Posted on 06/26/2022 6:08:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Prince Charles personally accepted suitcases and shopping bags stuffed with millions of dollars’ worth of cash from a controversial Qatari politician between 2011 and 2015, according to an explosive new report.
“Everyone felt very uncomfortable about the situation,” a former adviser to the Prince of Wales told the Sunday Times of London.
The “only thing we could do was to count the money and make a mutual record of what we’d done,” the source said. “And then call the bank.”
Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, the former prime minister of Qatar, bestowed the big bucks on the heir to the British throne in three deliveries during private, off-the-books meetings at Clarence House, the prince’s official London residence.
He came toting stacks of bills totaling 3 million euros — about $3.2 million at today’s exchange rates — in duffel bags, a suitcase, and several branded shopping bags from the famed Fortnum & Mason department store.
The payments were deposited into the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund (PWCF), a grant-making entity that quietly bankrolls the prince’s pet projects — and pays the bills at his Scottish country estate.
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Leaves too much of a footprint, unlike laundered cash. It’s akin to Juicy Smooliét writing a check to the fake Nigerian muggers.
In an age when you can transfer billions of dollars with the click of a mouse, this seems unlikely. Logistically, it’s hard to handle cash, and when you show up in another country it raises eyebrows. Then there’s how do you take to the bank? There were stories during the Cocaine Cowboy era of people buying luxury cars with suitcases of cash or having bank employees ferry it from the trunk of your car on the street into the bank. Then there’s the problem of counting. How do you know the promised X thousand dollars are actually there unless you count it? And, at the bank, what’s to stop an employee from slipping a few grand into his pocket? While I suppose it’s possible, is it likely?
“He uses his charity to fund private costs”
Much like the Clintons have done over the years. They’re all scum. I hope William and Kate have been more ethical.
Every major politician has a “bag man” to handle this, so they are not connected to the transaction, never touch the money, and have plausible deniability.
Digital bank transfer leaves a record. Bags of cash don’t.
I said last year he was very likely to convert to Islam.
Lucky guy. I’m still waiting for the millions I was promised by a Nigerian prince.
Must have sold some of Mummy’s horses to the Sheikh
I was thinking the same thing.
Political corruption is the world norm.
People seeing the bags have memories though. The Clintons would have let the witnesses know to be quiet or be dead. Or more likely just thanked them and then expressed shock and sadness at all of their improbable suicides (like shooting yourself in the chest with a shotgun while swinging by the neck from a tree which was the latest WTF suicide of one of their associates) over the coming months.
Leaks regarding powerful people tend to come for reasons. That is, someone wanted this to get out. Who and why?
Digital is traceable. Bags are not, just off the witnesses, or deny.
Another great reset globalist scumbag selling out his people
I met Charles a few times but he didn’t ask me for money
The Crown-Church relationship (the German House) quickly went to hell with the death of Queen Victoria. The present queen has paid only lip service to the role as leader of the Anglican Church. Don’t believe it? Just study the sore that became a tumor; the rot that has infected the leadership and the livelihood of the Anglican. And as the Church played footsie with the Devil, the Queen offered nothing in response. Her forked-up family — from Princess Margaret to her son and grandson — are emblematic of that rot.
In these days of electronic transactions and wire transfers why would anyone accept sacks of actual cash? Is the Post actually that stupid?
World leaders are corrupt? Go figure. Who woulda thunk it?
I know you are making a joke, and it’s funny.
But the royal family has been dirty since before King John. They were savage rulers.
As long as they were uncomfortable about the situation, it's all good.
The answer is so obvious it's not even worth explaining to a Pfizer/Soros stooge.
“Here, you wear the stup... er... the VIP hat”
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