Posted on 03/30/2021 6:48:44 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
A widening investigation into allegations of high-level corruption on the island of Malta, first levelled by murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, stretches to China and a $400 million investment into Europe by a Chinese state power company, Reuters has found.
Caruana Galizia was murdered in October 2017 as she investigated a web of companies that she believed were funneling bribes to Maltese politicians.
Now, Reuters and a consortium of journalists have traced two firms involved in that web to relatives of a senior Chinese executive for Accenture, the global consultancy firm. The executive, 43-year-old Chen Cheng from Shanghai, negotiated investments on behalf of China’s state-owned Shanghai Electric Power in Malta and in another small European state, Montenegro, over the past decade, according to Maltese officials and official records.
The revelation of a Chinese connection potentially adds a new international dimension to a scandal that has rocked Malta’s government and last year led to the resignation of the prime minister. It also could figure in a series of Maltese official investigations into the events leading up to Caruana Galizia’s death.
Backed by Malta’s government, the investments by Shanghai Electric Power were portrayed by Maltese and Chinese political leaders as one component of China’s multi-trillion dollar Belt and Road initiative to pour money into economic infrastructure in central Asia and Europe.
In 2016, a year before she was murdered in a car bombing, Caruana Galizia identified Chen’s key role in the transactions on her blog....
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
I am pretty sure we linked China to it here, last year.
Finally the press starts to catch up...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3797716/posts?page=12#12
IIRC, the journalist had plenty of local enemies because of her investigation. Shunning her, threatening her, cheering her death. Why a little tiny island wants to sell out to a giant company of a giant nation is strange...there’s plenty of financial corruption in Malta, but the ordinary people seemed to hate her also. If the news articles were accurate.
Her reporting exposed the Clinton Foundation.
Biden Suggests Rival Plan to China’s ‘Belt and Road’
3/28/2021, 2:57:17 AM · by Olog-hai · 17 replies
AFP via Newsmax ^ | Saturday, 27 March 2021 10:21 AM
US President Joe Biden has suggested founding an initiative from “democratic” countries to rival China’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road infrastructure initiative as tensions spike between the Asian power and Western nations. Biden said late Friday that he floated the proposal in a call with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson amid a row over sanctions against abuses targeting the Uyghur minority in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region. “I suggested we should have, essentially, a similar initiative coming from the democratic states, helping those communities around the world that, in fact, need help,” Biden told reporters, referring to Belt and Road. Beijing’s influence...
Israel and the China Dilemma: She will be forced to choose between its most trusted ally – the US, and a great business opportunity with China.
3/19/2021, 3:24:40 PM · by SeekAndFind · 32 replies
Frontpage Mag ^ | 03/19/2021 | Joseph Puder
In the late spring of 2020, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Israel. His visit came after Israel formed a coalition government between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud and Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Party. Pompeo, while endorsing Israel’s rights to Judea and Samaria, had a blunt message for his Israeli friends: “Beware of China.” Pompeo added, “We don’t want the Chinese Communist Party to have access to Israeli infrastructure, Israeli communication networks, and the kind of things that endanger the Israeli people and the ability of the US to cooperate with Israel.” Pompeo’s gently expressed admonition to Israeli...
Australian Belt and Road Deal with China Expected to Be Ripped up in Weeks
2/18/2021, 9:28:47 PM · by SeekAndFind · 7 replies
Epoch Times ^ | 02/18/2021 | Henry Jom
Beijing’s Belt and Road deal with the Australian state government of Victoria looks set to be torn up in weeks as the deadline for the states’ to inform the federal government of all foreign agreements draws nearer. Speaking to the Herald Sun, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he saw no benefit to Victoria’s deal with Beijing and signalled that the agreement would be unlikely to stand under the bill. “If there are benefits, what are they and what was paid for them? I don’t have the answers to those questions at this point, but the assessment of those arrangements will...
Interesting.
A Chinese executive for Accenture...
Is this the same Accenture that screwed up the Obamacare website?
Same as this Accenture?
Manipulation, Not Error, Behind Market Plunge
5/8/2010, 3:45:19 PM · by mojitojoe · 22 replies · 1,469+ views
Aim.org ^ | 5/7/2010 | Cliff Kincaid
The major media say the chaos on Wall Street was the result of a “trader error, possibly a typo,” as the Washington Post put it. Some reports claim the culprit was a “fat finger” on a computer somewhere that pressed the wrong key. But Zubi Diamond, author of the Wizards of Wall Street, says these claims are all lies. “What happened in the market on Thursday is a typical example of pure market manipulation” by unregulated hedge fund short sellers. His book, whose subtitle refers to the scam that elected Barack Obama, warns that the same hedge fund short sellers...
Accenture: Went to a Penny at 2:48 p.m.
5/6/2010, 9:33:05 PM · by Orange1998 · 32 replies · 1,012+ views
http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2010/05/06/accenture-went-to-a-penny-at-248-pm/ ^
You think the action in Procter & Gamble was weird, check out the nosedive on Accenture, which plummeted from above $40 at 2:47 p.m. to $0.01 at 2:48 p.m. Had demand for consulting services declined so sharply in that one minute? Obviously there was some sort of technical snafu out there. Still, it seems that the worries in Greece were seriously worsening Thursday. So how much of that scare was robots gone wild and how much was sensible worry from flesh and blood investors? We’ll have to wait and see, though we did close down more than 3% on the...
Car bomb kills journalist behind Panama Papers
10/16/2017, 7:43:51 PM · by mandaladon · 28 replies
Mirror ^ | 16 Oct 2017
Car bomb kills journalist behind Panama Papers offshore tax evasion investigation ‘days after she received threats to her safety’ (Full Title) A journalist who led the Panama Papers offshore tax evasion expose was killed today when a bomb blew up her car. Investigative reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia - dubbed a “one-woman WikiLeaks” - was killed as she was driving near the village of Bidnija in northern Malta. She had filed a complaint to police a fortnight ago after receiving personal threats to her safety, local media said. Caruana Galizia ran a hugely popular blog relentlessly highlighting cases of alleged corruption,...
Which reminds of a Supreme Court Justice that went there. He was photograph there with a briefcase. O yes! it was John Traitor Roberts.
Danny Casalero comes to mind.
He was researching Cointell Parking meter company, BCCI,
and other things pre Whitewater related matters. He was found in a hotel bathtub.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Casolaro
Bkmk. Malta
Oh, Hunter! Are you in there Hunter? Sounds just like your kind of thing. Make sure the Big Guy gets his cut.
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