Thursday 1 April 2010

Don’t miss the point.



Don’t miss the point. Why should I take the heavy burden today if everything (the City of London Corporation culture) could be part of elaborate April Fool’s joke? Analyzing, putting in order, - just because in 28 of March I wrote in ‘The seven deadly sins’ that you are missing the point? Well, for one billion British Pounds (£1bn), people do most weird things possible. They blow to the sky the bridges, torch the cars, gust up metro stations, and even pull-off my ears, like this night, together with my sleep. First, they offer to me like a present two hands free headsets. That kind which used by the spies (medvedev and putin travels. Two dead by handling the stolen property in same day) and the body-guards, and which I call simply ‘Dead donkey ears’. Than four of them, pull off my left ear. Again, PSD/PP’s party lost theirs cross? Or just seriously run at risk to lose Brussels and Kremlin’s desk Officer fat salary? It’s good; it’s exactly where I am in. Although, it’s better by far, to take a folded piece of paper and wedge it under whichever “crippled” your leg is too short? You see by yourself that my critical eye make my ‘services’ as close to ‘just right’ as possible, providing to me and the community the PALPABLE results. That being picky in my notes, - give us it’s rewards. It may be not elegant (as was 110C in my place this winter, or as to run into the Zara Phillips jogging at “my” Lub’anka), but for sure, - it’s a non-destructive solution to “our” dilemma… But, hell with the gossip. More interesting though, is timing when this happen. Where you where in the August-September of 2008? Reading the Notes Mad of VIKTORG7? Or I am with my “colleague” and “co-worker” were cutting others (i.e. cross-dressed twats) off, when they’ve gone too far or still thinking to intrude on my territory? Seems, it’s important to keep my feet on the ground where the camels are travelling in Shach’s steps…

Ferrostaal faces a fine of more than EUR 120 million for alleged corruption. The company Ferrostaal, which is involved in the supply of submarines to Portugal could be fined more than 120 million euros if it is proven that bribery was to be taken forward supply contracts. The company Ferrostaal, which is involved in the supply of submarines to Portugal could be fined more than 120 million euros if it is proven that bribery was to be taken forward supply contracts. The news is advanced by the journalistic German "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" quoted by Bloomberg, who said that German prosecutors will seek a fine of more than 120 million euros, a figure initially stipulated that when the investigations were started (last year). Only yesterday was the administrator of Ferrostaal arrested for alleged bribery .

Authorities seek extradition in insider trading case – source. Thu Apr 1, 2010 2:23pm BST
LONDON (Reuters) - Authorities are seeking the extradition of an eighth suspect still at large in an insider trading probe involving printing offices at the London branches of two top banks, a source familiar with the case said. The source said on Wednesday the missing suspect remained abroad but was unsure whether an international arrest warrant had already been issued. "He is not in the UK," the source said.
The hunt for the eighth man comes after the Financial Services Authority on Tuesday charged seven men with 13 counts of insider trading, netting them unlawful profits of 2.5 million pounds. The men were linked to printing offices at Swiss bank UBS AG (UBSN.VX) (UBS.N) and UK brokerage Cazenove (JPM.N).
The case, which comes after a 21-month investigation, centres on a two-year conspiracy to deal on inside information in 12 UK-listed companies, including in media group Reuters during its 2007 takeover by Canadian financial data and news company Thomson Corp (TRI.TO) (TRI.N). The FSA said the trades took place between January 1, 2007 and May 31, 2007. Other companies involved were software firm Misys (MSY.L), industrial materials group Morgan Crucible (MGCR.L), travel group Laidlaw International, waste manager Biffa WSAQTB.UL, drilling operator Abbot Group TRBTAG.UL, oil and gas group Premier Oil (PMO.L), professional services company Vega Group, radio group GCap Media, fabric group Fiberweb (FWEB.L), food services group Enodis and telecoms firm Thus Group. "We noted the action by the FSA yesterday, but we had no prior knowledge of the situation," said Carl Gibson, a spokesman at Misys.
Thomson Reuters, Vega, Premier Oil, Abbot Group, Enodis and Morgan Crucible all declined to comment. Officials at GCap, Biffa, Firstgroup (FGP.L), which now owns Laidlaw, Cable and Wireless (CW.L), which now owns Thus, and Fiberweb were not immediately available for comment. The investigation, codenamed Saturn, involved a team of 35 investigators, lawyers and support staff sifting through 75 electronic devices, 200,000 electronic files, 130 trading accounts and taking more than 250 witness statements.
The FSA, which had previously arrested eight in July 2008, declined to comment on whether it had requested city of Westminster Magistrates' Court to issue an international arrest warrant on its behalf for the eighth man. The court also declined to comment. The regulator has named those charged to date as Ali Mustafa, Pardip Saini, Paresh Shah, Neten Shah, Bijal Shah, Truptesh Patel and Mitesh Shah, who has also been charged with placing spread bets to launder proceeds.

Ferrostaal bribe said to have organized stores for other companies. 27.03.2010
Corruption: Next suspicion against the Ferrostaal Group: According to SPIEGEL information to the Essenes industrial services not only for himself but for other business handled bribes have - it is about business in-million.Hamburg - While under suspicion of corruption Ferrostaal Group has apparently paid bribes for years, not only myself, but probably also for other companies to pay bribes organized. This suggests the case of the money printer Giesecke & Devrient.This is for information of the SPIEGEL including the sale of five printing and embossing machines to the state banknotes Society of Indonesia for several million euros. Ferrostaal will arrange and contract consultants on site have paid a bribe to. Giesecke & Devrient said they had known of irregularities so far nothing. " They would, however, the relationship with Ferrostaal now reconsider. In the files of the prosecutor, there are two similar cases, including that of a company in the city of Bremen, is said to have threaded for Ferrostaal in 2006, a 28-million-euro business on a Colombian patrol boats for the navy. The Essen stroked a five percent commission for their services. That they should have according to the prosecutor's files on Ferrostaal de Colombia organized the bribes to "decision makers at Marine and Ministry," from 625,000 to 840,000 euros. In the center of the current bribery scandal, however, is the delivery of two submarines to the Portuguese. Ferrostaal, which had offered together with HDW and Thyssen Nordseewerke, won in November 2003, the 880-million-euro contract. In the files of the investigators stated that a Portuguese Honorary Consul in the initiation of the U-boat business was to help. The diplomat had time job in the summer of 2002, even a direct conversation between a Ferrostaal board and the former Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel(ex-Durão)Barroso taught. Overall, the Honorary Consul for its "targeted assistance" ultimately good 1.6 million euros was collected. The prosecutors' files also include the case of a company headquartered near the northern German port city of Bremen, for which Ferrostaal allegedly brokered a deal worth about €28 million to sell a coast guard vessel to the Colombian navy. Ferrostaal is believed to have collected a five-percent commission for its services. According to prosecutors' records, subsidiary Ferrostaal de Colombia is believed to have arranged for the payment of bribes estimated at €625,000-850,000 to "decision-makers in the navy and at the ministry." The parent company presumably collected fees in the high six figures. Ferrostaal is also believed to have paid bribes for the Bremen company to the Argentine coast guard in 2006, also in return for a contract. An employee of the Argentine defense ministry allegedly received a six-figure sum of euros from the local Ferrostaal office, which he apparently shared with two high-ranking navy officers. The Munich prosecutors met with the business to more than a dozen suspected placement and consulting contracts. They all should have, as stated in the investigation file, "paths served to conceal payments" to this "decision-makers of the government, the ministry or the Navy of Portugal as a bribe" to pass. Ferrostaal will not comment because of ongoing investigations into the allegations. The offices of Ferrostaal were Wednesday for the second time on suspicion of bribery by the public prosecutor raided on been. The first such action had taken place in July 2009. The Essen Ferrostaal AG was formerly a part of MAN. The company still has a 30 percent stake, while the majority of the International Petroleum Investment Company of Abu Dhabi owns. Ferrostaal is indicated that in the year to 1.6 billion euros and has 4400 employees. The company is specialized in plant engineering, including in the chemical, oil and gas and power plants.

O Daniel Oliveira:”… Este negócio cheira a refogado queimado há muito tempo. E o desagradável odor vai daqui até à Grécia….” Barroso named in submarine deal inquiry. Published on April 01 2010. José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, has been mentioned in a German police investigation concerning the sale of two German submarines to Portugal in 2002, writes Público. According to police files, it is alleged that Jürgen Adolff, Portugal's honorary consul in Munich, secured a direct meeting with the then Portuguese prime-minister and German firm Ferrostaal, which eventually won the contract worth €880 million. It is claimed that Adolff secured more €0.5 million for his services. A police report leaked by German magazine Der Spiegel refers also to bribe money laundered by a Portuguese law firm to the national admirality. According to the Hamburg weekly, witnesses have stated bribery was a common practice in Ferrostaal, one of whose board members, Klaus Lesker, is currently under arrest. José Manuel Barroso has since denied any intervention in the submarine contract, although he admits having met Mr Adolff, who has been removed from his post by the Portugueuse foreign ministry. Honorary Consul in Munich has tourism project in the Algarve. Thursday, April 1, 2010 | 14:23. The German magazine Der Spiegel in its latest edition, reported that an Honorary Consul of Portugal, who did not identify, has paid a bribe of 1.6 million from Ferrostaal to help realize the purchase of two submarines for the Portuguese State in 2004 . The German government said after the Portuguese embassy in Berlin that the honorary consul in Munich was indicted for influence peddling and corruption within the research to the German company Ferrostaal. The Foreign Minister Luis Amado said on Wednesday the Lusa that the government will take a final decision on the honorary consul of Portugal in Munich on suspicion of involvement in the case of submarines, after investigating complaints.

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