By Ben Vidgen

Investigation of former New Zealand merchant banker Geoffrey Wilding, The Gang of 20 (G20) RSL Waitiki Tourist Development Corporation property scam. Mr. Wilding caught my eye as UK mainstream media has been writing about him and his involvement with Victoria Plc. He has also attracted the attention of short sellers and other skeptics in financial markets who are suspicious about his background.

I cited Wilding in relation to shady banking connected to the ANZ and BNZ bank and a net work of aviation fleets tied to CIA backed narco traffickers – see pages 95/96. TELDAR NO.25. Its a link that twenty plus years later I continue to explore in relation to banks like Credit Suisee in regard to the flow of Mexican and Russian cartel money and it ties to New Zealand. Such as I explored in my 2020 article on Donald Trump & the Clinton’s and Jefrey Epstein mutual ties to shady banking and the original Iran Contra/BCCI Cold War banking scandal which I called Every One Wants to be a Mexican.

I-of VIII) WHILEY WILDING ‘— Where Going to Need A Bigger Boat’:

Born: October 1964 New Zealand.

Former associates:

• 2. Robert John Warburton (disgraced criminal lawyer) New Zealander.
• Harvey Misbin American with CIA links.
• 3. Ray Young (former operator of the defunct Niue Airlines, and undischarged bankrupt), New Zealander.
• 4.Rex Harris (former NZ military) New Zealander.
• 5. Sani Lakatani (Niue premier, corrupt finance minister) Niuean.
• 6. Colin McKenna (CEO/co-founder of Case Weston) New Zealander has direct bussiness dealing with former New Zealand PrimeMinister John Key..
• 7. Evan Russell Christian New Zealander.
• 8. Andrew Gregg Larsen New Zealander

Case Weston Morgan & Co Finance Ltd, Case Weston Morgan (Hamilton) Ltd:
1992 to 1997 Level of involvement:

• Founder, shareholder, director alongside associates Colin McKenna, Evan Christian and others 12 . This was effectively a network of companies, centered around the two listed above, which took
  in various “Teldar” named companies (such as Teldar No.25 Limited).
  
  Concerns:
• Involvement in various questionable deals, involving associates Evan Russell Christian, Andrew Gregg Larsen, Colin McKenna, as detailed below.
  
• Southern World Airlines:1991 to 1993 Level of involvement: Case Weston Morgan handled the insolvency of this company and held for sale the shares on behalf of original founder, American Harvey Misbin.
  
  The founder and CEO of Southern World Airlines, Harvey Misbin, was exposed in the New Zealand media for running drugs, owned by the Mexican cartels in South America and the USA.When the news hit, Misbin resigned from his role at Southern World and handed his equity over to Case Weston Morgan, to be sold on his behalf.One author has also suggested there was a trading relationship between Southern World Airlines and the CIA front company, Southern Air Transport (unconfirmed). That author is me and this post will confirm those CIA links.
  

Niue Air/Coral Air/Niue Development Corp:
Years: 1992 to 1999 Level of involvement:

• Wilding and his close business associate, Colin McKenna, were involved in the creation of Niue Development Corporation Ltd (originally incorporated as Teldar No.29 Ltd) in early 1992, which was directed by a notorious politician from the Pacific Island of Niue: Sani Lakatani.
  
• Colin McKenna became sole director of Coral Air Limited in September 1999, a nascent airline. Plagued by controversy, and ultimately resulting in failure and loss of Niue taxpayer money.
  
  
  
  
• Timeline/Concerns:
  
• August 1992: Niue Development Corporation Ltd: Wilding and McKenna were the original directors of this company, and handed over control to Rex Harris (former NZ military) and corrupt politician Sani Lakatani.
  
• 1993 to 1994: Sani Lakatani, as Finance Minister of Niue, introduced a series of new laws
  relating to the island’s financial sector, aimed at encouraging growth.
  
• 1995: Sani Lakatani was charged with 22 separate counts of bribery and 2 of official corruption. The case against him failed because of effective immunity of Niue assembly members to which the laws did not apply. The laws were subsequently changed to close this loophole.
  
• Late ‘90s, Coral Air was due to become a new airline to service Niue, but an investigation
  commissioned by the New Zealand government identified problems, putting a brake on the
  scheme – it looks like the primary concern was the fact that Niue would act as guarantor
  providing financial security to Coral Air, a private company.
  
• We note that Coral Air was owned, at least on paper, by Robert John Warburton, an Auckland
  lawyer with ties to organised crime, which suggests it was owned under proxy, hiding its true beneficiary.
  
• The involvement of Ray Young as a senior consultant on the Coral Air scheme was also
  controversial as he was an “undischarged bankrupt”, and the former operator of Niue Airline,
  which collapsed in 1992.
  
• Robert John Warburton, the original sole director of Coral Air Limited and sole shareholder, was subsequently struck off as a lawyer in 2007 and imprisoned for 21 months for his part in a major fraud ring with Hells Angels connections – see Operation Allsorts, Gang of 20 saga and the Winebox Tax evasion scandal involving BNZ, ANZ, Kensington Swan Fay Richwhite and numerous names of bankers later involved in the Paradise Papers tax evasion/money laundering scandal which saw New Zealand mentioned thousand of times in relation to the ANZ, Westpac and ASB.
  
• September 1999, Colin McKenna became sole director of Coral Air ahead of its insolvency,
  which cost Niue several hundred thousand dollars.
  
• 1999: Niue was added to FATF’s blacklist over money laundering concerns. Sani Lakatani had
  risen to Premier of the island nation by then, and it would seem the financial “reforms” he had
  implemented while Finance Manager, back in 92 to 94, had perhaps caused the problem.
  
• Geoffrey Brendon Wilding
  
• Geoffrey Brendon Wilding Case Weston Morgan (Hamilton)*1  92-97
• Teldar series nominee companies —
• 37 Director appointments
  
• Firms and assetts of interest Alliance Flooring Transport, Belgrave Trust 2005 (dissolved 2018).
  
  777 Investments Limited Type: NZ Limited Company (Ltd) 28 years on market. Registered 29 Jun 1994 9429038651854 NZBN 638132 Company Number Registered Company Status Current Address Level 3748 Shortland Street Auckland  New Zealand Physical address used since 10 Mar 2002 Level 37 48 Shortland Street Auckland  New Zealand Registered address used since 19 Jun 2002 Level 37 48 Shortland Street Auckland. Other address (Address for Records) used since 17 Feb 2009Show names history. Last updated: 31 Oct 2022 Evan Russell Christian – an inactive director whose contract started on 29 Jun 1994 and was terminated on 01 Aug 1996.Geoffrey Brendon Wilding – an inactive director whose contract started on 29 Jun 1994 and was terminated on 31 Aug 1995.
  
  Resilience Charters Limited — the Maltese Business Register shows Wilding is the beneficial owner. Shortly after Christmas 2014, Geoffrey Wilding incorporated a Maltese company to splash out on the quintessential rich person’s toy: a superyacht. Which now lay at the centre of Credit Suisse woes as it has become common knowledge that the Swiss bank was using derivatives to offload risks from lending billions to its richest clients. See shifting the risk of debt, surrounding the purchase of luxury yatches by Russian oglicarchs,
  
  Victoria PLC at first glance the company appears to be solid manufacture partnered with British manufacturer with royal connections. The Kidderminster-based business is over 120 years old, holds a Royal Warrant and famously supplied the red carpet for the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in 2011. The present incarnation of Victoria really began however began in 2012, Geoff Wilding, a former investment banker from New Zealand, took the helm as executive chairman of the West Midlands carpet maker after an acrid six-month boardroom battle. Wilding then embarked on an acquisition spree — or a “carpet roll-up”, if you like obvious puns — buying over 20 other flooring companies around the globe in little under a decade.
  
  Shareholders who backed the Kiwi from the beginning were rewarded handsomely. Victoria soon regained its footing, successfully tapping the bond market in 2019 and then winning the support of oil giants Koch Industries the following year. The sprawling American conglomerate bought newly issued preference shares alongside a significant chunk of the flooring company’s common equity. By the summer of 2021, Victoria’s market capitalisation was back above the £1bn mark. Things started to unravel in 2022, however, as the market soured on debt-laden businesses. Victoria’s share price has plunged nearly 70 per cent year-to-date, while its bond yields have soared to double-digits in recent weeks. It emerges much of its assetts where pre existing subsidaries rebranded so as to appear it was buying big when it was simly playing deck chairs with the titanic.
  
  Victoria Plc debt is under written by Credit Suisse, whose international investment branch lies at the centre of the scandal associated with the rogue Swiss bank.
  
  Victoria PLC Banks also include ING, HSBC, BBVA, Royal Bank of Scotland each of these bank has form for laundering money for the Mexican drug cartels and the Putin Oligarchs. The regulatory body in UK is in fact governed by a board of member banks. The board is composed of senior executives from twelve banks, including Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank AG, HSBC Bank plc, J.P. Morgan Europe Ltd, and the Royal Bank of Scotland plc. Basically the same parties with whom western banks and western intelligence services got into bed with during the late 1990’s as the former USSR assets where carved up and sold to the highest bidder. All thanks to Putin and his new western mates including Credit Sussies who over saw the privatiation of the former USSR spearheaded by New Zealand Stephen Jennings of Renaissance Bank Moscow formerly of Credit Suissee and prior to that a offical and the New Zealand Treasury Department.
  
  Loans under written by Credit Suisse and Deutsch Bank for Victoria Plc mirror how the ANZ BNZ backed Wilding and Fay Richwhite rapid leverage of firms in the 1980’s involved in the Wiebox inquiryand Caxton printing buys spree.. Done in a way that minimized harm to Wilding (and Spencer) and Richwhite but maximized the threat to the legitimate investors and public at large.
  
  Most assetts Victoria claimed to have bought to bump up PLC net worth were in fact its own existing subsidiaries. Victoria made these entities look unrelated i.e., their names were changed before ‘acquisition’. Assets (and not equity) were seemingly acquired from outside the group. But there was little information on their nature, value, or how well they did before the acquisition. 
  There was minimal to no information on the asset sellers at the time of these transactions. There appeared to be just one goal: to keep Victoria’s investors from discovering exactly what was purchased to justify the acquisition price.
  
  This raises major concerns about the integrity of Victoria’s financial reports and the reliability of its auditor, Grant Thornton : ‘VICTORIA PLC ($VCP.LN): MITES UNDER THE RUG August 3, 2022 · by Iceberg Research
  
• NOTE: The integrity of the banks backing Victoria Plc also need to be questioned in in my view for their common bonds of partnering with organised crime. The banks include Royal Bank of Scotland, ING, BBVA, HBSC and Credit Suissee.
  
• Royal Bank of Scotland was fined in 2010 £5.6m by the Financial Services Authority for failing to adequately screen customers and payments to prevent its subsidary banks – RBS, NatWest, Ulster Bank and Coutts – from being used for money laundering or the financing of terrorist activities.
  
  The list of those involved in financing terrorism (partnerered with organised crime syndicates) was first drawn up in 2001 after the 9/11 terror attacks in the US and included 500 organisations, a dozen of which were based in Britain, and 1,400 people, about 50 of whom were UK residents. Source: RBS handed FSA’s biggest fine for lapses over money laundering rules.
  
• ING Dutch bank ING fined $900 million for failing to spot money. They cited four examples where ING accounts Polish branch where used for crime. Most notably for bribes paid by telecommunications company VEON, formerly VimpelCom, in Uzbekistan with money lent to Vimplecom to buy up critical infrastructure lent by Russian banker Mikhail Friedman of VTB – Credit Suisse partner in the Mombassa UN loans bribery scandal.
  
  VEON settled U.S. and Dutch charges for $835 million in 2016. Russian money has since the break up of the Soviet Union in 1991 sought safe investment havens, for tax evaion purposes, in the West such as in Swiss banks, London properties, and luxury yachts. Also named Denmark’s biggest bank, Danske, via its Estonian subsidiary, allegedly laundered €200 billion ($235 billion) of illicit Russian cash between 2007 and 2015. Believed to be from weapons sales and rare metals.
  
  Bill Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital and a former client of the deceased Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, claimed that Danske was involved in a giant scam uncovered by Magnitsky. There would be more revelations to come, he said back in 2018, noting three other banks in the Baltic states that were very likely conduits for stolen Russian public money (used to snap up public critcal infrastructure for a 10th of its actual cost due to the template set by Jennings and Credit Suisse at the end of the USSR in St Petersburg. Done with the aid of Putin then a low level bureaucrat. However Germany’s Das Spigel magazine is quick to point out Bowder is probably correct on the Russian corruption and the allegation Rosneft took over Yukos Oil, then the biggest private oil field in Russia as it’s “kicked Hermitage Capital to the curb”, but he has grossly glossed over the sins of his co-investors own role in tax evasion and money laundering (including fund passed through Pacific and New Zealand banks). The Magnitsky drama revolves around the forced sale of Yukos handled by Renaissance Bank Moscow, accused by Bowder of helping laundering money for tax evasion purposes. to the forced sale of Yukos. The former head of in Estonia at the center of a $220bn money-laundering scandal was shortly after found dead from gunshot wound in an apparent suicide. The story broke in March 2017, after the Estonian branch was mentioned by Danish newspaper Berlingske in connection with the Russia and Azerbaijani Laundromat oil for guns money-laundering operation. This also has overlaps with the sinking of MV Estonia and rumors of an illegal arms trade including nuclear materials such as the ultra rare and ultra-expensive substance Osmium 187 a nuclear by product Prok Bank boasted it specialized in.
  
• BBVA, Spain’s National Court has charged Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) with “corruption and breach of confidence,” BBVA is Spain’s second-largest bank, with a strong presence in Latin America and the southeastern United States. In Mexico, its subsidiary Bancomer is the largest financial institution in the country. The bank is suspected of illegally tapping the phones of journalists, politicians and businesspeople in 2004. Financial intelligence documents accessed by Ojo-Publico.com show, together with other entities in the banking system, Banco de Crédito and BBVA Continental received more than US$2.2 billion from clients under suspicion because of their links to organized crime and tax evasion for the oil and mining sector primarily.
  
  BBVA bank clients who have registered unusual operations includes figures prominent in local and international drug trafficking in Latin America and their alleged money launderers operating real estate, air transport, and money exchange companies. BCP and BBVA, together with Banco Wiese (Scotiabank since 2006) each had as a client Global Distribution System, a front company that laundered the money for the most powerful drug trafficker in Peru, Fernando Zevallos Gonzales. Between 2000 and 2004, the company—whose main shareholder was the now dead discontinued air charter company, Aerocontinente— made suspicious transactions through the three banks totaling US$27 million. Authorities called these fronts for the now defunct Cali cocaine cartel of brothers Miguel and Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela. Another BBVA client played a central role in ship 4.3 tons of liquid cocaine alkaloid to Spain hidden in more than eight thousand cans of artichoke. The documents show that this front company was part of an organization composed of more than one hundred people, who used “the banking system (…) to facilitate their criminal activity.” with the knowing cooperation of the banks.
  
  In 2019 Xizhi Li, who had bank accounts with BBVA Compass in Miami Florida, used to launder Mexican drug money for the Mexican Sinaloa cartel who replaced the Cali Cartel dominance in the lat 1990’s. The DEA determined that the cocaine in the greater Memphis area was being supplied by the Sinaola cartel and the money laundering efforts for those transactions through smaller US banks was overseen by Xizhi Li. Xizhi Li owned and operated a casino in Guatemala City, Guatemala, which he used to launder money and provided him a place to meet drug traffickers. LI attended several Donald Trump events in New York City as a VIP guest. Liu is one of six Chinese nationals charged in a conspiracy that allegedly netted at least $30 million from 2008 to late last month and involved funneling illicit drug money to Latin American traffickers, the indictment says. Source: Trump rally ‘VIP’ among six Chinese nationals charged with drug money laundering
  
• HSBC: 2008 scandal involving HSBC the Chinese British bank laundering money for Mexican cartels.
  
  HSBC allowed two cartels – one each in Mexico and Colombia – to move $881 million in drug proceeds through the bank over the second half of the last decade. FINCEN documets show how HSBC allowed Colombian drug cartels to convert U.S. dollars to Colombian pesos to buy consumer goods and hard commoidites then exBetween 2006 and 2008, HSBC’s Mexican unit moved $1.1 billion from Sinaloa to the bank’s U.S. branches, according to the documents.ported to Colombia, where they were sold. Other transactions involved Mexican drug cartels. Source: ‘HSBC became bank to drug cartels, pays big for lapses’
  
  On 10 April 2006, a DC-9 jet landed in the port city of Ciudad del Carmen, on the Gulf of Mexico, with 128 cases packed with 5.7 tons of cocaine, valued at $100m. It also contained a paper trail behind the purchase of the plane which led back to the Sinaloa narco-trafficking cartel money laundering network. Agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and other agencies, discovered how cocaine smugglers had bought the plane with money they had laundered through smaller American banks into one of the biggest banks in the United States Wachovia (also linked to the Magnitsky tax evasion scandal surrounding the sell of USSR public assets) now part of the giant Wells Fargo, which led back to HSBC own money laundering network Source: Guardian How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico’s murderous drug gangs.‘
  
• 2008 Bain and THL filed suits against the bank consortium, naming NY branches of Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Wachovia (which Credit Suisse owned shares in) , as well as Credit Suisse. This is after the NY branches where who found working together to renege on terms of the lending agreements after they had reaffirmed their commitment to financing the companies in question. The goal being to make proposed targets ripe for takeover after they had being left vulnerable by the banks in question so as to establish commercial monopiles. The six banks have a convoluted history often intwined with each other.
  
  In short Wilding’s banks are whose of ‘Drug Laundering INC.
  
• Wilding’s 1990s Printing sector buy out; “A little over eight years ago, Print21 alerted the Australian Printing industry that The Kiwis are Coming!” A Paul Revere moment foretold of New-Zealand-led raiding on long-established Australian printing businesses, starting with Merit Madden (now inside Blue Star) and Graphic World (now inside GEON). The buyers were offering handsome leveraged buyout sums to ageing business owners with few or no succession ideas and ‘lazy balance sheets.’ There were two chief progenitors of this activity and both had begun the roll-up of fragmented print businesses under one rationalized umbrella in New Zealand. The two men where Geoffrey Wilding’s Pacific Print Group, backed by ANZ Private Equity and American Tom Sturgess, a director of Goldman Sach JB and owner of Lone Star Farms. Source: The GEON IMPLOSION – ANOTHER WILDING INVESTMENT IMPLODES.  
  
  Something about the above article rang a bell with Caxton and Geon. Oh yeah now I recall–;
  
  “In Fiji much has been made of the intertribal conflicts and the separatist tension of indigenous Fijians versus the Indian majority. Yet one significant factor was not allowed to be included in the official analysis, the arrival of the survey ship Babale, a ship with Emperor Mining connections. The Babale, with its cargo of Uzi machine guns*1 , arrived in Fiji from Singapore – not during or after the coup but three days before the coup. The largest shareholder in Emperor Mining? Technically the answer was Western Mining, the Australian firm. Yet the more specifically accurate answer is that Western Mining in fact managed the mines on behalf of a secret owner, held in trust of “ANZ nominee”.
  
  That owner according to WPR1 {Wellington Peace Researcher) was in fact New Zealander John Spencer, a man whose personal wealth exceeded at this time over $700 million. Source: ‘Fiji Plot Theory is Gaining Ground David Robie’.
  
• Spencer’s interests included Caxton Printing. Spencer in turn was involved, via Caxton, in Cook Islands based Harmony Securities (another Winebox star), one of the firms which Bruce Judge, in collusion with dodgy Cook Islands offshore banks and major New Zealand banks, used to swindle $70 million. (Repilcating the Winebox scam of 1990s). Source: Legal vet news search – State Secrets 1999 Howling At the Moon Ben Vidgen Page 245 citing Dominion Sunday Times, 26 Nov 1989; Sydney Morning Herald, 15 Nov 1989; Wellington Peace Research, Jan 1990.
  
• Spencer,is an heir to his grandfather’s Caxton paper empire, took over the family business in 1981 but sold out later that decade to Carter Holt Harvey for about $300m. Spencer is survived by his son Berridge and daughter Mertsi. Berridge has become the public face of Spencer family business interests, while Mertsi is understood to run a specialist home accessory business in Dubai.
  
  Members of the Spencer family were named as financial contributors to the National Party in Nicky Hager’s 2006 book The Hollow Men. In the book Hager quotes a 2005 email from former Business Roundtable chairman Rob McLeod to National MPs Don Brash and John Key. “Berridge and Mertsi Spencer have been talking with me about the possibility of increasing their financial contribution to your election campaign. They are also very keen to meet John after hearing about him from you,” McLeod wrote. There are no records of the Spencer family donating to National in the mid-2000s, at the time when Hager wrote Yukos oil and Reagan Neo-conservative Richard V Allen was helping plan Key’s 2008 election (along with support from other New Zealand business men including Stephen Jennings – formerly of Credit Suisse New Zealand Treasury) but electoral donation rules were different then and allowed parties to use trusts to collect money without naming individual donors. Source NZ First Foundation: Rich-listers donate $100k in a week The Hallow Men Nicky Hager Craig Potton Publishing 2008.
  
• Spencer is a major Kiwi connection to secret tax haven records that may be the largest leak of financial information in history.” Source: Money trail leads home to New Zealand.
  
  Note: Nicky Hager a colleague of this author — has worked with a multi-country team analysing the leaked materials and coordinating local journalists in Asia, Africa and part of Europe who collaborated in the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists project, www.icij.org.
  
  Hager writes; “Leaked documents reveal one of New Zealand’s richest families was for a time at the heart of a major international tax haven company that hit the news in the United States last week. John Spencer, New Zealand’s richest man in the 1980s and still incredibly wealthy, was – with his family – majority owners of the company called TrustNet, whose extremely secret client records have been leaked en masse to a Washington DC-based journalism organisation. The leaks reveal the identity of tens of thousands of people who use tax havens: some involved in dodgy activities and evading tax, others in lawful activities including companies doing business across political borders and individuals living in multiple countries or legitimately minimizing their tax…”Source: The Star-Times revealed in 2005 that his son Berridge and daughter Mertsi were secret National Party donors.
  
  In 2017 Spencer donated $50,000 to the New Zealand First Foundation – using a law firm to make the payments in four amounts below the level at which donations are made public. A law firm acting for the Spencer family, which has a wealth estimated at $1 billion by the NBR Rich List, made four donations of $12,500 each, on the same day – 11 July 2017. The four donors as Berridge, Mertsi and Olivia Spencer and Jeffrey Scrimgeour. Records show that each donor was issued a $12,500 receipt by foundation trustee Doug Woolerton. Source: The Secret Case of the NZ First Foundation Radio New Zealand (RNZ)
  
  • In my book I write “We had already been shown the connections that Freeman’s partner in ETO, John Victor Evans had held to both the Muldoon government through Sir Laurie Francis and the RSL Equities scam, otherwise known as the “Gang of Twenty” affair. The Gang of Twenty affair had ironically resulted from Justice Department lawyer Keith Petersen being pulled off his investigation into the collapse of the Waitiki Tourist Development 1 Which left 107 creditors and $400,000 out of pocket implicate the Māori trustee”. Source: Dominion Sunday Times, 26 Nov 1989; Sydney Morning Herald, 15 Nov 1989; WPR, Jan 1990 244 Board (would have dealings with both Rocky Cribb and the gang of twenty). “
    
    
    CAXTON CARLYLE & WILDING:
    
    
• Caxton is the parent entity of Blue Star. Caxton’s directors include Blue Star managing director Geoff Selig and Blue Star executive Paul Selig. The other two directors are Angus Stuart and James Todd, who are also directors with the Seligs’ backer, Wolseley Private Equity. If I’m reading it write an ANZ backed company buys an ANZ backed company the brought firm implodes and “ANZ” get assets back at cheap price than they sold it while creditors get stiffed??
  
• The ANZ was also major players along with BNZ and Fay Richwhite in the Winebox Inquiry.
  
• WILDING INVOLVED WITH GEON AS OF 2005 TO REPEAT “A little over eight years ago, Print21 alerted the Australian Printing industry that “The Kiwis are Coming!”  Our Paul Revere moment foretold of New-Zealand-led raiding on long-established Australian printing businesses, starting with Merrit Madden (now inside Blue Star) and Graphic World (now inside GEON).
  
• The buyers were offering handsome leveraged buyout sums to ageing business owners with few or no succession ideas and ‘lazy balance sheets.’ There were two progenitors of this activity and both had begun the roll-up of fragmented print businesses under one rationalized umbrella in New Zealand. Geoffrey Wilding’s Pacific Print Group, backed by ANZ Private Equity, had subsumed around seven NZ print businesses and Tom Sturgess, a director of Goldman Sachs JB Were PE (NZ) had rolled up the likes of Nicholson’s, McCollums and so forth, before striking out across the Tasman (JACK POT)
  
• ADRESS FOR GEON GROUP from 26 September 2005 (Monday) to 11 January 2006 (Wednesday) C/-chapman Tripp, Solicitors,Level 35, ANZ Centre, 23-29 Albert Street, Auckland Shares Allocation 141200131 shares (4.12%). Company No.: 1734678NZBN: 9429034414705BELGRAVE TRUST CUSTODIAN LIMITED (WILDING/ controlled) Level 7, 3-13 Shortland Street, Auckland. Shares Allocation 2122513 shares (0.08%).
  
• Geoff Hutchinson Mng Dir/Head:ANZ Private Equity, Carlyle Group Inc.
  
• Carlyle Group is a privately-owned equity firm organized and run by former members of the Reagan and Bush Sr. Administrations. Carlyle who denies rumors it will bail out Credit Suisse is deemed a predecessor to Black Rock, the USA’s belated answer to China Belt Road. Ironically its an initiative that potentially in danger of being sucked into China as Western money heads East following the fall out Credit Suisse meltdown. Black Rock appeared out of nowhere in 2008, ‘Conspiracy theorists ‘even claiming it was instrumental in the 9/11 Project For A New American Century plot. Actual hard proof of such claims, not surprising, is lacking. But yes it certainly made a considerable load of money as a result of its investment in arms. A central theme to those conspiracy theories is 9/11 did not just serve PNAC core goals (which is absolutely true) but the involvement of short trading, gold theft, money laundered through computers in the hours before the attack (see Convar Investigation and buy out by those it was investigating) meant the attackers made billions – if this is true it begs the question what happened to that money.   
  
  Carlyle employed George W Bush junior son of Bush senior as well as key members of the Saudi government a key backer of Saudi National Bank which own over 31% of Credit Suisse shares and is a player whom US leaders have repeatedly threaten with investigating for its role in 9/11. Namely every time Saudi steps towards China or Russia. The Carlyle Group achieved national attention in the early days of the Iraq occupation, especially after Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” exposed the firm’s umbilical ties to the Bush family and the House of Saud. This includes being bailed out by Credit Suisse major share holder National Bank of Saudi Arabia whose chairman resigned after the Swiss Bank implosion.
  
• Source: Former Morison Co boss Geoff Hutchinson tapped by Carly;e to head ANZ
• Source:  Private Equitys Role in Blue Star’s Break Up.
• Source: Computer disk drives from WTC could yield clues. CNN. December 20, 2001.
• Source: “Das Geheimnis der verkohlten Festplatten. Der Spiegel. December 18, 2001.
• Source: German Firm Probes Final World Trade Center Deals. Fox News. December 17, 2001.
• Source:Geheimsache World Trade Center”. ZDF News. March 11, 2002.
• Source: Allen M. Poteshman. “Unusual Option Market Activity and the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001”. The Journal of Business. 16: 670–675. JSTOR 10.
• Source:  Marc Chesney; et al. (January 2010). “Detecting Informed Trading Activities in the Options Markets”. Social Science Research Network. SSRN 1522157.
• Source: Wing-Keung Wong; et al. (April 2010). ‘Was there Abnormal Trading in the S&P 500 Index Options Prior to the September 11 Attacks?’. Social Science Research Network. SSRN 1588523.
  
• Credit Suisse top five shareholders include the Qatar Investment Authority and the Olayan Group, a private investment business with Saudi royal family roots.The Olayan Group traces its origins back to the General Contracting Company (GCC), founded to work on the construction of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline alongside the American contracting company Bechtel who where very close friends of the CIA’s Middle east operations. Source: The Carlyle White House William Rovers Scoop
  
• The Saudi and Bush family where certainly pivotal to the Iran Contra Affair and the related BCCI banking scandal which also involved Pakistan intelligence (ISI). It was ISI linked Pakistanis who are believed to have provided operational cash to the 9/11 bankers via Al Taqwa a bank based in Switzerland. Altaqwa was identified by the U.S. Treasury Department as a Specially Designated Terrorist Entity. Treasury stated, in November 2001: “Al-Taqwa group has long acted as a financial advisor to al-Qaeda, with offices in Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Italy and the Caribbean.”
  
  HSBC was also named by a U.S. Senate Committee in 2012 for its role in money-laundering and global narcotics and terrorism financing, along with its sordid ties to Al-Rajhi Bank ( a share holder in Credit Suisse). Sulaiman Al-Rajhi, the billionaire chairman of Al-Rajhi Bank, the largest private bank in Saudi Arabia, and a pivotal funder of al-Qaeda. Akida Bank Private Ltd, another Saudi bank tied to laundering money for AlQaeda would list Sulaiman Al-Rajhi on its board of directors. Al Taqwa was run by Youssef Nada, The same Senate report cites HSBC links to Al-Rajhi Bank dated back to HSBC’s takeover of Republic National Bank of New York, which was sold by Edmond Safra. Under Safra, Republic National Bank was exposed for laundering the profits of a top Turkish heroin-smuggling ring operating out of the Shakarchi Trading Company in Switzerland. When HSBC took over Republic National Bank, the existing Al-Rajhi accounts were taken over by HSBC New York.
  
  In 2005, the families’ lawsuit against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, several Saudi princes, and various Saudi-controlled charities, was dismissed by a Federal judge in New York City, at the request of the Bush Administration, on the grounds that the Kingdom was immune from such claims under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. The dismissal was upheld in 2008 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. When the families appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009, the Obama Administration repeated the Bush Administration’s claim that the Saudi government and members of the royal family were immune from lawsuits. The Obama era Justice Department stated since the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had never been designated as a state sponsor of terrorism (who could be more deserving of this label than the House of Saudi?), it therefore possessed sovereign immunity. Al Taqwa directors include numerous members of the Muslim Brotherhood a designated terrorist organisation. Many of the 911 organisations suspected of involvement in 9/11 would be dropped from terror list, with out explanation, during the Obama administration term in office.
  
  Al Taqwa and can also be linked to NZ shipment of dairy goods to Iraq under the corrupt Food For Oil Program (over seen by Richard V Allen’s of the Iran Contra affair/ Yukos Oil Russia New Zealand neighbor David Mace of Ernst Young Honk Kong and Bao Steel China). The Contra are known to have funded Mexican and South American drug lords in the 1980’s and supported the US intelligence agency activities in South America. Its senior executive Frank Carlucci still maintained links with Bush’s top bureaucrats Don Rumsfeld and Colin Powell until his death from cancer in 2018. 
  
• Note: New Zealand media took at face value New Zealand First Winston Peter’s declaration, as New Zealand Foreign minister in 2006, that New Zealand bussiness including dairy giant Fonterra had being cleared of wrong doing in the Food For Oil Programme (FFOP) scandal. When international watchdog Transparency International reveled that no New Zealand authority had in fact investigated the primary Paul Volkcner documents – which documented the abuse. Peter then declared the SFO and police would conduct a probe which again he claimed exonerated the New Zealand companies. Speaking to Police communications in 2006 they confirmed to this author no such probe ever took place and the SFO refused to answer my queries when contacted.
  
• In fact New Zealand’s role was done through third paries such as New Zealand Saudi Dairy Company and Vina Milk Vietnam who where assisted so I discovered after an Offical Information Request and open source material search by Vostock Immigration Russia, whose CEO is Ian Robertson a share holder in Prok Bank Vanuatu. Prok co-director included Ross Meurant a former National MP and bag man for donation made to New Zealand First who admits he still works with the former Russian KGB officers, in Eastern Europe and Middle east, who set up Prok with Robertson and Meurant in 1995. Interestingly Meurant is also an author who wrote the spy novel The Syrian Connection – which exposes American interference in transfer of money for non sanctioned exports and how a Kiwi and Russian KGB agent subverted the blockade. Vostock Immigration Ltd worked out of the NZ embassy on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs handling the United Nation’s Food For Oil (known in Australia as ‘Weapons for Wheat’) payments. See Also State Secrets III The Vidgen Papers.
  
• The independent inquiry by former US Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker specifically pointing to the Vietnam Northern Food Corporation and the Vietnam Dairy Products Company which together accounted for US$1.4 billion in sales to Iraq under the oil-for-food program. Mr Volcker’s committee estimated that VinaMilk paid US$23.5 million in “fees” to an intermediary with the Iraq regime. At the end of the oil-for-food program, in the first five months of 2004, NZ supplied 43 per cent of Vietnam’s total dairy imports when Vietnam was sending 98 per cent of its dairy exports to Iraq. OIA documents confirm over 80% of the dairy product imported into Iraq undr the scheme came from New Zealand. The report said the Vietnamese exporter paid millions in kickbacks to the Iraqi regime.
  
• Wiki-leak US embassy cables show in turn that Senior Defence Ministry staff told the United States Embassy that former Prime Minister Helen Clark had decided to send soldiers to Iraq to stop Fonterra losing lucrative Oil for Food contracts. Winston Peter, a well known political opportunist of the style of Trump here in New Zealand, built much of his political reputation on the Winebox allegations. He has never however being asked how those files came into his possession.
  
  Like wise his links to Paul White a used computer salesmen are blurry. White, prior to his death in controversial circumstances, came into possession of 98 computer disk, which Winston described in perfect details during questions on the SFO investigation into Wine box with allegedly damming information of Food For Oil for Eastern European arms/ ‘Guns for Butter; involving key New Zealand banks and financers. Peters own bag man for collecting election donations former policer officer, National MP, and arm dealer Ross Meurant would have business to those Peter’s accused via Prok Bank a Vanuatu based tax bank run by former Russian spies and the former head of the New Zealand Dairy Board Eastern European operations Ian Robertson who own firms deal in Russian munitions and precious metal related to the nuclear industry Vostock Exports.
  
• 
  
  The Carlyle Group profited greatly from 9/11.
  
  It owns United Defense, with whom the army signed contracts for millions and millions of dollars during the War on Terror. Another company owned by the Carlyle group is Booz Allen Hamilton, a government contractor who has done work for both the United States Defence and the NSA in the post 9/11 years, making gigantic profits. Done namely through the purchase of influence over the daily flow of information to American media consumers. Through a dizzying array of connections to the national security state, and a media empire (that shields from critical scrutiny) E-Bay founder and chief of Booze Allen Hamilton Pierre Omidyar,a Paradise Papers patron, has become one of the world’s most politically sophisticated data brokering oligarch in an era when the days of hard cash look numbered. Source: EPAYMENT Market like to become a Oligopoly
  
• Through the kiwi ANZ backed (backed by Carlyle) snapping up of printing presses, as digital data and the ecomerce trade like wise move towards ownership by global monopolies, a major blow was dealt to independent printing in Australasia.  
  
• Carlucci was affiliated with the Project for the New American Century (PNAC).
  
  PNAC co-signature Richard V Allen, a part time resident in New Zealand, is credited with helping planning strategy which saw former New York merchant banker John Key elected Prime Minister of New Zealand in 2008. Key a current ANZ director was elected with the support of New Zealand’s powerful Business Round Table figures like Stephen Jennings. Jennings is a former NZ Treasury and Credit Suisse executive who today is now invested heavily in Africa, helping grow China economy, after his success of Renaissance Bank Moscow in the late 1990’s. Allen was a key player in the Iran Contra affair and roped in NZ and Australian politicians via Project Democracy as covered by TVNZ Current affairs program Eyewitness who busted one meeting which took place here in NZ in 1987.
  
  Project Democracy included Australian PM Malcolm Fraser, chairman of CARE AUSTRALIA who employed Pacific Express (Southern World Airlines linked) to ship aid to Somalia where CARE Australia was involved in relief work. CARE also assisted Australian Intelligence in its Somali compound staffed by Phoebe Fraser Malcolm’s daughter.  My first book deal with this along with US Intelligence links to the death in Somali of UN contractor and New Zealander David Morris (accused by African Papers of drug trafficking) whose lawyer was James Woolesley a former CIA Director and share holder in DynCorp. Dyn Corp was tied to organised crime arms aand human trafficking and narcotics trafficking in Kosovo and Bosnia according to Kathryn Bolkovac, a U.S. policewoman who served as a U.N. peacekeeper. Conflicts where CARE was again busted for being used as  a cover for western intelligence agencies in a very public affairs. DynCorp International ironically provides aviation support to reduce the flow of illicit drugs, strengthen law enforcement, and eliminate terrorism in countries like Columbia. A statement to be taken in the context that according to the 1995 magazine Colors a third of the 20 million bounty placed n drug dealer Pablo Escobar came from three way split between the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the Columbian government and Pablo chief rival the Cali cocaine cartel.
  
• Allen in a legal memorandum to myself, threatening legal action for my 2005 article on his past.
  
  The memorandum fingers US Secretary of Defence John Towers as responsible for the original Iran Contra meeting which acted as a catalyst for the 1980’s Iran Contra scandal. Towers chaired the Iran Contra Committee which examined the President and vice president knowledge of the Iran Contra Conspiracy and largely exonerated the president, vice president and Allen.
  
  The committee, which some with once quipped was ‘the finest committee money could buy’, also included on it staff Julius Genachowski Carlyle managing director involved in the U.S. buyout team focused on the global acquisition of telecommunications, media and technology group, and growth investments in global technology, media and telecom, including Internet and mobile platforms for the purposes of establishing commerical monopolies.

Once Upon A Time In Mexico.

Details are now emerging in 2023 on this via the rise of the New Hampshire money laundering scandal which alleges ties to both the Democrats and Republicans in the USA. As well as gangsters and nuclear arms dealers aplenty. Or it does if you don’t read purely pro republican/ pro democrat accounts of Credit Suisse Silicon Valley, First Boston crashes.

Under a restructuring plan — which is being described as a pre-packaged bankruptcy — DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, which is part of Credit Suisse, First Boston and Donald Trump (the chairman, chief executive and largest shareholder), would invest a total of $400 million to help the company pay down its $1.8 billion in debt and cut interest payments, noted the Associated Press.

Where Going To Need A Bigger Boat. Epstein Trump & the Gangster Banks of NY.

Suisse also ties back to Donald Trump paid a million dollars to shady Kazakhstan bank B.T.A. involved unorthodox financial practices that experts described as “red flags” for bank fraud and money laundering; as the bank was intertwined with a Kazakh oligarch and coke mobsters with direct links to Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin.

This was back in the day when Donald played golf reguarly with the Clintons, swung with Epstein in Florida and had his Trump Tower financed by George Soros.

B.T.A. in turn had raised money by selling bonds through J. P. Morgan, Credit Suisse, and many other top Western banks based in New York.

If these Western banks knew that a senior B.T.A. official was heavily involved in the operations of a company lending Trump cash, was also receiving huge loans from B.T.A., they did not say.

Tristane Capital and Schildershoven Finance moved from using Deutsche Bank to ING Bank in 2013. Deutsche’s role dates back to 2011, when its turnover began to drop in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Two Dutch securities traders, Tristane Capital and Schildershoven Finance, were allegedly key players in the movement of billions of euros out of Russia. The two companies were European counterparties of the so-called Moscow Mirror Network which FINCEN says included the New York branches of Deutsch, JP Morgan, and Danake bank Estonia and other banks registered in the United Kingdom cited by FINCEN as laundering for gangs in Australia, Mexican cartels, Islamic terror groups and Russian mobsters.

As detail emerge of Credit Suisse and other major Western banks (with branches in New York) shady dealings in many many emerging scandals, one punter calling it ‘a slow motion multiple car pile up’, it clear the relationship included those who used CIA money for guerrillas in Afghanistan to fund both transnational crime, terrorism and arms deals, including Saudi Israeli Pakistani nuclear weapons ambitions. Again Trump and the Clinton’s name surfaces as the Republican and Democrats seemingly race each other to the bottom.

A House Oversight Committee report revealed the extent to which a private company and the Trump allies associated with it were able to use the Trump administration to further their own financial interests in Riyadh. The House report centers on how IP3, a private company described by one nuclear industry exec as “the Theranos of the nuclear industry,” has been attempting to circumvent the obstacles stopping them from transferring U.S. nuclear technology to the Saudis—with the Trump team’s help. “With regard to Saudi Arabia, the Trump Administration has virtually obliterated the lines normally separating government policymaking from corporate and foreign interests,”

The House report alleges. “The documents show the Administration’s willingness to let private parties with close ties to the President wield outsized influence over U.S. policy towards Saudi Arabia” Source: REPORT ACCUSES TRUMP ALLIES OF CONSPIRING TO PROFIT OFF SAUDI NUCLEAR DEAL Vanity Fair 2019.

A trail which has it original roots in the Iran Contra scandal and echoes the long refuted but now increasingly vindicated reports of the late Gary Webb (who penned the Dark Alliances series for the Mercury Times San Francisco) and Danny Casaloro who wrote on the ‘Octopus‘ guns, drugs, terror network. A ploy also echoed by Lester Coleman, a Defence Intelligence Agency a whistle blower, who inturn raised the net work links to the Lockerbie bombing and 1981 US Embassy Barracks bombing in Lebanon. Links which once again rise the ugly specter of a James Bond SPECTRE Octopus like cartel of bankers, industrialist and spooks, using bipartisan state actors as having being involved in 911 related geo-politics. A claim many family members involved in current class action suits against the Royal house of Saudi maintain. A claim lets not forget which the White House itself raises whenever Saudi Arabia (a 30% shareholder in Credit Suisse), looks like it won’t play ball with US foreign and economic policy and is perceived as drifting towards China’s alternative petro based economic vision as opposed to the traditional US dollar hegemony. Claims once dismissed offhand as crazy conspiracy are now being vindicated by what is emerging from Credit Suisse’s crooked vaults.

One of Credit Suisse exposed CIA terror funding assets being none other than Pakistan leader General Ziaul Haq’s closest aides General Akhtar Abdur Rahman Khan (and the man largely credited with establishing the Mujaheddin network to counter Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan). In fact senior intelligence officials and their offspring from several countries cooperated with the US also had money stashed at Credit Suisse. “As the head of the Pakistani intelligence agency, General Akhtar Abdur Rahman Khan helped funnel billions of dollars in cash and other aid from the US and other countries to the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan to support their fight against the Soviet Union,” the NYT report says.

According to the newspaper, a Credit Suisse account was opened in the name of three of General Akhtar’s sons in 1985, “the account would grow to hold $3.7 million, the leaked records show.” A report by OCCRP (The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project), with a network of investigative journalists on six continents, was more specific: it claimed that the Saudi Arabian and US funding for Mujahideen fighters battling Russia’s presence in Afghanistan would go to the CIA’s Swiss bank account.

The end recipient in the process was Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence group (ISI), [at the time] led by Akhtar,” the report said. The report states that “by the mid-1980s, Akhtar was adept at getting CIA cash into the hands of Afghan jihadists. It was around this time that Credit Suisse accounts were opened in the names of his three sons.” OCCRP’s report stated that one of the two Akhtar family accounts at Credit Suisse — held jointly by three of Akhtar’s sons — was opened on July 1, 1985. That same year, US President Ronald Reagan would raise concerns about where the money intended for the Mujahideen was going. By 2003, this account was worth at least five million Swiss francs ($3.7 million at the time). According to the OCCRP, the data also reveals that 15 intelligence figures from around the world, or their close family members, have held accounts at Credit Suisse. Source:US Eyes on Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Many of those ‘oil for guns’ terror accounts have washed cash though New Zealand banks using methodology familiar to any one who has studied the Winebox or Gang of 20 affair active in New Zealand which repeatedly involveD associates of Geoffrey Wilding.

And this is also true of those New Zealand interest later involved with the interconnecting Panama Paradise, Pandora Papers and , Azerbaijani Laundromat Guns for Oil net works. (See ‘Israel’s State-Run Aerospace Giant Contributed to Azerbaijani Laundromat/ Jetfield Networks‘ was founded in 2009 in New Zealand)

And with the point of demonstrating how the ghost of the CIA/Mossad Iran Contra ghost (and its ties to financing Islamic extremism and other crimes including its links to narco trafficking) still walks among us let us return to discussing New Zealand, a Five Eyes spy club members, white collar crime history and forty years of cover up of US intelligence assets. Case in point the later mysteriously dead Rusian Oglicarch MiKhail Friedman of VTB Bank who was also chairman of the Altimo Foundation a vehicle used to pump shady cash into the West according to the Paradise Papers.

In 2008 Mikhail Friedman appointed New Zealander Mike Moore (now deceased) as chairman of his Altimo Foundation, which is listed in the Paradise Papers and linked to VTB bribery network. VTB was partner to the Credit Suissee Mozambique UN corruption aid for guns bribery scandal which was partially laundered through New Zealand. As where other companies associated with the Azerbaijani Laundromat Oil for Guns net work registered in New Zealand which have being identified by reporters from the ICIJ,RNZ, including Nicky Hager, as well as this author.

Mike Moore was a former New Zealand Prime Minister, who headed the WTO, was NZ’s American Ambassador to the USA and a UN Migration Special Envoy. He was also the sales man of Labour ‘s economic right turn in the 1980’s often called Rogernomics in New Zealand by the local media (named after its chief architecture Sir Roger Douglas CEO of the BNZ, New Zealand finance minister. Rogernomics) and alternatively termed by offshore academics the ‘New Zealand Experiment’ in reference to Douglas policy having then being shipped offshore to the governments of Clinton, Blair and Putin at the start of the 1990s.

Before the Azerbaijani Laundromat Oil for Guns network was the United Nation Food For Oil Program bribery scandal. The payments to Russian oil firms, under the scheme, have now been described as a failed attempt by US investors (such as Texan oil magnate Oscar Wyatt) to cover up their taxes evasion in Russia by attempting to bribe the Putin administration. The Russian tax fraud, by offshore investors, relates to assets (natural resources, oil, and utilities privatization) brought under the privatisation of Russia in the mid 1990. This follows the St Petersburg pilot privatisation program, based on the ‘New Zealand Experiment’, over seen by Credit Suisse banker New Zealand born Stephen Jennings.

Jennings is previously credited with the sell off of the NZ Railways under Rogernomics where he then worked as a senior New Zealand Treasury official. The sale followed the approval of several directors NZ Railway was sold to Fay Richwhite Investments. Fay Richwhite, who later employed several of those RNZ directors who apporved the sale, afterwards prior to Fay Richwhite in the wake of the Winebox tax evasion scandal, fleeing New Zealand and setting up in Switzerland Geneva (not far from the offices of the WTO and UN). In 2004 Jennings gave the National Party $20,000.

Post 1995 Fay Richwhite’s name had become in New Zealand notorious with tax evasion and white collar crime following the Winebox Inquiry which focused on money moved offshore into Pacific based tax haven such as the Cook Islands where tax certificates where then signed off by corrupt official and taxes declared paid when they had not being. An affair surrounded in rummours ot the transaction masking a complicated guns for butter deal. Rumours ignored by local press as they took the lead of local politicians tryig to down play the rumours which whould later be vinicated by events in hindsight. Such as Wikileaks reveled New Zealand was involved in the UN Fod For Oil Scandal as it feared missing out on lucrative post war contracts.

The SFO, whose new boss Charles Sturt (also the author of Dirty Collars 1995) daughter even baby sat for Michael Fay a senior partner at Fay Richwhite, was and is widely considered a joke and is some time referred to as the Seriously Fraught Office. This author contends that the recent death of a spate of Russian oil executive linked to VTB and the Food For Oil Program Russian bribes and tax evasion and it now looks as if someone is keen to clean up loose ends and do so very quickly. To explain it from the New Zealand end it best to examine the scams and fraud involving involving Mr Wilding former associates listed above.

II) ALI BABA & THE SHEARING GANG OF 200‘ Robert John Warburton; 

— Auckland lawyer convicted of fraud for his role in a multi million-dollar property scam struck off the roll of barristers and solicitors. Warburton was involved in New Zealand earliest known organised white collar crime syndicate the G20. Also involved in failed Air Niue venture. See Ray Young# See Colin McKenna#

Called the Gang of Twenty hundreds of Kiwi where involved in this property money laundering scam. The article ‘Peterson Rebel or Reformer’ would highlight how politicians during the 1980’s, with ties to Gang of 20 (including Robert John Warburton an associate of Wildings ), were loathed to hear that white collar crime existed in New Zealand.

Unsurprisingly The Gang of Twenty fraud scammers of the late 1970’s and 1980’s where not fans of Justice Department investigator and using their clout with parliament would try to have whistle blower Keith Petersen fired. In the end Petersen’s, who I interviewed for my book State Secrets reputation held after the stock market crash and the true colors of many of the darling of the stock exchange and New Zealand businesses papers came to light.

• ‘$168,000 GST cash ‘taken away in canvas bag’  (Source: National Business Review March 1 1989): High light’s G20 GST Fraud methodology relating to luxury vessels confirms and Warburton ties to the Gang of Twenty affair—- The bad news is there wasn’t much else (media wide) listed in any archive or database when I first looked. I would be staggered as time and time again digital copies where missing, CD-Rom files absent, microfiche absent.
  
  The good news is it gave me a date. And as I already knew NBR did heaps on G20 I grabbed back copies in bulk and trudge my way through the New Zealand bussiness papers hard copy by hard copy. I also ran checks with Hansard parlimentary records as the matter received large mileage in parliament at the time. — Again its rather odd there is so little on this issue digitally archived as it is the first major case of money laundering in New Zealand. Petersen insisted in my interview with him by saying the cash at the centre of the G20 fraud and originated from Saudi Arabia. Inturn the Winebox, which also uses many of the same fraud templates we first saw in G20 which inturn mirrors the Paradise and Panama Papers fraud process. In each case central to the fraud is bad debt or tax is written off in a way which sees legitimate investors fleeced or in end, in a state sanctioned bailout the banks are bailed out by the tax payer.
  
  Note: A request to study the parlimetary file of National MP Paul East on the notes he was sent by Keith Petersen was not answered at the time of going to print three months later.
  
  Can I See Your CV
  
  I call the laundering, in its entire transactional history, the CV laundering pattern signature. Mostly because when this author tracked it on a world map it physically looked like a C joined to a V.
  
  In the case of Panama Papers (which mirror the Winebox methodology), Paradise Papers, the Epstein designed Clinton Global Initiative black funds, the likes of Russian Mexican drug cartel and election donors, cash is routed from its home nation into Pacific subsidiaries of major Australasian Asian banks such as HSBC and the Australian four (ANZ, BNZ, Westpac & ASB). Its then rerouted into Eastern European states such as Lithuania Estonia Bulgaria, Great Britain/Central Europe financial hubs including the Royal Bank of Scotland, Lichentein and Ireland.In the later it is often linked to accounts first established by Bear Stearn, JP Morgan (when Epstein worked there incidentally), or Belgium ING , Switerland institute like Credit Suisse. Then it enters the USA first through lesser banks located in Nevada, New Hampshire, Wyoming, California, Nevada and other US states, before ending up in the New York major bank branches of chiefly Credit Suisse, JP Morgan and Deutsch bank.
  
  WINE BOX DEJAVU.
  
  A quick peek in the Winebox inquiry files, which are vast (One file alone consist of 5 boxes containing about  50 folders), began with looking at a directory of players hoping to find the aviation firms I know are in their on basis of Wildings ties to American Harvey Misbin and Misbin ties to Israeli Russian arms dealer Shimon Lahav aka Simon Spitz Pacific Express (formerly Metro Cargo Switzerland Lugano STATE SECRETS PAGES 99-100 105 182 283). Lahav features prominently in both my books State Secrets (1999 Howling At The Moon) and State Secrets II.
  
  In the naional archives I review the TVNZ compilation of actors involved in the Winebox inquiry and can see it had been put together for TVNZ by my former publisher. Wishart prior to signing with him published a book on the topic called The Paradise Conspiracy. That book looks at the files tied to arms dealers and spooks. It speaks of the above mentioned rumurs of a gun for butter deal ahead of the UNFFOP being outed after local politiians who had insisted there was no bones on such urban myths.. A subsequent book by Wishart ‘Lawyers Guns & Money‘ focuses more on various transactions linked to Winebox star European Pacific*1, the main vehicle used by Fay Richwhite (and others) including the movie and bloodstock industry. What grabs my attention on that book and those transaction is;
  
  A; They deal with transaction movement through Netherlands, Luxembourg,  Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and  Pacific Islands covering areas Wilding operates in. In basically a repeat of the CV money laundering pattern I describe above.
  
  B; Europe, Ireland, Pacifica minus the USA this pretty much the same route used by Jefrrey Epstein whose own money laundering has being grossly under reported and is the real story behind the names in the little black book in my view Epstein did after all broker the sale of Khashoggi yatch.
  
  Epstein connections to Trump begin in the 1980s, when Trump and Robert Maxwell owner of London’s Daily Mirror tabloid, rubbed shoulders on the high-flying Manhattan party circuit and Trump came in contact with Ghislaine Maxwell Jefrrey Epstein’s future girl friend and partner in crime. Crimes laundered through the New York branches of Deutsch Bank and JP Morgan. In 1989 Trump and the Maxwells were at a party aboard Robert Maxwell’s, yacht the Lady Ghislaine (Photo above) attended by former Republican Senator John Tower of Texas when Trump brought up the subject of his own yacht the Trump Princess (Photo below). A luxury vessel purchased from major Iran-Contra player Adnan Khashoggi with Jeffry Epstein as the broker. Maxwell father a media magnate, orginally from Czechoslavakia, had in fact made his fortune trafficking weapons and scientific secrets between the east and west in the early days of the cold war.

THE SERIOUSLY FRAUGHT OFFICE:

That Petersen survived multiple attempt to fire and discredit him was in part because of the public success he had in showing how New Zealand politicians had tried to cover up New Zealand biggest aviation accident the Air New Zealand ( A firm today managed by ex New Zealand PM John Key of the ANZ and potential future PM Chris Luxon ) Erebus Antarctica air disaster investigation. Petersen Erebus investigation and credibility was vindicated after the Crown and Air New Zealand version of events was termed a “litany of lies” by a subsequent High Court Justice.

The outcome of Erebus was parliament decided if they could not get rid of Petersen to take the Justice Department out of the business of investigating corporate fraud they would establish a new body to replace him. That office named the Serious Fraud Office would be run by those more ‘obedient’ to ‘investigate (cough) fraud instead. Speaking today academic Dr Greg New Bold, a recognized specialist in New Zealand organised crime, has no love for SFO or those that sought to smear Petersen and he has provided details off the record which incriminate those who where keen to publicly down play Peterson allegations of a need for an inquiry into state sanctioned corruption.The key thing to understand about Petersen and his clash with politicians, including Labour’s Geoffrey Palmer, then New Zealad’s Attorney General, covering for mates of their political party is;

A: The SFO was established not because the previous agency tasked with this job The Justice Department could not do the job. Rather the issue was the Justice Department investigators could not be relied on to do as they were told. Worse, as far as the status quo was concerned, Justice New Zealand tended to actually investigate corruption in New Zealand against direct orders to do so.

B; The original choice for the SFO, who where brought into replace Justice was Warrick Reid a kiwi born magistrate in Hong Kong. Reid never spent a day in his new job as just before starting work he was arrested for leaking data to the Triads.

Reid as a Hong Kong magistrate was involved in the Carrian Fraud affair and even his plea deal was considered in itself a cover up that protected power Chinese families. Reid replacement would also recruited from Hong Kong corrupted magistrate circles and though never vetted in relation to this the corrupt Hong Kong circle who came to dominate the SFO would be viewed with equal cynicism by those in the know according to my sources including Professor Newbold.

An example of this (which backs up their view of the SFO as a compromised law enforcement) is the SFO’s non investigation of New Zealand’s role United Nation Food For Oil Program (UNFFOP) as criticized by the international whistle blowing agency Transparency International.

UNFFOP, over seen by the late David Mace from Queenstown New Zealand (who worked on the Carrian liquidation before becoming a senior partner at Ernst & Young Hong Kong and then Bao Steel China USA),  was one of the mean by which payment to Russians oil firms, Including those linked to New Zealand America’s Cup investor such as Mikhail Khimich and Mikhail Fridman of VTB. These payment have been described as a failed attempt by US investors (such as Texan Oscar Wyatt) to cover their taxes in Russia after attempting to bribe the Putin.

• Note their where several investigation of the UN scandal the three main leading probes where the UN ‘Volckner Report’ that cited possiable corruption but did not follow the money – the US investigation which predicatably found no corruption within the UN itself and an Iraqi investigation which found corruption and cited the bulk of the money was ending up in China via Russia. This investigation ground to halt after a car bombing killed Ihsan Karim, who was in charge of the Iraqi end of the Oil For Food investigation.

Robert John Warburton was sentenced in January 2007 to 21 months’ jail, with leave to apply for home detention, after admitting four charges in connection with a $6.6 million scam that preyed on home owners, mainly in the Waikato. Warburton was convicted with 21 other professionals, including lawyers, mortgage brokers and accountants, arrested as part of the police Operation Allsorts. ‘

All-sort scammers included; former property valuer James Thomas Findlay stood for Waikato council in 2017 maintains he is innocent —Arden Fatu ex Boxer — Wayne Gilbert Sealey Oamaru farm manager only one to plead guilty —  Carole Elizabeth Fleming’s 3 charges along with husband  Robert William Stirling — mortgage broker Miles McKelvy 112 charges — Margaret Elizabeth Carran 11 charges –  John Kenneth Slavich Hamilton 12 charges –  Malcolm Davod Mulligan 6 charges — Craig Garry Dawick 3 charges – Kevin Paul Stephen 2 charges – Michael Thomas George Perry 16 charges – Graham Charles Fisher 2 charges Tobias James Lyod Muir 1 charge— John Fong, 63, Hamilton, 4 charges. Wayne John Steiner-Simpson, 62, Otahuhu, 8 charges – Stephen Clifford Buckland, 29, Hawera, 2 charges.Two other men had their names and details suppressed, one faced 8 charges, the other 25. Leslie Orchard aka James Adams who pleaded guilty to 686 fraud-related charges.

Police declared this an “Organised criminal enterprise involved in fraudulent activities to obtain loans from financial institutions”.  “It is alleged that the money from the loans has been ‘laundered’ in a number of ways, leaving either the financial institutions or innocent property owners with substantial losses.”  victims, unable to raise funds from first-tier lenders such as trading banks, went to mortgage brokers among the group who then allegedly tricked them into signing sale and purchase agreements for their property. Alleged gang involvement but no details. Specifically conspirators realised solicitors had stopped ordering the full version of property titles during conveyancing work. Instead, they would obtain a short electronic form, showing only the owner’s name and any mortgages. It meant that, with the right documents, freehold property was ripe for identity fraud. The Crown believed McKelvy found suitable names, Orchard went to the Land Transfer Office for the title and the council for the rates notice, and together they would forge IDs, using a copy of Orchard’s genuine passport.

2004: US drug enforcer DEA seeks extradition of New Zealand fraudster Miles John McKelvy to face drug conspiracy charges in the United States after investigation into Hells Angels gang in Romania An Auckland man wanted by American drug enforcers for allegedly conspiring to import cocaine, after an investigation into the Hells Angels gang in Romania, has a long criminal history as an “insidious” fraudster and drug smuggler. This Followed raids on eight properties across Bucharest last week aimed at “dismantling an organised criminal group specialized in committing crimes of cross-border high-risk drug trafficking, money laundering and instigation of aggravated murder”. 

In the same era Credit Suisse has become the first domestic bank to be found guilty of a corporate crime by Swiss authorities after a court found the lender failed to stop the laundering of Bulgarian drug money. The verdict was handed down in the southern Swiss city of Bellinzona by the country’s highest criminal court on Monday. Judges imposed a SFr2mn fine on the bank and ordered it to pay €18.6mn in compensation to the Swiss government. The case centered on Credit Suisse’s role in accepting millions of euros in deposits from a group of Bulgarian clients between 2004 and 2008. Judges ruled that the bank ignored obvious red flags — including huge sums of cash being brought in suitcases and two assassinations — that hinted at the possible criminal origins of the funds.

Source: Credit Suisse found guilty over Bulgarian drug money failings 27/6/2022 Financial Times

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has sought the extradition of Miles John McKelvy – who is not a member of the motorcycle gang – to face drug trafficking charges in the United States with two other New Zealanders who were arrested in Romania. Marc Patrick Johnson and Michael Murray Matthews, both New Zealand citizens, were arrested with the president of the Bucharest chapter of the Hells Angels (whose sub chapter includes the Viking MC linked to both Canadian Vikings and Viking MC which in New Zealand has links to brothel owner Steven Crow and Kelvyn Alps gold scam fraudster, director of Phoenix International, in the Solomons, an associate of former CIA analyst Leonce Kealey and alternative media pundit whose channel is hosted by Steven Bannon (Trump).

Matthews was identified as a patched member of the Hell’s Angels New Zealand and Johnson has a long history of methamphetamine manufacture. After their arrests the DEA asked New Zealand police to arrest the 62-year-old McKelvy as part of the alleged conspiracy to import Mexican cocaine into New Zealand.

Matthews became a suspect in Operation Leopard after the Customs Service seized six importations of the narcotic GBL between October 2014 and January 2015. The total of 81 litres was worth around $354,000, while a further four shipments of unknown quantity slipped through to Auckland’s party scene.

Journalist David Fisher said in print the New Zealand drug market is not all about gangs and that the key people financing it are white collar criminals and household known names.

Case in point in 1995 the head of TVNZ NZ main TV channel Neil Roberts is busted with a1KG of cocaine in his famous black Porsche on top of the Auckland Harbour bridge. No media outlet bar Rocknroll rag ‘Rip It Up’ ever reported this. Roberts does not go to jail instead he stands down from Communication firm Communicardo Productions with partners Sir Paul Holmes – whose daughter is tight with the Head Hunters gang -, Karen Soich a media lawyer and former girlfriend of Mr Asia.

The Mr Asia drug case was the biggest drug syndicate in NZ history which also had CIA ties according to Wall Street Journal and Paul Kwitney Crimes of the Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money and the CIA’ (which won a Pullitzer – the highest ranking coveted media award). Kwitney describes how Mr Asia distributed drugs to gangs, including the Hells Angels, in NZ and Australia and then laundered the money through a CIA controlled bank called Nugan Hand based in Sydney Australia.

Communicardo Production first documentary for TV was ‘The Grim Face of Power’ never views until 11 years later in a very edited version of the original cut. Not mentioned in the on air version how Robert Muldoon, a New Zealand Prime Minister, accountancy firm handled the original firm used by Mr Asia to launder drugs including Millstone Charters Ltd.  Muldoon, whose pre politics nick name was the Bookie From Tepuke ,would be made an honorary members of the rival gangs Black Power and Mongrel Mob (who provided an honour guard at his funeral) due to his role in establishing a government funded scheme which saw gangs selected for contract tender work. An act which in fact gave many gangs including Black Power their original financial base from which they expanded into drugs and other criminal enterprises and gangs became parliament favourite whipping horse for why we need tougher and more powerful police powers. A sample of where and how New Zealand high society meet and mingle with New Zealand underbelly, to illustrate how Muldoon’s relations with organised crime is not unusual in New Zealand (a nation with a relatively small population), is given in The Sunday Star Times excellent article by Bridget Saynders Fight Night at the Headhunters HQ. 

I concur with David Fisher (whose on record sources included top law enforcement officials in Haiwaii) and Saynders in States Secrets. My publisher received death threat relating to my books reporting of CIA Cociane trafficker Thomas Wilding links to New Zealand. No apparent ties to Geoffrey Wilding but an African American who met with Fay Richwhite in Tonga (ground zero for drugs importing into the Pacific ). Winer, who we where told had CIA protection, wanted to make Tonga a drug warehouse which today it pretty much is. The interesting thing at the time of those death threats, which declared “if the Winer book comes out you’re all dead “, is the only three people who knew Winer was in the book was me, my publisher and Fay Richwhite Investments. This is after my publisher faxed a questionnaire to regarding the purpose of their lunch with Winer (as reported by our sources including a former Tongan PM).

The context of what happened in Tonga needs to be seen in the context of the fall of the Canadian intelligence analysts Cameron Ortis. Ortis was investigating money laundering for NZ Australia but ended up leaking secrets to the Russian mob, the Mexican cartels and Australian headed gangs whose money ends upin China*. The Ortis affair demonstrates the share scale of the trade and how deeply Australia and NZ are involved after 35 years of destabilization of not just the Pacific resources but its commercial banking sector as well.  

* Ortis who dealt with Mexican and Russian cartels laundering money in Australia big four banks (including those laundering into Hong Kong with the money going into China), using the CV network that can also be associated with Western intelligence and Western Saudi Israeli banking ties.

Its a highly sophisticated operation with its own advanced HR and recruitment process making sure they get the best of the best. For example Court documents show Johnson curriculum vitae which was seized on 11 January 2000 in the course of a search of the appellant’s house. The curriculum vitae showed that the Johnson had a New Zealand Certificate of Science in Chemistry and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Hertfordshire.It also showed that he had been employed by organisations of national and international repute as an analytical chemist, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant and chemical manufacturer and laboratory assistant. He proclaimed key skills of an analytical organisational and standards nature. The Crown opened to the jury that Johnson had the most experience with chemicals and chemistry processes and he was clearly what might be termed a “cook”. His CV  was seized in January 2000 during the termination phase of a Police surveillance operation known as “Operation Mexico” (based on a gang members names – as opposed to direct connections to Mexico). A computer which was found to have on its hard drive internet sourced data relating to the manufacture and distribution of methamphetamine. The appellant and several others were arrested on charges relating to the manufacture and supply of methamphetamine.Operation Mexico saw Johnson convicted and  sentenced to 3 years imprisonment was linked to an investigation into the Head Hunters who are aligned with the Hells Angels. 

Source: Operation Mexico was headed by Detective Sergeant Darryl Brazier (one of my contacts for State Secrets II 2006 Deadline Publishing).

a horse is a horse ….

Operation Mexico had parrels with Operation Ark 2003:  Hells Angels member Karel Sroubek flees Czech Republic as witness to a murder. Enters New Zealand with a false passport in the name of Jan Antolik. Later gains residency and represents his new country as a kick-boxer. A chronology of Srobek & Hell Angel cocaine involvement in New Zealand is as follows;

2009: Soubrek true identity discovered when Czech police contact their counterparts in NZ.

2010: McElvy arrested with two Hells Angels on aggravated robbery and blackmail charges. Acquitted on all charges. Those cooks like Johnston are highly qualified university educated chemists and include Dr Andy Lavrent and 1080 blackmailer pesticide manufacture Jeremy Kerr.

Kickboxer and anti woman violence spokesman Richie Hardcore repeatedly petitioned New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern married to Clarke Gayford, a partime DJ with George FM, to help Soubrek vouching for his character (despite Soubrek’s own estranged wife being clearly afraid of him). When Ardern’s relation with Richie Hardcore was questioned Ardern said she had met him once or twice (there are in fact over half a dozen photos of Hardcore with Ardern). Gayford links to drugs trafficking has been subject of numerous rumors. However, under public pressure the police released a statement saying Gayford had never been arrested for drugs. It failed to say if he had ever been investigated or mentioned in relation to the investigation of drug. Under New Zealand privacy laws, the police would be prohibited from saying so or providing context to how an individual was involved unless convicted.

2016: An American man and a Mexican man were arrested and charged after 35kg of the drug was found concealed inside a diamante horse head. Ronald Wayne Cook was jailed for 17 years and nine months, while Agustin Suarez-Juarez received 19 years and nine months.

2016: Kiwi kickboxer has reportedly been arrested in Colombia and is due to face drug trafficking charges in Argentina. The Columbia Reports website said Peter Leaitua was arrested at the international airport of Medellin, Colombia’s second largest city. According to Argentine authorities, the amateur kickboxer “used his reputation as a kickbox fighter to take advantage of his contacts and influences in illegal activities”. The newspaper El Tiempo reported that the sportsman was in Colombia to coordinate new ways of trafficking cocaine from Colombia to Europe and Oceania including Australia and New Zealand.

2017: A gang leader, an associate, a kick boxer and celebrity hair stylist, part of an Auckland cocaine ring, based in Ponsyby, who have been sentenced alternatively to jail and home detention.

The later group given permanent name suppression. The men were involved in a cocaine ring and arrested during a police investigation code-named Operation Ceviche. The people they sold to have kept their names secret but are named in court documents and include people who work for a high-profile financial businesses and the entertainment industry.

The covert investigation by the National Organised Crime Group initially focused on Anthony “Ants” Nansen a senior Hells Angel and champion fighter. Police were monitoring Nansen’s, the Angels sergeant at arms, phone calls and movements, which led Operation Ceviche to two others allegedly running their own “mini drug supply networks” through the hairdresser and fashion designer. In total, the police seized almost 760g of cocaine with a street value of more than $300,000.

2021: Kiwi boxer Joseph Parker is the sports star police allege was linked to a major international drug importation and supply conspiracy. Parker was himself not charged in relation to the case. Three members of the syndicate – Fangupo, Kulu, Finau and Halane Ikiua – however were all sentenced to terms of imprisonment in November 2021 for the importation and supply of methamphetamine and cocaine, and conspiracy to supply drugs. A fifth man, Shane Singh, was also jailed for importing a Class A drug. Kulu and Fangupo imported multiple packages of methamphetamine into New Zealand from California that originated from Mexico between June 2017 and January 2018. 21kg of methamphetamine, imported 27kg of cocaine.

2022: January a visiting offshore musician part of New Zealand tour set which included George FM Red Rum DJ tour is found to test positive for Covid after breeching his lockdown early to party with celebrities in Auckland prior t New Year’s Eve. Subsequent covid from the orginal88 infected from contact with the DJ tracking technology documents in real time for the public how Covid spread out from the Auckland CBD, potentially from a New Year block party one of the 88 contact had attended to several adult night spots, brothels , gyms in Auckland before tracking north carried by alleged prostitutes, with gang connections, who breached the lockdown and to several music festival outside Auckland. Eight of the original 88 remained in Auckland, while six DJ flew to Christchurch where they performed at the George FM Red Rum Hidden Lakes Festival on 28 December. “Technical issue” with the Covid Tracer mobile app meant some festival-goers at the George FM Matakana Hidden valley festival weren’t however notified they were at a location of interest. In the same time frame Clarke Gayford later apologises after trying to get friends, visiting offshore DJ at a large unnamed music festival, the a rapid Covid-19 test after they requested it Green Cross Health Tauranga. The Prime Minister refused to answer any further questions on the matter after the apology was issued. One wit calling this Operation Horse Play.

2022: Auckland Hells Angel‘s member accused in record breaking Ecuadorian cocaine case police allege the seven men were involved in an organised criminal group when they allegedly imported 190kg of cocaine into New Zealand. The cocaine was hidden around the outside of pipes concealed inside a hulking boiler originally exported from Ecuador, police allege. Paul McAuslin (Goodfellas Group Limited) a patched member of a Hells Angels Nomads chapter in Auckland, did not apply for ongoing interim name suppression when he appeared before Judge Grant Fraser in the Auckland District Court on Friday morning. Electoral records list his occupation as electrician and he was, until recently, a director and shareholder of a central Auckland boxing gym and listed as apersonal trainer at Les Mill Gym. Raids in mid-November following an investigation by the Police National Organised Crime Group, dubbed Operation Depot, found enormous quantities of the class A drug at a commercial property in New Lynn, West Auckland. 

This all shades of the 1999 ‘Les Mill Van Lent’ drug ring involving a Red Bull events cordinator slash, slash gym bunny, slash hit man with ties to UK organised crime. Auckland gangs and Auckland beautuful peope jet set (see page 110 of State Secrets) Van Lent called Operation Politik; “The ‘Mob’s’ involvement in the Ecstasy trade also reared its head in the 1999 trial of Kim Van Lent who, with several others, was busted in New Zealand’s biggest-ever E-sting. Interestingly, Trent Beetham, the son of former political leader Bruce Beetham, was named by prosecutors in Van Lent’s High Court trial as another major drug dealer, but he was not charged. Despite this, Trent Beetham’s involvement gave the secret police sting its name: Operation Politik. Metro magazine journalist Tim Wilson wrote “Van Lent must be one of the few people to have been invited to both Les Mills and the Headhunters Christmas Party. (1998).

III) EVERY ONE LOVES CHARLIE. Harvey Misbin

Cocaine was rare in New Zealand and the first publicly known major offshore cocaine trafficker to have visited New Zealand (with the goal of setting up shop locally) was American Harvey Misbin an associate of Geoff Wilding and director in Southern World Airlines who listed himself as Keri Keri Orange farmer. In 1987 Harvey Misbin was paid $200,000 per load of co- to pilot a Learjet. Source ‘Colombian Organised Crime and Cocaine Trafficking ‘ Narcotic Bureau Police Department Glendale California USA — page 14).

His drug cartel connection was through his Colombian wife, daughter of a Colombian military officer. Misbin decision to flee to New Zealand after being subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury in relation to massive amounts of cocaine found in an aircraft, on the USA boarder owned by Misbin was a result of the government decision to allow citizens from Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand to enter New Zealand without visas. This policy of easy access unsurprisingly opened New Zealand to criminals from overseas who wanted to gain permanent residency. The policy was over seen and implemented by Aussie Malcolm a minister in Muldoon cabinet and Harvey Misbin Immigration consultant when Malcolm established Malcolm Pacific Immigration.

MISBIN, Jubita HaydeeHAYDEN HOLDINGS LIMITED (362746) (Removed) – Director and Rita MENDEZ (Juita mother) 45 Picasso Drive, West Harbour, 0618 , New Zealand

MISBIN, Jubita HaydeeANZA DISTRIBUTING ( NZ) LIMITED (675930) (Removed) – Shareholder

MISBIN, Jubita HaydeeERIKEN HOLDINGS LIMITED (668041) (Removed) – Shareholder. Share holders also include MCELWEE TRUSTEES LIMITED Eric Brian MISBIN

MISBIN, Jubita HaydeeANZA DISTRIBUTING ( NZ) LIMITED (675930) (Removed) – Director Shareholde. Share holders also include MCELWEE TRUSTEES LIMITED

MISBIN, Jubita HaydeeCAL-WAL GYPSUM SUPPLIES LIMITED (902236) (Removed) – Director

MISBIN, Jubita HaydeeMENDEZ INVESTMENTS LIMITED (1172549) (Removed) – Director C/- Mcelwee & Co, Level 1 Bridgecorp House, 36 Kitchener Street, Auckland , New Zealand

Harvey Misbin upon arriving established the air freight carrier Southern World Airline. This was a replica of charter line Coral Air ways established by Wilding’s associate Ray Young and Rex Harris in Niue and by those linked to a file (named Australian Airlines Limited – Japanese lease) within the Winebox papers proposing an air charter in the Cook Islands which would be under written by those now known to have ties to Russian money launders just two years after the SWA model was set up by rival those later linked to the leaking of Wine Box files to Winston Peters. Australian Airlines Limited which in turn closely mirror the model eventually launched by Auckland real estate guru Mike Perio Pasifika Air. The Cook Island version of Sothern World Airlines was established in 2022 deals involving Quantas (15% owned by JP Morgan) Air New Zealand and European Pacific banking the Wine Box stars who is largely unnamed for most of the file until it eventually listed an Alegemed Bank Netherland’s.

Algemene Bank Nederland was a Dutch bank that was created in 1964 through the merger of the Netherlands Trading Society with the Twentsche Bank. In 1991, ABN merged with Amsterdamsche en Rotterdamsche Bank to form ABN AMRO. Dr. George J. Aditjondro cites the dictator Suharto’s laundering billions out of Indonesia.
Which included buying an instant fleet of Eastern European made battle ships. Some of the funds however also seems to have ended up int real estate in the South Island of New Zealand. One of those land deals involving the now liquidated McConnels Group whose a housing company subsequently purchased by the Chow brothers one of Colin McKenna clients and by business partners to John Key the kiwi born New York merchant banker turned Prime Minister before becoming an ANZ Air New Zealand director and property realty slash cyber technology investor.

In 2005, ABN AMRO had to pay $80 million in fines for “violating regulations to prevent money-laundering.” The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network at the Treasury Department said that ABN had “serious, longstanding and systemic” problems that had allowed oligarch from Russia, and other former Soviet republics (as well as Libya and Iran), to move more than $3.2 billion to shell companies in the United States from August 2002 to September 2003 (20.12.2005 the New York Times).

In 2005, ABN Amro acted as the principle broker in The Royal Dutch/ Shell Group, Gazprom (the Russia’s state controlled gas giant). A deal that has given Royal Dutch/Shell access to the largest gas development in Russia since 1917 (April 13, 2005, Bloomberg News). SEE PAGE 181 & 182 STATE SECRETS II In 2007 following the news of the banks links to organised crime including African based blood diamond trade (See ‘For a Few Dollar$ More
How Al Qaeda moved into the diamond trade page 33 – by Global Witness a watchdog group) they rebranded to become The Royal Bank of Scotland one of the banks who under writes Geoffrey Wilding interest in Victoria PLC along with Dutch bank ING.

The Royal Bank of Scotland is 100 % affiliated division of ABN AMRO Bank N.V. The official name in Russian is Закрытое Акционерное Общество “Королевский Банк Шотландии”. Short official name of the Bank in Russian is “Королевский Банк Шотландии”Dutch Banks ING and ABN AMRO are reports as setting up dozens of companies in island tax havens including the Cook Islands to assist their customers to hide taxes offshore, according to reports by The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Dutch newspaper Trouw found the Dutch banks did this aided by Singapore-based Portcullis TrustNet and British Virgin Islands-based Commonwealth Trust Limited. Its interesting, a an aside, to note the current Private Bank of Cook islands director Phoebus Theologites  states he previously worked for ABN-AMR Toronto and for Bear Stearns, Credit Suisse.

The history of the Cook Islands again highlights the corrupting influence by powerful outside factions. The nepotism of Cook Island Prime Minister Sir Tom Davies is rarely argued. It has being more controversially suggested that Sir Tom, a former scientist for the US Defence Department, was no less than a CIA asset. Such accusations result from incidents such as his role in the Maori Loans affair (See Waitiki Tourist Industry Development, Gang of Twenty), his hiring of people like aviation adviser Dr Laurence Fahey – a former CIA pilot with Air America subsidiary Air Asia (later a subsidiary of E Systems) – or his close relations with CIA front company Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham & Wong whose New Zealand accountant went on to be UNFFOP tender via his directorship of New Zealand firm who deal in waste including the destruction of sensitive documents. Sir Tom’s replacement Sir Geoffrey Henry, by comparison, as the Winebox inquiry revealed, seems to be not much of an improvement.

A Frontline television documentary reported that Misbin, who was granted New Zealand residency, assisted by a former minister of immigration, then citizenship, was wanted in the U. S. for alleged smuggling of cocaine from South America to the United States. Misbin own CV states (Source National Archives) that he previously worked for Golden Jets Airways founded by Lieutenant Colonel Robert A Christy a Vietnam veteran. In 1976 the colonel formed Golden Jet Airways in Los Angeles, and in 1980 co-founded The Air Group, a business jet sales and charter service. Orion Airlines, Incorporated is a California Stock Corporation – Ca – General filed on October 20, 1980. The company’s filing status is listed as Suspended – Ftb and its File Number is 1027557. The Registered Agent on file for this company is Harvey Misbin and is located at 2000 S Reservoir, Pomona, CA 91769. The company’s mailing address was 2000 S Reservoir, Pomona, CA 91769. The company has 1 contact on record. The contact is Miguel A Carranza from Pomona CA. Harvey Misbin CV in New Zealand archives also list he was a pilot for Van Nuys who it turns out have significant CIA and drug ties.

• Speaking to TVNZ Rod Vaughan in 1999 Vaughan believed Misbin ad also served South East Asia but was not sure of the particulars.

An article titled ‘Federal Authorities Arrest Nine Linked to Drug Operation That Used Private Jets to Smuggle Narcotics Across the U.S.’ states a wiretap investigation examined the use of private jets based at Van Nuys Airport to transport illegal drugs resulted in the arrest of nine defendants. The arrests where the result of Operation Jamaican Express West, which focused on the activities of Smooth Air Aviation, a charter company that allegedly facilitated the shipment of narcotics. Van Nuy is among airport linked to CIA operations as covered in Details of Cover of CIA Airline described by head of of the Air Line  and include cases linked directly to Harvey Misbin 1980s Drug U. S. Smuggling Operations and indictments. In the early 1980s Juan Matta-Ballesteros, Matta was involved with major cocaine smuggling operations. In 1984, he was indicted for his role in a Van Nuys smuggling ring. The discovery of the ring in 1981 resulted in the seizure of 114 pounds of cocaine and $1.9 million in cash, and based on ledgers found with the drugs, prosecutors later estimated that the ring had generated $73 million in just nine months.[6] In 1985, Matta was again indicted for his role in a major Mexican cocaine smuggling ring operating in Arizona and southern California. The ring was discovered in 1984, resulting in the seizure of about a ton of cocaine and $7.8 million in cash.[7] This investigation was conducted under the auspices of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) as a cooperative effort between the Drug Enforcement Administration, IRS-Criminal Investigation, and the Los Angeles Metropolitan Police Apprehension Crime Task Force (LA IMPACT).

• Member of Ballesteros drug ring are linked to the kidnap and murder of DEA Special Agent Enrique Camarena Kidnap-Murder by CIA protected death squads: Soon after the February 1985 kidnap-murder of U.S. DEA Special Agent Enrique Camarena, Matta was suspected of involvement, and he was later indicted for his part in the kidnapping. According to journalist Elaine Shannon, Matta was actually located in Mexico City several days after Camarena’s kidnapping, but his arrest was delayed by Mexican authorities and he managed to flee the country.[8] U. S. law enforcement continued to track Matta, and in April 1985, they traced him to the Colombian city of Cartagena. At the DEA’s request, Matta was arrested by the Colombian government.[9] In March 1986, while extradition proceedings were still underway, Matta managed to escaped from prison (according to some accounts by bribing prison authorities).[10] Later that year, Matta returned to his native country of Honduras.[11] Source 6-11 Juan Matta-Ballesteros Wikapedia. Colonel Oliver North a National Security Adviser and convicted Iran Contra conspirator gave Congressional testimony under oath which smeared Camarena’s character while in Robert Mills ‘The Underground Empire’, Where Government and Crime Embrace’ a 1986 Number 1 NY best seller, makes clear Camarena was a highly decorated DEA Special Agent and he was killed by corrupt Mexican law Enforcement who had what member of the CENTAC task force who admitted to Mills had a uncomfortably close working relationship with the CIA and State Department. The usually fiscally stingy Government Accounting Office (imagine the FBI with calculators) recommended that the CENTAC Taskforce (which was deliberately firewalled from outside influence), be expanded but under the Regan Bush era it was shut down despite overwhelming success of the CENTAC program.
  
• 1987: The Iran Contra Operation Project Democracy is established to raise funds for anti-Communist guerrillas in Afghanistan and South America. Project Democracy included Richard V Allen, at the time National Security Adviser to Ronald Reagan and today a New Zealand resident. Allen kiwi neighbors have included several prominent former American spies and folks tied to the Regan Bush era such as James Covert Tyco Security in addition to David Mace of the Food For Oil Program and gold dealer Michael Hill a highly controversial (whose being subject to many rumors in New Zealand) whose own profits soared 165% in 2020. In 2005 during a failed illegal threat against this author Allen identified that the instigator of the so-called Iran Contra affair “was an aide to senator”, who arranged the meeting of future participants “ostensibly” at the request of the Senator. The aid in question was no less than Colonel Robert McFarlane, an asset of Israel intelligence service Mossad and also a future National Security Adviser to Regan and a director in SAFE Air Woodburn Blenheim who undertook work for parent firm Air New Zealand and US Israeli military sources. The Woodburn base was previously used for Operation Railhead the use of Air America craft supplied by the CIA to Muldoon to overcome the 1951 Waterside strike during the Cold War peroid. TVNZ identifies several NZ Australian Project Democracy members including Hugh Templton, Minister of Foreign Affairs under Muldoon and Sue Wood, President of the National Party. Templeton was also a director in an arms firm SM Andrews Ltd run by a former Christchurch old boy Stephen Andrews. Andrews boasted in the companies PR kit that he had done clasisfied work for the Royal Thai Air Force and the CIA in Thailand during the 1970’s. This was at the peak of Air America’s operation when the airline was owned directly by the CIA and the airline owned over 10,000 aircraft ranging from fixed wing Cessna to B52 bombers. Co director Humphrey Rolleston today is chairman of the Christchurch Foundation was also listed as director of the now liquidated South Canterbury Finances (researched in my second book due to their links to Russian mafia network tied to the smuggling of osmium 187) subsidiary Helicopter New Zealand which advertised it was the world leading expert in “Helicopter gunships tactics” who began its life in the late 1960’s according to the biography of co-shareholder Alan Hubbard after buy vehicles from American based in Sydney previously used to smuggle guns out East Europe and into Israel.
  
  The Christchurch Foundation’s sister charity is the Tel Aviv Foundation Chairman of the Canadian branch Nefesh B’Nefes was arrested in 2012 focusing the charity as money laundering front an almost replicate of the John Friedich Australia’s Victoria National Safety Council, an profit organisation and fund raiser associated to the CIA, ASIO, and arms dealers Parachute Safety Ltd (page 288), used to ferry PNG troops to the conflict in Bougainville via aircraft leased off Bulgarian Cargo Air based in Hamilton New Zealand. VNSCA better known publicly for its search and rescue helicopter charity raising was initially funded by the ANZ Bank with shady loans (similar to what we see in the Winebox and Southern World companies papers) authorised by Bruce Pointing, a former Australian Army intelligence officer with no documents even inspected or proof of finance presented.
  
• Note after Southern World Airway management went to work for Pacific Express (Israel Mossad CIA see Simon Lahav) and Pacific Express was inturn dragged into the light by Rod Vaughan a RVNZ journalist of the old school of doggedness and much worn fleet street shoe leather, Cargo Air Bulgaria set up shop in Hamilton. Cargo Air (who partnered with DHL) aircraft LZ-SFG would be leased used to ferry mercenaries in the Sandline mercenary affair via Parashute Safety affilitaed to AVNC. AVNC charity work included raising cash for resuce helicopters in same manner that West pac and the LionsFoundation poker machines funds are used to buy and lease helicoters and ambulances.

Inspection of Souther World Airline pilot show they had numerous links to air firms operating out of Holland or for net works of known carpet baggers. For example, SWA pilot Peter Sinclair previously worked for Emperor Gold Mining tied to 1987 Fiji coup and the fore mention 1995 PNG Sandline Affair which are both linked to a major Iran Contra actor Adnan Khashoggi the Saudi arms dealer. Names that jump out at me from Sinclair’s CV include Feltex Texiles, Phillips, Carpenters, Lane Walker, Ivan Dow (made Agent Orange chemical weapons used in Vietnam) Mosgiel limited. Sinclair is listed as a partner to Trevor Eagle a defence contractor (70 Symonds Street).

Misbin’s executives at SWA , as mentioned, included Roger Bank and Grant Anal who following the collapse of Pacific Express, Annals and Banks became involved in yet another air adventure with the creation of a firm called Austral Aviation Ltd, formerly Austral Aviation (1992) Ltd, operating out of Suite 15a, The Strand Building, 125 The Strand, Auckland. This would be the same office used by Global Aviation Logistics Ltd, incorporated in January 1997. In 1994 a firm of the name Austral Air Limited would be incorporated (who list as their officer a Timothy Andrew Enright) later renamed  Air Queenstown. As with Teldar, this is believed to one of several interconnecting subsidiaries such as Teldar No.27 – formerly United Mortgage Limited (Dissolution liquidators statement filed 31 January 1996) who share if not the same directors the same addresses or vice versa. Austral Aviation was established in Auckland on the same level as the famous advertising gurus Satchi & Satchi and Charlie’s Orange Juice (Now the Better Juice Company) using the best orange grown by Keri Keri orange farmers.

ENRIGHT, Timothy AndrewAIR QUEENSTOWN LIMITED (649729) (Removed)– Shareholder

ENRIGHT, Timothy AndrewAIR QUEENSTOWN LIMITED (649729) (Removed)– Director

• Allocation 1:60 shares (60.00%) Thomas Esmond ENRIGHT 7 Westbury Crescent, Remuera, Auckland 5 Note this address has a Paradise Paper link see below. Allocation 2:20 shares (20.00%) Timothy Andrew ENRIGHT 7 Westbury Crescent, Remuera, Auckland. Allocation 3:20 shares (20.00%)Robert Bennett ENRIGHT 7 Westbury Crescent, Remuera, Auckland, 7 Westbury Crescent Remura, Auckland.
  
• ICIJ (Paradie papers) BWIP Investment Malta. Listed Officer in ICIJ LINDSAY NEIL SINGLETON.
  
• Sources Singleton Trust Fails to Recover Southland Times.

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Charlie’s CEO Marc Ellis, a television celebrity and former All Black player and star of reality program ‘Rough Road’ to South America along with Matthew Ridges was later convicted of drug use (but not supply)during an investigation into an Auckland and Queenstown New Zealand based cocaine and ectasy ring. The head of the so-called celebrity drug ring former company director and thoroughbred racehorse owner John Waterworth. Also charged in the Marc Eliss related rocky caper Auckland Queestown multi-millionaire property developer David Henderson, 51, Auckland Euro Bar manager Phillip James Clark, 31, Auckland businessman Elliot John Worrall, 30, and four others entertainment and media persoalities who where given name suppression. Another person was arrested, as part of the the rings Queenstown links in 2005. 

• Also partners in Flight Technolgy Ltd, Evil Genius Ltd .
• Dave Henderson’s $2 billion development at Frankton went into receivership after secured creditor Hanover Finance called in $73.6 million of unpaid loans in July 2009. Money was also owed to Dominion Finance Group, which itself went into receivership on September 9 2009 prior to the December 2009 Hanover collapse. Hanover a consortium included Eric Watson (whose wife later married Matthew Ridge) and Elders Finance in 1999 Evan Christian and Nick Gordon 92 LICHFIELD STREET LIMITED

A junior member of an earlier related celebrity ring, a private chef to celebrities and this author friend, gives a snapshot of how it roles in New Zealand. He states just before the bust that he was contacted by his uncle, who I can confirm is a high-level spook (and named in my book on an unrelated matter) and told to “loose his Parnel friends” pronto. He did as he was told and flushed his own drugs down the toilet and avoided jail narrowly. As the police kicked in his door, looking for drugs only a a couple of hours later. The not so connected folk where not so lucky. In fact in New Zealand you can track bling bedecked drug celebrity cocaine rings far back to 1987 (the end of the Mr. Asia era) the same year Misbin arrives in New Zealand. And the same year New Zealand police busted several celebrities involved in dealing in a headhunter affiliated cocaine ring. This ring included Ray Le Varis a National MP. Of Le Varis involvement and links at a Mediaworks style celebrity drug rings I wrote in State Secrets “led to police switching off bugs after it feared his downfall would topple the Muldoon Government”. Le Varis and others in his inner ring also had ties to CIA Task Force 157 affiliated to Ray Smith whose Auckland Parnel based Gold Corp, an 80’s version of Michael Hill Jewelers, laundered cocaine profits into Auckland stock exchange until it later collapsed in the 1980’s.

• I write in my book on Ray Smith page 54 “The sophisticated eavesdropping paid for by the taxpayers did have some benefits, as radio stations were raided and staff led away in handcuffs in a cocaine bust that also netted a prominent lawyer, Dan Witters, and businessmen Stuart Cairns and Don Abel. “Cairns and Abel were directors of the Italia Chain Company,…Italia Chain also linked up with Ray Smith’s Auckland Coin and Bullion Exchange, which became Goldcorp, and Ray Smith says he didn’t know the cocaine money was being laundered through Auckland Coin and Bullion.” Where’s The Gold, is quite revelatory. One of his business associates, for example, was General Lyodd Vasey, an adviser to drug and spy bank Nugan Hand. Smith writes that Labour’s Trevor de Cleene, the Minister of Customs, had “..quietly suggested that he and Roger Douglas, then Minister of Finance, would be grateful to receive a share allocation…” and were subsequently allotted ..50,000 shares each…via another sharebroker to some obscure company”. Cynics might be tempted to wonder what happened to those shares, if in fact they had existed, when three days prior to the firm’s official collapse, in a move played out at the expense of Goldcorp shareholders and creditors, the BNZ (in which Sir Roger was a principal director) drained Goldcorp’s bank account of all its cash savings. 
  
  Cocaine dealer Dan Witters was using Goldcorp to launder his drug payments. In 1999 a D Witters could be found listed at the address of 60 Khyber Pass Road Auckland. The same address cites a Stuart Hamilton Cairns at NZ Petroleum Co Ltd & DF Mainland & Co Ltd, associated with DF Mainland Securities. Stuart Cairns was cited by Ray Smith as being his chief supplier of silver. Cairns and Abel were also arrested in the above-mentioned cocaine bust. In 2004 DF MAINLAND went belly up ; “The liquidators of crashed investment bank and sharebroker DF Mainland are investigating whether the directors – who include a former Auckland Stock Exchange chairman – should be liable”.
  
  Sources: Fraud Chargesd Option Traders unorthodox trade history. NBR. ‘SFO Charges Derivatek Accomplice New Zealand Herald‘.

Queenstown Auckland cocaine links included event coordinator Lindsay Singleton. Singleton was the driving force behind development of the failed Rees hotel and apartment complex on Frankton Rd. It is understood the Bank of New Zealand and Dominion Finance Group loaned a total of almost $100 million when the company had little more than four years’ development experience. BNZ and Dominion Finance Group where owed a total of $51.45 million as secured creditors who had under written Singleton’s company. In 1999 the Queenstown festival Singleton coordinated almost went bust. David Kennedy who was the chief executive of Destination Queenstown said the event had been contracted out to private enterprise and it didn’t go according to plan. To be precise Lindsay Singleton had left town the night the festival opened leaving a trail of debt and misery in his wake. The address of the consortium behind Rees Hotel PIONEER CAPITAL (GP III) LIMITED is listed as Grant Thornton New Zealand Limited, Level 4, 152 Fanshawe Street, Auckland Central, Auckland. Grant Thorton is the subsidiary of the firm that audit Geoffrey Wilding Victoria Plc use.

Source:Queenstown Winter Festival turns 40: RNZ. Troubbled Developers Owe 53 Million Otago Daily Times.

• Note: Pioneer Capital has a convoluted share structure that leads down a rabbit hole of similar nominee companies with seemingly the same shareholders and directors. What should of being red flag straight away for any banker manager that’s not decapitated.

And it turns out Lindsay also has a ICIJ Paradise Papers data entry which when followed will bring us back to Geoffrey Wilding’s associates.

	Role	From	To	Data From
LJS NO 2 LIMITED	Shareholder	–	–	Paradise Papers
LINDSAY NEIL SINGLETON	Director	–	–	Paradise Papers
LINDSAY NEIL SINGLETON	Judicial representative	–	–	Paradise Papers
LINDSAY NEIL SINGLETON	Legal representative	–	–	Paradise Papers
INTERNATIONAL TRUST LTD	Shareholder	–	–	Paradise Papers cocaine links

Company files states Lindsay Neil Singleton is from Queenstown in New zealand and is also, or was, associated with the company: ADVENTURE CENTRAL LIMITED. They were appointed to this company on 2 Oct 1998. Address 578 Speargrass Flat Road, R D 1, Queenstown New Zealand. Further Singleton ICIJ profile Singleton can be tied to Mexican and Italian drug cocaine cartels.

Paradise paper cited – International Trust cocaine Italian links: In Slovenia ICIJ files tie International Trust Limited to cocaine trafficking from South America and to those with Italian mafia and Israeli ties. Translated the article states.

• “There is no trace of him in the Maltese register, or there is more than one mention of Fernando Orlandi, who was president of the Venice casino in Malta for several years. Femia is connected to the Mazzaferro clan, which already in the 1980s was able to bring more than 3,000 kilograms of cocaine to Italy from South America every two months. Femia is a mobster who, with his network of contacts, is able to cover half of the Italian gambling market and “slot” machines, as he himself told the judges. His daughter Guendalina is accused of laundering part of her father’s money in an investigation launched by the San Marino authorities. In this case, for the first time, there is a connection between the name of the clan and the casino Venezia in Malta. Defending himself against the accusations, his daughter said that the 580,000 euros she transferred from her account to the account of a company in Cyprus served to finance the activities of the Venezia casino, which Orlandi managed until its closure in 2013. ..This is a disturbing thesis, especially since 40% of the casino is owned by the city of Venice, i.e. the citizens of the capital of the Veneto region. The role of Orlandi in everything is visible, bearing in mind what is written in the Maltese register, it turns out that an Italian resident in London is a shareholder, with a small share, of two companies on the island. One is Casino Venecija, the other is called Sportalnet Limited and presents itself as a supplier of software and innovative systems for digital games. Orlandi is a shareholder of this company with the company International Trust Ltd. For which it is impossible to know who is hiding behind it.” Source: Malta Files Elmundo

• Also tied to the above ENRIGHT TRADING LIMITED 5 removed 87 18th FloorQuay Tower 29 Customs Street West, Auckland NZ. U.S. Customs Records for Vinoteheque US Customs Records Notifications available for Vinoteheque, a supplier based in United Kingdom. See exports to Smg Properties Ltd.BILL OF LADING SUDU180014781102 ARRIVAL DATE: 2008-01-24 TRANSIT COMPANY CONTAINER NUMBER: SUDU106491

CARGO #1
DESCRIPTION WINE
KEYWORDS WINE	HS-CODEDATA UNAVAILABLE	PIECE COUNT10

LENGTH2000	HEIGHT806
WIDTH800	LOAD STATUSLOADED
SEAL045939	EQUIPMENT DESCRIPTION32
TYPE20 FOOT THERMAL CONTAINER, REFRIGERATED AND HEATED	TYPE OF SERVICEHOUSE TO HOUSE
CONTAINER TYPE20 FOOT THERMAL CONTAINER, REFRIGERATED AND HEATED	MARKS & NUMBERS LINDSAY SINGLETON,AUCKLAND,NEW ZEALAND

Another Southern World Airlines past director with past ties to Geoffrey Wilding is director Louis Patrick McElwee, whose associated with Horan Investments Basham Investments Olmstead Holding Trust who are also all listed in the Paradise Paper’s ICIJ data base.

Louis Patrick McElwee CONNECTIONS:

• Previously employed at Kensington Swan who are listed as lawyers for SWA now known as KMPG Legal. M Ooman of Kensington Swan appears to do a lot of work on behalf of SWA and were listed as a company spokesman. See Also — Kensington Swan Winebox/Kensington Swan Paradise Papers.
  
• McElwee is listed as a partner in Menzies Investment Ltd along with Misbin wife Jubita Misbin ( a Columbian military officer’s daughter) with Misbin also having apparent involvement in ;
  
• MISBIN, Jubita Haydee
  HAYDEN HOLDINGS LIMITED (362746) (Removed) – Director
  MISBIN, Jubita Haydee
  ANZA DISTRIBUTING ( NZ) LIMITED (675930) (Removed) – Shareholder
  MISBIN, Jubita Haydee
  ERIKEN HOLDINGS LIMITED (668041) (Removed) – Shareholder
  MISBIN, Jubita Haydee
  HAYDEN HOLDINGS LIMITED (362746) (Removed) – Shareholder
  MISBIN, Jubita Haydee
  ERIKEN HOLDINGS LIMITED (668041) (Removed) – Director
  MISBIN, Jubita Haydee
  ANZA DISTRIBUTING ( NZ) LIMITED (675930) (Removed) – Director
  MISBIN, Jubita Haydee
  CAL-WAL GYPSUM SUPPLIES LIMITED (902236) (Removed) – Director
  MISBIN, Jubita Haydee
  MENDEZ INVESTMENTS LIMITED (1172549) (Removed) – Director
  
• Diplomatic status: “The President of the Republic of Colombia, in use of his constitutional powers, DECREE: Article 1 . The Honorary Consulate in Auckland New Zealand is hereby created, with jurisdiction throughout the territory of New Zealand. Article 2 . Mr. Louis Patrick McElwee is hereby appointed as Honorary Consul of Colombia in Auckland. Article 3 . This Decree is effective from the date of its issuance. Communicate and comply. Given in Bogotá, DE, on April 5, 1982. JULIO CESAR TURBAY AYALAThe Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Lemos Simmonds”.
  
• Court cases – Louis Patrick McElwee v CIR Decision Date: 15 July 1997 Act: Income Tax Act – sections 64B(1)(b), 64F(8) Keywords: Guarantor Summary: The Court held that the Commissioner correctly disallowed the deduction claimed in respect of the payments made by the Objector under the guarantee. continued on page 26 IRD Tax Information. Bulletin: Volume Nine, No.8 (August 1997) 26 Facts: The Objector was involved in a coal mining business (which operated as a partnership) and carried on its business “per medium” of a company called Tiller Mines Limited. (“Tiller Mines”) The company borrowed substantial sums of money from the ANZ Bank, which required various directors, including the Objector to provide personal guarantees. In 1987, the shares in Tiller Mines were sold to Starline Minerals Limited, but after a year the sale was cancelled and the shares reverted to the partnership. Tiller Mines could not meet its financial obligations and the bank turned to its rights under its guarantees.
  
• McElwee is listed in ICIJ Data base concering the Panama Papers . A New Zealand blogger writing of NZ ICIJI connections zero in on Mc Elwee and Kensington Swan;
  
  “..Invico AG are mentioned once in the Panama Papers part of the ICIJ database, where they are linked to a Tilawa Holdings Ltd, incorporated in the British Virgin Islands in 1998. Rolf Schlegel and Matthias Seiler are also directors in a number of other companies administered by Anchor Trustees in Auckland, including 3 recently registered: Stanwell Ltd; Aeolina Investments Ltd; and Journey (NZ) Ltd, which has now been removed... when we come to Virtue Trustees (New Zealand) Ltd we find a number of connections to the Offshore Leaks database. Virtue Trustees was set up as Molson Management Services Ltd in 2010, and the original directors included Reynolds, and Nicholas Shepherd of Auckland, and Stephane Masson of Switzerland. Both Shepherd and Reynolds, and Masson, appear in the database linked to Portcullis Trustnet (The firm tied to George Couttie European Pacific Australian Airlines Limited) in Singapore, and Roger Hermann Frick of Switzerland”.
  
  Intermediary Roger Frick is linked to four Singapore companies, three of which were incorporated in 1996 are still active: Gaite Investment Pte Ltd; Goran Investment Pte Ltd; and Basham Investment Pte Ltd…..Masson was an early director of Basham (Louis McElwee was a shareholder, along with Gordon Ralph Stewart);
  
  Reynolds, Shepherd and McElwee were shareholders in Goran Investment Pte Ltd. Masson was also a director of Gaite Investment Pte Ltd for about a year in 2003-4. There was also a Gaite Investment Ltd that was briefly set up by Anchor in 2014, with Roger Frick as a director, and apparently never traded. But Frick and Masson have also been directors of Cosgrove NZ Ltd, and Kaleso Trustee (New Zealand) Ltd – Kaleso is the name of the company that Frick has set up in Geneva, and there is also Malaysian one.
  
  Virtue Trustees (New Zealand) Ltd, the shareholding was transferred to Kendris Ltd of Zurich in November 2015, with Ilona Gabor and Gabriella Patane as the Swiss directors. Patane is a partner in Kendris AG, and head of the trust services. Kendris it emerged has ” extensive links with Mossack Fonseca”, judging by the six entries as an intermediary in the Panama Papers part of the database. Source: Anchor and some Swiss Virtues: Fiduciaries or Frauds?
  
• KALESO TRUSTEE (NEW ZEALAND) LIMITED Company NZ: Controlling CompanyRESOLUTION TRUSTEES LIMITEDRegistered Address53/143 Quay Street, Auckland Directors / Officers Michael John REYNOLDS, director, 5 Apr 2019-Roger Hermann FRICK, director, 17 Dec 2015-Stephane Louis Auguste MASSON.
  
• Kaleso specialise in trust, family office and fiduciary services and was founded in 2015 by three Partners: Roger Frick, Stéphane Masson, and Magdalena Gomes.The Partners first joined forces at KPMG Switzerland.
  
  In 2005, Roger and Stéphane co-founded Kendris Ltd., Switzerland, a spinoff of KPMG Private, and continued to expand their outreach and expertise in various markets (including the Americas and Asia). Magdalena played an instrumental role in building out the administrative arm for the Latin American team. A decade later, the team decided to transition their business model to a more client-focused approach by creating KALESO Group.
  
• Kaleso Group has office locations in Switzerland, the United States, and Panama, as well as affiliate companies in Hong Kong and New Zealand.
  
• Auditing giants KPMG have close links to Kensington Swan now known as Kensington Legal.
  
• Roger Frick is Partner and CEO of KALESO Group. He is specialised in cross-border succession planning cases and has over thirty-five years of experience in the trust and fiduciary industry. Roger offered “a deep knowledge of the global market and continuously expands his vast network of proven tax experts, attorneys, and other professionals in Latin America, Asia, the United States, and other regions in the world”. 
  
  Roger started his career at Credit Suisse Trust in 1987. In 1997 (at the time Fay Richwhite, former NZ Rail and Stephen Jennings where moving their interests to Switerland) Frick moved to KPMG Private until 2005, after which he co-founded Kendris Ltd Switzerland and served as member of the board of directors and the executive board.
  
• Stéphane Masson is Partner and President of the Board of Directors of Kaleso Group. He started his professional career as a lawyer for the Secretary General of the Department of Economy of the State of Vaud in Switzerland then worked as a legal counsel in commercial and private law for both Pricewaterhouse Coopers and KPMG legal Switzerland.
  
  In 2001, Stéphane was appointed Head of KPMG private Western-Switzerland. He ran the division for four years, until he co-founded Kendris Ltd., Switzerland, and served as member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Board. He also served as Head of the LATAM market, where he continued to expand his expertise and network in Mexico and other regions of Latin America.
  
• GORAN TRUST is listed ICIJ Paradise Paper Data Base along with PWC(ooper), and Celine Tan Sze Lian who looks simply like a nominee company mule (some one who has their signature on the company paper work but has no involvement in running the company at all ) who is listed as a secretary of Portcullis Fund Administration Singapore.
  
  The firm Dutch Banks ING and ABN AMRO (The Winebox Australian Airlines funder) are reported as using Portcullis to sett up dozens of companies in island tax havens including the Cook Islands to assist their customers to hide taxes offshore, according to reports by The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the Dutch newspaper Trouw who found the Dutch banks did their laundering aided by Singapore-based Portcullis TrustNet and British Virgin Islands-based Commonwealth Trust Limited.
  
  SCANDAL OF THE DECADE.
  
  This is what my colleague Nicky Hager New Zealand’s best known international renown journalist has to say about Portcullis. ‘Story of the offshore company Portcullis TrustNet: ‘Lawyers and Accountants Help Rich Manage Their Money”.
  
  “The story of Portcullis TrustNet and its birthplace — the Cook Islands — is in many ways the story of the offshore system itself…..The Cook Islands’ Parliament approved laws covering offshore banking, companies, trusts and insurance in1981.One of those who helped oversee the introduction of the legislation was Mike Mitchell, a New Zealand lawyer who served as the Cook Islands’ solicitor general in the early 1980s.Five years later, in keeping with an apparent pattern of tax-haven officials moving freely between government and industry, Mitchell decided to go into the offshore business himself. He left his post as solicitor general in 1986 and established an offshore services firm in 1987. The firm, initially called Pacific Trustee Company Limited and then International Trust Corporation Limited, was named TrustNet in the early 1990s and, eventually, Portcullis TrustNet.
  
  Hager links Portcullis back to the Winebox scandal;
  
  “TrustNet grew quickly, opening a Hong Kong office in 1991, the same year Mitchell told the Cook Islands News that the company dealt mainly with clients brought in by lawyers and accounting firms in Hong Kong. He said, “Sometimes we don’t know the identity of the clients,” but added that “anything that looks remotely dubious or of the laundering variety we just won’t handle.” Anti-money laundering experts say that sort of logic doesn’t make sense — it’s impossible to know whether someone’s involved in money laundering or other crimes, they say, without knowing their identity. “You’ve got to know who your customer is,” said Charles Intriago, a former U.S. prosecutor and president of the Miami-based Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists. “If you don’t know who the guy is, there’s no way to know why he’s bringing his money offshore.” Mitchell could say that in 1991, though, without anyone taking much notice. Things would soon change. The Cook Islands were about to become the epicenter of scandal. In 1994, Winston Peters walked into New Zealand’s Parliament carrying a cardboard Winebox containing a trove of secret corporate tax documents. Peters, a member of Parliament, said the box held evidence of “wholesale cheating on taxes.” We never did get to find out how the Winebox fell into Peter’s possession and it was just assumed by local media that the whistle blower was acting out of the goodness of their heart and not some kind of rivalry.
  
• The bulk of the clients for Portcullis come from China. Hager writes.
  
  The Winebox Affair, as it was called, became New Zealand’s scandal of the decade. The documents came from a company called European Pacific Banking Corporation, part of the European Pacific Group, which counted among its senior executives Trevor Clarke, one of the key players who helped the Cook Islands to become a tax haven.(see Winebox files attached). One of the allegations at the center of the scandal involved European Pacific persuading the Cook Islands authorities to accept NZ$2 million in taxes — money that was later returned, minus a NZ$50,000 fee. A European Pacific subsidiary then presented the Cook Islands tax certificate to the New Zealand tax authorities without disclosing that the money had mostly been returned, creating a massive tax write-off in New Zealand. As a British judge summed it up later, “thus European Pacific was better off by $1.95 m[illion], the Cook Islands was better off by $50,000 and the New Zealand Government was worse off by $2 m[illion].” Many other contentious transactions were alleged in the Winebox Affair but in the inquiries and court cases that followed, few witnesses were willing to come forward. The Cook Islands’ solicitor general, John McFadzien, publicly warned people subpoenaed by New Zealand authorities that they could be prosecuted under Cook Islands offshore secrecy law if they gave evidence. Nevertheless, tens of millions of dollars in unpaid taxes were eventually retrieved (again the tip of the iceberg), New Zealand’s tax laws were tightened and, for many years after, the Cook Islands were synonymous in Australasia with dodgy offshore deals.
  
• Note: New Zealand tax laws where not tightened (despite what the crown maintains publicly) and in fact Prime Minister John Key would pass laws that aided money launders such as the Charity Act.
  
• George Couttie a senior European Pacific tax expert handling the secret transactions who afterwards went to work for TrustNet in Hong Kong before the affair broke.
  
  Couttie and Mcelwee where both listed on a legal injunction that maintained the pair where in possession of copies of the Wine Boxes. Hager notes “Lawyers for European Pacific later accused him in court of leaking the documents that had led to the scandal. Couttie has always remained silent about his alleged role. Soon after this accusation was made, according to the ICIJ documents, senior TrustNet staff recorded a terse company resolution that ‘accepted’ his resignation “effective from the date hereof.” 
  
  Meka Limited Cook Island Agent Portculis.Officer (14)Intermediary (1) OFFICER: George William Couttie (Winebox leaker worked for Portculiis).
  
• Note Warburton name is also cited on a single newspaper article in relation to possession of Wine Box file listed in national archive data base which however proved un-retrievable.
  
• John McFadzien, the solicitor general who had invoked offshore secrecy that helped shield the activities of European Pacific, resigned from government and found a new job — as a senior TrustNet lawyer. McFadzien has since died. 
  
• Geoff Barry, a European Pacific manager in the Cook Islands during the years of the Wine-box deals, returned to New Zealand for a few years. Then he, too, took a job at TrustNet. Within three years he had become the TrustNet’s chief executive officer. Hager notes “Today, more than ten years later, he is a group director in TrustNet’s Hong Kong office.
  
• Trevor Clarke, the founding patriarch of the Cooks’ offshore industry in the 1980s and a key figure in the Winebox Affair, was appointed chairman of the regulatory commission from 2003 until 2010. 
  
  TrustNet’s low-profile services were being used by many of the world’s major banks, such as UBS, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse and by the world’s biggest auditing firms, such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte and KPMG. 
  
  Bank accounts were being opened for clients in many parts of the world, from branches of HSBC in Singapore to the Cook Islands branch office of the Australian bank, ANZ.(current director John Key). An AUT University PhD student Simon Boyce later uncovered documents linking former Kensington Swan solicitor and current Serious Fraud Office acting chief executive Simon McArley with European Pacific, the company at the center of the 1990s Winebox affair. 
  
  Boyce in his study of the Winebox Commission of Inquiry, held to establish whether the Inland Revenue Department and the Serious Fraud Office had acted legally and competently in their investigations into Cook Islands tax transactions, found two fax covering letters dating from 1989 sent from McArley at the SFO to two European Pacific employees at the center of the Cook Islands deals, George Couttie and David McNair.
  
  Boyce notes “The faxes appear to revel this at the time I believe Mcelwee worked for Kensington Swan (Now known as KMPG Legal) named as a player in Winebox which revolved around shelf companies used by European Pacific in redeemable preference share transactions that created favorable tax structures for clients. Since the IRD actually prosecuted in the case of the redeemable share deals, involving the BNZ, there is a question over Kensington Swan’s role.That litigation failed on the basis that there was not proof of a ‘meeting of minds’, and the BNZ knowing in advance how all the transactions worked.” Boyce said the main issue is that McArley appears to be a “poacher turned gamekeeper. That might be all right, but the public should at least be aware of it before he becomes the permanent head of the SFO.” (Mc Farley left the SFO in 2013).
  
  At that time the Kensington Swan was involved in a number of structured finance transactions, most of which involved preference share issuance. As part of the practice McFarley worked for a number of clients, including Fay Richwhite in the BNZ transaction.  In 2000 Justice McGechan found that as a whole there was no reason for such complicated structures except to avoid tax. McArley said the SFO was aware of his full work history, including this period of time at Kensington Swan .SOURCE: WINEBOX CONNECTION TO SFO Boss.

Another New Zealand Lugano Switzerland Italian cocaine for Gun connection to the Azerbaijani Laundromat oil for guns money-laundering network comes via Russian Antonov call sign UR-82008.

This aircraft which was used to transport Kiwi soldiers to Afghanistan in 2003 as part of Operation Enduring Freedom and cocaine for Bulgarian guns in 2000. This is at the time Credit Suisse was known to be laundering cocaine for the Bulgarian Hells Angels in ring with links to New Zealand Hells Angels and a member of the Gang of Twenty scandal involving Wilding associate John Warburton. UR82008 incident can be directly linked to the very same network run by legendary Russian arms dealer Victor Bout who is the real-life basis for the movie Lord of War staring Nicholas Cage produced by New Zealander Andrew Nichols. Who says art does not mirror reality.

I now quote from my book shaded in Grey (in case you want skip over it) to document the above.

State Secrets II Pages 55-58

Eventually, I came across an aircraft identified as having been used to transport N.Z. troops to Afghanistan. Its registration identified it, not only as a notorious serial offender, guilty of breaching arms embargoes on numerous occasions but also involved in the suspected supplying of missile technology to those seeking nuclear weapons technology.

This aircraft was also used by an associate of Simon Spitz (a known CIA gun runner, according to the former head of the SFO.) With the single stroke of a key, armed with nothing more powerful than ‘Google’, I ended up doing what the N.Z. Defence Force HQ’s seemed incapable of, or perhaps, more accurately, unwilling to do -vet the craft (background check), so as to reveal its ultra bloody past”.

“Yet, for the second time in recent history, Defence Force HQ’s ended up using the aircraft of a known member of Russia’s so called ‘Ukrainian-Israeli Mafia’. This man was also a known gun runner, who under the guise of delivering humanitarian aid, supplied weapons to the very forces that the N.Z. soldiers found themselves up against in Afghanistan. It turned out that the large plane, UR 82008, that was parked on Christchurch airport tarmac in broad daylight, had indeed been a very naughty boy. Not that this information had been hard to find, that is, if you had bothered to look in the first place. …

….Boris, Bombs & BCCI On August 5th 2000, David Pallister, writing for the Guardian, reported that Air Foyle had no knowledge that one of its aircraft was being used by the Ukrainian, Victor Bouts, as part of his gun running circus, to supply the RUF (Revolutionary United Front), in Sierra Leone (while at the same time, Bout was flying “UN Pakistani peace keepers” to East Timor). Unfortunately for Air Foyle, their defence of being ‘unaware’, feigning innocence, that it was a ‘one off event’, looked less convincing, when on the same day, as Pallister’s article, August 5th 2000, Italian police arrested Ukrainian-Israeli mobster Leonid Minin – a big time cocaine and guns trafficker, in room 341 at the Hotel Europa,Italy.

In the company of the Ukrainian-Israeli mobster, police found four naked prostitutes, 58 grams of coke, and half a million dollars in diamonds, rubies, foreign currency, plus a suitcase of papers which documented the serial offending history of UR 82008, in relation to the Antonov Design Bureau air craft leased from Air Foyle.

As a result of the papers found with Minin, police learned that on March 14th 1999, the aircraft leased from Air Foyle, had delivered sixty eight tons of Bulgarian weapons and ammunition to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. These weapons were then transported by land to Sierra Leone, where they were used to supply the RUF in a bloody civil war, largely being fought over diamonds, and furiously fueled with weapons by those wanting a piece of the action.

Later it was unearthed that in July 2000, UR 82008, had also been used to ship 113 tons of munitions from the Ukraine to Liberia, on behalf of one of Bout’s junior associates, Valerii Cherny.

In both cases, these arms were used to again supply the RUF in an operation now known to be financed by three people, Sanjivan Ruprah, Rakesh Saxena and Adnan Khashoggi. Accounts listed in the Human Rights group, Human Rights Watch (‘Neglected Arms Embargo on Sierra Leone Rebels – Briefing Paper 15.5.2000), suggest that UR82008 may have been involved in breaching arms embargos in Sierra Leone in as early as 1997.

State Secrets B Vidgen 1999.

I continue ;

“Only a month before Air Foyle’s denial, in July 2000, the same aircraft was found to have been involved once again in an incident involving the supplying of arms to Sierra Leone. Unfortunately for Air Foyle(whose “principal” customer, happened to be the British Ministry of Defence), the papers also show an incident where UR 82008 shipped Strella 3 (known as a SA7) missiles.

UR 82008 masters (who, it must be remembered, can be shown working for Adnan Khashoggi, the de facto manager of BCCI arms operation), were shown to have obtained an SS-18 continental missile, a rocket of sufficient power to launch a satellite, or alternatively, a nuclear missile. More importantly, this was the same type of weapon that BCCI (Khashoggi’s bank of choice), had tried to obtain back in 1991, when the bank was simultaneously supplying parts to the nuclear weapons program of both India and Pakistan.

In Africa, arms protesters have accused Khashoggi of ‘engineering’ dispute, as part of his campaign to gain control of natural resources, including diamonds, oil, and timber, in countries such as Sierra Leone, using the likes of Bout and the Liberian dictator, Charles Taylor, to pour fuel on the fire. Following such allegations, it is worthwhile noting that the U82008 papers cite Minin as someone who provided Taylor with an extensive and sophisticated means of obtaining secure communications.”

The cocaine profit Minin was busted with the money used to buy Bulgarian arms traded for coke (which would be traded for oil and other natural resources from Africa) that ultimately end up the nose of Auckland bussiness men and media stars courtesty of the Hells Angels and their feeder gangs.

Minin had the coke profits channeled these funds through the Banco di Lugano in the Italian fraction of Switerland located in the same nice, neat and quiet Swiss town, originally used by both Altaqwa the Nazi Islamic bank and Simon Spitz/Lahav/Shimon before he came to New Zealand in the early 1990’s and took over from where Southern World Airlines had left off.

Coke profits where to be paid from Minin’s Lugano Swiss account and paid into Alfa bank 32% owned by Mikhail Fiedman‘s of Russia’s VTB. In 2016 Alfa paid $795 million to Dutch and U.S. authorities in 2016 to settle claims of bribery to politicians in Uzbekistan. The bribes were paid to ensure that Alfa was successful in creating a telecommunication monopoly in Uzebikstan. Fridman’s primary investment vehicle for this objective had been LetterOne, whose CEO Alexander Pertsovskuse use to work for John Key’s old bank Merill Lynch he began working for Renaissance Capital in 2007 (before moving to LetterOne) which had being established by another New Zealander and former Credit Suisse investment banker, prior to Putin turning on his former partners in crime, the current head of New Zealand Institute Stephen Jennings.

Jennings had made his money using the methods he first pioneered privatising NZ Rail (to the benefit of Fay Richwhite and Alex van Heeren), back when Jenny Morel was just NZ Rail director and Jennings a mere New Zealand Treasury analyst, to help western merchant bankers carve up the former USSR assets. Beginning with the plot model the sale of Bolshevik Biscuit Company) and critical infrastructure. At which point Jennings and his backers then turned their attention to seizing the natural resource critical infrastructure and public asset of Africa and selling them to China.

Another example of this NZ Russian connection occurred in 2019 when commodities-trading arm VTB which had close ties to New Zealand Prime Minister Mike Moore, who began his career as a Labour party MP for Christchurch, who headed Fridman charity Altimo Foundation) & Swiss based Credit Suisse where found guilty of fraudulent loans involving $200 million in bribes and kickbacks as UN climate change aid money was diverted into buying Israeli weapons according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

More than 70 million of this development aid money would be washed through the Christchurch real estate market by another Christchurch old boy banker Andrew Pearce. Other Canterbury Russian ties ( with Swiss accounts full of looted dosh no doubt) include Oleg Kirillov and Yuri Koropachinskiy who in 2013 was certainly running with the authors own father interesting Christchurch mates of the 1980’s 1990’s when they invested $500m development of the Porter Heights ski-field. The same year Billionaire Konstantin Malofeev brought a dairy factory a kilometer away from the proposed dawn launch site connected with Russian billionaire Konstantin Malofee which is later, is bought by New Zealand Dairy giant Fonterra.

2013 also marks the year Russian steel magnate, stadium buyer and Russian Israeli entrepreneur Alexander Abramov brought land in Dunedin and Queenstown. A survey on largest users of an online data base devoted to land and water use in Waitaki found biggest users where Russian speaking. A Waimate dairy plant owned by Putin’s Secretary of Agriculture George Sazhinov (20.8 per cent) via Marshall Milk Ltd Cyprus and Konstantin Malofeev (20.8 per cent) the Russian public (58.4 per cent). Nutritek, who supplied half-finished milk products to China, Indonesia and Vietnam was declared bankrupt by the Commercial Court in Moscow in 2012. Nutritek and Marshall Capital where then sued by VTB Capital over a US$225m (NZ$275m) loan VTB made to a Russian agriculture company in 2007 so the company could buy Nutritek’s six Russian diary plants and three associated companies. VTB Capital alleges it is was “fraudulently” misled into believing the farming company was independent of Nutritek and claims the plants assets were grossly overvalued. Justice Arnold, a UK judge, took a dim view of VTB failing to disclose to a previous court it had hidden a transaction fee and equity fee because the sham arrangement was designed to avoid tax. Nutrinvest holding, the parent company of Russian baby-food producer Nutritek, was declared bankrupt by the Commercial Court in Moscow in 2012

Source Money Money Money- How John Key assisted Money Laundering (Vidgen). . Interest in Russian-owned NZ dairy plant Apr 24 2012

Leonid Minin like Simon Lahav of Pacific Express (the replacement for Southern World Air after it was exposed in the media) has many aliases and passports e.g Lenid Simakov. Simakov and Whitehouse lobbyist Marc Rich (Marcell David Reich) shared the same office phone number, which was registered to Minin’s Galaxy Energy and used by Glencore, then owned by Rich with Cummings’ in-law, Jack Wakefield, Dmitry Firtash (the Ukrainie Oglicarch), was chosen as directors of his Ukrainian Firtash Foundation Ukrainian, Zoryna Ayzenshtat who’s also a shareholder of Next Generation Finance Limited, as was a co-founder of Kaalbye Shipping Ukraine, arms dealer Boris Kogan an associate of Minin and Bout. Firtash was the single biggest lender from Russian gas giant Gazprom funds funneled through Ostchem Holdings in Cyprus and Ostchem Gas Trading AG in Switzerland. Source Paradise Papers ICIJ Data Base.

In New Zealand Gazprom role in bribing both US and Republican politicians surfaced briefly when it was announced that Team New Zealand sponsor for the America’s Cup Challange (and Waiwera Resort) owner Mikhail Khimich told the OIO his wealth stemmed mainly from his executive roles and shareholdings in Naftasib, a Russian oil supply and processing company. Khimich told the Overseas Investment Office his wealth stemmed mainly from his executive roles and shareholdings in Naftasib, a Russian oil supply and processing company. He was granted residency under the $10 million-plus investment category in May 2013 . He was granted residency under the $10 million-plus investment category in May 2013 Naftasib was reported to have funneled more than US$2 million to Washington lobbyist and insider Jack Abramoff in fees between 1997 and 2004, plus another $1 million that went to a non-profit used as a front company by someone close to US congressman Tom DeLay. The payment was intended to influence DeLay’s vote on legislation that would allow the International Monetary Fund to bail out the failing Russian economy. Rich and Abrahmhoff common bond their role in lobbying Wahington to not place sanctioned against South African during apartheid in te 1980’s.

Waiwera Thermal Resort was put into liquidation in February 2019 and Waiwera Water NZ and Waiwera Global were put into liquidation in mid-May, following speculation around why the Russian billionaire’s business ventures here had struggled. All three Waiwera companies are now wholly owned by Las Vegas-based Ordover Trust, headed by reported diamond trader Leon Fingerhut.

Fingerhut is also a director of all three companies, with Khimich. Unusually, Companies Office documents show Khimich signed three directors’ consent forms on behalf of Fingerhut. American address 48 North Rainbow Boulevard, Ste 1052, Las Vegas, Nevada, NV 89107 USA is the same address given for Waiwera partner Leon Fingerhut is also known as Leon Fingergut, who can also be linked via his own email to Husky Vodka produced by the Alcohol Siberia Group. He also appears in several court filings and has represented himself as Chairman of Russian-American Diamond Corp 9489 Dayton Way Beverly Hills USA. Its first partners were Pier Vander Wal, O.D.T.C., Mechel Kazanjian and Leon Fingergut, a director in the parent firm Ordover Trust. Fingergut aka Finger Hutt was is also listed as a director of Smolensk Diamonds LA along side. Los Angelos Diamonds Asia in Hong Kong and Smolensk Diamonds Tel Aviv Israel. From 1992 to 1998, Smolensk created a few associated trade firms in Belgium, the U.S., Germany, and Japan specialising in the Russian diamonds trade including Smolensk Los Angelos.

A Mr. R Liebmancan be found listed a retired as Senior Counsel at McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP at the end of 2012. Alumni of the law firm he worked for included.

• Luis A. Aguilar, Democratic commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2008.
• Phillip Carter, Iraq War veteran, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs.
• William F. McKenna, Chair of The President’s Commission on Housing, Chair of the Federal Savings and Loan Advisory Council, and McKenna, Conner, & Cuneo co-founder.
• Thurbert Baker, former Attorney General of the state of Georgia 
• Howard Dean, former Governor of Vermont, Presidential candidate, and Democratic National Committee Chairman, Senior Strategic Advisor on March 5, 2009.
• Randy Evans, former outside counsel to Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich and Dennis Hastert
• Gordon Giffin, US Ambassador to Canada, 1997–2001 
• Maryscott (Scotty) Greenwood, specialist in Canada/US relations and a former political appointee in the Clinton Administration
• David Skaggs, former Congressman from Colorado from 1987 to 1999, currently serves as a Senior Strategic Advisor and Independent Consultant in the firm’s Denver office.
• Donald Sweitzer, former political director of the Democratic National Committee under former President Bill Clinton,
• Eric Tanenblatt, former chief of staff to Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue.

Mr. Liebman”s specialised in international trade regulation, trade finance, technology transfer, and multinational business transactions. In the area of export regulation. Mr. Liebman is listed as advised aerospace and defense contractors, subcontractors, and academic and research institutions. Prior to his private law career, Mr. Liebman served in Washington, D.C. with the Agency for International Development, Department of State, all known CIA front companies, first as a counsel and later as program director. He is a recognized expert in U.S. export controls including the diamond trade. Mr. Liebman served as a member of the President’s Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption (“PECSENC”) by appointment of the Secretary of Commerce from 1998-2001, and served as a member of both the President’s Export Council Subcommittee on Export Administration (“PECSEA”) and the Defense Trade Advisory Group (“DTAG”), U.S. Department of State. Prior to entering a law school, favored by CIA recruiters, Liebman served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps. 

In my report for the DEADLINE Report Fresh FM ‘Guns Gold & Goons’ I looked at the bank of Utah after being sent footage in 2022 of a 1988 Cessna 551-0574 engine registration and call sign N551NZ (previously N22AA) owned by the Bank of Utah. This flew in from Australia and landed at Ardmore. It then departed to Hamilton then Masterton, then Queenstown then on to Masterton and then back to Ardmore appearing to inspect water ways as it flew an erratic flight path.

Plane spotters sites list this plane (video below) as having come from Brisbane on January 9th 2022. When I began to look at the Bank of Utah simarlarities to Wine Box/Southern World Airline lease firms I focused on the story of two Nigerians and an Israeli citizen who had being held by South African police for attempting to illegally bring $9.3m cash into South Africa as part of suspected arms purchase. South Africa’s City Press newspaper reported that the accused persons brought the money, bundles of unused $100 bills, packed in three suitcases, in via a Bombardier Challenger 600 leased from the Bank of Utah. Yet the Bank of Utah did not just service Nigerians. The Bank of Utah has managed trusts that allow the wealthy to fly the world on private jets. Now, some of those airplanes are showing up in a Twitter account following the travels of two Russian billionaires with ties to Israel – Leonard Blavatnik and Leonid Mikhelson.

Kremlin watchers say Putin has favored the company. They however omit from their narrative the role the West itself played in partnering with Russian Oligarch’s, organised crime and Putin. An alliance of crooks formed at the beginning of Perestroika. The mutual goal to carve up Russia assets. The consequence of which was to bred a level of instability within Russian democracy that Putin them exploited before consolidating his power base. At which point he ditched his now upset western partners in grime.

Blavatnik was born in Ukraine when it was still part of the USSR. He has since become a U.S. citizen. He has operated a number of businesses in the mining, energy and entertainment sectors, and given hundreds of millions of dollars to charity. He is also accused of having ties to organised crime.

Neither Mikhelson nor Blavatnik have been sanctioned by the U.S. government to date.  The Bank of Utah how now suggested it had already ended its relationship with Mikhelson, but that then pleaded that Blavatnik should not be lumped in with the oligarchs who help Russian President Vladimir Putin maintain power.  Mikhelson is  CEO, chairman and major shareholder of the Russian gas company Novatek, who remain one of the few Russian firms dealing in gas and gold ,which Putin has permitted to retain their international shareholdings and retain their western consortium partners. 

Mikhelson also established his own foundation, the V-A-C Foundation, which promotes contemporary Russian art, and has international ties with the New Museum in New York, the Tate museums in the UK, and London’s Whitechapel gallery. Western art gallery’s who have hosted art collections including the kind of stolen Nazi artwork which can be tied directly to affluent families. Such as the Spanish based Thyssen dynasty who financed the rise of Third Reich fascism and then later used the accounts of Mossack Fonseca to launder stolen Nazi art in the Cook Islands and Samoa. 

In April 2021 the former top manager of Novatek, was found dead in Spain. Surviving family and friends dispute the official verdict. The same month another former senior tycoon, linked to Russia’s gas industry, was found dead next to the bodies of his wife and daughter in Moscow. 51-year-old Vladislav Avaev is found dead with a gun in his hand. His wife, Elena, and their 13-year-old daughter had been executed with police calling it a double murder-suicide. The police report says the apartment was locked from the inside*1 and a fired pistol was found in Avaev’s hands. Avaev was a former VP of Gazprom Bank, a shareholder in Novatek, and a senior Russian government official. His death follows the alleged suicide of the Deputy General Director of Gazprom’s Unified Settlement Center for Corporate Security while his colleague Leonid Shulman, 60, the head of Gazprom invest transport service, was found dead in the same village. Shulman supposedly left a suicide note found by with his corpse. Mikhail Watford, formerly known as Mikhail Tolstosheya, was found dead in his mansion in Virginia Water, Surrey UK. Watford had made a name for himself after becoming an oil and gas magnate. Surrey police said the circumstances around his death were not suspicious. 

• Reportedly his suicide note was found by forensic specialists who arrived not long after Gazprom’s private security service staff arrived. The Gazprom men promptly cordoned off the crime scene, leaving police officers outside the house. A further dead oil executive 66-year old Russian oligarch 

When I first publicly claimed Misbin was tied to CIA linked Mexican drugs lords and funny Russian mobs washing drug cash through banks in Vanuatu and NZ back (when I published state Secrets in 1999) I was told by New Zealand top cop Rob Pope, media and politicians these claims where “rubbish”. That was in 1999 the year I made the New Zealad best sellers list for six month and recieved one nationwide article by Scoop media which confirmed my book was “subject to a media black out” .

In 2019 encrypted Blackberrys have now emerged in the hands of Mexican drug operatives in New Zealand (and the cartel’s significant presence is acknowledged by New Zealand’s staus quo). The phones, designed to avoid surveillance, had a covert trojan horse placed there by cartel boss El Chapo to keep tabs on his network of distributors and bankers. Law enforcement had managed to however flip at least two of the cartel’s IT senior security people and compromise the cartel’s private network which included bikers, bankers, politicians and other assorted bimbos. The taskforce is currently focusing on accounts in Ireland where encrypted phones with details concerning US accounts where held in safety deposit boxes. FBI documentation claims that based on reports from police in Canada, Australia, and the US that bank accounts and corporate ownership filed in Canada, Singapore, and Hong Kong show that Phantom Secure generated “tens of millions of dollars in revenue by facilitating the crimes of transnational criminal organisations and protecting these organisations from detection by law enforcement”. Bank cited as involved included Bank of of Montreal, Scotiabank plus six U.S. accounts in the Bank of America, plus another in JP Morgan Chase Los Angelos. There are another four accounts in banks in Hong Kong, two in China, two in Ireland, one in Singapore and one in the United Arab Emirates. This bust has major repercussions as the Ireland end of the laundry cycle can also be tied to Russian/VTB related money laundered through Estonia. An event which I increasingly believe is tied to the shipment of either parts used in WMD’s or nuclear materials smuggling operations. See also Cameron Ortis

Journalist Stephen Davis, embeddeed at Otago University, claims are based on his ‘sources’ in the British intelligence (including the disgraced sy Richard Tomlinson a former SAS soilder whose motivation for turning whistle blower have never really being adressed) that claim the ferry MS Estonia was used to transport weapons systems and osimum 187 as part of a weapons and drugs consortium. I find this intriguing as in 2006 the very same Russian Antonovs used to ferry yachts from New Zealand, equipped with encrypted radio technology with New Zealand encrypted tech (which later appears in the hands of insurgents trading in natural resources for weapons in the Sudan*1, Afghanistan and Liberia), from the America’s Cup to Valencia Spain via Saudi Arabia, had previously being busted shipping weapons. Specifically via Shannon Airport US Israel contraband hub which has become a hub for weapons and narco smugglers who seemingly have tacit official approval as does Ostend Airport contraband hub in Holland which has hosted many of the aircraft to have both vistited New Zealand and cited in arms trafficking report from numerous agencies and government as will as Trans Aviation Network Group who closed its office in Ostend in 1997 (to give an idea of how long the hubs have operated) when it CEO arms’ trafficker and ex-KGB major Victor Anatolevic Bout was arrested.

Let us review where we are at now.

• *1 According to Wikileaks/Washington Post the Sudan case involved UN officals the online account simply sayis airport equipment now and the encrypted nature of that tech has being edited out.  Scoop confirms WikiLeaks cables are being edited

The cartels, working in conjunction with Russian organized crime (and global investment banks including Credit Suisse) role in laundering money through New Zealand was first identified by the New Zealand Press in 2008 but oly after the story had being published offshore first. That was two years after my second book Sate Secrets II was published (and included photos of several other related Antonov tied to arms trafficking based airlines visiting NZ regularly) and again my increasingly vindicated material was ignored by local media who again insisted that sort of thing did not happen in New Zealand as they hit the upmarket bars of Auckland viaduct for another MediaWorks style party hard weekend snort.. snort..

However that changed when the offshore press jumped on the 2009 story and reported how a Russian Antonov loaded with North Korea weapons, destine for the Middle East, was found to be registered in New Zealand. This event again undercovered massive levels of transaction passing through New Zealand, whih flush out the Azberjanni Guns For Oil story, just as I had previously claimed and it went straight to to the heart of the Bill Bowder Magnitsky affair. Which is when Bowder says American investors were targeted unfairly by corrupt Russian officials at Putin bidding. However, like Das Spiegel investigation of Bowder concluded, I think the Bowder account, which has being accepted at face value by a gullibable MSM, is only half the story.

Yes the ‘Putin’ Russians were and are shady. This is uterly true. However that fact obscure a key point Bowder and his mates where not exctly angel either.

More imprtantly the banks used by the Russian have their origins in the CIA/Khashoggi/Phoneix Foundation, a cartel of mobsters, far right and literal Nazis and other scumbaggery, established in the Pacific in the 1970’s. Tis is will before the Russians emerged on the scene.

And when they did it was related to deals involving those who had multiple ties to the original vanguard who established the South Pacific as washing machine for dirty money and Air American fronts in the late 1970’s. These net works would be in full wing by the 1980’s when first Southern World Airlines then Pacific Express (Plus Coral Air, DHL, Cargo air ect ect etc) flew into town to the cheer of New Zealand bussiness papers. The later didn’t care where the money behind these carpet baggers came from. It was the 80s and the marlet could only ever go up right?

— “A Los Angeles office has already been established to develop south-bound business, usually more lucrative than the low value freight out of New Zealand. While exporters have welcomed the prospect of a second New Zealand operator offering more capacity and greater competition, some have questioned whether there is sufficient demand on the American route for another weekly freighter. The DC-8 can carry up to 45,000 kilograms. Increased passenger services have seen more cargo space available on Air New Zealand, United Airlines and Continental flights to and from the United States. A more noticeable freight bottleneck – at peak periods at least – has affected exporters to Japan, some of whom were hit last year by Qantas giving preference to Australian exporters. Southern World would apply for a scheduled service to Japan as well as charter rights, Mr Oomen said. “The opportunity was perceived to be there,” he said. Mr Oomen emphasized that the scheduled American flights were only a portion of the planned business with charter flights expected to South-east Asia, the Pacific Basin and elsewhere.

The airline would offer a specialised service for perishable exports and would also carry bloodstock and livestock. ( Also a theme of the proposed Winebox Australian Airlines aviation service SEE ALSO Ian Wishart Lawyers Guns & Money) “Hazardous goods not acceptable on passenger flights could be carried by the freighter. This is to be based in Auckland but offer flights from Wellington and Christchurch. Mr Harvey Misbin, a former American entrepreneur, involved in setting up Southern World, had been associated with the establishment of several air charter services in the United States, Mr Oomen said. A group of former Air New Zealand pilots where involved in the venture and had been trained to fly the DC-8.”

By August 1990 Southern World was still not airborne. The airline’s chairman of directors of the airline, Mr Louis McElwee, an Auckland lawyer, told the NZ Herald “that they were aiming at the end of September for the first flight. At first Southern World Airlines will offer a weekly service from Los Angeles to Hawaii, Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Guam, the East and back to Los Angeles. Since the airline was formed 18 months ago, it has been securing the necessary licenses and landing rights in various countries, as well as overseas premises and agencies. “ The Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991) that followed Iraq’s invasion and annexation of Kuwait, delayed Southern World Airlines’ take-off.

The DC-8 aircraft which the airline had intended to lease had to be made available to the United States military. The company chairman, Mr Louis McElwee, said in January 1991 “that another DC-8 had been leased and the company hoped to begin operations in March. The first service through Auckland operated on the 18th of March 1991 with Southern Word McDonnell Douglas DC-8-62 N7043U operating from Melbourne and Christchurch through to the United States. A typical Southern World flight in this period was their twice weekly SWN021/022, which operated from Los Angeles to Honolulu, Pago Pago, Auckland and Melbourne before returning byway of Auckland and Honolulu. Southern World also regularly operated flights through Christchurch, Sydney and Nadi. Source: NZ Second DC 8 Operator Southern World. Flights were scheduled to fly where and when there was air cargo offering. Occasionally other DC-8’s were used including Kalitta Air’s DC-8-73PF N809CK had operated a Southern World Honolulu-Auckland-Sydney-Auckland service on the 21st of May 1991 and another Kalitta Air aircraft*, McDonnell Douglas DC-8-55F N807CK had operated a Southern World flight through Pago Pago on the 8th of July 1991.

• Note: *During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict (2nd Lebanon war)Kalitta Air made weapon supply flights from the United States to Israel, via Prestwick Airportin Scotland for refueling, without authority from the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority. Scotland’s Crown Office considered, but eventually decided against, prosecuting Kalitta Air for two July 2006 flights carrying laser-guided bombs. See also full report: “United States of America – Below the radar: Secret flights to torture and ‘disappearance’” [see in particular section 2: Planes and airports – the support network for rendition flights] “The CIA rendition program has relied on private planes contracted from companies listed as private air charter services. In some cases, these are CIA front companies that exist only on paper. [raises concerns about alleged involvement by: Southern Air, Kalitta Air, Evergreen International Airways, Tepper Aviation, Premier Executive Transport, Stevens Express Leasing, Devon Holding, Keeler and Tate Management, Bayard Foreign Marketing, Aero Contractors, Pegasus Technologies,“Where there’s death, destruction, and mayhem, usually there’s a Kalitta aircraft nearby doing something to help.”
  
• Note January 21, 1991 Hugh Barlow a Dominon journalist article appeared in both the New Zealand Times and the Dominion (provided to me courtesy of Barlow himself). The article revealed how Southern Air had been selected to train RNZAF C130 Hercules pilots at Southern Air training center’s in Marietta, Georgia, under an arrangement made in the late 1980s. (See Stare Secrets Page 117-118)

According to the SWA archives in the national archives SWA leased and had it aircraft maintained by Ever Green Aircraft Sales a subsidiary of Evergreen International whose CIA pedigree is legendary. SWA application for a license also states it would be taking some of the slack on its Japanese NZ route from Emery and Flying Tigers (Flying Tigers was the very orginal firm from which Air America the CIA daddy airline had sprung).

Source: United States of America Below The Radar Secret Flights to Torture and Dissapearance. Centres Des Resources Sur Les Enterprise Et Les Droits del’Homme April 5th 2006.  

Source: Arms Shipsment for Ukraine. Twitter.

Source: The Contact Airlines that Quietly move US Troops and Spies Around the Globe Foreign Policy May 2006.

• “In July 6, 1994, over five years after he left Evergreen, Plaintiff filed this qui tarn action under the False Claims Act. On November 22, 1994, Plaintiff filed his First Amended Complaint, in which he alleges that: (1) Evergreen gave Postal Service officials illegal gratuities; (2) Evergreen used its role as a critical CIA contractor to gain an advantage over competitors; (3) Evergreen induced officials to provide preferential treatment during both the contract award process and the performance of the contracts; (4) Evergreen induced officials to approve excessively favorable contract terms; and (5) Evergreen induced officials to permit the use of Postal Service designated aircraft for other clients, including the CIA. First Amended Complaint, at ¶¶ 14-18 (docket no. 17).”.

Source: Air Kalitta Freighter Spotted with Military Cargo Flying Magazine 4.5.2006

Source: Was Scott Kalitta’s death really just an accident? Abovetopsecret.com

Source: United States v. Evergreen International Airlines, Inc., 886 F. Supp. 750 (1995)June 1, 1995 · US District Court for the Western District of Washington · No. C94-1017Z 886 F. Supp. 750.

Note: Pacific Express CEO Simon Lahav (aka Spitz) ran Metro Cargo out of Lugano contra hub until the Russians complained his air craft where running guns into Africa. This in the era Russian suspected their own weapons technology was being smuggled out and sold to NATO backed arms dealers by their former partners in reforming Russia’s economy. Source Upload of 9G-ROX aircraft – see the others examples @www.flickr.com/photos/propfreak/36768079530/in/photolist-… Livestock Limited IS listed in the SWA client list during its liquidation. It also cites a James Bennet Holding Ltd this in fact owned by Paul McElwee.

• Also list clients of SWA as Mogal Cool Stores which is ultimately controlled by OWENS INTERNATIONAL FREIGHT HOLDINGS LTD run by Owen Glen the billionaire who wanted to be New Zealand Monaco consul and had a falling out with his former partner Eric Watson (partner to Wilding associate Evan Christian) of Hanover Finance fame.
  
• SWA also listed as clients Instone of Ireland Blood stock horses carriers for Saudi Arabia. Source: BloodStock provide transport for the Sauid Cup. Source:ICIJ offshore leaks
  
• SWA also listed as Clients – include Kiwi Harvest (uses same address as used by Winebox crew), Current directors include incidentally Jolanta Masojada Independent Non-Executive Director Jolanta Masojada is Principal of MasMedia Advisers, providing strategic investor relations and communications advice to listed companies. She has more than 25 years’ experience in financial markets and equity research in the media and technology sectors in Australia and the US.  Jolanta was formerly Director Equity Research at Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. Her partner at Balidor Investment Management David Kirk was also a policy advisor to John Key when he was New Zealand Prime Minister.
  
• Also listed as SWA clients include Amborn Holdings —- there no mention of this online or in company holdings (what’s the cash flow from this client??) Linked to SWA Japanese operations. List an AD Thompson petitioning several ministers on behalf of SWA license application. Address J Carter Keri Keri – that’s John McGregor Carter. 
  
• Also listed as SWA clients include Challange Live Stock a Fletchers subsidiary (Fletchers now owned by Chase HKSB & JP Morgan).
  
• Also listed as SWA clients Elders Pastoral —In 1987, farmer William Gunn granted the Bank of New Zealand a security over his livestock, making all proceeds of any livestock sales to be payable to the bank. However, the security did allow the farmer to sell livestock during “ordinary course of business”.
  
  The following year however, Gunn sold 3,081 lambs via his livestock agent Elders Pastoral, later not only deducting their normal commission for the sale, also deducted the bulk of the remaining proceeds to offset other monies owed by the farmer to Elders. On discovery of this development, the bank advised Elders that these monies were payable to them under their security, adding that the money from the sale should be held as a constructive trust for the bank. Source: Elder Patoral vs BNZ.
  
• SWA also listed as clients Elders & Watkins Elder Finance & Elder Care.
  
• SWA also listed as clients Elders & Watkins Fresha Holding Ltd Eric Charles SPENCER, (Caxton Printing

• Company Appointments

Company name	Appointed to role	Company Incorporated	Company Address
PACIFIC EXPRESS HOLDINGS LIMITED	10 Apr 1992	10 Apr 1992	Coopers & Lybrand, 26th Floor Coopers & Lybrand Tower, 23-29 Albert Street, Auckland NEW ZEALAND

Related People

Name	Address
Roger Leslie BANKS	11 Carriage Close, Howick, Auckland NEW ZEALAND
Simon LAHAV	24 Auckland Road, St Heliers, Auckland, 1071 NEW ZEALAND

• Company Appointments

Company name	Appointed to role	Company Incorporated	Company Address
PACIFIC EXPRESS CARGO AIRLINE LIMITED	12 Oct 1992	12 Oct 1992	CONTINENTAL CARGO DEPOT, 5 AUCKLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT DRIVE, AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND
PACIFIC EXPRESS HOLDINGS LIMITED	10 Apr 1992	10 Apr 1992	Coopers & Lybrand, 26th Floor Coopers & Lybrand Tower, 23-29 Albert Street, Auckland NEW ZEALAND

Related People

Name	Address
Roderick Grant ANNALS	59 Portland Rd, Remuera, Auckland NEW ZEALAND
Roger Leslie BANKS	11 Carriage Close, Howick, Auckland NEW ZEALAND
Roger Leslie BANKS	14 Seavuew Terrace, Howick, Auckland NEW ZEALAND
Not Known	from NEW ZEALAND and is, or was, associated with the company: PACIFIC EXPRESS CARGO AIRLINE LIMITED. They were appointed to this company on 21 Jan 2013. THIS DATE 2013 IS INTERESTING LAHAV FLED NZ HAVING EMBEZELLED 2012 AND THE FIRM WAS REPORTEDLY WIND UP BUT THIS WOULD SEEM TO INDICATE IT STILL ACTIVE …POSSIBLY A LIQUIDAtOR

Name	Status	Incorporated	Address
PACIFIC EXPRESS HOLDINGS LIMITED	In…	10 Apr 1992	Coopers & Lybrand, 26th Floor Coopers & Lybrand Tower, 23-29 Albert Street, Auckland NEW ZEALAND

Full legal name: Roderick Grant ANNALS Residential Address:59 Portland Rd, Remuera, Auckland ,Appointment Date:10 Apr 1992 Consent: Link to Consent Form

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Full legal name: Roger Leslie BANKS Residential Address:11 Carriage Close, Howick, Auckland , Appointment Date:10 Apr 1992 Consent: Link to Consent Form

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Full legal name: Simon LAHAV Residential Address:24 Auckland Road, St Heliers, Auckland, 1071 , New Zealand Appointment Date:10 Apr 1992 Consent: Link to Consent Form

ANNALS, Grant Roderick AUSTRAL AVIATION LIMITED (552438) (Removed)– Director50 shares (55.00%) Roger Leslie BANKS 16 Merino Ave, Howick ,Allocation 2:250 shares (25.00%) Grant Roderick ANNALS 19a Manawa Road, Remuera, Auckland ,Allocation 3:200 shares (20.00%)Geoffrey Morris WHITE 2/44 Thatcher St, Kohimarama, Auckland ,

ANNALS, Grant RoderickCHARTER AIR FREIGHT LIMITED (471798) (Removed)– Director Airlines Partners, World Trade Centre, 2nd Floor Via Lugano, Switzerland . Shareholders in Allocation: Allocation 1:5500 shares (55.00%) Roger Leslie BANKS 16 Merino Ave, Howick, Auckland Allocation 2:2000 shares (20.00%)Geoffrey Morris WHITE 2/44 Thatcher Street, Kohimarama, Auckland Allocation 3:2000 shares (20.00%)Grant Roderick ANNALS 19a Manawa Road, Remuera, Auckland Allocation 4:500 shares (5.00%)Marian Jean BANKS 16 Merino Ave, Howick, Auckland , NOTE: Lugano Switzerland is where Lahav air firm implicated in arms trafficking Metro Cargo was based

ANNALS, Grant RoderickCHARTER AIR FREIGHT LIMITED (471798) (Removed)– Shareholder

ANNALS, Grant RoderickAUSTRAL AVIATION LIMITED (552438) (Removed)– Shareholder

ANNALS, Roderick GrantPACIFIC EXPRESS HOLDINGS LIMITED (546618) (In Liquidation)– Cur

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• GLOBAL AVIATION LOGISTICS LIMITED (842519) Removed. Company number:842519. NZBN:9429038161155. Incorporation Date:30 Jan 1997. Company Status: Removed. View Previous Status Company addresses: Registered Office 4 Putiki St, Ponsonby, Auckland , New Zealand Directors Showing 1 of 1 directors. Roger Leslie BANKS. P O Box 38118, Howick, Auckland ,Company record link. Company number:505056 NZBN:9429039114426 Incorporation Date:10 May 1991Company Status: Removed. Roger Leslie BANKS 3 Mission View Drive, Howick ,/ Edward HAVARD 178 Tramway Parade, Beaumaris, Victoria 3193, Australia ,Kenneth Alan RALSTON Residential Address:53 Middleton Road, Remuera, Auckland, 1050 , New Zealand Appointment Date:10 May 1991.

• STRATEGIC AIRLIFT LIMITED (1940611) Removed. Company number:1940611 NZBN:9429033407333. Incorporation Date:22 May 2007. Registered Office 4 Putiki Street, Ponsonby, Auckland , New Zealand Directors Kenneth Alan RALSTON Mahinepua Road, Mahinepua, Northland ,Company record link:

• THE RALSTON GROUP LIMITED is a NZ Limited Company from NEW ZEALAND. 4 Putiki St, Ponsonby, Auckland NEW ZEALAND

name	address	Appointed
John BOURKE	11 Doneraille Place, Bethlehem, Tauranga, 3110 NEW ZEALAND	18 Dec 2012
Kenneth Alan RALSTON	4 Putiki Street, Grey Lynn, Auckland, 1021 NEW ZEALAND	17 Jul 2000 – 18 Dec 2012 (resigned)

Shareholders

Allocation	shares	name	address
1	120	John BOURKE	11 Doneraille Place, Bethlehem, Tauranga, 3110 NEW ZEALAND

Related Companies

Name	Status	Incorporated	Address
CITRUS BAR LIMITED	Removed	16 May 2000	Suite 15a, Level 2, The Strand Building, 125 The Strand, Parnell, Auckland NEW ZEALAND
THE RALSTON REPORT LIMITED	Removed	17 Jul 2000	4 Putiki St, Ponsonby, Auckland NEW ZEALAND
RALSTON’S LIMITED	Removed	17 Jul 2000	4 Putiki St, Ponsonby, Auckland NEW ZEALAND
HERCAL ASSOCIATES LIMITED	Registered	13 Dec 2001	103 Rangi Avenue, Whangamata, Whangamata, 3620 NEW ZEALAND
TRADITIONAL GOLF DESIGN LIMITED	Removed	23 Jul 2002	5 Tekoah Place, Tauranga NEW ZEALAND
NATIONAL TONGARIRO LIMITED	Removed	1 Nov 2004	4 PUTIKI STREET, PONSONBY, AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND
STRATEGIC AIRLIFT LIMITED	Removed	22 May 2007	4 PUTIKI STREET, PONSONBY, AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND
SCHOOL PROMOTIONS LIMITED	Registered	14 May 1984	6/47 The Strand, Takapuna NEW ZEALAND
ATLAS CONSOLIDATED (1994) LIMITED	Removed	22 Dec 1987	2nd floor, 2 Ngaire Ave, Market Road, Auckland NEW ZEALAND
SUCCESS CLUB LIMITED	Removed	26 Nov 2012	48 Ninth Avenue, Tauranga, 3110 NEW ZEALAND
CLUB TYRES NZ LIMITED	Registered	26 Aug 2015	4 Putiki Street, Grey Lynn, Auckland, 1021 NEW ZEALAND

• AIRGROUND LIMITED (505056) Removed Directors Havard & Arnold and Banks May 1991

IV). Ray Young

• Director in TOURISM NIUE LIMITED (499227) Removed, Immigration Management,  INTER-PAC AIR LIMITED,NZ Y INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (ect ) PACIFIC HOVERCRAFT MARKETING LIMITED,  SOVEREIGN OCEANIA AIRLINES LIMITED, INTERPAC AIR LIMITED (821911) .

“Auckland-based Coral Air hopes to establish a regular service linking five South Pacific countries. Using an unspecified jet aircraft capable of carrying 100 passengers, the airline aims to provide regular links between Niue, Tonga, Rarotonga, Fiji and Tahiti. The aircraft is in addition to two 18-seater Beech 1900C commuter planes Coral Air has been trying for months to introduce to Niue, the tiny island east of Tonga. Coral Air officials have been negotiating with other airlines on the project. While Coral Air’s solicitor, Mr Bob Warburton, declined to identify the type of aircraft that may be leased, he said the airline and Ansett New Zealand had signed an interline agreement late last week. Because of delays in obtaining New Zealand civil aviation approval of an air operating certificate for its Beech service to Niue, Coral Air is investigating the possibility of flying alternative aircraft, using an unnamed associate carrier’s authorization”.

“All we are saying is that we are investigating the possibility of commencing services earlier rather than later,” said Mr Warburton. CORAL AIR WANTS TO LINK ISLANDS – New Zealand Herald.

It was Niue’s decision to bankroll Coral Air in the two-plane service and the role of Ray Young, an Auckland undischarged bankrupt, that prompted opposition politicians to call for a vote of no confidence in the Government of Premier Sani Lakatani.

VI) Sani Elia Lagigietama

Lakatani (born 1936) is a former Premier of Niue. He was a member of the Niue People’s Party. Sani Lakatani. Spent twenty years with the New Zealand Army, Regular Force . Lakatani was deployed to Vietnam as part of the Whiskey2 deployment.

October 1995 Lakatani was charged with 22 counts of bribery and two of official corruption. Most of the charges were dismissed after the Niue Court of Appeal found that the law against corruption did not apply to Members of the Assembly and the remaining charges were later dropped. Niue was a significant player under Lakatani in Panama Papers (Founded by the son of a Nazi with ties to the CIA operation in South Americ (which post war aligned itself with anti communist dictators, literal Nazis and drug dealers) received $150 per year for each newly registered company, but the truth was the Panamanians made it known there were other options – and nobody was offering Niue that kind of money.“We figured that if we had the exclusivity we would avoid the price wars because in off-shore jurisdictions there is a lot of competition going on,” Mossack said. Source: ‘Me and Jürgen Mossack’: Michael Field on chasing the Panama Papers through the South Pacific in the ’00s The Spin Off April 7, 2016)

For much of his time as leader of Niue, Lakatani was living in Auckland and collecting national super. He still is. Fields write “Niue had seemed an odd choice for Mossack at the time, as the only air access was by once-weekly flight provided by the flakey and now defunct Royal Tongan Airlines” (Pages 229 232-33, 248,250,252-54 State Secret Khashoggi and the fletchers Fay Richwhite Iran oil deal).  Eventually 6000 accounts were set up, earning Niue around $1 million a year.Mossack Fonseca local agent is Peleni Talagi, her father, Toke Talagi, became Prime Minister of Niue. On their web page (now long gone) Mossack Fonseca described the advantages of Niue as “total secrecy and anonymity”. There were no requirements to disclose beneficial owners, nor any need to file annual returns. “Complete business privacy and confidentiality” was assured.

Helpfully, Niue allowed company creation in Chinese characters as well as Cyrillic or Russian script.

John Hayes, head of the Pacific desk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, became a National Party member of parliament for Wairarapa. In 2009 he spoke during the debate on the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Bill. “(It) was very easy to set up a company in Niue, for example, with an 0900 number, and talk to a hot voice or something, in a recording,” he said. “A call could be made on a Friday afternoon and the phone left off the hook until Monday morning. The caller would invoice himself or herself via the company in Niue, send the cheque to Niue, and launder the money that way.” Big players like the Group of Seven, the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Financial Action Task Force and the US State Department were starting to express alarm. The US State Department’s International Narcotics Control Strategy Report said, “Niue’s thriving offshore financial sector has been linked with the laundering of criminal proceeds from Russia and South America.”

• See also Niue offered key to Holy City  which links Niue money operation into the Italian P2 NATO net work exposed in the 1990 as a conduit for corruption and money laundering or organised crimes and the Ukrainian Italian far right. And the smuggling of no less than the ultra rare osium 187.

VI) . Colin Mckenna WELCOME TO THE PIMP STATE

Colin Mckenna if from Auckland New Zealand and is, or was, associated with 16 or more companies including: CASE WESTON MORGAN & CO FINANCE LIMITED, CAPITAL SERVICES GROUP LIMITED, NIUE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LIMITED, TELDAR NO.28 LIMITED, C W M INVESTMENT FUND NO.3 LIMITED, DRYWOOD HOLDINGS LIMITED, EASTERN BAY PARTNERS LIMITED, MCKEEVERS TRANSPORT LIMITED, BUSINESS & COMMERCIAL SERVICES LIMITED, TELDAR NO.27 LIMITED, ABBOTT TRADERS LIMITED, ANNACOTT INVESTMENTS LIMITED, STAMINA HOLDINGS LIMITED, COSMETIC PACIFIC LIMITED, ROCKWELL INVESTMENTS LIMITED??, VICTORIA HEALTH NEW ZEALAND LIMITED. Their most recent appointment was on 31 Mar 1992.

TELDAR NO.29 LIMITED
(23 Jan 1992 to 07 Oct 1992) is in fact also the Niue Development Corporation

* There is also a series called CWM and Bowker among others in the New Zealand Archives Winebox files (a TVNZ actors list of suspected Winebox players) that all have the same directors. 

Shareholders in Rockwell Investment Limit. RIL allocation 1:250000 shares (50.00%)  Allocation 2:250000 shares (50.00%). 

Rockwell Investment also lists Rachelle Linda Christian BOURQUIN as a director with the address of 2 Chemin Des Roches, 1208 Geneva, Switzerland, this is the address for the permanent mission of NZ at the WTO then headed by Mike Moore Chairman of Mikhail Friedman’s Altimo Foundation which is named in the Paradise Papers . Liquidated in 1997. Listed as similar entities I can find no other mention of Rachelle but what I wonder about the name when I review Evan Russel Christian. Whether she married Evan or such and using a maiden name for company files is uncertain. Ditto on the Rockwell company list a ‘Christina’ Evan Russell. The apparent use of alias names on nominee firms is usually a red flag money laundering wise.

ROCKWELL COLLINS FINANCIAL, INC (language: en)
Legal Address	JUAN DIAZ, COSTA DEL ESTE AVENIDA LA ANTIGUA Y COSTA DEL SOL, PH TIMES SQUARE CENTER, PISO 38 Panama PA-8 0801 Panama

• COLIN MCKENNA —–BROKERS FOR FIRMS HANDLED BY SEX KINGS THE CHOW BROTHERS
  
  “The council accused them of failing to properly protect the property; some suspected they were deliberately seeking demolition to build a new 10-storey operation. The brothers vehemently rejected that, insisting that demolition was the last thing they wanted. At one point in their dispute with Auckland Council, the brothers threatened that if they refused to meet with them, they would send 200 strippers and prostitutes to protest outside every Eden Park World Cup game”.
  
  Magnates of the New Zealand sex industry, the Chow brothers present themselves as successful, model entrepreneurs. They own several prostitution venues in Wellington frequently at the centre of various dramas both commerical and social. In 2011, they presented a project to construct a 15-floor brothel on the historic ruins of the Palace Hotel, in front of the Auckland landmark, Sky Tower. This project followed a chaotic path, which mimics the debate on prostitution regulation. Construction of the brothel was eventually accepted under certain conditions. The Chow brothers, who manage 80 to 100 “employees”, were severely criticized in an article which described the harsh working conditions imposed upon the prostitutes: “mostly between the ages of 18 and 21, they must pay for rent, lubricants, condoms, and must receive customers for 17 hours per day in order to keep at least 50% of the profit…. the recruitment of women to prostitution is taking place through a collaboration between our neoliberal government; pimps and the global sex trade lobby, and male sexual liberals in academia. Picture Calum Bennachie, with Bill English, Key, the Chow Brothers and Michel Foucault having a chummy night out at the strip club – maybe throw in a couple of RockFM DJs in the mix. This kind of fraternity is what we call a Pimp State”.
  
  SOURCE: Sexual Exploitation of Prostitution. SOURCE: Why is a man running New Zealad’s Prostitute Colective.
  
  Note: The referece to Rock DJ if not clearly a swipe at Ardern’s playboy partner Clarke Gayford of George FM many kiwis will think it it. Gayford’s private life embraces the Media Works (slang name Media Whores) style reputation for a partying hard culture and is perhaps the worse kept secret in New Zealand next to the hedonist lifesyle of John Key’s own off spring.
  
  The Chow Broters’ partner is JOHN KEY (ANZ) New Zeland’s former Prime Minister and director in the ANZ – The Keys, through their property development firm MTK Capital, are partnering the Chow’s Stonewood Group to form StonewoodKey Capital. The company has $20 million already pledged and has a target of $100 million over the next 18 months to buy land for housing developments. Psst directors include former Queenstown mayor and tourism real estate aviation industry magante James Boult part of the $26 million collapse of Stonewood –SOURCES: John Key to partner With Chow Brothers Chow Leaves Bad Taste – Eye of the Fish Chow Brother Divide and Rule RNZ.
  
  The Chow brothers are on a mission to get into digital media and IP based soft ware much like Wilding set out to corner the print and textile markets in the 1990’s assisted by John Key. The Chow brothers have leveraged their property investment firm Stonewood Group, as collateral, to purchased Auckland-based power specialist firm DataGuard. This comes as New Zealand is to be home to several data centres in the next five years including a defence facility based in Ohaka linked to establishing modifying social credit behavior utilizing Singapore technology. The proposal seemed on hold for a few yearsas Singapore a juior member of the Western based Five Eyes seemed compromised by Chinese Intelligence during the Cameron Ortis spy scandal which also fingered Canada and New Zealand as weak links in te Five Eyes security net during and the scandal. Which came on top of critic of New Zealand handling of the Huawei telecommunication security beach which targeted both John Key cabinet and Ardern who had a prior relationship with Huawei chief lobbyist here in New Zealand. But the issue as a senior Defence official told me in 2021 had “being resolved”. Source Stonewood Group merges Dataguard
  
  
  Note Asides from banks John Key since leaving office has worked hard to get himself established on the bad of several Silicon Valley cyber security firms, such as Palo Alt, keen to recuit those with a history in raising investment capital, especiallly those with US intelligence connections. New Zealand government related investment in Silicon Valley is a topic the government is keen not to have answer questions about inan election year as ANZ Group Holdings Ltd shares take a beating. Source: HOW JOHN KEY PALO ALTO IN BED WITH THE CIA
  
• Ray White realtor Simron Singh worked in the sales team alongside colleagues Ken Choong and Peter Burgham. Singh ad Choong its believed are one who introduced Key to the how brothers. SOURCE: John Key Helps Son Max Snap Up 14m Mt Albert Auckland Villa NZ Herald.
  
• KEY & THE WINEBOX & PORTCULIS. It is worth noting John Key roles as PM in relation to New Zealand handling if the Paraide Papers ect leaks. “Prime Minister John Key has declared a financial link to a company specialising in foreign trusts. The latest register of MPs’ pecuniary interests, released on Tuesday, listed the Antipodes Trust Group Limited as a debtor in Key’s entry. On its website, the Antipodes Trust calls itself a specialist provider of trustee and associated services for foreign trusts using New Zealand as their jurisdiction of choice”. Source :Prime Minister John key deposited money with company specialising in foreign Trust NZ Herald.
  
  2016: ANZ Westpac named as at centre of global money laundering with Panama Papers naming New Zealand. John Key in fact is the only politician world wide named directly by the Paradise Paper leaker ‘John Doe’. ANZ were critical in US diplomacy in New Zealand including the US selling the trade deal the TPPA and having hosted Obama Barack (Key’s regular golfing buddy) at ANZ‘s Air New Zealand meeting in 2016 where Key’s co-director in Air New Zealand Chris Luxton was listed as the next PM, after Jacinda Ardern. A forecast made eight minutes into the ANZ sponsored meeting which is increasingly looking likely.  Source: Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven Anthony Robbins 11.4.2016.
  
• A SAMPLE OF HEADLINES ON KEY ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE TAX HAVENS & INVESTIGATING THEM (SHADES OF G20).

John Key keeps lid on hidden billions | Stuff.co.nz 5/10/2016 — Prime Minister John Key introduced legislation in August to amend … disclosure laws to prevent money laundering by political figures. (NOTE the law chnages in reality did bugger all)

Panama Papers report alleges NZ prime place for rich to hide … (Reuters) 8/05/2016 — Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister John Key to take action after local media analyzed more than 61,000 documents relating to New Zealand …

Sir John Key defends his government’s oversight of foreign trusts 3/10/2021 — Key said that New Zealand foreign trusts held offshore money for offshore clients and their use did not threaten the New Zealand tax base.

Prime Minister John Key denies Panama Papers … – NZ Herald 9/05/2016 — Prime Minister John Key says a second phase of anti-money laundering measures may be brought forward in the wake of the Panama Papers, …

The back story to New Zealand PM John Key’s Panama … – AFR 4/10/2016 — New Zealand Prime Minister John y has introduced new disclosure … disclosure laws to prevent money laundering by political figures.

‘Fraud mecca’ fracas: John Key v John Doe | RNZ News.8/05/2016 — Prime Minister John Key speaks to media about the Panama Papers … of countries not complying with international money laundering rules nor …Is New Zealand a money launderers’ paradise? – Interest.co.nz 16/10/2015 — Gareth Vaughan wonders whether a sign saying ‘welcome to John Key’s South Pacific money laundering paradise’ should be hoisted at Auckland Airport.

Is NZ a tax haven for the rich and dodgy? The Pandora Papers 6/10/202 

Tax haven blacklist for New Zealand? – The Government claimed it was in the dark over suggestions New Zealand could be placed on a “tax haven” blacklist being drawn up by the European Union.

The EU Parliament has established a 65 member Panama Papers committee of inquiry into tax evasion and money laundering, and will report back by next June. It is screening a draft list of countries for its tax haven blacklist and will come up with a final list in 2017. EU parliament member Michael Theurer stated the Panama Papers had detailed  “thousands of letterbox companies” in New Zealand.

Secretive Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca boasted how “New Zealand laws made it easy for foreign investors to hide their tax-free profits”. Prime Minister John Key in response was forced to defend the country’s tax laws. He began by dismissing a report that detailed the offshore trusts set up in New Zealand for Malta’s Energy Minister, Konrad Mizzi, and the prime minister’s chief of staff, Keith Schembri, as anomaly. However in 2012 Mossack Fonseca’s New Zealand staff reported advice they received from an executive at Nexus Trust: “NZ has very weak laws in regard to due diligence; they only require utility bill and passport. Trust companies are not required to hold a license.“ Naked Lunch blog with reporting by former New Zealand Business analyst Denise McNab, a veteran of Wine Box scandal reporting, cited NZ as being mentioned in the files over 60,0000 times.
In Australia nearly 23 million transactions related to money laundering via the four core bank ANZ, ASB, West Pac, BNZ, who also all serve as financiers for the equity investment sector.

So much for being an anomally.

In Malta public protest called for the resignation of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat over the news that Mizzi and Schembri set up secret holdings in Panama and New Zealand linked to a Dubai bank account with overlaps to the Aberjhani arms for oil laundromat and the 2017 fatal car bombing of Daphne Daphne Caruana Galizia the Maltese journalist who broke the Panama Papers a story of how the Aberjhani arms for oil network hid behind state sanctioned UK and Kiwi nominees companies filtered through the ‘CV’ network. To say New Zealand is balls deep in shady money from the Gang of Twenty Affair, the Winebox, to the more recent international banking scandals is an understatement of biblical proportions. Only dwarfed by the under-statement that the status quo of New Zealand’s dirty money markets has being largely enabled by the status quo itself at the highest levels of office.

VII .Evan Russell Christian BSc

Non-executive Director  Evan is a co-founder of G3. Evan held directorships of a number of NZX listed companies, including Zintel Group Limited, Abano Healthcare Group Limited (under its previous name Elder Care New Zealand Limited) and Provenco Group Limited (previously called Advantage Group Limited) . He has also held directorships previously in United Electricity Limited and Transport Investments Limited, International Payment Technology.

Partners in Qixel, a combined investment vehicle with Advantage directors Evan Christian and Nick Gordon partnering up with New Zealand rich lister Eric Watson and Elders Finance in 1999. Elders and a number of other finance companies where brought together to create Hanover Group. In December 2009 Hanover collapsed, causing significant losses for many small investors, concerns were raised about Hanover Group’s true financial position, its solvency when paying dividends, transactions that may have benefited related parties, and the accuracy of asset valuations. It reports a High Court judge in London having found Watson in contempt of court for withholding information about his assets from philanthropist and transport oligarchic Sir Owen Glenn. Sir Owen was a trustee in White, a fund-raising charity for victims of domestic abuse along with kickboxer Richie Hardcore (who lobbied for Hells Angel and wife beater Karl Soubrek) until Owen was accused of assaulting a woman in Hawaii and chose to step down as a trustee.

New Zealander Rich Lister Eric Watson was then ordered to pay nearly $NZ50 million after a complex UK court battle over a disputed joint venture. In 2015 he was charged with insider trading by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission Watson and is now being chased by liquidators of Watson’s Cullen Group over a $57m claim, and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, but both have been unable to serve legal papers to-date. Watson is believed to be hiding in  in Ibiza, and authorities say they have a good idea of which island he is on.

Other interest of Evan Russell Christian.

• Cogent Limited IT Services and IT Consulting IT, Service CENTER Solutions, Networks, Managed Services, Professional Services, Unified Communications and Collaboration, Contact CENTER, Cloud services, Connectivity, Voice recording, Security, Network security, Display systems, IP cameras, Videoconferencing, and Radio Capabilities. Interests AGE LIMITED,AGE Foundation Charitable Trust*,  

• Co director Katherine Allsopp-Smith – Miss World New Zealand Miss World 2000 – 20011 year Auckland, New Zealand  Miss World New Zealand. Proudly representing New Zealand in London and the Maldives at Miss World 2000. Harnessing the power of “Beauty with a purpose”

*Note when Key was elected charity law was changed so instead of a rebate of 2.5% with a ceiling of $5000.00 it was raised to 33% rebate no ceiling. 

• Co-Founder AGE Foundation Charitable TrustMar 2019 – Present 3 years 10 months Auckland, New Zealand. Charitable enterprise for AGE School and Scholarships.
• Director Wilshire Property Group 1998 – Present 24 years. Auckland, New Zealand Commercial Property Investment
• Director & Shareholder G3 Group Ltd 2003 – Present 19 years. Business Transaction, Document Services, Data Management and Business Mail. Subsidiary Brands File Corp, 800 Filing, Eureka Filing and Storage (and destruction), Simpsons, Dalton Storage & Files, New Zealand Mail, SEND, Petes Post, Fastway Post, Rocket Mail, BrandPost,
• Co Founder and Director. AGE School Apr 2017 – Present5 years 9 months
• Director and Major Shareholder — Tech Trans LP 2007 – 20103 years Provider of International Payment Technology in NZ market including the Verifone Range of EFTPOS POS products. Merged the Business with Sektor Distributors Ltd.
• Director and Shareholder Zintel Cogent Ltd 2001 – 20032 years NZX Listed Provider of telecommunications services across New Zealand and Australia. Resigned directorship for 5 year Sabbatical.
• Chairman and Shareholder. Advantage Group Ltd 1998 – 2002 4 years One of the first Internet and electronic payments companies listed on NZX. During my Chairmanship the Company expanded from $20m in Sales to +$100m with +500 Employees. Resigned Directorship 2002 to take a 5 year Sabbatical
• Director and Founding Shareholder Abano Healthcare Group Limited 1998 – 2001 3 years Private Hospital business – NZX Listed.
• Director and Shareholder United Electricity Ltd  1998- 2001 3 years New Zealand United retailed Electricity in the South Island of NZ. Onsold to Contact Electricity.
• Director and Founding Shareholder Transport Investments Ltd 1994 – 1997 3 years NZ TIL was a startup which invested in the transport industry. +600 staff. Current Revenue +$200m.
  

VII). Andrew Greg

Larsen Realtor director in mass of companies including Rockwell and Weston No. CWM is also listed as director of Viking Business Limited. No other data 

VIII ) Michael Andrew Scott GROUP FINANCE DIRECTOR & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Currently, Michael Andrew Scott holds the position of Group Finance Director & Executive Director at Victoria Plc. Mr. Scott is also on the board of Victoria Carpets Ltd., Ezi Floor Ltd., Whitestone Carpets Holdings Ltd. and G – Tuft Ltd. Mr. Scott received an undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge Co director Zachary Samuel Sternberg He is also on the board of Victoria Plc, ICT Reverse Asset Management Ltd. and Cimpress Plc and founder of Spruce House Partnership LLC, Zachary Samuel Sternberg presently is Managing Member at Spruce House Investment Management LLC and Managing Member at Spruce House Capital LLC and Managing Member at Spruce House Partnership LLC (both are subsidiaries of Spruce House Investment Management LLC). Member at Spruce House Capital LLC.Mr. Sternberg received an undergraduate degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is involved in sponsoring Ecommerce start up African Mexico where digital currency monopiles are fast becoming a reality

“Ben Stein is a Founder and Managing Member of The Spruce House Partnership, Mr. Stein serves on the board of Colliers International, one of the largest commercial real estate services companies in the world. Ben traveled extensively throughout East and Southern Africa and in the past has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the African Wildlife Foundation.” Trustee, The Africa Center The African Wildlife Foundation (formerly known as the African Wildlife Leadership Foundation) was founded in 1961 by Russell E. Train, Nick Arundel, Jim Bugg, Kermit Roosevelt and Maurice Stans. 

Russell Errol Train was the second administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, from September 1973 to January 1977 and the founder chairman emeritus of World Wildlife Fund run by WWF-International, situated in Switzerland, which was found to be used as a vehicle to launder finances used to destabilise African mineral rich nations. In a series of articles in the British magazine Private Eye details of some of the members were anonymously published in 1980 and 1981.

The 1001 club included several African dictators, bankers and the founders of Pacific money laundering Adnan Kashoggi and fugitive banker and drug smuggler Robert Vesco (who favored backing Las Vegas and Utah), who reportedly worked for the CIA; Agha Abedi, founder and head of the BCCI used by the CIA to arms guerilla groups via third party banks including Credit Suisse including Obam Bin Laden; BCCI shareholder Salem Bin Laden, the older brother of Osama, whose small plane crashed when the BCCI scandal came out; Baron Thyssen-Bornemisz whose art work was laundered through the Cook Islands. Private Eye magazine believed the real motive of many businessmen joining the 1001 has a lot to do with them seeking new ways to expand their business operations, in this case by using the WWF and the 1001 Club as a platform to casually meet the leaders of third world countries who control a substantial amount of the planet’s natural resources.

An event dubbed Operation Lock saw the Netherland’s Prince Bernhardt, the WWF chief patron stand down when Operation Lock, a secret initiative funded by Prince Bernhardt’s Club 1001 came to light. Critics maintain it goal was to destabilise African states on behalf on mining industralists and the West. WWF maintains it was a misguided and overtly aggressive attempt to counter proachers. Operation Lock was staffed by former SAS operatives and set up headquarters in Johannesburg and extended its reach into neighboring states which South Africa was then waging cold war with during the apartheid era.

Follow trustees of the African Wildlife Foundation come from the finance, banking, real estate sector and include – state it aim include lifting Indvidual’s out of poverty through assistance.;

• Mr. John R. Walter Lake Forest, director of Echo Global Logistics technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services purchased by New York private equity firm The Jordan Co.
• Mr. Jacques J. BusquetCalyon Corporate and Investment Banking, Ocwen Financial Corp.New York, In 2014 Ocwen Financial Corp agreed to replace its chairman as part of a $150 million settlement with New York’s financial regulator after the mortgage collection company admitted to violations, including improper foreclosures and considered a prime player in the subprime mortgage failure of 2008.
• Mr. Paul Campbell Microsoft, Santa Monica, CA
• Dr. James L. Foght Foght Enterprises Consulting services for the investment banking, venture capital and private equity , Winnetka, IL
• Mr. Robert E. King Salt Creek Ventures,private equity investment fundn Burr Ridge, IL
• Mr. Mark. D. Kvamme Sequoia Capital Partners, Menlo Park, CA, Sequoia Capital is an American venture capital firm. The firm specializes in seed stage, early stage, and growth stage investments in private companies across technology sector
• Mr. James Makawa The Africa Channel, North Hollywood, CA
• Sir Ketumile Masire Former President of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
• Anne B. Mize, Ph.D. Anne Mize & Associates, Seattle, WA Climate Change charity micro finances.
• Mrs. Wendy McCrary Breck New York, NY MC Crary Oil
• Mr. Dale F. (Tucker) Austin Land and Cattle Ltd., San Antonio, Texas Oil magate deceased. Pall bearers at his funeral included a whose of big banking and the militry such Tres Kleberg, Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army.
• Mr. Walter Kansteiner The Scowcroft Group, Washington, DC international business advisory firm managed by Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Advisor to U.S. President George. 
• Mr. Benjamin W. Mkapa Former President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. Mkapa privatized state-owned corporations and instituted free market policies. His supporters argued that attracting foreign investment would promote economic growth. His policies won the support of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund He was criticized for the ineffectiveness of his anti-corruption efforts and for his lavish spending. He spent £15 million on a private presidential jet, as well as almost £30 million on military aviation equipment from BAE Systems, and Israel, which experts deemed beyond the limited needs of the country’s armed forces.
• Dr. Mamphela A. Ramphele Human Development, World Bank, Cape Town, South Africa bio
• Mrs. Eleanor G. Nalle Knox Family Foundation, Philadelphia, PA Knox Family Foundation is a private foundation in Philadelphia, PA, which was founded in 1971 and listed revenue as $192,343 for 2020 expense of around half a million has no employee but assetts worth more than five million.
• Mr. C. Bowdoin Train, tax specialist, The Grosvenor Funds, which purchased by Credit Suisse Group AG in 2013. On the National council of the WWF leadership.
• Mr. Stephen D. Cashin Pan African Capital Group, Washington, DC agents Mossack Fonseca listed file in the Paradise papers.

Source: African Wild Life Foundation.

The irony of this report if that when you look directly at Wilding his only proven crime found against him is a history of dubious business deals. Yet when you look at his associates

• 2. Robert John Warburton (disgraced criminal lawyer) New Zealander.
• Harvey Misbin American with CIA links.
• 3. Ray Young (former operator of the defunct Niue Airlines, and undischarged bankrupt), New Zealander.
• 4.Rex Harris (former NZ military) New Zealander.
• 5. Sani Lakatani (Niue premier, corrupt finance minister) Niuean.
• 6. Colin McKenna (CEO/co-founder of Case Weston) New Zealander has direct business dealing with former New Zealand Prime Minister John Key..
• 7. Evan Russell Christian New Zealander.
• 8. Andrew Gregg Larsen New Zealander

They tell the 40 year collective history of how the profits of organised crime where used to first establish monopiles in area such as printing, real estate, critical infrastructure, and textiles and now ecommerce. This includes narcotics distributed to the street by gangs such as Hells Angels (and their subordinate offspring) and those repeatedly linked to the funding of terrorism including the CIA and Saudi support of the Mujaheddin net work Al Mak Tab. The later giving birth to the Osama Bin Laden led Al Queda terror net work credited with the twin towers attack in 911 (which as one Wall Street Reporter came at the exact time that US economy was in freefall and had Osama Bin Laden not given a boost to the American defence industry then the USA would have to have invented him) and BCCI’s attempt by rogue nations to procure nuclear weapons technology.

A network who’s logistic relied on an air force sized fleet of aircraft not only similar to Air America, the CIA’s own air force of the 1970’s 80 but in cases like Southern World Airlines can be shown to have a direct pedigree to Air America itself. In the Pacific this net work , which extends to hubs in Holland at Ostend Airport Shannon, Airport in Ireland, and locations like Van Nuy Airport in California (where the airports corporate interest and or personnel over lap with affiliated with Western intelligence agencies) and Lugano. A network whic pioneered tax havens and the tax evasion industry. A concept which came to the public conscious in New Zealand first through the Wine Box scandal but which in probability owes it origins to the Gang of Twenty affair involving Warburton and Saudi Arabia according to Justice Department whistle blower Keith Petersen.

The Winebox being in a nutshell a future template for what we would see in the leak of data known as the Panama Papers which revealed the Azerbaijani Oil for guns, net works. Network which in turn has repeated cross over into the United Nation’s Food For Oil Program and Russian public money shipped West and then the more selective leaking of Paradise and Pandora Papers, possibly in response to the Panama Papers. A leak which by omission of data seeks to incriminate Putin’s Russia while in the same breath sheltering the USA and western corporate auditing giants own involvement in what is tantamount to economic warfare and a Chinese Belt Road like initiative that ultimately undermines the national sovereignty of developing nations by purposely creating debt. Notably a common and signifigant feature of the laundering was extension of lines of credit to businesses, by the banks themselves, who would not fit the normal criteria for loans of proportional size. The historic outcome of this process has being a series of bank collapses which see the host nation bail out the banks by borrowing more money a process which undermines their own national sovereignty. In the Southern hemisphere major banks involved in this have included the ANZ, BNZ, Westpac and ASB. All have been used as conduit for these funds shifted through Pacific tax havens like the Cook Islands, Niue and Vanuatu where they ultimately ended up accounts of the Royal Bank of Scotland, ING, BBVA, HBSC and Credit Suisse. Banks whose collapses, it can be argued where controlled, or regardless even that’s not true will ultimately see a tsunami of funds moved into interest controlled by the powerful families of China. Though whether these families are rivals of Xi Jinping, who seeks to consolidate China power, or allies of Western Corporation such as Black Rock has yet to be seen.

How did this all hapen??

Absent of oversight, self-regulation by those with their hands fully in the cookie jar, plus repeated and instituitionalised political protection as we see by a string of politicians down playing the scale of corruption with whistle blowers only vindicated by events in hindsight. A process aided by a biblical, in proportion, lack of interest from media. Which in the case of New Zealand was aided by the destruction of local independent media, via first the destruction of a competitive print industry and the establishment of print monopolies which rose operation cost above most independent operator abilities. The nations relative small size also saw local media, increasing owned by offshore interests, under funded by the government, as its journos began rubbing shoulders (or in the case of Marc Ellis and Dave Henderson literally doing lines together) socially with those they should be investigating. A form of freaknommics that grew to the point Kiwis coined the term media whores to describe the toxic culture of companies like Media Works George FM. A kind of culture which gave raise to another kiwi expression the Pimp state to describe how a former Prime Minister can be found in bed with brothel owners and no one in the national media raises an eye brow.

Wilding associates succeeded not because no one was aware of what was occurring. They succeeded because of instituionalised nepotism which ultimately, as we see in the USA ,is bipartisan. To the point scandal, when they do erupt, are focused on trivia – what the president did with porn stars and to interns and not on their links to kids of money trail that is doing what the presidents did in the bedroom with bimbos to the entire planet. The expression those who live in glass houses comes to mind.

Wilding may profess that he should not be judged guilty by association and fair enough. However your still faced with if not with a ‘litany of lies’ then a litany of red flags including tax dodge boats, subsidiaries dressed up as new asset to disguise the source of excessive growth developed not from sales and manufacturing but carrying excessive debt as granted to them by a who’s who of dodgy banking and auditing firms seemingly asleep at the wheel. Not to mention an army of legitimate investors wooed by the facade of respectability Wilding projected and the mistaken belief that the system would police itself. While the reality is the system (with a little help from friends in high places) was helping Wilding and his mates help themselves. Wilding is not an anomaly of the market he is the new normal.