting LLC whose citizen Armen Harutyunyan was appointed general director. Further, RA SRC senior officials, representing the Director General of “Norfolk Consulting” LLC, told the managers of these “cognos” companies that collective goods transported by trucks from Turkey, China and the United Arab Emirates should be cleared by exclusively through Norfolk Consulting , they also determined that they would pay the company for each imported 1kg load, in the case of Turkey, $ 1.65 (including VAT, customs duty, customs duty) and 0.70 US $ 2.55 (including VAT, customs, customs) and USD 0.70 (for service) and USD 2.55 (including VAT, customs duties, customs) and US $ 0.45 money). It is noteworthy that for renovation, “Norfolk Consulting” LLC was provided with rental offices in the premises of the SRC special customs clearance customs clearance premises, obviously aiming at the businessmen to emphasize the special privileged status of the mentioned company. Cargo companies, in essence, had no other option, accepted the proposal of financially inefficient cooperation and began to carry out customs clearance of shipped goods exclusively through “Norfolk Consulting” LLC, paid the cash in cash without proper formulations.

Representatives of “Norfolk Consulting” LLC often did not declare and clear the imported goods with the right name and customs, which reduced the amount to be paid to the state, and created unequal competition conditions for the citizens who imported the same goods not through their company.

As a result of the preliminary preliminary analysis, it was calculated that from 1 August 2017 to 1 May 2018, Norfolk Consulting LLC received $ 37.6 million in cash through representatives of shipping companies, of which US $ 26.4 million was imported to Armenia customs clearance of goods, and $ 11.2 million for services rendered to economic entities. As a result of not fully reflecting the above-mentioned amounts in taxable documents, the company has paid less than $ 3.3 billion worth of approximately $ 7 million to the state budget. That is to say, the company’s incomes in the nine months of its operation may amount to about $ 7 million. The actual amount of damage to the state can be adjusted within the scope of the forensic expertise prescribed in the manner prescribed by the Company.

In connection with the incident, a criminal case has been initiated under Article 205 (Part 2) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia (“Particularly large taxes, duties or other mandatory payments”) and Article 308 (Part 2) abuse which negligently caused grave consequences “), with more than 10 searches carried out at the same time as a result of which about $ 500,000 was confiscated from Norfolk Consulting LLC and the company director’s office, fields, bank and customs documents important for the case. During the preliminary investigation, representatives of freight forwarding companies gave testimonies revealing the criminal scheme of the case.

General Director of “Norfolk Consulting” LLC Armen Unnanyan and other responsible three employees were detained in the RA Criminal Code

Israel’s attorney general orders criminal probe against Netanyahu

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Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has approved the opening of a full criminal investigation into the financial activities of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid allegations of bribery and fraud.

Netanyahu will be investigated following a nine-month police inquiry into two unspecified matters, and will be summoned to give evidence in the coming days, Israel’s Hebrew-language Channel 10 television network reported.

An unnamed spokeswoman from Israel’s so-called Justice Ministry said in a statement that checks in the matter “are still ongoing and this is neither confirmation nor denial of what has been alleged.”

“The attorney-general, the police and prosecutors are working in close cooperation and a public announcement will be made in due course about the investigation,” she said.

Netanyahu has long been the subject of scrutiny over his financial dealings.

Mandelblit recently ordered an investigation into claims that Netanyahu accepted 1 million euros (about $1.1 million) from accused French fraudster Arnaud Mimran in the form of donations during his 2009 campaign.

In May, Comptroller Yosef Shapira issued a critical report on Netanyahu’s foreign trips, some of which were taken with his wife Sara and children, from 2003 to 2005, when he was the Israeli finance minister.

The Israeli prime minister is also under investigation over the billion-dollar purchase of three submarines from Germany, where media have reported “a serious conflict of interest” on the part of Netanyahu.

Reports emerged last month that Netanyahu’s personal lawyer and one of closest confidants, David Shimron, was representing the German arms manufacturer ThyssenKrupp, which is making the submarines.

Channel 10 later disclosed an email it claimed was proof that Shimron used his close relationship with Netanyahu to lobby for the deal.

A separate probe is also underway in Israel into accusation that Sara Netanyahu misused public funds for private expenses.

Erdogan’s Son Blocks Access to Websites Detailing His Criminal Connections

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1035105629In complying with a request made by the Turkish president’s son, Ankara blocked websites detailing alleged criminal connections between him and a businessman recently arrested in the United States.

Turkey blocked 21 news websites detailing the US criminal case related to Bilal Erdogan, son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

On March 22, Turkish national Reza Zarrab was arrested in the United States for fraud, money laundering and evading sanctions against Iran. Zarrab was previously implicated in a 2013 Turkish corruption scandal, which was tied to Bilal Erdogan, who was tied to the indictment though a connected businessman, Sıtkı Ayan.

The websites, including those of the newspapers Haberdar and Cumhuriyet were blocked, but no warning or court order was given prior to the block. It was only after the websites were blocked that officials sent notes to Haberdar.

Along with information about the connections between Bilal Edogan and the criminal case, newspapers cited fragments of a leaked wiretaps of a conversation between Bilal and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, made during the 2013 anti-corruption operation.

Source: sputniknews.com

Turkey-Daesh Criminal Ties Extend Beyond Oil Smuggling, Stretch Across EU

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Erdogan and FamilyTurkey and the Islamic State’s collaboration on oil smuggling only scratches the surface of a much deeper and broader criminal partnership, one that oversees a variety of illicit activities ranging from human trafficking to financial scams with operations that stretch from Ankara to Amsterdam, experts told Sputnik.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said on Wednesday that Turkey is the main consumer of illegal oil from Syria and Iraq, accusing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family of direct involvement in the oil business of the Daesh, also known as ISIL/The Islamic State.

“Daesh is entirely an organized crime operation in partnership with the Erdogan family,” security consultant and Veteran’s Today senior editor Gordon Duff told Sputnik on Wednesday. “The Erdogan family and their friends run organized crime in Austria, in Germany, in the Netherlands… which includes human trafficking on a massive scale, narcotics trafficking [and] credit card fraud.”

One year ago today, Duff noted, he delivered this very same message to Syrian officials during a conference in Damascus, outlining the wide range of criminal enterprises operated by the Erdogan and Daesh mafia syndicate.

With respect to the illicit oil trade, he explained, Daesh collaborates with a trucking and marine transportation company owned by Erdogan’s son, Bilal, that smuggles oil from Syria and Iraq into Turkey for export abroad.

“Now there are a series of pipelines across Turkey, more than anyone knows, some closer to the Iraqi-Syrian border than the typical drawings you’ll see, that offload into the Mediterranean and take oil to places like the United States for sale,” Duff claimed.

On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia had received additional evidence that oil from fields controlled by Daesh, which is prohibited in Russia, were being transported to Turkey on an industrial scale.

Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald, authors of highly-acclaimed books on US foreign policy, told Sputnik that Moscow’s evidence against Turkish officials and Erdogan is both substantial and convincing.

“Turkey has been a major crossroads for narcotics, weapons and human trafficking to Europe for decades,” Gould and Fitzgerald said. “If Washington needs friends like this it’s getting what it deserves.”

Erdogan responded to Russian accusations of his family’s involvement in IS oil smuggling by claiming he would resign if unquestionable evidence on the matter was presented.

On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia would hand over to the United Nations and all interested countries solid proof of Turkey’s involvement in illicit oil trade with terrorists.

Source:sputniknews

‘Criminal’ EU Does Not Deserve the Right to Exist – Austrian Magazine

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1027015739The EU has betrayed its own democratic values when it called on Russia to stop supporting the legitimate president of Syria and backed revolutionaries willing to overthrow the legitimate Syrian government, Austrian Contra Magazin wrote.

“Who decides whether an elected head of a state can keep his office, or has to resign? The EU? The USA?” Assad was and will be the only stabilizing factor in the Middle East, although the US and its ally Saudi Arabia make every effort to overthrow him and his government, the magazine wrote.

According to the magazine, the United States used to demonstrate its power and behavior of being an exceptional state which sought to rule the world. The EU has also started to follow the path of this type and has turned into a totally dependent vassal of the US.
The author argued that no one allowed the EU to involve the population of its member countries in armed conflicts and intervene into regions, which the Union has nothing to do with.
When the EU called on Russia to stay away from supporting the legitimate head of state who had asked for help and at the same time backed the opposition seeking a governmental coup, it did not act as a union which promotes rule of law and democracy, but rather as a criminal association that furthers anarchy in the name of all its member countries.
The peoples of the European Union would not want such an EU if they were asked their opinion. The Union has become so disgusting that there is only one solution: to abolish it completely and immediately, the article said.

“The excuse that this is about Russia and therefore any form of the war idiocy is allowed is not only ridiculous, but also old, naive, stupid, inflammatory, apolitical and criminal; because Russia has done nothing wrong and is doing nothing wrong. Assad has asked Russia for help against the ISIL and that’s what Russia is currently dealing with,” the magazine reported.

Source: sputniknews.com