Minton and the alleged money laundering
re...@cotse.com
People who commit crimes need to disguise their money so that they can then use
it. This truism is the basis for all money laundering and tax fraud, whether
that of the drug trafficker, organized criminal, terrorist, arms trafficker,
blackmailer, or credit card swindler. Money laundering generally involves a
series of multiple transactions used to disguise the source of financial assets
so that those assets may be used without compromising the criminals who are
seeking to use the funds. Through money laundering, the criminal tries to
transform the monetary proceeds derived from illicit activities into funds with
an apparently legal source.
Weak financial regulatory systems, lax enforcement, and corruption are key
factors that make certain jurisdictions particularly attractive for laundering
illicit proceeds by international drug trafficking and other criminal
organizations, by terrorist groups financing their activities, and by pariah
states undertaking financial transactions to evade international sanctions.
There are three elements to the complete laundering of funds, beginning with the
placement of currency into a financial services institution ("placement"),
continuing with the movement of funds from institution to institution to hide
the source and ownership of the funds ("layering"), and concluding with the
reinvestment of those funds in an ostensibly legitimate business
("integration").
Switzerland is one of the world's leading financial centers. It has never
introduced restrictions on international capital movements and has
long-established laws respecting bank secrecy. But it criminalized money
laundering in 1990 when Minton's Nigerian debt buy back scheme was in full
swing.
According to their legislation banks and other financial institutions are
required to report unusual or suspicious transactions. They are required to
report this information to a reporting office (within the Central Offices of the
Criminal Police) if there is an established business relationship between the
customer and the institution. There is no need to report or maintain records of
any kind if the institution does not enter into a "business relationship" with
the customer. The reporting office will then pass the appropriate information to
the cantonal prosecuting authorities. Banks are required to identify customers
involved in transactions exceeding SFR 100,000 (US $70,000), and foreign
exchange houses are subject to the same identification requirements for
transactions over SFR 25,000 (US $17,000).
Switzerland cooperates with the United States on money laundering issues and
there have been several successful operations in which the Swiss have seized
bank accounts and shared assets with the United States.
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From: re...@cotse.com.
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Wrote on the subject: Minton and the alleged money laundering:
>Why Minton is charged with money laundering in Switzerland
He isn't, so the rest is snipped :-)
Hey mafia cultist, when will you learn not to lie. Minton isn't charged
with anything at all.
Stupid insane mafia criminal.
PS. Why are you hiding? Is it because you are the usual scientology
coward, or a criminal mafia asshole, or perhaps both?
How come you are not able to do this? :
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Solna
Sweden.
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Roland
Which of these terms apply to this: http://www.xs4all.nl/~xemu/fraud/ ?
Roland
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"Between Lives Implants" lecture, SHSBC #317. 23 July 1963.
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Joe's Garage
cult zealot today anonymously committed intellectual suicide. To the
shock and astonishment of disbelieving readers of the ars and dsws news
groups, re...@cotse.com wrote on Thu, 5 Apr 2001:
> Why Minton is charged with money laundering in Switzerland
Apparently the recent SlashDot fiasco has set the tone as fanatics in the
"Church" of Scientology strive to outdo themselves in making Scientology
look like a brainwashing cult. Tom Cruise was one of the first
apparatchiks to follow up by publicly issuing a Draconian order of
servitude for his Scientology wife of which the South Baptists would be
proud.
Various posters were contacted for comment:
The British and American Scientologists "lie by trickery"
with wording. They say there is a "criminal complaint" by
someone against someone when they want the readers to think
that "formal charges" have been made against this person
by the state prosecutor.
Anybody can manufacture a bogus complaint.
-- Dave Bird
There is evidence that the tax-exempt Scientology corporation still
follows the same policies of incrimination practiced by 11 top
Scientologists who went to prison almost a quarter century ago. One
such policy, for instance:
If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or
anything or any organization, always find or
manufacture enough threat against them to cause them
to sue for peace. Peace is bought with an exchange of
advantage, so make the advantage and then settle.
Don't ever defend. Always attack. Don't ever do
nothing. Unexpected attacks in the rear of the enemy's
front ranks work best.
L. Ron Hubbard
Founder of Scientology
HCO Policy Letter of 15 August 1960
Robert Minton found a vulnerable point in Scientology. He is helping to
finance a law suit against that organization to help explain the death of
a young woman, Lisa McPherson. In return, Scientology attempted to
manufacture a threat against Bob Minton. Scientology accused Bob of
wrongdoing in his business deals with Nigeria 1993 and before. In
response, Bob Minton sued Scientology in Germany for libel. As evidence
that Bob had behaved criminally, Scientology submited a paper in the
German court entitled ENGLISH TRANLATION. It allegedly was a criminal
charge against Bob Minton, submitted by a Nigerian in Switzerland.
Scientology's evidence was rejected for at least two reasons, 1) It was in
English and 2) it was not signed (See on-the-spot report from T. Hausherr
at http://cisar.org/010327a.htm). Remember the trial was in Germany, and
that the three official languages in Switzerland include German, French
and Italian. So it was already peculiar that a piece of paper was
submitted to a German court in English. Then the fact that it was not
signed made it worthless. Nevertheless, part of the Scientology policy is
to "manufacture" threat, which Scientologists appear to do religiously.
Here is the story of Scientology's bogus charge against Minton, as
pointed out by P. Widmer:
Ajibola of Nigeria actually filed a charge against Minton in
Geneva. But it was never considered since it all too
obviously did not correspond to reality. Ajibola also
admitted that he authored the charge only on the basis of
the Fashanu Report (and naturally with Scientology's eager
assistance). He said he found out only afterwards that he
was involved in a swindle. Moreover it turns out that the
statements he made on the charge do not check out
(regarding banks, accounts, account numbers, etc.). No
trace of money-laundering, which is illegal in Switzerland.
In case of doubt, the banks there are required to
immediately report the source of the monies to a central
location, otherwise they risk sanctions. Furthermore it
would be impossible in Switzerland to have learned what
was written by Ajibola, since that sort of information
cannot be legally obtained (violation of bank confidentiality
law).
Therefore there are no open proceedings or investigations
against Bob Minton in Switzerland. He's already explained
this once before:
From: Bob Minton
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Nigeria and reality:
A challenge for a challenged Mafia organization
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:27:04 -0500
Organization: Lisa McPherson Trust, 33 N. Fort Harrison
Ave.,
Clearwater, FL 33755 Tel: (727) 467-9335
[...]
First, Prince Ajibola, the Nigerian High Commissioner in
London has admitted that he was duped by Scientology's
Fashanu Report to write a letter to the Swiss Prosecutor in
June 2000 to try and get criminal charges brought against
me. Second, no charges have been brought against me in
Nigeria or Switzerland because the Scientology claims had
no merit. Thirdly, there is no current investigation of these
allegations against me in Nigeria, Switzerland, England or
anywhere else other than in the deluded world of
Scientology's OSA.
So Scientology, do you wish to continue hiding or are you
willing to take Rinder out of the RPF for a one-on-one
debate?
Bob Minton
After Bob Minton won his law suit against Scientology, the following
anonymous message was posted to alt.religion.scientology. Notice the
twist put on the message by the individual who posted it. It's also a
policy of Scientologists to portray themselves as a persecuted minority.
Joe Cisar
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From: re...@cotse.com
Subject: Criminal complaint against Minton
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Date: 2001-03-30 09:54:08 PST
This is the Swiss criminal complaint against Minton. The
claim that someone in Germany is supposedly not allowed
to talk about it does not make it go away though. There are
charges of fraud, money laundering and forgery of
documents which Minton has to own up.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
Geneva, June 23, 2000
Mr Bernard BERTOSSA
Prosecutor General
and his Office
PALAIS DE JUSTICE
Place du Bourg-de-Four 1
1204 GENEVA
Prosecutor General,
We have agreed regretfully to file a penal complaint against
Robert MINTON, as well as co-conspirators for charges
of fraud (Art. 146 Penal Code), forgery of financial
documents (Art. 251 Penal Code) and the laundering of
money (Art. 305 ff Penal Code).
The investigation which is in progress in NIGERIA
permitted to establish that several billion dollars have been
diverted by Robert MINTON to the detriment of the
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA from 1987 to
1993, which particularly reside in the accounts of
DISCOUNT BANK AND TRUST COMPANY in
Geneva of which Robert MINTON is the holder and
economic beneficiary of.
Following our interventions with this bank asking them on
one side to internally block the funds which Minton still has
on account and on the other side that the facts be
communicated to the Bureau of Communication concerning
the laundering of money, Robert MINTON had a meeting
with the directors of the bank on May 30, 2000.
According to our information, he asked for the immediate
transfer of his funds as well as the destruction of
documents.
We are herewith constituting ourselves as civil party and
have elected resident Mr Philippe NEYROUD, attorney,
8-10 rue de Hesse, 1204 Geneva.
The facts, briefly, are as follows:
1.-
Robert S. MINTON, an American national, resides at 137
Fremont Road, Sandown, New Hampshire 03873, USA.
Holds an American passport as well as an Irish passport,
and frequently travels to Switzerland, England and Turkey.
His wife is Therese S. MINTON, residing at 39 West
Cedar St., Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
2.-
In the mid 1980s the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY
FUND and the WORLD BANK required that the
continuation of their assistance to NIGERIA (restructuring
of credits, new loans, etc.) depended on a reduction of the
external debts of that country.
At that time the contracts between Nigeria and international
creditors and debt holders had strict guidelines and clauses
regarding the purchasing of NIGERIAN debt without
respecting the equality of the creditors of the same rank.
3.-
In this frame, Robert MINTON conceived and executed a
secret fraudulent plan from 1987 to 1993 of buying debts
by diverting considerable funds coming from the
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA and the NIGERIAN
NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC).
4.-
According to this plan, Robert MINTON and his
accomplices established and used several special purpose
corporations for the purchasing of debts of NIGERIA
(Bank debt, Government debt, promissory notes).
5.-
Having at their his disposal a confidential list identifying the
principal owners of the debts, Robert MINTON and his
corporations then contacted them directly with the purpose
of convincing them that the NIGERIAN government would
never refund them and obtained from the majority of them
the transfer of the debt at a low price.
6.-
These acquisitions were financed with funds directly from
the CBN and NNPC.
The corporations of Robert MINTON then increased
these debts to higher prices to the CENTRAL BANK OF
NIGERIA and resulted in several millions of dollars more
in commissions and fees.
The CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA bought the debts
for several million of dollars more, being defrauded by not
being provided with the actual costs to the corporations of
Mr. MINTON.
7.-
In this context, GML INTERNATIONAL Ltd (previously
GROWTH MANAGEMENT Ltd) established in London
by Robert MINTON (Att. 1-2),, played a central role as
financial advisors.
MINTON has been separated from that corporation since
1991.
Other corporations were established and utilized by
MINTON, specifically:
A. GREENLAND HOLDINGS Inc., Panama.
B. SHAMROCK FINANCIAL CORPORATION,
established in Sandown / Salem, New Hampshire, USA,
January 30, 1991 (Att. 3)
C. GREENCLAD Ltd established in London June 30,
1986 (Att. 4) of which the corporate name was changed
on June 30, 1986 to GROMAN FORFAITING Ltd. The
corporation was dissolved in December 1989 (Att. 5).
D. TRIOLET INTERNATIONAL Inc, established in
Boston, Massachusetts, September 13, 1988 and which
merged on December 31, 1990 with TRIOLET
INTERNATIONAL Ltd (Att. 6-7).
E. TRIOLET INTERNATIONAL Ltd. established in
Manchester, New Hampshire on December 21, 1980 and
dissolved in May 1998 (Att. 8).
F ARGYLE KENT Ltd London.
8.-
The two corporations TRIOLET INTERNATIONAL and
SHAMROCK FINANCIAL acquired debts owed by
NIGERIA for a total of $5 billion in nominal value between
1988 and 1993. Debts of nominal value of several
hundreds of millions of dollars were specifically acquired
from BCCI.
9.-
Very likely the intermediary transfer of debts between firms
permitted the raise of costs of acquisition fictionally.
10.-
With letter of January 15, 1992 signed by Robert
MINTON, SHAMROCK FINANCIAL
CORPORATION confirmed to the CENTRAL BANK
OF NIGERIA the acquisition of bank debt for an amount
of $1,200,000,000 (and that for the benefit of the Central
Bank of Nigeria). (Att. 9)
11.-
The detailed accounting of the operations for
GREENLAND HOLDING INC. also indicates the
purchase of debts from March 1988 to December 1991
for more than one billion dollars.
This accounting shows a list of owners of the debt from
whom they were bought, the nominal value as well as the
Cost to GREENLAND which represents in each case
between 25% and 45% of their nominal value. (Att. 10)
We know however that most of the debts had been
obtained at a very low price and the alleged Cost to
GREENLAND provided by MINTON to the CENTRAL
BANK OF NIGERIA was false. The records of
intermediary bankers or Debt Traders permit to establish
the insider trading which escalated the price, And increased
undisclosed fees and commissions.
12.-
In Geneva, Robert MINTON deposited the diverted funds
in different bank accounts which were opened for
corporations as well as his personal accounts operated
with codes.
13.-
ROBERT MINTON and his wife opened several accounts
specifically for GREENLAND HOLDINGS, at the
DISCOUNT BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, 1-3
quai de l'Ile, 1204 Geneva.
MINTON was introduced to this bank by M. Jozef
BICACO, a Turkish national, residing at rue Louis-Curval
10, 1206, Geneva.
M. Albert CEZANA, sub-director, residing at 10 chemin
Rieu, Geneva and M Nessim HABIB, associate director,
residing at 96, chemin du Levant in Lausanne were in
charge of managing the accounts.
One of the important accounts that Minton was the
economic beneficiary of was opened in the name of the
KAROSA Foundation. This foundation is being
administered by M Nessim HABIB.
At this Geneva bank, MINTON used to identify himself
under the name of Mr. B. Katy. It is by the way noted that
this organization issued credit cards under the (false) name
Katy used by Mr. Minton.
Several hundreds of millions of dollars were diverted to the
detriment of Nigeria between 1987 and 1993 and went
through the accounts at DISCOUNT BANK AND
TRUST COMPANY in Geneva.
We know that on 19 November 1998, a transaction in the
amount of $4 million was conducted at this bank by
MINTON and the KAROSA Foundation; account
number: 108:10179140900.
MINTON and his wife are actually in contact with
DISCOUNT BANK AND TRUST COMPANY Geneva
where they own important funds.
14.-
Connected with the Geneva bank, Robert MINTON and
his wife are also the holders and economic beneficiaries of
accounts with the DISCOUNT BANK AND TRUST
COMPANY in London. Those accounts are being
managed by M Patricia COUSINS (Account Manager).
15.-
With letter of March 29, 2000, Prince Bola AJIBOLA,
High Commissioner of NIGERIA in London informed
DISCOUNT BANK AND TRUST COMPANY Geneva
that a judicial investigation had been opened against
MINTON and demanded that the bank block his funds
internally. (Att. 11).
On April 3, 2000 our counsel in Geneva confirmed to the
bank that they had to proceed and had the obligation to
state the facts to the Bureau of Communication concerning
money laundering in accordance with the law relating to the
fight against money laundering n the financial sector. (Att.
12).
The bank confirmed receipt of the letter on April 4, 2000
without however stating the measures they wanted to take.
(Att. 13)
16.-
In this context, Robert MINTON traveled to Europe to
meet the directors of the DISCOUNT BANK AND
TRUST COMPANY.
MINTON was accompanied in his travels by Stacy
BROOKS, an American national, born April 8, 1952 and
residing at 107 17th St. Belleair Beach, Florida 33786.
17.-
In London, MINTON had a meeting on May 25, 2000 at
the offices of DISCOUNT BANK AND TRUST
COMPANY, Grosvenor Square 34 with Patricia
COUSINS and M Nessim HABIB who is managing the
accounts for the Geneva bank.
18.-
On 30 May 2000, ROBERT MINTON went to the
offices of DISCOUNT BANK AND TRUST in Geneva
where he had a meeting with the directors.
According to our information, Robert MINTON
demanded at that meeting the immediate transfer of his
funds specifically to Germany and Great Britain as well as
the destruction of documents.
Following that meeting, our law firm addressed a new
circumstantial correspondence by Fax and hand couriered
mentioning the presence of Robert MINTON in their
house and reminding them of their vigilant obligation. (Att.
14)
19.-
MINTON and his escort departed Geneva on May 31,
2000 for Frankfurt, Hamburg and Leipzig for meetings with
German banks.
MINTON and Stacy BROOKS reserved places to return
to Boston, United States for June 5, 2000.
20.-
Other accounts were opened by MINTON in Switzerland,
specifically in the name of PREDILECT, GROWTH
MANAGEMENT Ltd / GML INTERNATIONAL Ltd
and GREENLAND HOLDINGS, at CENTRAPRIV
ZURICH AG, Stauffacherstrasse 44, 8039 Zurich and
BANK CANTRADE Zurich.
Mr Kurt BYLANG of CENTRAPRIV ZURICH AG was
in charge of administering the accounts at CANTRADE
BANK.
Very likely in connection with CENTRAPRIV ZURICH
AG, GREENLAND HOLDINGS has an address at
Stauffacherstrasse 5, 8089 Zurich.
After having suspected that the funds received from
NIGERIA constituted an activity of money laundering,
BANK CANTRADE closed its accounts for GROWTH
MANAGEMENT Ltd / GML INTERNATIONAL LTD
and GREENLAND HOLDINGS.
The main conduit and flow of funds into DISCOUNT
BANK AND TRUST came from OSTERREICHISCHE
LANDERBANK now known as BANK AUSTRIA
which is also suspected of harboring assets for Mr.
MINTON accumulated through his criminal enterprise.
21.-
Robert MINTON, GML INTERNATIONAL Ltd,
GREENLAND HOLDINGS, TRIOLET
INTERNATIONAL and SHAMROCK FINANCIAL
CORPORATION, have also been in contact with the
following banks and financial institutions:
BANQUE DE DEPOTS, 94 rue du Rhone, Geneva
(GORDON-AHMED Sabiha, sub director),
HERITAGE FINANCE & TRUST SA, 12 cours des
Bastions, 1205 Geneva (M. Christian M WAGNER).
SIFIDA Societe Internationale Financiere pour les
Investissements et le Developpement en Afrique,
Luxembourg, Affiliate of Chene-Bourg, rue Francois-
Perreard 22 (M. Philippe SECHAUD, Administrative
delegate).
SWISS BANK CORP, especially for operations with the
agency in New York 10008, 222 Broadway (M. Anton
SPICIJARIC).
PARVENTA FINANZ AG, Bale Zug
* * *
The relative facts constitute violations of statutes at the
beginning of the complaint, fraud, forgery of financial
documents and money laundering.
We respectfully request the seizure at DISCOUNT
BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, Geneva, of assets in
the various accounts for which Robert MINTON and his
wife are the owners, economic beneficiaries or for which
they are nominees, as well as the seizure of
correspondence (including the written instructions and
internal notes relative to the different communications) of
the various accounts for which they are or were the
owners, economic beneficiaries, and this from the beginning
of the opening of the accounts.
We also request the interrogations of M. Joseph
ASSARAF, Director General, of M Nessim HABIB, of M
Albert CEZANA and other employees of the bank who
have knowledge of the accounts which Robert MINTON
has / had the control of.
Very respectfully
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
[SIGNED]
Prince Bola Ajibola
High Comissioner
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libel insurance?
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