FTR#573—Alfa Males—One Helluva Conspiracy Theory, Part II—(Two 30-minute
segments) (Sources are noted in parentheses.) (Recorded on 10/15/2006.)
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Summary of FTR#573—(Note: The massive
volume of ‘For The Record’ programs about 9/11 and related topics is summarized
and analyzed in the periodically-updated description for FTR#391.
FTR#’s 454,
455, 456 are compilations of
much of the key documentation culled from Mr. Emory’s investigation into 9/11.
Along with FTR#391, they should give
listeners/readers a substantive grasp of this momentous event. It is
recommended that listeners use this description and e-mail it to others.) Continuing analysis of what British Prime
Minister Tony Blair described as a “global network” behind the 9/11 attacks,
this program details evidentiary tributaries between the powerful,
well-connected and criminal Alfa consortium and people and institutions
connected to the events of 9/11. A Russian company with what Mr. Emory
describes as “more connections than a switchboard,” Alfa has links to Viktor Kozeny,
the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft and to powerful people and institutions
connected to the Bush administration. Kozeny is alleged to have participated in
an Alfa scheme to defraud numerous U.S. investors and companies and is also the
man who employed Wolfgang Bohringer, one of 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta’s German
associates in Florida. The Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft sponsored Mohamed Atta’s
entrance into Germany and, perhaps, Florida. That same Carl Duisberg
Gesellschaft also maintains a fellowship on behalf of Alfa Group. Alfa’s activities in the United States are
aided and abetted by the powerful lobbying firm of Barbour, Griffith and
Rogers, intimately connected to the administration of George W. Bush. Hans Bodmer
and Pyotr Aven (two of Kozeny’s associates in a scheme to gain control of the
state oil company of Azerbaijan) are also alleged to have worked with Kozeny
and Alfa in the defrauding of IPOC. The global network to which Blair referred
and that supported the 9/11 hijackers embodies a fusion of the underworld and
the overworld. Engaged in drug trafficking on several continents, this network
also operates in conjunction with powerful corporate entities in Europe, the
Middle East, Latin America and the United States. FTR#’s 433, 530, 536, 570 supplement the information presented here and
should be examined in order to gain a firmer understanding of this complex
network. As Mr. Emory noted in the broadcast, “If this seems confusing, it is
meant to be!”
Program Highlights Include: Links between the Alfa group and the royal family of Liechtenstein; links
between the royal family of Liechtenstein and the milieu of 9/11; Haley Barbour
(of Barbour, Griffith and Rogers) and his business connections with companies
belonging to the business empire of former Nazi spy and apparent Al Qaeda financier
Youssef Nada; the apparently illegal operations performed by GOP bigwig Ed
Rogers’ Diligence Inc. security firm on behalf of Alfa; the wall of secrecy
surrounding the identity of the Germans sponsors of Atta’s activities under the
auspices of the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft.
1.
Beginning with background information
essential for understanding the present discussion of Alfa Group, the program
recapitulates critical information from FTR#530. Beginning with
review of the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft’s sponsorship of 9/11 hijacker Mohamed
Atta, the program reviews the relationship between the CDS and the Alfa
Fellowship, an area of overlap between the milieux of Alfa and 9/11. In
addition, the program notes that a key Alfa lawyer (Norbert Seeger) also fronts
for the royal family of Liechtenstein, themselves linked to the milieu of 9/11
through the bank Al Taqwa.
After reviewing the CDS/Alfa/9/11 link, the program presents information about
a lawsuit brought against Alfa in the United States. In the expose of this area
of Alfa’s operations, we will see yet another area of overlap between the
milieu of Alfa and that of 9/11. One of the players in the Alfa gambit
discussed in this program is Viktor Kozeny. Mohamed Atta’s German “brother”
Wolfgang Bohringer was a pilot for Kozeny. (For more about the Kozeny/Bohringer
relationship, see FTR#570.
Note that paragraph 5 of that discussion, highlights links between
Kozeny, Hans Bodmer and Pyotr Aven. Both Bodmer and Aven are defendants, along
with Kozeny, in the suit against Alfa.) “Russian
corporation Alfa Group Consortium and its U.S. entity, Alfa Capital Markets, Inc.,
are a criminal enterprise that has used U.S. banks and stock exchanges as an
integral part of their theft schemes, costing American taxpayers and
stockholders hundreds of millions of dollars, IPOC International Growth Fund,
Ltd., alleges in a federal racketeering lawsuit filed late Thursday. The suit
alleges that Alfa, one of the largest business conglomerates in the Russian
Federation -- along with Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman and U.S. citizen
Leonid Rozhetskin -- engaged in a vast international money laundering and fraud
scheme in an attempt to take control of the Russian cellular industry. ‘By
doing so, defendants' conduct has had a substantial effect on the United States
and its citizens, and much of the criminal conduct occurred in the United States,’
the suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York,
said.” (“
‘Defendants' Tentacles Reach Into and Injure Numerous Americans’” [PRNewswire];
Forbes; 6/9/2006; accessed at: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/prnewswire/2006/06/09/prnewswire200606091102PR_NEWS_B_NET_DC_DCF007.html.)
2.
Note that Alfa’s activities in the U.S. received assistance from
American governmental institutions. “The criminal
enterprise affected Americans, U.S.-based investors and U.S. interests in
numerous ways, the complaint alleges, involving the evasion of U.S. taxes,
insider trading of shares on U.S. stock markets, and wiring payments through
New York banks. The Alfa Group Consortium received support from the Overseas
Private Investment Corporation, a U.S. government development agency, to
provide a significant portion of funding for one of Alfa's related businesses.’
The complaint alleges that the racketeering and other wrongs cited in this case
hurt U.S. investors, U.S. taxpayers and U.S. financial markets,’ said W. Gordon
Dobie, an attorney with Winston & Strawn LLP, which filed the case for IPOC
International Growth Fund, Ltd. ‘It's my opinion that the defendants should be
called to account in court for their conduct.’” (Idem.)
3.
Note that two of the defendants in the Alfa suit are Hans Bodmer and
Pyotr Aven, two of Viktor Kozeny’s co-conspirators in a scheme to gain control
of the Azeri state oil company. Again, for more about this connection, see FTR#570. “The
complaint also alleges that Rozhetskin and Fridman were assisted by Hans
Bodmer, who served as escrow agent and sent instructions to IPOC to wire money
through banks in New York for the benefit of the defendants. Bodmer recently
plead guilty to criminal conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to violate
the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in connection with an unrelated scheme
to bribe foreign leaders. …Notes to Editors: IPOC International Growth Fund,
Ltd. is an open-ended mutual fund company based in Bermuda. The suit, based on
claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act,
charges that Fridman conspired with Rozhetskin to steal IPOC's interest through
money laundering, bribery, wire fraud and other criminal wrongdoings. Other
defendants are Alfa Capital Markets, Inc., a U.S. corporation; Alfa Telecom
(n/k/a) Altimo; and Hans Bodmer. Alfa Group Consortium is an association of
various companies controlled by Fridman. It controls major international
corporations traded in the United States, including VimpelCom (NYSE) Russia's
second largest mobile telecoms company, Golden Telecom (NASDAQ) and Turkcell
(NYSE). For more information about IPOC, go to http://www.ipocfund.com. A copy
of the lawsuit is being posted on this Web site June 9. ‘The Many Ties to the
United States.’ As the lawsuit states, ‘... defendants' tentacles reach into
and injure numerous Americans....’ The investors, taxpayers and financial
markets of the United States have been harmed.” (Idem.)
4.
Note the presence in this alleged scheme of Viktor Kozeny (as well as
Kozeny’s co-conspirators in the Azeri oil conspiracy Hans Bodmer and Pyotr Aven),
for whom Atta associate Wolfgang Bohringer worked. Again, check out FTR#570. Note
also that the Russian edition of Forbes was investigating Leonard
Rozhetskin, one of the defendants in the suit and a major “Alfa Male.” The Russian editor of Forbes
was recently murdered, allegedly by Russian organized crime elements. Was that
murder part of the conspiratorial process set forth here? “The below sets out the individuals and firms referred to
in the lawsuit, and provides some further information: The Defendants: Leonard
Rozhetskin: ‘Defendant Leonard Rozhetskin is a former director and principal
shareholder of LV Finance Group Limited (‘LVFG’). He is a United States
taxpayer and citizen, owns property in the District, and lived in the District
for more than a decade ... featured on the cover of the Russian edition of Forbes
with the title: 'The Most Dangerous Shark in Our Waters.'... Rozhetskin resides
in the United States....’[pg.6]’ Hans Bodmer: ‘Defendant Hans Bodmer ...
assisted Rozhetskin and Fridman with the Sonic Duo/MegaFon theft scheme ...
worked with his co-conspirators to send instructions to IPOC to wire money
through banks in New York for the benefit of the Defendants. Bodmer is no
stranger to criminal prosecution in the United States, having recently pled
guilty to the criminal conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to violate
the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in connection with the scheme
to bribe foreign leaders (along with Victor
Kozeny, who is currently being extradited to New York from the Bahamas) [Italics are Mr. Emory’s]. Case No: 01:
05-CR-00518-RCC-ALL (S.D.N.Y.).’ [pg. 9]” (Idem.)
5.
More about the defendants, including Kozeny associate Pyotr Aven: “Mikhail Fridman: ‘Defendant Mikhail Fridman currently
serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of co-conspirator Alfa Bank and as
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Defendant Consortium Alfa Group. Fridman
further served on the Board of VimpelCom, a NYSE company, and has control over
Golden Telecom, a NASDAQ company ... purchased the United States trading firm
owned by American, Mark Rich, the one time commodities baron pardoned by
President Clinton with much controversy. Fridman purports to have become a
philanthropist in the United States’ and is a member of the Board of the
Council on Foreign Relations based in New York. [pgs. 6-7] Pyotr Aven:
‘Defendant Pyotr Aven also has been a major participant in the scheme and
worked directly with Rozhetskin and Fridman in the misappropriation and theft
of IPOC monies. Aven is a director of Golden Telecom, a NASDAQ company, which
regularly files with the United States Securities Exchange Commission. He is a
controversial figure: As observed by the United States District Court for the
District of Columbia, a Russian 'corruption task force informed [the
government] that Aven was engaged in various misdeeds, including drug
trafficking. See OAO Alfa Bank v. Center for Public Integrity, Civ. Action No.
00-2208 (JDB), Mem. Op., Sept. 22, 2005 at 11 n.26.’ [pg. 8]” (Idem.)
6.
Next, the discussion turns to Barbour, Griffith Rogers, the PR firm
headed by Haley Barbour, the G.O.P. Governor of Mississippi. In addition to
Barbour (linked to the milieu of 9/11 in other ways, set forth below), Lanny
Griffith and Ed Rogers (also major
Republican power brokers) head the lobbying firm. More about the background of
Lanny Griffith and Ed Rogers: “After managing the
first President Bush’s 1988 campaign in the Southern states, Bush appointed him
[Lanny Griffith] as special assistant to the president for intergovernmental
affairs. Griffith then served as Bush’s assistant secretary of education from
1991 to 1993, when he joined Barbour’s lobby shop. Onetime deputy assistant to
President George H.W. Bush. He [Ed Rogers] is married to Edwina Rogers, former
associate director of the White House's National Economic Council. [1]” (Idem.)
7.
Note that Barbour Griffith and Rogers lobbied on behalf of the Alfa
Group in the United States! As if that wasn’t unappetizing enough, we should not fail to take
stock of the fact that Rogers’ security outfit Diligence, Inc. allegedly
illegally appropriated information from the IPOC. “Barbour Griffith and Rogers: ‘The Alfa Group conducts such
significant and varied business in the United States that it has actually found
it to be in its interest to spend millions of dollars courting the American
political elite through Washington D.C. based lobbying firm of Barbour Griffith
and Rogers, LLC which lobbies Congress and others in Washington on its behalf.’
[pgs. 7-8] ‘In addition to using his lobbying firm, Alfa Group has retained
Edward Rogers' Washington D.C. based ‘investigative’ firm, Diligence, Inc. --
which has criminally misappropriated IPOC information as described further
below....[pg. 8] Diligence, Inc.: ‘Defendants have also paid U.S.-based
Diligence, Inc. to steal IPOC property in Bermuda. Indeed, at the Fridman M.C.
Enterprise's direction Diligence bribed officials of an accounting firm and/or
otherwise misappropriated IPOC property. More specifically, Diligence, Inc.
describes itself on its web site and in its press releases as a company
comprised of former Central Intelligence Agency (‘CIA’) and British MI5
operatives that 'specialize in obtaining non-public or hard-to-get information
on corporations.' See http://www.diligencecorp.com. Diligence, Inc. is owned in
part by Edward Rogers who has also been paid millions by defendants to lobby
Congress and consult for Alfa.’ [pg. 24]” (Idem.)
8.
Former operatives for the CIA and MI5 (British domestic intelligence),
the Diligence employees allegedly used their former (“former”?) espionage
connections and credentials to misappropriate key documents from the IPOC. “ ‘In violation of 18 U.S.C. section 912 and at Defendant
Alfa's instructions, Diligence, Inc. posed as United States Agents acting under
the authority of the United States to misappropriate IPOC information from an
accounting firm. Defendants further violated 18 U.S.C. section 913 by searching
IPOC property while falsely representing, through Diligence, Inc., to be agents
of the United States. By doing so, Defendants have had an effect on the United
States.’ [pg. 24]” (Idem.)
9.
The broadcast concludes with review of information presented in
paragraphs 15-17 of FTR#433.
Recapping the links between Haley Barbour’s New Bridge Strategies (a major
contractor in Iraq) and subsidiary companies of the Nasreddin/Nada financial
and business empire, the program sets forth another evidentiary tributary
between the milieu of the 9/11 attacks and the highest echelons of the GOP.
(Nada and Nasreddin are the principles in the Al Taqwa network. For more about
Al Taqwa, the GOP leadership and 9/11 see—among other programs—FTR#’s 454, 455, 456.)