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Summary of FTR#’s 593/594—(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.) Hypothetical in nature, this
pair of broadcasts explores a mysterious Eastern European company that may be
part of the complex of firms belonging to SICO, the European holding company
for the powerful Bin Laden family’s commercial interests. Named “Falkon,” the
company is assuming the multi-billion dollar debt owed to the Czech Republic by
Russia. [The debt is from the Soviet era.] Numerous companies associated with
SICO also bear the Falkon name, with variations in spelling. Shortly after the
announcement of Falkon’s assumption of the Russian debt to the Czech Republic,
a Russian investigative journal claimed that the company was part of the Bin
Laden industrial conglomerate. Amid heated denials by the Russian and Czech
governments, as well as from people from Falkon, the deal went forward.
Although the bin Laden link has yet to be confirmed, a number of things are
clear: Falkon shareholder Pata Mamaladze maintains links to Islamists, as well
as to an apparent front for biological weapons research. It is also clear that
Falkon and the people involved with it are up to no good. The firm and
associated elements have gone to great length to prevent their activities from
readily coming to light. Listeners interested in pursuing this line of
investigation should evaluate the material in these two broadcasts against the
background of FTR#’s 570,
574 and the links
between Mohamed Atta, the 9/11 hijackers, Huffman Aviation and the Eastern
European criminal milieu of Wolfgang Bohringer and Viktor Kozeny. This material
should also be viewed against the background of FTR#’s 498, 499.
Program Highlights Include: The Russian government’s ban on discussion of the Falkon deal by the
Czech authorities; the mysterious nature of the Falkon-connected firms in
Britain; the ambiguous nature of Falkon and the front companies associated with
it; the overt murders and “accidental” deaths of people associated with Falkon
over the years; an article from the mainstream press about Wolfgang Bohringer,
one of 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta’s German associates in South Florida.
1.
The program begins with an article about Wolfgang Bohringer, the German
associate of 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta. Covered exclusively by Daniel
Hopsicker up until now, the Bohringer story was recently picked up by the International
Herald Tribune. (For more about Bohringer, see—among other programs—FTR#’s
570, 574. For more about the
German connections to the South Florida flight schools through which the
hijackers infiltrated, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 336, 456, 477.) “ . . . U.S. authorities have raised an alarm over a plan by
a German citizen — linked to the Sept. 11 terror attacks — to build a flying
school in a remote South Pacific island nation, a news report said Wednesday.
Wolfgang Bohringer has been linked to Mohamed Atta, the lead hijacker in the
attacks on New York and Washington in 2001. The German arrived by yacht in
Kiribati a year ago with plans to build a flying school, but has since left the
far-flung archipelago, Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio reported. The island
where the school was planned was among the country's closest to the U.S. island
state of Hawaii, the report said. Kiribati's President Anote Tong said the U.S.
Federal Bureau of Investigation had warned him that it was suspicious of
Bohringer, the ABC said. . . .” (“Report: FBI Raises Terror Alarm
about South Pacific Flying School” [AP]; International Herald Tribune;
11/15/2006; available at: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2006/11/report-fbi-raises-terror-alarm-about.html.)
2.
As discussed in FTR#’s 570, 574, Bohringer and other
members of the 9/11 milieu maintain extensive connections to Eastern European
and Russian organized crime elements. This program explores the possibility
that a mysterious Eastern European company called “Falkon” may be a subsidiary
of SICO, the European holding company for the business enterprises of the
powerful bin Laden family. It is Mr. Emory’s view that SICO is a key element of
the investigation into 9/11. (For more about SICO, see the combined description
for FTR#’s 498, 499.)
These programs begin by taking a look at the milieu of Falkon, one of whose
owners associates both with an apparent Soviet/Russian biological warfare front
and with Islamist Beghet Pacolli. “To
protect America from terrorist attack, the United States must investigate
illicit trade in biological weapons and trace the movement of terrorist money.
A good starting point is a controversial Swiss bank that may have facilitated
the sale of hazardous biological materials to Islamic militants. The bank,
Banca del Gottardo in Lugano, appears to have handled one or more sales from a
known Russian biological weapons producer to a Swiss company with links to
several radical Islamic groups. The bank denies involvement, and no document
has appeared which might confirm an illicit bioweapons trade. Nevertheless, an
examination of documents here, interviews and other sources raise enough red
flags to suggest that those tracing terror money might look closely at such
deals. A December 1993 list of contracts with the Interplastica company
obtained by this reporter lists a $20 million purchase of ‘injectables’ by
Biopreparat, the Russian state developer of biological weapons. According to
two former Soviet Biopreparat insiders, bioweapons production at the plant was
hidden under the cover of pharmaceutical work. . . . . . . A September 1994 fax
to the bank indicates that the Banca del Gottardo handled what appears to be
another Interplastica deal with Biopreparat. The memo notes that ‘for our
friends of Torola, ‘Biopreparat’ deposited through ‘Interplastica‚’ two cont. of
20 kg of material in the security box of the bank. P. Mamaladze advised — ready
for transaction [of] ‘bonds.’’ Torola is a shell company registered in Lugano
and run by several individuals of Georgian and Yugoslavian origin. One of them,
Paata Guramovich Mamaladze, was identified by a source familiar with the
contracts as a Georgian arms trafficker. . . .” (“Swiss Bank Denies
Link to Bioweapons, Islamic Militants” by Lucy Komisar: Pacific News Service;
11/14/2001; available at: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2001/11/swiss-bank-denies-link-to-bioweapons.html
.)
3.
The milieu of Interplastica/Pacolli and Mamaladze connects through
Mamaladze to the mysterious, enigmatic Falkon company. The following passage
connects Beghjet Pacolli with radical Islamists. operating on behalf of the KLA in Kosovo. Recall that Pacolli is
also very close to Interplastica and to the financial luminaries of Banca del
Gottardo. “ . . . The Banca del Gottardo has
already been the object of legal inquiries in a Russian corruption and
money-laundering case. A Swiss investigative magistrate accused Pavel Borodin,
who managed Russian state property, of skimming $30 million from Russian
government construction contracts. The Swiss dossier details how Beghjet
Pacolli, a native of Kosovo and head of the Mabetex construction company,
funneled payoffs to Borodin and other Russian officials, including Russian
President Boris Yeltsin and his daughters. The Banca del Gottardo held accounts
for Borodin and other alleged culprits and moved money through its branch in
the offshore secrecy haven of the Bahamas. Pacolli ran Interplastica, and
Pacolli is linked to radical Islamic groups. Pacolli finances the radically
anti-Serb newspaper ‘Bota Sot,’ based in Zurich, which has been condemned for
sowing ‘hate, intolerance and strife’ by the head of the Kosovo mission of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Through the Fund for
Reconstruction of Kosovo (FORK), in Lugano, he finances the Kosovo Liberation
Army, or UCK, (known in the West as KLA) described by Robert Gelbard, America’s
former special envoy to Bosnia, as ‘Islamic terrorists.’ Europol (the European
Police Organization) says the UCK is involved in drug and weapons trafficking,
prostitution and illegal immigration. . . .” (Idem.)
4.
Pacolli’s associate Pata Mamaladze is one of the owners of Falkon Capital. “
. . . Curiously, Mamaladze, with several Georgians, Russians and Swiss, is also
an owner of Falkon Capital. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov — referred
to by some Russian newspapers as ‘Misha two percent,’ for his alleged
collection of illegal ‘commissions’ — arranged a deal, approved in October,
under which Falkon was given the right to buy Russia’s $2.5 billion debt to the
government of Czechoslovakia for only 23 percent of its value. . . .” (“Swiss
Bank Handled Sale from Russian Bioweapons Company” by Lucy Komisar; Earth
Times News Service; 11/12/2001; http://thekomisarscoop.com/2006/08/20/swiss-bank-handled-sale-from-russian-bioweapons-company/.)
5.
Shortly after the Falkon assumption of the Russian debt to the Czech
Republic, a Russian investigative report alleged that Falkon was part of the
Saudi Bin Laden Group. “ . . . In his story,
Novaja Gazeta reporter Oleg Lurje claimed that Falkon is a daughter company of
the Saudi BinLaden Group, the multibillion-dollar construction company operated
by bin Laden's family. Although the family says it has disowned the terrorist
mastermind -- and denied him any stake in the company -- Lurje asserted
proceeds from the Falkon deal ‘will flow smoothly in the direction of Osama bin
Laden.’ The report said Falkon would receive $1.35 billion from the Russian
government, including $580 million in cash. Most of the cash was to be
transferred directly to the Czech government. The non-cash payment to Falkon
was in the form of about $770 million worth of credit toward future sales of
Russian-produced electricity, stretched over several years. The report called
the Russia-Falkon deal ‘extremely tangled’ and ‘difficult’ for any government
agency trying to monitor the cash flow. But essentially Falkon -- and allegedly
by extension, Osama bin Laden -- was to make $770 million from the deal.
Gazeta's allegation of an Osama bin Laden connection to Falkon was emphasized
with a schematic diagram of Saudi Bin Laden Enterprises that the reporter said
came from an American source. . . .” (“Bin Laden Charge Triggers
Prague Denials” by David Johnson; 1/14/2002; JOHNSON'S RUSSIA LIST; available
at: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2002/01/bin-laden-charge-triggers-prague.html.)
6.
As discussed in FTR#’s 498, 499, SICO’s aviation subsidiary sent pilots for training
at Huffman Aviation, where “Pirate
of Prague” Viktor Kozeny’s pilot Bohringer associated with some of the 9/11
hijackers. Another point of information covered in FTR#’s 498, 499 is the fact that SICO board member Beaudoin
Dunand set up a maze of offshore corporate fronts to assist with the funding of
the Afghan Mujahadin during the first Afghan war. Some of these same corporate
fronts also channeled support to Al Qaeda. In late 2000 and early 2001, Dunand
was liquidating corporate fronts associated with the Iran-Contra sacandal. Note
that the SICO corporate complex encompasses no fewer than five different
companies named “Falkon”—many with different spellings. “The establishment of SICO is strange also--its offshore
structures put in place by SBG in the Cayman Islands, Netherland’s Antilles and
the British Isles. There were created by the cabinet in Geneva. They are SICO
Curacao (Antilles), whose President is Yeslam Bin Laden and its administrators
are Saleh Bin Laden, Beatrice Dufour and Charles Tickle; Falken Ltd. (Cayman
Islands) [Italics are Mr. Emory’s.]; Tropville Corp NV (Antilles); Islay
Holdings (Islay Island). Charles Tickle is the CEO of the American real estate
company Daniel Corp. . . .” (“Naming
Names: The Bin Laden Galaxy” by Jean Charles Brisard; Indymedia UK;
8/15/2005; available at: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2005/08/naming-names-bin-laden-galaxy.html.)
7.
Detail about “Falkon” number 2! “ . . .
These intermediate structures have been progressively substituted by the
investment company Russell Wood Holdings Ltd., an affiliate of Tropville Corp
and of Falkan Ltd.. It is located at 30, Great Guildford Street in London.
[Italics are Mr. Emory’s.] It was created on February 17, 1987. Hanofi
Tiliouine (also on the Board of Directors of SICO in Geneva) and Akberali
Mohammed Ali Moawalla (born April 9, 1949 in Tanzania) are two administrators.
. . .” (Idem.)
8.
The following passage highlights “Falkon” numbers 3, 4 and 5. Again,
what relationship(if any) do these “SICO” Falkons have with the outfit that is
assuming the Russian/Czech debt? What relationship (if any) do they have with
Islamists? “ . . . Russell Wood Ltd. succeeded
to create a network of investment affiliates beginning in 1987: Globe
Administration Ltd., created on October 29, 1987 in London, an affiliate of
Islay Holdings whose director is Akberali Mohammed Ali Moawalla; Falcon
Capital Management Ltd [Italics are Mr. Emory’s.], created on May 9, 1988
in London (same address as Russell Wood), and directed by Akberali Mohammed Ali
Moawalla; Falcon Capital Nominees Ltd. created on May 9, 1988 and whose
director is Akberali Mohammed Ali Moawalla [Italics are Mr. Emory’s.]; Falcon
Properties Ltd. in the Bahamas [Italics are Mr. Emory’s.]; Turkey Rock UK
Ltd. (aka Tyrolese 350 Limited) created on February 20, 1996 in London, with
one of the administrators being Leonard Cowking (representative of the Saudi
Binladin Group in Europe); and Safron Advisors UK Ltd. (aka Tyrolese 359
Limited) created on May 17, 1996 in London, directed by Akberali Mohammed Ali
Moawalla and Basil Mehdi Al Rahim (born on June 14, 1953, American). . . .” (Idem.)
9.
Continuing the analysis of the mysterious “Falkon” (or “Falcons”), the
program notes that people associated with the company have met with foul play
and that the company behaves mysteriously—changing addresses and contact
information frequently. Clearly, Falkon is an outfit that is up to no good.
Equally clear is the fact that the people who control the company do not want
people to be able to figure out its activities. “.
. . Falkon Capital was established by two Georgians and an Armenian in 1996. No
one knows for sure to what extent these three people are still involved in the
company. One of them, Paapa Mamaladze, is said to still be ‘involved’ in the
company, according to the legal representative of Falkon, Josef Cimbora, listed
in the Czech business registry. Cimbora was director of the Slovak oil company
Slovnaft under the communists and studied in Russia. He was also a member of
the board of the Slovak company OIL-SL until 1999. Another member of the board
of OIL-SL Miroslav Kovarik was blown up with his BMW in Zlin in 1996. Two
Falkon business partners were slain in 1996 in Prague and Vienna, but
investigations led nowhere. Meanwhile, Falkon keeps changing addresses and
telephone numbers, which no one notices until the company makes news (like
recently). The company doesn't have a web site, and it doesn't use e-mail. Its
business activities are unknown, with the exception of its unsuccessful bid for
Libyan debt in 1998. The official owner of the company is currently listed as a
Swiss by the name of Hans Peter Moser (his telephone number is unlisted), but
its stock is registered as bearer shares, so at this moment they could be owned
by anyone. . . .” (“Political Economy Falkon Debt Deal Smells Like A
Rat, But Government Likes Rats” by Jan Machacek; PRAGUE BUSINESS JOURNAL; 10/15/2001; available at: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2001/10/political-economy-falkon-debt-deal.html.)
10.
Still more about the elusive nature of the company: “We have reached the point where we must deal with the
involvement of Falkon in the settlement of Libya's debts: in 1997, Falkon
representatives attempted to buy Libya's debt in the amount of several million
crowns from our government. Ivan Pilip, then minister of finance, refused to
enter the contract with them. ‘I had received information by the [Security and
Information Service] BIS according to which the company constituted too much of
a security risk,’ recalls Pilip today. The issue was that both BIS and the
Section for the detection of organized crime had taken interest in two of the
Georgian owners of Falkon, Paata Mamaladze and Važa Kiknavelidze, because of
their contacts to the Russian mafia gangland. The Georgians later left their
posts in Falkon's statutory bodies. In April 1998, their position was assumed
by two Swiss brothers (not spouses, as we had stated in a preceding article):
Hans Peter Moser and Beat Urs Moser. ‘The company was properly sold. Today,
ninety-five percent of the stock is in the hands of Swiss legal persons,’ says
Jozef Čimbora, Falkon's director. In his opinion, the company's slate is
now untarnished owing to this corporate change. But Mr. Čimbora is not
quite right. Ninety-five percent of Falkon are in the ownership of ‘Magchim’, a
Swiss company of the Moser brothers, the director of which is Mamaladze.
Moreover, Mamaladze runs another company in Switzerland, Falkone, where two
other Georgians join him on the board -- Kačkačišvili and Tejmuraz
(the Swiss commercial register does not provide their first names). Upon the
question whether Falkone is another owner of Magchim, Moser replies: ‘I am not
majority shareholder.’ All debt mediators we have addressed, from Moser to
Čimbora, refuse to answer any questions related to the Russian debt. There
is a high suspicion that all these people are puppets. ‘We screened them and
informed the government that the company is not exactly solvent and that their
intention might be to launder money,’ says intelligence chief František Bublan.
‘On the other hand, the company had already settled stuff for the government
earlier, and that must have been more important when they made up their mind,’
he adds. Among the things that had made the secret service suspicious were the
inaccessibility of the corporate representatives and their false addresses.’” (“The
Swiss Falcon Shows the White Feather” by Jan Kovalík, Jaroslav; Spurný; Respekt.cz; 10/29/2001; available at: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2001/10/swiss-falcon-shows-white-feather.html.)
11.
In addition to the apparently frosty attitude of the company’s
receptionist, it is obvious that the people running this firm are not
interested in having people learn more about it. “.
. .For instance, according to the Commercial Register, Falkon Capital has its
seat in Husová Street in Prague. At the respective address, however, a
Dominican monastery and its church are situated. ‘Falkon has never had their
seat here. We know the company because of the constant inquiries,’ says the
gatekeeper. The company's office is located half a kilometer away from there.
They are inaccessible. Upon ringing the bell, one is being told by a female
voice with hard Russian accent that the company's boss Jozef Čimbora is
not and will not be present. Paata Mamaladze's registered domicile is a
non-existing address. It is a harrowing experience to visit the Swiss owners of
the firm, whose alleged financial strength is stressed by Čimbora. On the
outskirts of Neuhausen, a small town of 7,000 inhabitants, a small industrial
zone is stretched out which features unattractive office buildings for dozens of
firms. Magchim has a rented office in one of the standardized container
buildings. The same office is shared by further companies of the Moser brothers
and Paata Mamaladze. The company does not even have a secretary. Behind the
desk sits Beat Moser himself. He is apparently caught off-guard by the visit of
Czech journalists. He refuses to talk about anything related to the debt.
‘Write down your questions, I shall answer in
writing,’ he says apprehensively. After two days of reminders via phone, he
says: ‘We have read about you in the newspaper, you supposedly write
anti-government stuff. We are not going to communicate with you. You must
understand that any transaction has confidentialities.’ The Moser brothers and
their companies are unknown even to the local paper Schaffhauser Nachrichten.
‘No, they certainly aren't among our major businesspeople, their names mean
nothing to me,’ thinks editor Karl Holz aloud. ‘Where are they supposed to have
their premises? In the industrial zone of Neuhausen? But that is an area for
small-scale entrepreneurs.’” (Idem.)
12.
The Falkon company in Britain and its related companies (as named in
the Novaya Gazeta piece) exist on paper, but they, too, appear to be
front companies, whose precise nature is not easy to determine. “Most British firms cited in an article by Russian
journalist Oleg Lurye in the Moscow weekly Novaya Gazeta in connection with the
Russian debt and Osama bin Laden are really registered in Britain, but their
phone number is not available to the public and they cannot be contacted, CTK
found today. None of them is on the British lists of organizations connected
with al-Qaeda. The Home Office told CTK that the article related to the
information which were [sic] of intelligence character and it would not comment
on it. The firms cited by Novaya Gazeta and also included in the British
Companies' House are Falcon Capital Management Limited, Falcon Capital Nominees
Limited, Falcon Properties Ltd., Safron Advisors, Attock Oil Company Ltd.,
Globe Administration Ltd. All of them have London addresses of their
headquarters but none of them is in the London telephone directory. Some of
them have identical addresses. The firm Turkey Fock UK is not registered in
Britain. The same goes for Falkon Ltd. and Islay Holding. Russell Wood
(Holdings) Ltd. and Russell Wood Ltd. are the only ones from the Russian list
which exist and also have a phone number, but have refused to answer questions
from journalists and demand written contact. . . .” (“British Firms
From Russian Report Exist, Unavailable For Comment”; CTK [Czech News Agency];
1/16/2002; available at: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2002/01/british-firms-from-russian-report-exist.html.)
13.
In addition to the reclusive nature of the company itself, the Russian
government has made it even more difficult to learn about the firm. The Czechs
have been forbidden from publicly discussing the deal. What lies behind the
Falkon facade that is so sensitive? “The
Czech side cannot publish the contents of the agreements under which it sold to
the Falkon Capital firm the Russian debt for 20 billion crowns without approval
of Russia, Deputy Premier and Labour and Social Affairs Minister Vladimir
Spidla told CTK today. The disclosure of the agreements was demanded by the
opposition after speculations in Russian press appeared that Falkon is
connected with international terrorism, namely Saudi- born multi- millionaire
Osama bin Laden. . . .” (“Falkon Deal May Not Be Published Without
Russia's Consent”; CTK [Czech News Agency]; 1/15/2002; available at: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2002/01/falkon-deal-may-not-be-published.html.)
14. Two
video productions are being generated by a couple of documentary filmmakers.
One is a DVD of a three-lecture series called “The First Refuge of a Scoundrel:
The Relationship Between Fascism and Religion.” To learn more about this,
visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4YPCdFu7OE.
In addition, there will soon be a documentary about Mr. Emory, titled “The
Anti-Fascist.” For more about this project, visit: http://www.theantifascist.com/.