Rahamim Shy a 47 years old who lives in Hoboken, New Jersey. Rahamim ( born in May 1977) just got convicted in sting operation, based in Bedford UK, where he paid to rape a 9 year old in his bag condom and a cuddly toy.

Rahamim is a Global Sanctions Compliance Director Of Policy And Strategic Integration who was employed at Citibank. However, a rep for the bank reportedly confirmed that he no longer works with them. His LinkedIn and social media accounts seem to have been taken down.

His previous jobs include a global sanctions compliance policy director at Citibank

Manager at Umt Consulting Group (acquired By Ey ( Ernst & Young). A global portfolio manager (senior vice president) at Citi, a realtor at Coldwell Banker and  a treasury liaison (senior policy advisor) to Obama Barack at U.S. Department Of The Treasury He is known for having advised the White House on ways to deal with terrorism financing of Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Money made from criminal activity including drug trafficking and human sex trafficking of adults and children.

In 2009, he testified on security issues in Afghanistan and Pakistan before a congressional hearing. Shy worked under Hillary Clinton when she was the US Secretary of State during Obama’s presidency as a senior treasury advisor to the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan at U.S. Department Of State.

His CV says he is;

An officer at United States Army Reserve Army Engineers. Rank undesignated.

A managing partner at Collective Artists108 Eeklostraat, Gent Mariakerke, Flanders, 9030, Belgium. The collective claims their revenue “$5 million” and comes from content providing and talent scouting.

Now see the photo for Collective Artist “Belgium” headquarters ( house below), alleged to employ hundred with revenue that change from bogus website to bogus website.

Jesus wept at the thought this guy had exceptionally hi Whitehouse level security clearance. Or that alarm bells did not rung at the Secret Service  (Treasury), who hired this guy.

Even a cursory glance makes clear his CV is at best bull shit ( no reliable photos or online foot print for so called employees) and worst screams something highly sketchy. And for the record one of my key jobs when I worked attachment for Counter Intelligence as an army reservist was looking for the kind of red flag this lizards profile sends out enmass.

Brands for Collective Artist include ;”

“Under 25”
Prowl and Collective Creative Labs who claim a whopping followers 91.

Yeah that sounds like a multi million dollar influencer talent company said no one ever.

It includes ESports who “provides strategic guidance and investment to start ups at different stages of their life cycle whilst connecting them to influencers and popular culture for disruptive growth” . Another waffle brand with no substance or proof of legitimacy that screams scammers.

Largely based in India Collective associated allegedly includd CEO Vjay Subramanian which does have some legitimate news coverage. Except beyond some creepy shots of Vjay and friends their no actual proof of the products.

Ditto Shy alleged manager at United Management Technologies “a global leader in security software to protecting consumers”  a firm with again no real foot print.

Perhaps his claims are legit but regardless one expect a multi million dollar firm specializing in digital influencing to have more than 91 followers.

Allegedly he is a consultant at JP Morgan Chase ( Epsteins boss) and as he is or was Citi Bank this seems believable.

Rahamim claoms he received a degree in master of international affairs, international security policy from Columbia University – School Of International And Public Affairs. Rahamim completed the degree in bs, management/communication at Rutgers University-new Brunswick.

Rahamim has 12 different addresses, the most recent of which is in Hoboken, New Jersey. Who has 12 addresses another red flag.

So how did he get caught?
What saw him as centre of international child trafficking operation?

Authorities are not saying.
But the location of Bedford and the time frame of 2022 2023 arrest after months of running the sting and years of intelligence gathering offer a clue. One that opens up a Pandora box with a surprisingly strong New Zealand connection.

In 2020 Bedford was the centre of a massive breakthrough in the fight against serious and organised crime.

All sparked by the global takedown of a Bespoke encrypted global communication service used exclusively by criminals for drug and human trafficking.

The case focused on “top tier offenders” and in relation to cocaine has come to center on Dubai gangs that currently process 90% of Africa smuggled gold and the majority of cocaine sold in Australia the UK and Europe where cocaine network include Pakistani gang using textile firms and other industry as frons for money laundering and human trafficking.

Something I like wise know a thing or two about. In 1999 I was hired to investigated a crime cells ties to an international textile producer New Zealand born Geoffrey Wilding CEO of textile giant Victoria PLC.

Wilding had a history of repeatedly establishing businesses in New Zealand and then the UK linked to those with a history of laundering cocaine and arms trafficking profits.

My chief discovery was that entrepneur former New Zealand banker Geoffrey Wilding was being enabled by major banks including Citi Bank and JP Morgan Hong Kong Shanghai, Citi Bank, ING  Royal Bank of Scotland Credit Suisse.

Banks who didn’t look too deeply after using auditing firms like Grant Thorton who simply rubber stamped their clients. Making it super easy should one want to launder cash sourced from crime ( and not say textiles). After this issue was raised by me the Financial Times of London and Wall Street Journal also raised notes of concern over Victoria income.

Shortly afterwards Thorton admitted their review was an opinion and they now changed their minds and felt Wildings operations at Victoria PLC was possibly open to money laundering abuse. No out right admission but the message was clear Victoria PLC smelt whiffey.

In fact I discovered that recidivist laundering banks Hong Kong Shanghai, Citi Bank, ING ( central to laundering of Russian crime networks, weapons of mass destruction technology) Royal Bank of Scotland Credit Suisse all sat on the UK audit body despite their history with zero oversight from the Crown or any government agency.

But let’s return to how and why so many scum bags where hitting the wall circa 2020.

Encrochat offered a secure mobile phone, to criminals, instant messaging service, but an international task force cracked the company’s encryption. There were 60,000 users worldwide and around 10,000 users in the UK. The sole use was for coordinating and planning the distribution of illicit commodities, money laundering and plotting to kill rival criminals. According to Dutch journalist Jan Meeus, a Dutch organized crime gang was involved and financed the secure phone app.

2,600 arrests and 1,384 criminal charges. Conviction seems sadly so far limited to a handful of cases and after the investigation stalled after it criminal users were tipped off to the infiltration of the secure system.

This would fit with a later case Phantom Secure which ultimately exposed Cameron Ortis a Canadian Royal Police intelligence analyst, repeatedly accused of being protected by senior policy commanders (who ignore warnings) of tipping off organised criminals under surveillance. Ortis sabotaged Fincen ( US Treasury) case focused on dirty money washed through NZ Pacific Banks

The task force was able to rescue seven suspected sex slave victims in a series of warrants targeting the illicit sex industry. As well as rescuing 10 suspected victims of modern slavery found living in a farm building

Other related Encrochat case include ;

A 2023 Belgian court tried more than 120 people charged with drug and arms human trafficking, extortion, acts of torture and attempted murder.Three men convicted in Belgium over their involvement in a major people smuggling ring have been arrested in the UK.

Encrochat also led to Afghan nationals apprehended in UK after warrants were issued for their arrest by Belgian courts.

Prosecutors in Belgium say the trio’s gang were involved in organising the transport of migrants from Afghanistan into western Europe. Many would eventually be put on small boats to the UK. The group also committed serious sexual offences against male migrant minors which they would video and use footage to blackmail the victims into particpating in criminality and further sexual abuse.

UK police worked with Belgian investigation for around two years, supplying intelligence and evidence to the Belgian Federal Police about the network.

Last month, a court in Antwerp convicted and sentenced the trio and 20 other members of the Afghan gang to a total of 170 years imprisonment, with sentences ranging from two to 18 years.

Suspicion is money from such crime is used to finance terror for groups including Alqueda and Isis.

The Enco torture room case raise the spectra of New Zealand ectasy trafficker whose murder trial I covered in 1999 after it was revealed that a Wellington Marlborough sounds ring ( with overlaps with those suspected of murdering Ben Smart and Oliva Hope on New Years1999) was tied to New Zealand gangsters, dutch born sex entrepneur and former South African special forces and an elite police unit called the Scorpions.

I would also later have a source involuntary identify an associate of his, a former senior Secret Service and White House official, as a fixer for wealthy expats living in NZ wanting narcotics and or sexual favour’s. The source had no idea I knew of this man existence or had any real idea, when describing what this man sought, who he was ( beyond being a wealthy American expat) what he did back in the USA or his past role in the Regan administration.

EncroChat phone that tipped authorities  included photos of the containers and dentist’s chair with belts attached to the arm and foot supports. The messages called the warehouse the “treatment room” and the “ebi”, a reference to a top security Dutch prison. The messages also revealed identities of potential victims, who were warned and went into hiding, police said.Searches of other properties found police uniforms, body armour, stolen vehicles, firearms and drug ware house.

The Kiwi at the centre of the Torture room bust Willuam Haanstra, a former Olympian contender, in 1999 was accused of the gang land killing of drug dealer Terri King execution-style in the Tararua Ranges.
King had been importing drugs from South Africa – and the Crown alleged Haanstra owed him money. The Crown claims Haanstra lead King into the ranges with a lure of a buried cache of MDMA, then shot him in the back of the head with a rifle. A hunter discovered King’s body two months later.

Haanstra was the last known contact of King, but the then 22-year-old denied any involvement in the death. His defence said King’s death was likely due to relationships souring between King and the South African men he was importing drugs from.
After a two-month, high-profile trial, Haanstra was acquitted. King’s murderer was never found.

Bullets matching fragments found in Haanstra head were found at Haanstra family home. However an offshore FBI forensic test found in a billion to one chance they also allegedly matched those randomly sampled.  Without Haanstra fire arm which vanished after the death forensic could not prove beyond reasonable doubt. While in house recording of Haanstra given to the South Africans, ex security police personal, for reduced sentences had the jury skeptical as to its reliability with multi-recording seemingly altered or stilted.

The court case also revealed Operation Serpent and Operation Royal

Last year I reported on how in 1999 Rob Pope the would-be commissioner of police repeatedly shot down the idea that the Ben Hope Oliva Smart case was linked to an international drugs ring operating in the Marlborough sounds.

Pope described this theory as “rubbish” .This is despite the evidence from to related police Operation Scorpion and Operation Serpent (As detailed in the trial of Willaim Jan Haanstra) specifically looked at the role of a high-level drug syndicate bringing large scale cocaine and extasy shipment into NZ, supplying gangs and those linked to human trafgicking, in Wellington and the Marlborough region. At the very same time period of Hooe Smarts murder.

My story was tied to the Hope and  Smart murder case and embezzler Michael Swans ties to the late Alastair Cassels and the disappearance of Cassels lodge keeper in the Sounds Kerry Blair ( just one of many of Cassels employees to vanish as sea).

At the time of writing name supression continues for a Dunedin man in his 50s arrested with drugs fire arms and video of child and animal abuse in his possession who also has repeated links to New Zealand organised crime. Police are not saying how they became aware of his offending.