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| Pilatus Bank Ali Sadr Hashemi |
Last week US law enforcement again busted another Iranian named
Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad on charges of
evading US economic sanctions against Iran. Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad is the chairman
and owner of Maltese-registered Pilatus
Bank. He was arrested in Dulles
Virginia on U.S. charges that he participated in a scheme to evade U.S.
sanctions and allegedly laundered more
than $115 million under the guise of a Venezuelan construction contracts.
According to the US prosecutors the money laundering activities were funneled
through the US financial system. As alleged the Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad also created a network of fake
companies and foreign bank accounts to distort business arrangements in
Venezuela that were instituted strictly to evade US sanctions.
Although the indictment states that Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad is the owner of Malta based Pilatus Bank. It
must be noted that the charges brought against Sadr Hashemi Nejad does not relate to the Pilatus bank. It
is no secrete though that the Pilatus bank in and of itself has been embroiled in
various controversies and has been accused of money laundering.
In November of 2017 Member of the European Parliament (MEP)
David Casa presented the European Central Bank (ECB) with additional evidence
of Pilatus Bank’s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) violations. In Mr. Casa’s letter
to the ECB’s Supervisory Board he stated that “the information he received was
that Pilatus Bank was not just violating ant-money laundering regulations but
that the bank had been set up specifically for money laundering purposes”. We will get back to this letter by MEP David
Casa.
Pilatus Bank was in
litigation with the Maltese journalist, Daphne
Caruana Galizia, who was assassinated in October of 2017 allegedly after
she wrote several articles some accusing Pilatus Bank and its operation of
facilitating corrupt political activities in Malta and money laundering.
Immediately
following the arrest of Ali Sadr Hashemi
Nejad ,chairman and owner of Pilatus Bank, the Malta Financial Services Authority
ordered the removal of Ali Sadr Ali Sadr
Hashemi Nejad from his position in the bank. The bank was directed not to
dispose or perform any kind of transfer deals with client’s assets and forbids
any banking transactions by the bank’s shareholders, board members and senior
management officials.
We
note with keen interest that one of the head honchos and the CEO of the Pilatus
bank Hamid Reza Ghanbari happens to be an Iranian who for convenient and seemingly business reasons identifies himself as a Dominican. To avert
the deception by the DLP spin cartel we want to emphasize that Mr. Hamid Reza
Ghanbari carries a passport from the Commonwealth Of Dominica and not The
Dominican Republic .
Back to the letter from MEP David Casato the European Central Bank
In
his letter of concern and warning to the European Central Bank (ECB), (MEP)
David Casa took particular interest in emphasizing that the owner of the Pilatus bank Ali Sadr Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad
owns a passport from St Kitts and Nevis and that CEO of the same Pilatus Bank Hamid Reza Ghanbari owns a Dominica
Passport.
One
can reasonably conclude that MEP David Casa felt that it was very critical to bring attention to the fact that the Iranian men carry passports from St Kitts and
Dominica not as genuine islanders but as part of the alleged suspicious financial activities. In addition the MEP also thought it was
imperative to highlight the means by which the passports from St Kitts and
Dominica were acquired. According to the MEP “Dominica passports are openly
available for sale from a variety of agents.”
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| Hamid Reza Ghanbari |
The
curious mind must now wonder why it is that in one way or another, directly or indirectly that Dominica seems to appear regularly on the international stage of
crime and money laundering. It is no longer a secret or maybe universal knowledge that Iranian and Dominica’s diplomatic passport holder Alireza
Monfared had been busted for evading US and UN sanctions against Iran even
while he was given a safe hiding place in Dominica by the Roosevelt Skerrit
administration.
All
we know at this juncture is that Ali Sadr
Hashemi Nejad and Hamid Reza Ghanbari
are allegedly associated directly or indirectly with operations involving money
laundering and evasion of US and UN economic sanctions against Iran however we
remain particularly curious about the fact that official documents show that Mr.
Hamid Reza Ghanbari obtained his Dominican passport at around the same time
that Alireza Monfared received his Dominica passport. Is that by chance ?
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| Salisbury Iranian Ali Twaka Norm ki led |
We
expect the usual spin, propaganda and distraction from the likes of Tony
Astaphan and the Salisbury Iranian Ali
twaka Norm-ki led, aka Clarence Christian. All we are asking is that the
people of Dominica engage in basic and honest curiosity as oppose to the recurring DLP deception. Is it just coincidence or “Malere” that right within the fray of
another international money laundering and sanction busting scheme that
Dominica’s name is hanging in the background or is it just that Roosevelt Skerrit
and his cabal are just too darn dirty and corrupt?
Stay Tuned -MiTC will be publishing details of a few offshore bank accounts showing the millions Squirreled away in Zurich by elected Officials.
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