'God's Banker' was murdered:

by **emad** » Wed May 25, 2005 12:09 pm

They'll have to remake "King Kong" if they ever want to do justice to a celluloid version of the BCCI saga. Nominations for the roles of Ronald Reagan, Elizabeth Windsor, George Herbert Bush, Vladimir Putin?

by **castaline** » Thu May 26, 2005 7:25 pm

Curious about the relationship between Marcos and BCCI along with Severino Garcia Sta. Romana aka Jose Antonio Diazand and his relationship with General MacArthur and General Tomoyuki Yamashita. How much does this have to do with <a href="http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/the_spoils_of_war.htm" target="top">The Spoils of WW2?</a> by <a href="http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/about.htm" target="top">David Guyatt</a> A serious investigation of the Marcos money might shed light, too, on the curious relationship between the American government and the corrupt Bank of Credit and Commerce International. In Jan. 22, 1981, two days after Reagan's Inauguration, Marcos and his cronies co-founded a Hong Kong bank with New York financier John Shaheen, one of Casey's closest friends dating back to the World War II-era Office of Strategic Services. Called the Hong Kong Deposit and Guaranty, the bank was capitalized with $20 million supplied by Princess Ashraf, the shah of Iran's strong-willed twin sister who hated Jimmy Carter. The bank attracted onto its board leading BCCI figures, including Abu Dhabi's Ghanim al-Mazrouie and Saudi diplomat Hassan Yassin, the cousin of Iran-contra figure Adnan Khashoggi. Perplexing to say the least - is some of the history between the US and Philipines. The total quantity of gold buried in the Philippines during WWII has been reported to be over 1 million tonnes - or roughly 90% of the worlds “actual” gold stock... stolen from the Japanese WWII plundering of China and Indonesia. The real problem is that the US did in fact issue, via the Philippines, FRN's believing that in years to come they would be able to pay the debt. At the same time this amount was well in excess of the Capital Asset Base of the States at the time, so it is impossible that they should issue such a vast amount. The FRN's were not issued against the Capital Asset Base of the States at the time, they were issued against gold held in the Philippines that was in the name of Severino Garcia Sta. Romana a good friend of General Macarthur. The US anticipated a larger rise in the value of gold over 30 + years, whereby such an increase would have covered the debt, but it never happened. The US could never admit, publicly, to this as the dollar would have Nosedived and the world's favourite currency would have been demoted, falling in favour of the Pound Sterling. Hence the FRN's were declared 'Fake and Fraudulent instruments' by the US Government. A very easy thing for them to do, including wiping all records etc. Who is going to argue against a Government, especially the US Government? I am interested to hear your opinion emad or others. G

by **emad** » Fri May 27, 2005 12:18 pm

Have got some non internet links to this: Middle East Economic Digest did a series of stories on this in '81 and '82. Will post back about this later as soon as I have dug up the back copies.

by **emad** » Sat May 28, 2005 10:25 am

Found some background info on this in a banking special report published in 1983 by Middle East Economic Digest. First, Princess Ashraf stole the $20million from a depost account lodged in Dubai's Union Bank of the Middle East (owned at the time by the Galadari brothers, one of whom was subsequently busted in NYC for possession of several kilos of heroin and extradited home to face corruption charges). She was subsequently arrested in Paris and charged but escaped criminal prosecution after cutting some dodgy deal involving turning states evidence about former Mossad operatives in Teheran that were involved in the 1979 Ayatollahs' coup. Her accomplice in the HK fiasco was Sabih Mamoud Shukri, a former London general manager of Jordanian-owned Arab Bank (main shareholders the Palestinian Shoman brothers) who took over collapsed UK merchant bank (Edward Bates & Co?) after persuading the UAE ambassador to the UK Mahdi Al Tajir to finance the bank's capitalisation along with partners Barclays, some very dodgy Nigerian fraudsters (Chief W I Folawiyo and brother) and associates of Adnan Khashoggi. Shurki was the lynchpin that got Shaheen involved and fed funds via Lichtenstein offshore bank accounts operated by Robert Maxwell's money laundering Mossad contacts. Shukri posed as a bona fide Iraqi but in reality turned out to be of Iranian/Russian-Jewish extraction. He had worked for the Shah of Iran's nototious secret service the Savak and had recruited former disgruntled Mossad agents who then were paid to oil the wheels of the Iran revolution. The Hong Kong Deposit and Guaranty was set up to finance the installation of Princess Ashraf as Monarch of Iran. But the funds needed to pay for this never came about because Mahdi Tajir - a billionaire who made his $$$$$$$$$$s by raking off the percentages in all Dubai ruling family's oil and gas business - was warned off in London after being compromised in a sex scandal involving a child sex brothel that Shukri ran in his home - Meadow House, Kingston Hill, Surrey. That's the murky gist of it. There's more stuff on Shaheen's involvement with Hassan Yassin - who allegedly had casino interests in Macao and ran brothels in Thailand. Will post about this when I can access the British Library microfiche records of the MEED articles.

by **castaline** » Sun May 29, 2005 2:54 am

Quite a tangled web they weave... In Jan. 22, 1981, two days after Reagan's Inauguration, Marcos and his cronies co-founded a Hong Kong bank with New York financier John Shaheen, one of Casey's closest friends dating back to the World War II-era Office of Strategic Services. Called the Hong Kong Deposit and Guaranty, the bank was capitalized with $20 million supplied by Princess Ashraf, the shah of Iran's strong-willed twin sister who hated Jimmy Carter. The bank attracted onto its board leading BCCI figures, including Abu Dhabi's Ghanim al-Mazrouie and Saudi diplomat Hassan Yassin, the cousin of Iran-contra figure Adnan Khashoggi. In 1983, the bank collapsed with reported losses of more than $100 million. The money was never recovered, but Shaheen associates claimed that prior to the bank failure, substantial amounts were funnelled to Marcos, who reportedly was pulling the strings behind the scenes. The Hong Kong bank might have been a missing link in the intelligence mysteries of the 1980s, connecting the early Reagan-Iran deals with key BCCI players. It also could explain how Marcos was repaid for his alleged 1980 largesse and why he would be even more generous in 1984. Marcos died in exile in 1989. <a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/lost6.html">www.consortiumnews.com/ar...lost6.html</a>

by **emad** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 11:57 am

SNIP: It is interesting that the CIA admits the time frame because the genesis of Five Star Trust was 1983, when, according to U.S. intelligence insiders, then-Vice President Bush authorized a Boeing 747 with a special "carriage" to airlift several tons of gold bars from Clark Air Force base in the Philippines to LaGuardia Airport in New York. The gold bars were then transported to the International Diamond Exchange Vaults near Rockefeller Center. A CIA proprietary firm called Oceaneering International of Houston was reportedly involved in airlifting some of the gold from the Philippines, in addition to sealifting the remainder to Oregon. After George W. Bush's victory in 2000, the last of the gold in New York was moved to UBS Bank in Zurich. Marcos and Khashoggi set about to create Five Star Trust in 1983 as a means to create a vehicle to use the Philippine wealth to create and funnel fungible assets. In 1989, Five Star Trust was officially established in the Isle of Man by a Houston-based attorney who was a close friend of the Bush family. The CIA's explanation of its decision to withhold the release the two cables was partly based on the use of cryptonyms–artificial words used as substitutes for the actual name or identity of a "person, organization, or project." The CIA statement continues: "when obtained and matched with other information, a cryptonym possesses a great deal of meaning for those who are able to fit it into the proper cognitive framework." The denial of Horn's FOIA request also stated that the two responsive documents could "reveal the existence or location of covert CIA field installations in multiple foreign countries." In addition, the CIA stated that release of the documents in question would "reveal specific and sensitive subjects in which the CIA is or was interested." Finally, disclosure of the requested documents was denied because of "foreign relations." The agency emphasized that, "in carrying out its legally authorized intelligence activities, the CIA engages in activities that if known by foreign nations, could reasonably be expected to cause serious damage to U.S. relations with affected or interested nations." ENDSNIP See: <a href="http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/120604Madsen/120604madsen.html">www.onlinejournal.com/Spe...adsen.html</a>

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