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UPDATE II: Curaçao, Panama, Venezuela, Antigua regulators take control of Victor Vargas' banks
UPDATED 13/09/2019 - 19/09/2019 - Last October, this site posted news about banking operations of Victor Vargas:
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UPDATED: Open Letter to Twitter
*UPDATED 10/09/2019 - 17:28 GMT | **12/09/2019 - 14:47 GMT - ***24/09/2019 - 12:16 GMT | Further to the -now permanent- suspension of my @alekboyd verified Twitter account, I would like to address some of the issues that have occurred thus far.
Corruption of Vitol, Glencore, Trafigura at PDVSA dwarfs all others
Reuters posted an "exclusive" yesterday about corruption in Brazil that's been in the public domain for a while. Just like Global Witness before, Reuters just translates criminal probes published in Portuguese by Brazilian prosecutors, and then adds the sensationalist breaking news bit.
Ruperti pays Carvajal's defence: who pays Rafael Ramirez's?
Spanish news outlet ABC posted about connection between Wilmer Ruperti, Hugo Carvajal, and disgraced judge Baltasar Garzón. This is not the first instance where Ruperti's largesse -when it comes to covering legal expenses of chavista criminals- has been shown. Ruperti paid for Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores' narco-nephews.
Danilo Diazgranados ran to Bank Gonet upon Matthias Krull's indictment
Alek Boyd
Fri, 08/30/2019 - 06:42
An interesting turn of events re Danilo Diazgranados.
[UPDATED] First it shut my account, now Twitter is allowing impersonators to propagate #fakenews
Didn't even take 24 hours for somebody to register https://twitter.com/Alek_Boyd_, and make a bunch of fake claims about me, this website, and my alleged actions to recover my Twitter account. I reiterate that I have decided not to seek Twitter's pardon, I will not be begging for a reactivation of my verified account, and I am waiting for Twitter's reply re my data, accumulated there since 2009.
[UPDATED] Hey Twitter: you, Vanessa Neumann and your censorship can fuck off
If I hadn't been online before 2006, I would probably comply.
Ruperti's lawsuit suggests Muddy Waters only half right about Burford Capital
Finally, a major outlet picked up on Burford Capital's other dodgy business, that of its head of "global corporate intelligence, asset tracing and enforcement business" Daniel Hall.