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Post by agentf on Dec 23, 2015 10:42:40 GMT -5
Good point! The professional gamblers were handed prison sentences of 10 to 30 months on Monday by a court in the glitzy Mediterranean principality but they were only ordered to pay back €850,000 of the €3.66 million they pocketed over a year.
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Post by MadameConcorde on Apr 5, 2016 12:58:11 GMT -5
World's biggest bribe scandalwww.theage.com.au/interactive/2016/the-bribe-factory/Part 1/3 The company that bribed the world It was the company with jet-set style and dirty hands. From the tiny principality of Monaco, Unaoil reached across the globe to pay multi-million dollar bribes in oil rich states. The beneficiaries? Some of the biggest companies in England, Europe, America and Australia. Read more www.theage.com.au/interactive/2016/the-bribe-factory/day-1/the-company-that-bribed-the-world.htmlPart 2/3Part 2/3 Police launch joint global investigation The biggest leak of documents in oil-industry history has exposed Monaco-based company Unaoil as an agent of serious corruption. Now, law enforcement groups around the world, including the FBI, are taking notice. Read more www.theage.com.au/interactive/2016/the-bribe-factory/day-2/global-investigation.htmlPart 3/3 Dark secrets of Asian powers Asian companies such as Hyundai, Samsung, Sinopec and Petronas are household names. But they have dark secrets. In the latest in Fairfax Media and The Huffington Post’s global bribery expose, these firms and more are implicated for paying kickbacks, money laundering and corruption. Read more www.theage.com.au/interactive/2016/the-bribe-factory/day-3/asian-powers.html
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Post by agentf on Apr 7, 2016 10:57:37 GMT -5
Surprising to find Arianna Huffington's blog as behind an "exposé"...? World's biggest bribe scandalwww.theage.com.au/interactive/2016/the-bribe-factory/Part 1/3 The company that bribed the world It was the company with jet-set style and dirty hands. From the tiny principality of Monaco, Unaoil reached across the globe to pay multi-million dollar bribes in oil rich states. The beneficiaries? Some of the biggest companies in England, Europe, America and Australia. Read more www.theage.com.au/interactive/2016/the-bribe-factory/day-1/the-company-that-bribed-the-world.htmlPart 2/3Part 2/3 Police launch joint global investigation The biggest leak of documents in oil-industry history has exposed Monaco-based company Unaoil as an agent of serious corruption. Now, law enforcement groups around the world, including the FBI, are taking notice. Read more www.theage.com.au/interactive/2016/the-bribe-factory/day-2/global-investigation.htmlPart 3/3 Dark secrets of Asian powers Asian companies such as Hyundai, Samsung, Sinopec and Petronas are household names. But they have dark secrets. In the latest in Fairfax Media and The Huffington Post’s global bribery expose, these firms and more are implicated for paying kickbacks, money laundering and corruption. Read more www.theage.com.au/interactive/2016/the-bribe-factory/day-3/asian-powers.html
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Post by refia on Apr 8, 2016 14:47:35 GMT -5
I have mixed feelings about this. People ask where are the infos on US politicans, firms etc? A journalist from Süddeutsche said that they won't spare anyone and more is yet to come, but eh, I don't count on that. I don't want to diminish the infos, nope, but they obviously spared certain territories and people. And honestly everyone should raise their eyebrows by names like Ford Foundation, Carnegie Endowment, Rockefeller Family Fund, W K Kellogg who fund the journalists.
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Post by agentf on Apr 9, 2016 5:21:33 GMT -5
That's funny. I always said that about Wikileaks and Assange. No dirt on Israel whatsoever. Odd, no? Then Jemima (Goldsmith) Khan who delivers a big amount of money? It's like hiding in plain sight. I have mixed feelings about this. People ask where are the infos on US politicans, firms etc? A journalist from Süddeutsche said that they won't spare anyone and more is yet to come, but eh, I don't count on that. I don't want to diminish the infos, nope, but they obviously spared certain territories and people. And honestly everyone should raise their eyebrows by names like Ford Foundation, Carnegie Endowment, Rockefeller Family Fund, W K Kellogg who fund the journalists.
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Post by grimnir on Apr 9, 2016 12:19:52 GMT -5
That stupid environmental disaster extension is in progress. I have forgotten when the proposals have/had to be in, but the incorporation act for the working company or whatever that is called in Monaco has been published. Pastor & Co, I believe.
Talking about Pastor, one of the apparently many Pastor companies has ceased to exist.
And talking some more about the Pastor family, did we ever hear the outcome of that murder case that one of the members was involved in or not involved in but at least got mentioned in? I remember it ended up being rather complicated but I'm not sure I ever heard how it ended/what the court decided.
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Post by tops on Apr 11, 2016 9:36:45 GMT -5
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Post by tops on Apr 11, 2016 9:49:39 GMT -5
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Post by tops on Apr 11, 2016 20:29:46 GMT -5
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Post by agentf on Apr 12, 2016 3:43:32 GMT -5
The original looting of German-owned French masters before WW1 bought by Wildensteins and Rosenbergs is only the other side of that pendulum.
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Post by tops on Apr 12, 2016 10:17:00 GMT -5
The original looting of German-owned French masters before WW1 bought by Wildensteins and Rosenbergs is only the other side of that pendulum. Dear AgentF, I am naive to the timeline of who owned what originally. Can you fill me in? Who did what, when and how did pieces end up with the Nahmads and other current dealers? Thank you.
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Post by agentf on Apr 13, 2016 6:25:12 GMT -5
As much as I can. Wealthy German collectors and major owners of Masters, living in Paris before WW1, some of them dealers like Kahnweiler who helped Picasso's career also invested a lot in these emerging artists of the time if we can call them that. The Peau de l'Ours auction in 1914 had been the stepping stone to creating an artificial bubble surrounding the Bateau Lavoir artists mainly, by a small group of wealthy scions whether they were young lawyers like André Level (?) who was the buyer for the group who "hoarded" the Peau de l'Ours collection until an auction was organized at Hotel Drouot where the highest price paid for a Picasso ... was by his other dealer Rosenberg. The Rosenbergs were two brothers. One dealt in Masters and was in business with a silent partner, Wildenstein who moved to New York. The other Rosenberg brother was named curator of the Germans' Masters in the French state auction of the seized art in 1921. Note that the seized art was NOT returned to their German owners. Much of the 1921 auctioned pieces were spirited to NYC to Wildenstein and then through time hidden in vaults in the Cayman Islands or stashed at their Institute in Paris. The French state (or its shadow government I should say) has taken an inordinate interest in art and backs its former collaborators in creating the modern art market, when someone dares tip the apple cart, such as Picasso's unfortunate electrician. Nahmad may not be as innocent but anyone who's not part of the club - in the UK with the BYAs you have Saatchi/Pinchuk etc - you'll likely be shaken'ed down for your stuff. I hope this clarifies a bit. The pieces may have ended up with Nahmad if he at some point was in favour or needed for something and tempted by entry into the "club". I don't know enough about them. You can read Fitzgerald's book Making Modernism. It shows the relationships between these people. The original looting of German-owned French masters before WW1 bought by Wildensteins and Rosenbergs is only the other side of that pendulum. Dear AgentF, I am naive to the timeline of who owned what originally. Can you fill me in? Who did what, when and how did pieces end up with the Nahmads and other current dealers? Thank you.
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Post by tops on May 17, 2016 3:42:09 GMT -5
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Post by agentf on May 18, 2016 9:48:56 GMT -5
Sotheby's is not blameless and I have no angle defending the Namads who I don't know. I love Sotheby's. If their hot auctioneer was straight, I might even be all over him because of his knowledge and great communication skills. He's stylish too. His name escapes me now because I have a bigger crush impairing my thinking these days... I digress. Sotheby's takes part in little monopolies to inflate values. It's part of the gimmicks. It probably didn't take much probing to get those letters. It smells like the Namads got out of favour in the clique.
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Post by MadameConcorde on May 18, 2016 12:24:39 GMT -5
As if Tour Odéon and the new Sporting d'Hiver complex wasn't enough.... They are going to add more horrors! Monaco : le Grand Prix de F1 menacé par un projet immobilier ? Un promoteur veut aménager un nouveau quartier sur le port monégasque. Selon les organisateurs du circuit, ce projet signerait l'arrêt de mort de la mythique course de Formule 1. (LaVieImmo.com) - A huit jours de l’une des courses de Formule 1 les plus attendues du monde entier, les organisateurs du Grand Prix de Monaco sont inquiets. Un projet immobilier menace l’existence même de la compétition née en 1929 à l’initiative de l'Automobile Club de Monaco (ACM). Michel Boeri, son actuel président, ne mâche pas ses mots. "Le projet de M. Caroli, s'il devait voir le jour, entraînerait automatiquement la fin du Grand Prix de Formule 1. Je vous le garantis sur facture", a déclaré le dirigeant dans une interview à Nice Matin. -50% read more here + pictures: www.lavieimmo.com/divers-immobilier/monaco-le-grand-prix-de-f1-menace-par-un-projet-immobilier-35776.html
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Post by MadameConcorde on May 19, 2016 14:08:09 GMT -5
Le Grand Prix de Monaco menacé par un projet immobilier? Michel Boeri, le président de l'ACM, n'y va pas par quatre chemins. Pour lui, le projet de création d'un quartier au bout du quai Albert-Ier signerait l'arrêt de mort du Grand Prix Qui peut imaginer un seul instant Monaco sans son Grand Prix de F1? Sans l'Historique? Sans le Rallye Monte-Carlo? Qui? Personne. Sauf le principal concerné, l'organisateur, le président de l'Automobile Club de Monaco (ACM). Pour la première fois ouvertement, avec le verbe haut et la fermeté qu'on lui connaît, Michel Boeri envisage sans sourciller la sortie de route définitive. En clair, la fin des épreuves automobiles en Principauté. Une nouvelle blague, une énième boutade qui se termine par une tape sur l'épaule ? Pas cette fois-ci. "Le projet de M. Caroli, s'il devait voir le jour, entraînerait automatiquement la fin du Grand Prix de Formule 1. Je vous le garantis sur facture." -50% read more here: www.monacomatin.mc/auto/le-grand-prix-de-monaco-menace-par-un-projet-immobilier-49903
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Post by tops on May 20, 2016 13:46:08 GMT -5
Le Grand Prix de Monaco menacé par un projet immobilier? Michel Boeri, le président de l'ACM, n'y va pas par quatre chemins. Pour lui, le projet de création d'un quartier au bout du quai Albert-Ier signerait l'arrêt de mort du Grand Prix Qui peut imaginer un seul instant Monaco sans son Grand Prix de F1? Sans l'Historique? Sans le Rallye Monte-Carlo? Qui? Personne. Sauf le principal concerné, l'organisateur, le président de l'Automobile Club de Monaco (ACM). Pour la première fois ouvertement, avec le verbe haut et la fermeté qu'on lui connaît, Michel Boeri envisage sans sourciller la sortie de route définitive. En clair, la fin des épreuves automobiles en Principauté. Une nouvelle blague, une énième boutade qui se termine par une tape sur l'épaule ? Pas cette fois-ci. "Le projet de M. Caroli, s'il devait voir le jour, entraînerait automatiquement la fin du Grand Prix de Formule 1. Je vous le garantis sur facture." -50% read more here: www.monacomatin.mc/auto/le-grand-prix-de-monaco-menace-par-un-projet-immobilier-49903that would spell tragedy. yikes!
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Post by tops on May 30, 2016 1:08:23 GMT -5
Rybolovlev (owner of AS Monaco) and Helly Nahmad (with a gallery in London and nephew to the David Nahmad Family in Monaco) in the news again: www.timesunion.com/news/article/State-of-the-sequestered-art-7951597.phpQuote: And the $2 billion collection of the Russian billionaire Dmitry M. Rybolovlev, which includes a Rothko, a van Gogh, a Renoir, Klimt's "Water Serpents II," El Greco's "Saint Sebastian," Picasso's "Les Noces de Pierrette" and Leonardo da Vinci's "Christ as Salvator Mundi." Quote: Even so, some collectors whose businesses have come to depend on free port storage are a bit sheepish. "It is a shame," Helly Nahmad, a London dealer whose family is said to store 4,500 works in the Geneva Free Port, told The Art Newspaper in 2011. "It is like a composer making a piece of music, and no one listens to it." (I doubt if his uncle agrees with him!)
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Post by tops on Jun 7, 2016 9:36:21 GMT -5
Le Grand Prix de Monaco menacé par un projet immobilier? Michel Boeri, le président de l'ACM, n'y va pas par quatre chemins. Pour lui, le projet de création d'un quartier au bout du quai Albert-Ier signerait l'arrêt de mort du Grand Prix Qui peut imaginer un seul instant Monaco sans son Grand Prix de F1? Sans l'Historique? Sans le Rallye Monte-Carlo? Qui? Personne. Sauf le principal concerné, l'organisateur, le président de l'Automobile Club de Monaco (ACM). Pour la première fois ouvertement, avec le verbe haut et la fermeté qu'on lui connaît, Michel Boeri envisage sans sourciller la sortie de route définitive. En clair, la fin des épreuves automobiles en Principauté. Une nouvelle blague, une énième boutade qui se termine par une tape sur l'épaule ? Pas cette fois-ci. "Le projet de M. Caroli, s'il devait voir le jour, entraînerait automatiquement la fin du Grand Prix de Formule 1. Je vous le garantis sur facture." -50% read more here: www.monacomatin.mc/auto/le-grand-prix-de-monaco-menace-par-un-projet-immobilier-49903that would spell tragedy. yikes! Anything else that has been mentioned about the proposed project that could kibosh the Grand Prix?
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Post by agentf on Jun 11, 2016 5:05:48 GMT -5
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