Posted on 12/26/2015 4:59:15 PM PST by Rockitz
Earlier this week, we told a fascinating story about an unprecedented, multi-year smuggling ring involving Turkey, Iran, and Dubai (as well as China, Russia and countless other nations) which saw corruption reaching to the very top of the political and financial establishment: from president Erdogan in Turkey, to one of Turkey's richest people, Iran-born Riza Sarraf, to Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, the son of the ruler of Abu Dhabi and one of the world's richest people. The smuggled object in question was gold, billions of dollars worth of gold.
The focus of the story was the previously unknown Dubai gold trading house, Gold.AE, until recently managed by one Mohammed Abu-Alhaj, which as we showed was the primary conduit by which Turkish physical gold found its way "legally" in Dubai, from where it subsequently left for Iran but not before pocketing millions in "commissions."
As we reported, Gold.AE - a subsidiary of Gold Holding, the largest gold-focused investment holding company headquartered in Dubai ... announced a few days ago that it had suddenly and unexpectedly gone out of business...
And if indeed this crazy story which has every possible James Bond element in it culminates with a case of scapegoating, does that immediately mean that Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifa, a person at the top of the Gulf's political and financial oligarchy, is involved. Because if he is, so is the US, as nothing happens in Abu Dhabi without the United States being aware of it. Finally, if that is the case, it means that not only did the US sanction what has been the world's biggest gold smuggling ring, but that is implicitly gave Iran its blessing to use berterable Turkish gold in order to bypass sanctions imposed by... the United States! ...
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
And where is the six billion dollars missing from the State Department while Hillary was Secretary of State?
Thanks for your expert historical perspective. I had to look up both “dhow” and “souk.” ;o)
Is this what happened to Fort Knox?
Although it does sound like exactly the kind of thing that obama and hillary would do.
That is one of my major pet peeves as well. We all make mistakes though. What I really hate though is when they can’t even from grammatically correct sentences.
The Mystery Of Dubai's Vaporized Gold: The Plot Thickens
When the actual writing is that sloppy, it brings the reporting into question, too. The devil is in the details, and those who use words professionally shouldn't be sloppy about it.
Nah. The Clintons had those bars replaced with ones with tungsten slugs in them.
“they canât even from grammatically correct sentences”
hahahahaha
“they can’t even from from grammatically correct sentences”
damn things
batting 1000% here, I give up. :)
All our Tungsten hoard is now in Iran!
It figures. That way they can have tungsten core bullets and real light bulbs.
Having some form of awareness doesn’t imply a capacity to do som thing about it
Some guys I know and trust were hired to escort gold shipments from various places in the world. All shipments were via charter aircraft to Dubai. When the plane was parked two guys would show up and take possession of the gold. The security guys were limo’ed to the main terminal and handed first class commercial airline tickets to home or the next job. They were on many flights in 2014-15, they suddenly (about August of this year) they were paid off and sent back to the US. They have no idea what happened to the shipments and the aircrews aren’t talking.
Interesting. Save for later.
Two insightful insider or near insider posts in one thread. My cup runneth over.
Did your friends indicate specifically from where the shipments originated?
I guess so. :)
They will not share that info, apparently it was part of the contract.
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