The following is from Ganesh Sahathevan's blog. The Saudi Foreign Minister's statement about the money really opens up a huge can of worms that has entangled Saudi Arabia as well. Do read this from Ganesh Sahathevan :
In the letter "Prince Saud" makes reference to Blackstone Real Estate Partners Asia, and states that it is a company under his control which he will use to channel funds to PM Najib. That company has been shown to be part of a scam currently investigated by authorities in a number of jurisdictions. (See The Thingy story below). Adel may consider the matter closed,but his confirmation of that "donation" opens up issues on a number of regulatory fronts all over the world.
Most serious of these is his apparent admission to financing jihadi activities in South East
Asia. The matter is described in the story at this link:
Saudi Government admits to using shell companies, tax havens, to finance Islamists in South East Asia-Wells Fargo, Australia's ANZ, now implicated in terrorist financing.
My comments : I think the Saudis have just made things a little bit more complicated for themselves. More questions are going to come out of this 'admission'.
My question is where is Saud Abdulaziz majid al Saud or whoever? I dont think this guy exists. This is a fictitious prince and a fictitious letter.
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