Swiss Bank Accounts

by **OnoI812** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:26 am

Swiss banks trying to improve image this article is from last month... Interesting in that it explodes some myths about Swiss banking, I found this paragraph of particular interest: These days, it is often Swiss authorities who find themselves stymied by other countries in the conduct of criminal investigations. Earlier this year, for example, Swiss prosecutors announced that they could not move forward with a case against suspected terror financiers from a group called al Taqwa because, the Swiss said, the Bahamas did not produce crucial documents in time to meet the statute of limitations. more- By Ken Dilanian Inquirer Staff Writer Among the many flights of fancy in The DaVinci Code, the one that sticks in the craw of Swiss bankers concerns the Paris branch of the fictional Depository Bank of Zurich, where the two lead characters go to open a safe-deposit box. "Switzerland's reputation for secrecy in banking had become one of the country's most lucrative exports," the novel's narrator intones. "Because deposits were protected from police inspection by privacy laws and were attached to numbered accounts rather than people's names, thieves could rest easily knowing their stolen goods were safe and could never be traced to them." That's the classic view of Swiss banks: a haven for criminals and dictators to stash their ill-gotten gains out of reach of authorities. But these days it's utter hogwash, Swiss bankers and independent analysts say. Having weathered the 1990s scandals over Nazi gold and Holocaust victims' accounts, leaders of Switzerland's centuries-old banking industry, which manages a third of all internationally invested private wealth, these days find themselves trying to convince a post-9/11 world that Switzerland is not a sanctuary for funny money, terrorist or otherwise. more- <a href="http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/business/12554058.htm">www.philly.com/mld/inquir...554058.htm</a> Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=onoi812>OnoI812</A> at: 10/3/05 8:28 am

by **dbeach** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:32 am

funny to hear these big shots whine . all that hidden looot BUT hey we are just doing our jobs . Denial is more than a river in Egypt. The real owners of the loot will just use them up and leave no witnesses . its a sorry cliche but so far the criminals have kept the lid on lots of this stuff in Swiss land

by **OnoI812** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:54 am

more on the subject... <a href="http://www.spitfirelist.com/f514.html">www.spitfirelist.com/f514.html</a> A stunning disclosure concerned the suspension of the Swiss investigation into Bank al-Taqwa. (For more on this subject, see FTR#513.) John notes that the US authorities refused to provide information requested by the Swiss! Characterizing the al-Taqwa cast as “World War II-era Nazis” who were funding Islamist terrorist groups around the world, John highlights the connections between al Taqwa, clients of Grover Norquist and international terrorism. Combined with the untimely death of key witness Ali bin Mussalim and failure of both the Saudis and al-Taqwa’s Bahamas branch to provide key information to the Swiss, the US refusal to disclose key documents has served to exonerate Nada and Himmat, to a considerable extent. more from ftr 513 <a href="http://www.spitfirelist.com/f513.html">www.spitfirelist.com/f513.html</a> “Mr. Wiedmer said financial authorities in the Bahamas, where Bank al-Taqwa was registered, refused to answer numerous requests for help. In addition, the bank’s books were stashed at an undisclosed private address in Saudi Arabia, he said, and without them, prosecutors were stymied. He said Messrs. Nada and Himmat weren’t obliged to hand over the books. ‘This was the essential gap in the chain of evidence,’ Mr. Wiedmer said. Officials in the Bahamas attorney general’s office didn’t return phone calls requesting comment. . . .” Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=onoi812>OnoI812</A> at: 10/3/05 9:01 am

by **Qutb** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 3:25 pm

It's true that the secrecy of Swiss banking is not what it used to be. The most secretive "offshore" locations tend to be those that are under British jurisdiction. A French parliamentary enquiry into terrorism funding complained that while the Swiss could be difficult, they didn't get any help from the British. And guess where they found the largest number of institutions and individuals connected to Bin Laden? England. London, Cambridge, Leeds etc. Qutb means "axis," "pole," "the center," which contains the periphery or is present in it. The qutb is a spiritual being, or function, which can reside in a human being or several human beings or a moment. It is the elusive mystery of how the divine gets delegated into the manifest world and obviously cannot be defined.

by * » Mon Oct 03, 2005 6:36 pm

A slightly OT item -- with all the hysterical blather about buying gold over the last few years, I decided to do a little research on the subject: bond vs gold; bullion vs coins; which coins? One thing I discovered which I haven't seen remarked upon anywhere else, is that most of the readily-available coinage comes from the supposedly-sovereign former colonies of the British Empire. South African Kruggerands Chinese (think HongKong) Pandas Canadian Maple Leafs US Eagles Australian Pandas What's that about?

by **dbeach** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:15 pm

"the sun NEVER sets on the British empire" her nibs has a iron grip on her subjects just don't appreciate it locking around my neck and shutting off the oxygen

by **OnoI812** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:54 am

Interesting new Opus Dei, Al Taqwa, Swiss. VZ, US MERCS, Aragoncilla, Phillipines nexus- INTELLIGENCE REPORT: US "private military contractors" already in-country to "deal with" Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Frias... Intelligence agencies are revealing that US private military contractors, active in Colombia "under various contract umbrellas, including counter-narcotics and counter-insurgency" are building up to yet another attempted coup d'etat against Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez. Carefully described as "private military contractors" (a.k.a. hired mercenary killers), the PMCs are known already to have conducted several incursions across the Colombia-Venezuela border to link up with rebel units of the Venezuelan military operating along the border badlands between the two countries. Senior officials at the US Pentagon have authorized the intruder operation as part of a plan to make it appear that Chavez is militarily assisting the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). * The US mercenaries have also established close links with right-wing Colombian paramilitaries (AUC) and their associated drug cartels to smuggle weapons into Venezuela. Attached to the Pentagon's Joint Staff, a Colombian General is participating in a joint foreign military "interaction plan" sponsored by the US Defense Department in Washington D.C. to coordinate "force development" and "scenario simulation" invasive techniques at the behest of the US Joint Staff Command. Intel sources also say that an Opus Dei (Roman Catholic) espionage and political assassination team operating in the United States is in the background of a case where a former Marine aide, Leandro Aragoncilla ... a US Vice Presidential staffer and FBI agent ... has been accused of espionage at the White House. Aragoncilla was arrested recently on charges of illegally obtaining classified documents from US Vice President Dick Cheney's office and FBI computer which were passed to Philippine opposition figures linked to Opus Dei in the Philippines in preparation for a coup d'etat against that country's President, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Opus Dei elements are known also to have played a major role in supporting the April 2002 coup d'etat against Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Frias which continues a wider espionage and political black bag operation with support and logistics approved by highest levels within the Pentagon and the FBI. A classified intelligence report leaked to this e-publication shows that the espionage ring has operating out of US Vice President Dick Cheney's office with the implicit approval from within the Bush administration. Intel sources are also revealing more paper trails linking George H. W. Bush to the now defunct Al Taqwa ("Fear of God" ) bank operated on behalf of Osama Bin Laden, his family, and some of his closest business associates. The network of Swiss-based terrorist financiers is also linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and prominent European fascist leaders. The Al Taqwa bank was headquartered in the Italian Swiss enclave Campione d'Italia and had offices in the Bahamas. It ceased operations after assets were blocked by a US Treasury Department order, its assets were frozen by the Swiss government, and its banking license was revoked by the Bahamas. Al Taqwa subsequently changed its name to Nada Management Organization. Al Taqwa and a complex web of affiliate front companies and brass plates in Switzerland, the Bahamas, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Jersey, Isle of Man, Turkey, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, the United States (Delaware and Texas), Germany, Belgium, Albania, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Austria, Bahrain, Singapore, Thailand, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Liechtenstein were reportedly involved in funding terrorist operations around the world, including the procurement of nuclear material from the former Soviet Union through Baltic intermediaries. According to a EUROPOL diagram obtained by WMR, these companies included Iksir Holding, SA (Italy), Asat Trust (Liechtenstein), Iksir Ltd. (Bahamas), Gulf Center (Italy), NASCO (Turkey), Nasreddin International Group (Liechtenstein), Akida Bank (Bahamas), MIGA (Switzerland), and Nasreddin Foundation (Liechtenstein). According to intelligence sources in the United States and Europe, the Al Taqwa network intersected with tranches in Geneva and the Isle of Man that involve front companies associated with George H. W. Bush and Enron: Topaz Liberty, Bluelake World, and Potomac Capital. Iranian fraudster and neocon Pentagon contact Manucher Ghorbanifar, Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and members of the Bin Laden family are reportedly linked to Geneva-based Potomac Capital ... a front company created by George H. W. Bush when he was CIA Director in 1976. * Interestingly, it was George W. Bush, who, in November 2001, cited Al Taqwa as part of Al Qaeda's money-laundering activities. However, Bush's neocon allies at The Washington Times and World Net Daily quickly altered course and drew attention away from Al Taqwa's Saudi and Kuwaiti investors and began to erroneously link Al Taqwa to Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Further criminal investigations of Al Taqwa's principals were also quickly dropped. Potomac Capital appeared on the radar screen of Federal investigators during the Iran-Contra investigation conducted in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The Al Taqwa connection to weapons of mass destruction proliferation, Bin Laden, and George H. W. Bush and his business associates stands as another reason the George W. Bush administration leaked the CIA's Brewster Jennings &amp; Associates counter-WMD network. The CIA counter-proliferation team was getting uncomfortably close to tying members of the Bush family and their business associates to the same financial networks that fund Osama Bin Laden and his &quot;Al Qaeda&quot; network. much more - <a href="http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=46388">www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=46388</a> Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=onoi812>OnoI812</A> at: 10/15/05 10:11 am

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