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<a href='https://alekboyd.blogspot.com/2018/06/raul-gorrin-luisa-ortega-diaz.html'>La corrupción de Raul Gorrin y Luisa Ortega Diaz</a>
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Lo de <b>RAUL ANTONIO DE LA SANTISIMA TRINIDAD GORRIN BELISARIO (alias </b><b><b>Raul Gorrín </b>Ced. 8.682.996)</b>, para ser franco, era un tema pendiente. El problema en Venezuela es que hay tanta corrupción, que es humanamente imposible estar al tanto de todos los casos. De Raul Gorrín me habían hablado, pero nunca había visto pruebas, documentos, o evidencia de los guisos en los que estaba metido este hampón.<br />
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Eso cambió hace pocos días, <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CtB2D004HjHmKYY3kD4_WvrO-ZGJzmsi?usp=sharing" target="_blank">cuando recibí una parte de un archivo</a>, que mantenía la fiscal <b>Luisa Ortega Diaz</b> bien encaletado en su oficina, sobre las actividades financieras de Raul Gorrín con la Oficina del Tesoro de Venezuela, léase Alejandro Andrade y compañía.<br />
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Resulta que Raul Gorrín era uno de los operadores financieros preferidos de Alejandro Andrade, quien, en su posición de dizque Tesorero de la Nación, monto un mega guiso con Gorrín. Si entendí bien los documentos que Luisa Ortega decidió engavetar, el mecanismo de la Oficina del Tesoro era el siguiente:</div>
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<li>Ordenes de compra de Bonos del Tesoro de Gran Bretaña, denominados en Libras Esterlinas;</li>
<li>El monto en Libras Esterlinas era convertido a Dólares, por la Oficina del Tesoro, a 1,62 Bolívares x Dólar;</li>
<li>El monto en Dólares era reflejado en los balances de la Oficina del Tesoro a razón de 4,30 Bolívares x Dólar;</li>
<li>Gorrín vendía en el mercado negro, a más de 9 Bolívares x Dólar, los Dólares que le asignaba Andrade a través de la Oficina del Tesoro;</li>
<li>Gorrín debía pagar a la Oficina del Tesoro el equivalente en Bolívares del monto asignado en Dólares;</li>
<li>Gorrín hacia los pagos a la Oficina del Tesoro a través de cuentas en Banplus y el Banco Industrial de Venezuela.</li>
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Pongamos un ejemplo: </div>
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<li>un bono por 100 millones de Libras Esterlinas se convierte en 162 millones de Dólares; </li>
<li>la Oficina del Tesoro refleja en su balance 696.000.000 millones de Bolívares ($1 = 4,30 Bs) que Gorrín tiene que pagar; </li>
<li>los 162 millones de Dólares asignados a Gorrín son vendidos en el mercado negro a 9 Bolívares x Dólar; </li>
<li>Gorrín sólo necesitaba vender 77 millones de Dólares (a 9 Bs x Dólar) para recuperar los 696 millones de Bolívares que debía pagar;<br /> </li>
<li>Gorrín se queda con el restante, es decir $162.000.000 - $77.000.000 = $85.000.000, y lo reparte con sus panas.</li>
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Según documentos de la fiscalía Gorrín usaba empresas de maletín (Halifax Group C.A., Comercializadora Servinvest C.A., Inversiones Integrales Totalgroup C.A., Multiset Trade C.A., Grupo Hancock C.A., e Integrados Whymper C.A.) para éste esquema de corrupción.<br />
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La Tesorería adquirió 2.880.000.000 de Libras Esterlinas en bonos entre mayo de 2011 y abril de 2013. La Fiscalía estima que Gorrín se habría metido 1.450.000.000 de Dólares.<br />
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Por qué Luisa Ortega Diaz no investigó este caso? Muy sencillo, por que es socia de Gorrín.&nbsp;</div>
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Gorrín es parte de una banda, llamada "los enanos", formada por el difunto Danilo Anderson, Mariano Diaz, Gustavo Perdomo y otros. Esta banda logró posicionarse en los tribunales y, mucho antes de hacerse multimillonarios, vendían protección judicial. Es decir, quien tuviera algun caso abierto en tribunales / fiscalía / Ministerio Público pagaba a estos bichos para que dichos casos fueran engavetados o cerrados. Es así como Gorrín establece relación con German Ferrer, esposo de Luisa Ortega Diaz, y ello explica cómo Ortega Diaz puede mantener el estilo de vida que mantiene, aun en el exterior.</div>
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Gorrín, a través de Ferrer, protegió por ejemplo a los bolichicos de Derwick Associates durante años. Gorrín ha fraguado también muy buena relación con Maikel Moreno, el hampón al frente del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia, quien también actúa como protector de Derwick Associates.</div>
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Fuentes informan que la relación comercial de Gorrín con el <a href="https://twitter.com/alekboyd/status/1001547237200224258" target="_blank">banco suizo Compagnie Bancaire Helvetique (CBH)</a> se estableció gracias a su ex-socio Luis Oberto y a los bolichicos de Derwick Associates, todos ellos clientes de CBH a través de Joseph Benhamou y Charles Henry de Beaumont.</div>
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Una de las cuentas controladas por <a href="https://twitter.com/RaulGorrinB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RaulGorrinB</a> en Compagnie Bancaire Helvétique: depósitos por 2.914.655.249 dólares... y <a href="https://twitter.com/lortegadiaz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@lortegadiaz</a>? Contando las comisiones... <a href="https://t.co/FGM7OmaOPq">pic.twitter.com/FGM7OmaOPq</a></div>
&#8212; alek boyd (@alekboyd) <a href="https://twitter.com/alekboyd/status/1001547237200224258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">29 May 2018</a></blockquote>
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Gorrín
 no sólo movió fondos a través de CBH, otro conocido banco suizo EFG 
Bank, también participó en el guiso así como HSBC, JP Morgan, Morgan 
Stanley, Citibank, UBS, Bank of China, Wells Fargo, Totalbank Curaçao, 
BOI Bank (Victor Vargas), Davos Bank (David Osío), CBA Bank &amp; Trust 
(Aristides Maza Tirado), Banplus (Diego Ricol Freyre) y Banco Industrial
 de Venezuela. Por supuesto que ningún banco cuestionó origen de los 
fondos que transfería Gorrín. Los dineros de la corrupción de Venezuela 
son bienvenidos en toda la banca. <br />
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Entre las transferencias / 
pagos que Gorrín hizo desde CBH, uno encuentra perlas como Profit Corporation, una de las empresa de Samark Lopez, el testaferro de 
Tareck el Aissami; pagos a Oscar Schemel, a Gustavo Arroyo, a Karina 
Rosenberg, a Leocenis Garcia, a Teresina Giustiniano, a Gustavo Suriani 
Perez, a Juan Bravo, etc.&nbsp;</div>
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Luego
 hay evidencia de pagos a establos, Rontos Racing Stable, o compras de 
articulos de equitación a Dietmar Gugler u Olaf Petersen (presumo que 
para congraciarse con Emannuel Andrade), y transferencias a cientos de 
empresas en Venezuela, Panama, España, EEUU... controladas por los 
clientes de Gorrín.<br />
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Lo de la compra de Globovisión y Seguros la Vitalicia son asuntos menores frente a lo hecho con Andrade en la Tesorería. El Banco Industrial de Venezuela, institución del estado intervenida en 2009, no puso ni una traba. Su director Rodolfo Porro Aletti, quien venía de desempeñarse como jefe de la junta interventora, tampoco vio nada sospechoso. Es decir, instituciones del estado, bajo el control absoluto del chavismo, guisaron a manos llenas con Gorrín y ni el Ministerio Público, ni la Contraloría, ni la Procuradoría, ni la supuesta adalid contra la corrupción hicieron nada.</div>
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<b>Rafael Ramirez</b>. Venezuela's oil minister between 2002 and 2014. CEO of Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) between 2004 and 2014. During his tenure in <b>PDVSA</b>, <a href="https://twitter.com/alekboyd/status/930068347550658561" target="_blank">the company's <b>turnover</b> was <b>1,246 trillion USD</b>, as per own figures "audited" by KPMG</a>.<br />
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1,246 trillion USD worth of income, in a country of about 30 million people. Ramirez claimed, for the first time ever as far as I am aware, that <a href="http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-42261044" target="_blank">during his tenure PDVSA handed 480 billion USD to the Venezuelan State</a>.<br />
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<b>1,246 - 480 = 766 billion USD.</b><br />
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By way of comparison, Ramirez's claim to have handed over 480 billion USD leaves an amount that exceeds the TARP bailout.<br />
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Venezuela is on the brink of default, nursing around 150 billion USD worth of debt. Venezuela's&nbsp; reserves are under 10 billion USD. PDVSA's oil production is reported to have fallen below 2MPD.<br />
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So where's the money?<br />
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Andorra's GDP is 3.2 billion USD. <a href="http://infodio.com/021115/money/laundering/pdvsa/ramirez/villalobos/oberto/wallis/bpa" target="_blank">Close associates of Ramirez misappropriated 4.2 billion USD using Banca Privada D'Andorra</a>, in just one deal.<br />
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PDVSA granted over 30 billion USD in contracts between 2012 and 2015: 20% of that went to non-existing companies, while <a href="https://medium.com/@alek.boyd/pdvsa-over-30bn-awarded-to-contractors-between-2012-2015-4a3a432f5cc5" target="_blank">some of the rest was granted -without bidding- to close associates of Ramirez</a>.<br />
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New York's Southern District's Attorney's Office has exposed Fidel Ramirez (brother of Ramirez) as <a href="http://infodio.com/091117/rafael/ramirez/pdvsa/corruption/kct/doj/derwick" target="_blank">bribe recipient in energy related corrupt practices approved by Ramirez</a>.<br />
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Roberto Rincon, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/fcpa/cases/rincon" target="_blank">another corrupt businessman associated to Ramirez</a>, was indicted for his participation in a corrupt scheme that cost PDVSA over 1 billion USD.<br />
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<a href="https://alekboyd.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/derwick-associates-paid-bribes-venezuela.html" target="_blank">Nervis Villalobos, a trusted lieutenant of Ramirez</a>, sits in a cell in Spain for his participation in <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-bc-lt--spain--venezuela-ex-officials-arrested-20171026-story.html" target="_blank">bribe payments and procurement corruption associated to PDVSA</a>.<br />
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Ramirez is also directly involved, through Villalobos, in granting <a href="https://alekboyd.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/bpa-nervis-villalobos-derwick-associates.html" target="_blank">no-bid contracts to Derwick Associates</a>.<br />
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Diego Salazar (first cousin of Ramirez) was arrested in Venezuela for his participation in a <a href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-venezuela-oil-salazar/venezuela-arrests-relative-of-powerful-ex-oil-boss-ramirez-in-graft-probe-idUKKBN1DW00D" target="_blank">multimillion dollar graft scheme related to PDVSA's insurance policies</a>.<br />
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Jesus Enrique Luongo (cousin of Ramirez and PDVSA's Refining VP) was <a href="http://efectococuyo.com/politica/detienen-en-maiquetia-a-jose-enrique-luongo-por-el-caso-andorra" target="_blank">arrested when trying to board a plane in Caracas' international airport</a> for his involvement in Salazar's insurance schemes.<br />
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Balso Sanso (Ramirez's brother in law) was given an extra official role negotiating, on PDVSA's behalf, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-oil-analysis/venezuela-bid-has-big-risks-rewards-for-oil-majors-idUSTRE60S5D320100129" target="_blank">bidding processes related to Orinoco's oil belt</a>.<br />
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Wilmer Ruperti, a parvenu businessman involved in shipping schemes with PDVSA, <a href="http://infodio.com/040214/who/is/wilmer/ruperti" target="_blank">claimed in court documents that Ramirez personally approved his corrupt enterprise</a>.<br />
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Eudomario Carruyo (former PDVSA's VP of Finance) is involved -as it will be exposed soon- in Salazar's corruption ring centered in Andorra, and was integral in a <a href="http://www.laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=13303&amp;ArticleId=389155" target="_blank">500 million USD Ponzi scheme involving PDVSA's workers' pension funds</a>.<br />
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Ramirez, along with Eulogio del Pino (arrested) and Jose Luis Parada (wanted &amp; on the run), was <a href="http://www.petroleumworld.com/issues17012301.htm" target="_blank">instrumental in the Aban Pearl / Petro Saudi scandal</a>. The Pantin brothers, <a href="https://twitter.com/alekboyd/status/688739835872440320" target="_blank">recipients of over 1 billion USD worth of no-bid contracts under Ramirez's tenure</a>, acted as facilitators.<br />
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Ramirez was key in <a href="http://infodio.com/181013/pastor/maldonado/williams/fraud" target="_blank">gifting Williams F1 Team over 100 million USD</a> so that Pastor Maldonado could play car racer.<br />
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It is estimated that Ramirez oversaw transfer of <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-27/as-venezuela-declines-so-does-its-latin-american-influence" target="_blank">over 20 billion USD in oil shipments</a>, to Cuba and other pariah states in the Caribbean basin, through Petro Caribe.<br />
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ALBANISA, <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article184631388.html" target="_blank">another scam set up on Ramirez's watch between PDVSA and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega</a>, amounted to 3.5 billion USD, or some<a href="https://www.laprensa.com.ni/2016/09/26/economia/2106297-deuda-petrolera-con-venezuela-amenaza-con-descarrilar-las-finanzas" target="_blank"> 27% of Nicaragua's GDP as of 2015</a>. <br />
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The above are just some of the known scandals directly touching Ramirez. As he said recently, PDVSA is <a href="http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-42261044" target="_blank">"a 234 companies holding" that "grants over 100,000" contracts as a matter of regular practice</a>. His claims to have never been involved in corruption though, amount to little else than flat-earth syndrome.<br />
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Anyone who's been following Venezuela's monumental graft knows that almost all roads lead to Ramirez. Joint ministerial oversight and executive power of Venezuela's only cash cow leave Ramirez without recourse, or defence. His position is utterly untenable. As all Venezuelan thugs, he is thinking about leveraging vast amounts of incriminating evidence, accumulated and collected over the years, to free himself from impending charges in Venezuela. Be that as it may, there are many close collaborators, who possess untold amounts of equally incriminating material about Ramirez, currently sitting in jails far from chavismo's reach and cooperating with law enforcement.<br />
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That will be Ramirez's undoing. Is not the farcical Venezuelan Attorney General, or a Nicolas Maduro purge he needs to fear: it is Villaobos, Reiter, Oberto, Convit, Kaufmann, Isea, Andrade, Alvarado, de Leon, Gill, Vargas, D'Agostino... Probes in Spain, Andorra, Switzerland, criminal investigations by various Federal Agencies, that, and not some hare-brained chavista vendetta, is what will expose Ramirez as the man at the head of the world's largest ever corruption scandal. <b>1,246 trillion USD...</b>
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Meet Steve Levine, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/community/stevelevine" target="_blank">Axios.com</a> "eager to hear from you at steve@axios.com."<br />
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Not so eager though, when it comes to explaining the kind of work his mates at Fusion GPS have done in Venezuela. In a recent article, LeVine <a href="https://www.axios.com/trump-dossier-fusion-gps-reporters-2502877053.html" target="_blank">paints a rosy picture of Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch</a>, two of the three <strike>'reporters'</strike> <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB117674837248471543" target="_blank">con artists</a> behind bespoke, and highly lucrative, smear campaigns.<br />
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It was this bit of LeVine's hagiography about Fusion GPS that caught my attention:<br />
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"<i>They are seriously savvy at finding extremely hard-to-locate &#8212; and even more difficult to understand and contextualize &#8212; documents and other intelligence on globally powerful people and organizations.</i>"<br />
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Seriously savy people know that Venezuela is, easily, America's most corrupt country. Seriously savy people know who Hugo Chavez is, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/19/venezuelan-presidents-relatives-guilty-in-us-cocaine-trial" target="_blank">who his succesor (Nicolas Maduro) is.</a> Seriously savy people know the kind of mess Venezuela is in as a result of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/26/nicolas-maduro-donald-trump-venezuela-hunger" target="_blank">chavismo's policies</a>. Seriously savy people also know that in Venezuela millions of dollars worth of procurement contracts are, as a matter of course, <a href="https://elpais.com/economia/2017/09/25/actualidad/1506360545_164506.html" target="_blank">granted to whoever offers contracting bodies the biggest bribe</a>.<br />
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Seriouly savy people, those who know how to use PACER, also know this thing called Google. It is, for seriously, and not so seriously, savy people, the first port of call nowadays when it comes to <a href="https://goo.gl/jexgWE" target="_blank">establishing bona fides</a>.<br />
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So what to say about involvement of LeVine's "seriously savy" Fusion GPS friends with <a href="https://medium.com/@alek.boyd/alejandro-betancourt-the-perfect-kleptocrat-72081e075aa2" target="_blank">Venezuela's Derwick Associates</a>? Mind you, when Fusion GPS started working for Derwick, a simple Google search would have returned results about rampant corruption related to a multibillion dollar swindle in procurement of power plants in Venezuela.<br />
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So I confronted <a href="https://twitter.com/alekboyd/status/924944682420981761" target="_blank">LeVine's cretinous arguments on Twitter</a>, to which he replied "Link to evidence that Fusion carried out what you describe."<br />
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I must pause here, and explain the evidence I provided. <a href="http://infodio.com/20170114/fusion/gps/derwick/associates/venezuela/corruption" target="_blank">Fusion's Peter Fritsch travelled to Caracas</a>, in July 2014, with <a href="http://www.lbkmlaw.com/attorneys-Adam-Kaufmann.html" target="_blank">Adam Kaufmann</a>. The purpose of the trip was to block further reporting from the Wall Street Journal into Derwick's corruption in Venezuela.<br />
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I was told by sources present at the Caracas meeting that Derwick, assisted by Fritsch and Kaufmann, spent an inordinate amount of time smearing me, and my work. Why my work? Because of <a href="https://alekboyd.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/francisco-convit-incriminates-derwick.html" target="_blank">my investigations into Derwick Associates</a>.<br />
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When they could a word in, Derwick Associates were asked by Wall Street Journal reporters whether they would go on record with their allegations against me. Derwick refused. Derwick execs were also asked to provide official evidence proving procurement contracts granted resulted after open, fair and competitive bidding. Derwick failed to do so. It failed then, in July 2014, and it has done ever since whenever questions about their corrupt ways are asked. Since that encounter in Caracas, <a href="https://twitter.com/i/moments/875980562451845120" target="_blank">I have published official evidence of corruption in procurement contracts granted to Derwick</a>.<br />
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My apartment, in London, <a href="https://medium.com/@alek.boyd/ruin-is-all-fusion-gps-deserves-71b8a1b09c91" target="_blank">was broken into in November 2014</a>. Coincidence? Fusion GPS knew the kind of information I had about them in August 2014:<br />
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<i>From: Thomas Catan &lt;tcatan@fusiongps.com&gt;<br />Subject: Re: Peter Fritsch<br />Date: 26 August 2014 at 14:30:31 BST<br />To: alek boyd &lt;alek.boyd@gmail.com&gt;<br /><br />This is really creepy, Alek. You conducting surveillance these days or wtf?<br /><br />On Aug 26, 2014, at 8:25 AM, Alek Boyd &lt;alek.boyd@gmail.com&gt; wrote:<br /><br />Hi Tom,<br /><br />further to my recent email about possible work that your company could be doing in Venezuela, have a look below at what I have just received. It would be a surprise that a colleague of yours is working for the type of thugs I have been exposing for many years now, and I would hate to think that you were economical with the truth with me about your company's involvement with such people, to the point of denying involvement.<br /><br />As you know very well, I have been chronicling chavismo for nearly 12 years now. You know me, you know what I stand for. You also know well that there are no secrets in Venezuela and that in the last decade or so I have developed an extensive network of contacts that keep me up to speed on things. I had heard from different people that Derwick Associates had hired your company for some sort of white wash operation. And now I have gotten evidence that places Peter Fritsch in Caracas just over a month ago.<br /><br />Needless to say to I am planning to expose this, as I did previously when Al Cardenas and FTI were hired to cleanse the bolichicos "reputation" (perhaps you guys should ask Cardenas how did it go for him). I have already found some rather interesting reports about Glen Simpson, your CEO, that will make for very interesting reading when linked to chavistas. <br /><br />I would appreciate your frankness in this respect. As I understand, you're a senior partner there and the firm is not that big.<br /><br />Best,<br />Alek </i></blockquote>
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/venezuelan-ex-official-detained-in-spain-on-us-warrant/2017/10/26/ac386bf6-ba83-11e7-9b93-b97043e57a22_story.html" target="_blank">Corrupt operatives involved in Derwick's schemes were arrested last week in Spain on U.S. arrest warrants</a>. Furthermore, I happen to have <a href="https://twitter.com/alekboyd/status/923858932782850048" target="_blank">evidence that links Derwick directly with one of the arrested</a>.<br />
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&nbsp;When I confronted LeVine with Fritsch's trip to Caracas he blocked me on Twitter. That's OK. But his reputation, as that of the thugs he apologises for, will suffer for it. I had a number of further questions for LeVine in store, given that he claims ignorance on how much Fusion GPS charges for their 'work'. Fritsch, for instance, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/homesales/detail/MRIS2077817/6309-dahlonega-rd-bethesda-md-20816" target="_blank">purchased a $2.3 million house in 2016</a>. His partner, Tom Catan, paid in full a $508,000 mortgage on his residence in 2015, and purchased another house, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/southern-maryland-home-sales/2017/05/08/5f0d6a36-2f2b-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html?utm_term=.bd0d37678fff" target="_blank">in Lusby, in 2017 for $660,500</a>. Simpson in turn, took a $500,000 mortgage on his house in 2014. Evidently smearing investigative journalists and human rights defenders is a lucrative business.<br />
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LeVine won't be explaining Fritsch's trip to Caracas or Fusion GPS' involvement with Venezuelan criminals in Georgetown University anytime soon. Flat earth syndrome...<br />
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LeVine, though, is a fine example of <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-press-loves-fusion-gps-1509475567" target="_blank">what's rotten with today's mediocre journalism</a>. "Seriously savy" folks, incapable of exercising a modicum of critical thinking, incapable of running cursory due diligence, unwilling to check claims before risking reputations. These are not "extremely" able professionals uniquely equipped to "understand and contextualize... hard to locate" information. These are wholy amoral people driven by money. It is unthinkable that these "seriously savy" fellows did not know what they were getting into when they decided to service the likes of Derwick Associates. I know Catan, personally. He never struck me as an idiot.<br />
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In the criminal underworld, what Fusion GPS has done is called <a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/02/men-who-sent-swat-team-heroin-to-my-home-sentenced/" target="_blank">swatting</a>. Fusion GPS basically <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clinton-campaign-dnc-paid-for-research-that-led-to-russia-dossier/2017/10/24/226fabf0-b8e4-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html" target="_blank">took money from the Democrats</a> to produce fiction that was then shopped to all and sundry with the intention of criminalising, or swatting, Donald Trump. The FBI, also "seriously savy" I suppose, decided to swallow the whole thing, as did other equally clever folks up and down the American government. No one checked. No one scrutinised sources, nor was the 'intel' questioned. But that's not LeVine you see. He vouches for Fusion GPS 'reporters'. Also a 'reporter', and a 'professor,' LeVine thinks he is equally infallible.<br />
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Justice Departments in the U.S., Spain, Andorra, and Switzerland are closing in on Derwick. Facilitators of their corruption are already behind bars. Officials that approved payments of hundreds of millions of dollars to Derwick have already been indicted and have pleaded guilty. Unless they move to Venezuela, or to <a href="https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/6620-emails-allegedly-belonging-to-russian-lawyer-reveal-hidden-influence-on-magnitsky-case-investigations" target="_blank">Russia</a>, is going to be difficult for Fusion GPS to come out of this unscathed.
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<a href='https://alekboyd.blogspot.com/2017/07/fusion-gps-victimhood-derwick-associates.html'>Fusion GPS a victim?</a>
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Statement from Fusion GPS, which produced the Steele dossier, re: accusations it was hired by Russians: <a href="https://t.co/8UKoz7l21s">pic.twitter.com/8UKoz7l21s</a></div>
&#8212; Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) <a href="https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/890657311609376771">27 July 2017</a></blockquote>
"<b>What is clear is that the president and his allies are desperately trying to smear Fusion GPS</b>..."<br />
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So these thugs are the victims now, aren't they?<br />
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How curious, isn't it, that Fusion GPS would basically resort to the same strategy (victimhood) of its utterly corrupt Venezuelan client (Derwick Associates) when their inexcusable business practises come to light?<br />
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When I started reporting about Derwick Associates' corruption nearly five years ago, Donald Trump was a mere American citizen spewing bile about Barack Obama, and Derwick was a totally obscure and unknown shell company.<br />
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Between 2012 and Trump's election in 2016, I wrote a great deal about <a href="http://infodio.com/es/search/node/derwick" target="_blank">Derwick</a>. In August 2014, I exposed <a href="http://infodio.com/270814/adam/kaufmann/peter/fritsch/derwick/associates" target="_blank">Fusion GPS connections to Derwick</a>. Fusion GPS' involvement with the worst scum of chavista Venezuela happened exactly along the lines of their involvement with the Trump dossier. In their words "<b>it is a matter of public record that Fusion GPS worked for and under the supervision of an American law firm providing support for civil litigation in New York.</b>"<br />
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Indeed, Fusion GPS' founder Peter Fritsch flew to Caracas in July 2014 with Adam Kaufmann, former New York's District Attorney Chief Prosecutor, also in Derwick's employ. The civil litigation Fusion GPS and Kaufmann were involved in was a lawsuit against Derwick initiated by Otto Reich, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. Derwick, lawyered up to their eyeballs, managed to have the case thrown out for lack of jurisdiction, despite having subcontracted all the work to an American company, despite having used American stream of commerce, banks and currency to carry out their corrupt enterprise, despite having used American courts to falsely prosecute perceived critics, and despite having assets worth millions of dollars in America.<br />
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Derwick, and its American employees "<b>pulled out all the stops, including... false allegation[s]</b>" to derail Reich's RICO case against Derwick.<br />
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The false allegations fabricated by Derwick / Fusion GPS had nothing to do with Russia, or Trump. It was about me. It was about my family. Given that most of the stuff posted in the public domain about their corruption was done by me, it was about their belief that I was instrumental in "bringing disrepute" to their otherwise very kosher company. It was about their sheer conviction, that I was a "hired pen", in the employ of a Venezuelan banker, to tarnish their "hard earned" reputation.<br />
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<a href="https://alekboyd.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/francisco-convit-incriminates-derwick.html" target="_blank">Derwick / Fusion GPS' strategy</a> was to completely destroy my credibility. Derwick / Fusion GPS tried to do so by producing fake warrants, in which I was accused of committing a crime that's not even part of Venezuela's Penal Code ("<i>Tráfico de Estufepacientes</i>"). So inept, not even the spelling was right.<br />
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Derwick / Fusion GPS then resurrected my mother: having died of cancer, in 1983, in a Basque town, she was placed "in charge" of a drug trafficking ring in 2006 with operations in Venezuela, the USA and Spain. Fake ID numbers, migration logs and pictures were posted online linking me to my mother's alleged cartel.<br />
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Derwick / Fusion GPS "accused" me of being a homosexual, irresponsibly spreading AIDS in Caracas.<br />
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Derwick / Fusion GPS then invented that I was a partner of a Colombian narco terrorist organization (FARC). One of FARC top commanders even "complained" about me, for an alleged theft of some "500 kilos of cocaine".<br />
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Allegedly I am also a "car thief" and an "extortionist".<br />
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My sister's Spanish passport details were posted online during this smearing campaign. My sister's "love affair with Hugo Chavez" was "exposed" on one of the websites.<br />
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I was "accused" of being a pedophile. A fake Spanish Police report was posted online as "evidence". My father's second wife was also accused of being a pedophile.<br />
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Derwick / Fusion GPS creativity did not stop there: as part of my alleged "drug trafficking operation" I was involved in "submarine constructions", to carry the cocaine to international markets. I was "presented" as an associate of known drug traffickers (some of them killed) from Colombia and Venezuela.<br />
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And then, <a href="http://infodio.com/191114/agents/chavismo/break/in/blogger/london" target="_blank">three thugs broke into my flat, in London</a>.<br />
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Pictures of my daughters, obtained through illegal surveillance ops that lasted months in the city of London, were posted online. Some of them were modified -with photoshop- carried out in Caracas and in India.<br />
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Hand written threats of sexual abuse against my daughters were sent to me via <a href="http://infodio.com/191114/agents/chavismo/break/in/blogger/london" target="_blank">recorded delivery from Tbilisi</a>.<br />
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Details of my home address and telephone number were posted online. <br />
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Notorious member of Venezuela's "democratic opposition" <a href="https://medium.com/@alek.boyd/my-issue-with-derwickramosallup-f3d185633009" target="_blank">Henry Ramos Allup, was enlisted in the smearing campaign</a>.<br />
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My blogs and websites were <a href="http://www.wefightcensorship.org/censored/corruption-limits-venezuelan-internethtml.html" target="_blank">censored in Venezuela</a>, despite the fact that I publish nearly everything in English. <br />
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The above was spread online in English, Spanish, French and Italian, through dozens of anonymous blogs, social media profiles, and websites operated in jurisdictions where the rule of law is non existent. To their eternal shame, some American based platforms, like Wordpress, Ripoff Report, Tumblr, and Blogger refused to remove fake information / illegaly obtained photographs about me and my family.<br />
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While the above was taking place in the public domain, Fusion GPS was busy "briefing" reputed news outlets / journalists against considering any of my documented investigations into Derwick Associates rampant corruption. I used to collaborate -for free- with <a href="https://elpais.com/autor/alek_boyd/a" target="_blank">Spain's El País</a>, whose America editor Hector Schamis refused publication of <a href="http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/crime-court/police-very-concerned-as-journalist-claims-venezuelan-agents-raided-primrose-hill-home-1-4027381" target="_blank">news of break into my apartment</a>, and decided right after it to sever any further collaborations. Schamis participates in panel talks with Fusion GPS' Tom Catan's wife, just a coincidence I'm sure.<br />
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Derwick, as Fusion GPS claims for itself now, was a "victim" of a "family feud". All of Derwick's procurement contracts -which netted them nearly one billion dollars- were done "legitimately, above board, and were the product of open bidding processes".<br />
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Derwick / Fusion GPS promised the WSJ official evidence to prove legitimate origin of their contracts, which they have failed to do to this day.<br />
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Here's evidence <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Derwick?src=hash">#Derwick</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BetancAlejandro">@BetancAlejandro</a> procurement contracts were not obtained thru open competitive bidding <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CORRUPTION?src=hash">#CORRUPTION</a> in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Venezuela?src=hash">#Venezuela</a> <a href="https://t.co/lVzhtFrgBE">pic.twitter.com/lVzhtFrgBE</a></div>
&#8212; Aʟᴇᴋ Bᴏʏᴅ (@alekboyd) <a href="https://twitter.com/alekboyd/status/890149365561610240">26 July 2017</a></blockquote>
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Derwick is being probed by the Southern District of New York and several federal agencies. Crucially, criminal actors involved in exactly the same modus operandi employed by Derwick, with the <a href="https://medium.com/@alek.boyd/swiss-authorities-confirm-u-s-investigating-derwick-associates-c33171119e00" target="_blank">same Venezuelan institutions and corrupt officials and at the same time</a>, have been found <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/miami-businessman-pleads-guilty-foreign-bribery-and-fraud-charges-connection-venezuela" target="_blank">guilty of FCPA violations and charged</a>. Is this a case of some criminals being more equal than others?<br />
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Derwick is being investigated in Spain.<br />
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Derwick is being investigated in Andorra, whose prosecutors have sent legal assistance requests to French counterparts.<br />
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Derwick's lawyers are fighting a request for information and legal assistance sent by the Justice Department to Switzerland, which will reveal money movements in dozens of Swiss banks.<br />
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The mother of one of Derwick's top execs (Francisco Convit) has had nearly a million dollars seized in Italy, upon <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFheeNvXsAA5_0A.jpg:large" target="_blank">beliefs of involvement in money laundering</a>.<br />
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Francisco Convit claims to have a personal net worth of over $200 million (2013).<br />
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Alejandro Betancourt claims to have a personal net worth of over $600 million (2013).<br />
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Officials behind granting of contracts to Derwick are under investigation in Spain and Andorra.<br />
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Any rational person would conclude that a freelance, independent blogger with a very limited audience, does not have the capacity to trigger all those criminal investigations in mentioned jurisdictions.<br />
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But what of Fusion GPS' client relations? Their Venezuelan clients happen to also be in business with <a href="http://infodio.com/06062017/derwick/oil/gas/35/million/bribe/gazprom/pdvsa" target="_blank">Gazprom</a>, a sanctioned Russian State-owned entity that has -as all others- a Putin stench. Just who goes into business with Putin these days? Just who goes into business with Venezuelan 'entrepreneurs' these days?<br />
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Considering the state of chavista Venezuela, how could anyone believe that shells like Derwick have made billions legitimately? More to the point, how can anyone service and profit from the likes of Derwick, in view of the near absolute destitution they've left behind?<br />
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Considering that before 2009 Derwick did not even exist, who makes that kind of money in little over three years in a place like Venezuela?<br />
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None of these questions were ever part of Fusion GPS considerations. They were employed to smear, to seed sufficient doubt among journalists, politicians interested in Venezuela, to completely annihilate any form of genuine criticism toward public expenditure. Their faithful association with the likes of Derwick speaks volumes about the kind of outfit they run, basically, apologists and spin doctors for criminals.<br />
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And this has nothing to do with Trump. Or with the Democrats. <a href="https://alekboyd.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/fusion-gps-report-donald-trump.html" target="_blank">Fusion GPS' amorality predates Trump by many years</a>. They are -as all others- swamp creatures. In their extremely deluded worldview, they claim victimhood now, not realising that extreme political antagonism between Republicans and Democrats is fueled in large part by their own actions.<br />
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Van muchos muertos. Muchos heridos. Sufrimiento generalizado. Protestas. La vida de la sociedad venezolana, en lo que a las grandes ciudades respecta, está en perenne caos. La anarquía impera. Y el peligro de ese rio revuelto, es que hay mucho espabilao negociando posiciones, tratando de insertarse, de colearse por la puerta trasera. Mientras nuestros jóvenes pierden la vida a razón de uno por día, los operadores de oficio continúan en lo suyo, tratando de oxigenar al chavismo, de "negociar una salida". Me refiero, por supuesto, a quienes contemplan la Constituyente como solución, a quienes quieren dar garantías a los criminales que han destruído Venezuela. Me refiero, particularmente, a Victor Sierra, a Torino Capital, a Francisco Rodriguez, y a la posibilidad, real, de que ese tipo de individuos tengan roles preponderantes en la nueva Venezuela.<div>
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Hace apenas unos días, se conoció el guiso de Dinosaur Group y Goldman Sachs, comprando bonos de deuda venezolana por un valor mucho menor al actual. Muchos expresaron su repudio ante tal guiso. Comenté entonces que la arrechera no debía, en mi opinión, ser dirigida a Goldman Sachs, sino a los <a href="https://www.facebook.com/alek.boyd/posts/10155451077051579" target="_blank">venezolanos que se prestan, permiten y colaboran en tales guisos</a>. Victor Sierra, de Torino Capital, se sintió aludido por mi comentario y me contactó para explicarme, off the record, que ni él ni su firma tienen nada que ver en dichas actividades. Me dijo que ni él ni su firma han hecho un negocio con PDVSA o Venezuela. En su mensaje, afirmó que auditorías a su firma han "salido... con 5 estrellas...". Luego equiparó su trabajo con el de los bancos y fondos "más grandes del mundo", intento excusar actos criminales, y mintió descaradamente sobre su trabajo y empleados.</div>
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Por insistencia suya prometí que nuestro intercambio iba a ser "off the record", mas como mi primera lealtad, como venezolano, es para con mi país, estimo necesario publicar aqui mi intercambio con Sierra. Es crucial que la sociedad venezolana sepa cómo piensa esta gente, cómo argumenta, racionaliza y excusa sus actos. Pero, sobre todo, es imperante exponer el profundo desprecio que sienten hacia quien quiera que los cuestiona. Convencidos están de su infalibilidad.&nbsp;</div>
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El tiempo que me tomo escribir Torino Capital FINRA en Google, bastó para chequear si las <a href="http://disciplinaryactions.finra.org/Search/ViewDocument/66415" target="_blank">actividades de Torino son "5 estrellas"...</a>&nbsp;En cuanto al resto de sus argumentos, mejor leen el intercambio, comenzando desde abajo:<div>
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From: alek boyd &lt;alek.boyd@gmail.com&gt;<br />Subject: Re: Saludo<br />Date: 8 June 2017 14:15:12 BST<br />To: Victor Sierra &lt;victorsierrab@yahoo.com&gt;</div>
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Gracias por tomarte el tiempo de responder Victor.</div>
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Uno de los grandes males de nuestro tiempo, es la pretensión que la responsabilidad -sea personal, colectiva o en cualquiera otra forma- puede evadirse con el argumento de la complejidad. Todos los herederos de un patriarca tienen los mismos derechos ante la ley, aquí y en China, salvo que exista un testamento que defina los derechos específicos de cada individuo en cuestión, o haya mediado en vida algún tipo de arreglo entre las partes (como en este caso). No obstante, los hechos demuestran que dos de los herederos legales del patrimonio de Capriles Ayala fueron ilegalmente despojados de su parte, en abierta colusión entre una parte de la familia, abogados y cortes. Como es natural por lazos consanguíneos, tu vas a defender hasta el ultimo de tus días las acciones de tu padre. Desde mi punto de vista, tu padre es un hampón, el Michu otro, y todos los que de alguna manera coadyuvaron con la consecución del robo multimillonario a los Capriles Cannizaro pertenecen a la misma ralea. Esa colectividad de gente amoral es la que, ultimadamente, ha causado que Venezuela esté en la penosa situación en la que está.</div>
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For the record, he enviado solicitudes de comentarios a Michu en el pasado, pero nunca ha enviado respuesta.</div>
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Pero, insisto, los hijos no deben ser culpados de las acciones de los padres, a menos que, consciente y activamente, en edad legal y plena facultad de condiciones, hayan participado en dicho accionar. No creo que ese haya sido tu caso, y por ello mi disposición en éste intercambio.</div>
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Pasando a tus aclaratorias, debo decir que encuentro tus argumentos inadmisibles.</div>
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Por lo único que se conoce tu firma, es por su defensa de la capacidad de pago del regimen chavista. Una y otra vez, en cada oportunidad y foro, publica y privadamente, no se conoce un argumento de ustedes que indique una posición balanceada, o dicho de otro modo, de Torino no se conoce otra cosa que la afirmación de que invertir en el chavismo es buen negocio. Si ésta conversación fuese entre chinos, rusos, ingleses o austriacos, pues uno podría obviar, como es el caso, el aspecto moral de tal actitud. Pero tu eres venezolano, Rodriguez es venezolano, y ambos derivan ingreso y ganancias de lo que considero una forma de apología del chavismo. Ustedes han demostrado una capacidad despreciable de poder abstraerse del drama y la miseria que el chavismo ha impuesto en Venezuela, con el objetivo de lucrarse transando instrumentos financieros. Que los transan en el mercado secundario? Que llevan inversionistas a Venezuela, o les acomodan reuniones, conferencias, etc., con el oficialismo y la oposición? Tu de verdad crees que ello te exime de crítica? Tus clientes, esos que pagan por los servicios de Torino, no terminan también transando en los mercados instrumentos financieros emitidos por instituciones chavistas y embolsillándose los dividendos producidos por tales instrumentos? Te has preguntado, alguna vez, a quién beneficia eso, aparte de a los inversionistas y a quien recibe comisiones por dichas transacciones?</div>
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Desde luego que a mi no me beneficia. A mi familia tampoco. A los que mueren de mengua y escarban la basura, a los que tienen que hacer cola para comprar comida de quinta categoría, tu trabajo no los beneficia, en lo absoluto. El referirse a lo que hacen todos bancos del mundo tampoco es escudo. El mundo ya conoce lo que hacen los bancos. El privatizar las ganancias pero socializar las perdidas es archiconocido, y sus consecuencias se han sentido en todos los rincones del planeta. El derivar un beneficio, sea de primera, segunda o quinta mano, de una emisión hecha con la corrupción como único propósito, te hace partícipe de la misma. El problema es que ustedes no lo hacen de forma sigilosa, no. Lo cacarean a los cuatro vientos. Se vanaglorian de su acceso, de ser citados en prensa, de que sus opiniones sean consideradas. Sin la deuda venezolana, es muy probable que Francisco Rodriguez fuese un personaje totalmente desconocido, un economista de esos sin pena ni gloria que pululan por el mundo pretendiendo ser relevantes. Tu firma no produciría muchos dividendos, pues en el mercado financiero internacional donde hay que competir con tiburones estilo GS, JP Morgan, etc., un tarantín de tres desconocidos cuya experiencia se reduce, casi exclusivamente, a una república bananera como Venezuela, probablemente no tendría mucha longevidad como negocio rentable.</div>
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Dices que la relación de tu firma con el chavismo es la misma que con la oposición. Fíjate, por ejemplo, que yo jamás he logrado que un servidor publico chavista responda mis solicitudes de información. Será por que mi padre no se echaba palos con miembros del Cartel de Damasco? Será por que no fui chavista, como Rodriguez? Desde luego que el hombre puede, y tiene el derecho de, tener sus opiniones por muy nauseabundas que sean. Pero tu argumento, que cuando él habla sobre la capacidad de pago del chavismo, lo hace a título personal, y no en representación de Torino, es risible, aparte de falso. Tu argumento, de que debido a su &#8220;posición muy senior&#8221; en Torino, básicamente actúa sin supervisión y con plena libertad, es ridícula. Empleado es empleado, senior o no.</div>
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En suma Victor, reitero mi agradecimiento por tu aclaratoria. La guardaré por el resto de mis días como ejemplo de la amoralidad que prevalece en la sociedad de cómplices venezolana.</div>
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Atentamente,<br />Alek Boyd</div>
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On 6 Jun 2017, at 21:16, Victor Sierra &lt;victorsierrab@yahoo.com&gt; wrote:</div>
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Hola Alek,</div>
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Gracias por tu respuesta. Continuemos nuestra conversación off the record y privada.</div>
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Mi padre fue mano derecha y abogado de la Cadena Capriles por más de 30 años. Mi padre actuó como asesor legal de una de las partes como bien sabes durante el proceso de litigio de la fortuna. En este tema difiero de tu opinión y pienso es un tema más complejo del que describes pero como tú mismo lo dices yo no estuve involucrado y estuve 100% desligado de todo este proceso. No estaba en Venezuela (estoy en estados unidos viviendo desde el año 1994). Tengo 23 años en la Banca siempre en New York y todo lo que tengo me lo he ganado con duro trabajo.<br />Si te comento que mi papa me dijo que él se envolvió en este debacle porque quería que los dos lados se beneficiaran justamente. Al principio los Capriles Canizaro tenían el upperhand. Es una historia compleja y lo mejor es que obtengas las dos versiones antes del veredicto. Yo mismo no tengo respuestas porque no estuve envuelto. También recuerda que mi padre se desligo de este proceso desde el año 1998 y la mayoría de las decisiones que se fueron tomando a partir de esta fecha se hicieron sin él y entre los herederos. La pelea continuo desde ese punto por más de 14 años. Si te comento que después de esta fecha (1998) mi papa no tuvo nada más que ver con este caso.<br />&nbsp;No dispares al mensajero pero cheque a Michu por ti y me dice que no ha sabido de ningún intento de tu lado de oír su parte de la Historia. Si es algo que te interesa le puedo decir pero a pesar de que Michu es cercano y le tengo aprecio tanto a él como a Miguelito porque me crie con ellos te puedo decir que él no me considera un amigo por el hecho que me fui muy joven y no hubo tiempo de relacionarnos a ese nivel.<br />Respondo a tus comentarios que me pertenecen. Me parece que no me explique bien cuando te dije que no he hecho un solo negocio con Venezuela o PDVSA. Cuando digo esto me refiero a una operación financiera directamente con ellos. Queriendo decir alguna operación de Banca de Inversión o de compra y venta de bonos con ellos. En estas operaciones puedes ayudar al país o PDVSA a financiarse directamente a través de emisiones de bono, prestamos, canje, trading etc. A eso le llamamos hacer negocio en nuestra industria.<br />Que si opero deuda internacional Venezolana y de PDVSA en los mercados extranjeros (deuda externa) si claro hace más de 23 años que lo hago desde las multinacionales más grandes del planeta en su momento. Al igual que opero Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Rusia, Asia, Europa, etc. A esto no se le llama hacer negocio con el país. Esto es trading en los mercados internacionales. Alguna de esta deuda esta emitida durante la cuarta república y otra durante la quinta. Esto lo hacen todas las instituciones financieras del mundo y lo continúan haciendo. Te hablo de todos los Bancos más grandes del Mundo, los fondos más grandes del mundo etc. Compañías como por ejemplo JP Morgan, HSBC, BOFA Merrill, DB, Wells Fargo, Citibank, PIMCO, Black Rock, etc. Esta deuda ya está emitida queriendo decir que al comprarla o venderla no estas financiando al País. El país no recibe beneficio directo de financiamiento con estas operaciones. Estos bonos fueron emitidos hace tiempo y el financiamiento ya tuvo lugar en su momento. El caso de Goldman fue diferente ya que los bonos estaban en las manos del gobierno. Los bonos que yo opero están en el mercado internacional y en manos de inversionistas internacionales en mercado secundario.<br />El caso de que los inversionistas aquí afuera quieren que Venezuela siga pagando no es correcto. Unos si quieren que pague y otros quieren el default. Te explico esto si te interesa en otro mensaje.<br />Mis inversionistas son principalmente americanos. Te cuento más sobre esto. Como todos los Bancos de Inversión / Broker dealers llevamos a inversionistas a Venezuela y tenemos reuniones con ellos sobre Venezuela. La razón que ellos buscan nuestros servicios principalmente es para saber la situación del País. Quieren saber la situación de País para tomar decisiones si vender o comprar deuda existente Venezolana en los mercados internacionales. Si puede existir interés bajo las condiciones apropiadas de prestar al país pero como te dije al principio no hemos hecho ni una sola transacción de este tipo. No hemos financiado a PDVSA o Venezuela en la historia de la firma. Todos los bancos internacionales incluyéndonos estaríamos dispuestos a financiar a Venezuela/PDVSA bajo las condiciones adecuadas pero estamos claros que ahora no es el momento. Donde sí habría disposición es en operaciones externas de mercado secundario u operaciones bajo préstamos existentes que no sean nuevo financiamiento sino re venta o re alocación.<br />Hablas de comisiones. El mercado de deuda soberana internacional funciona igual que el mercado de acciones de cualquier país. Hay un centro de ejecución con precios donde se opera la deuda y todas nuestras instituciones ganan la comisión entre la compra y la venta internacional. Esto es la práctica del todas las instituciones financieras con todos los países del mundo y es un mercado donde Venezuela/PDVSA no tienen beneficio. Hay bonos de Irak, Irán, China, Rusia, Afganistán, Bolivia y todos los países del mundo operando como deuda externa.<br />Hablemos de relaciones de Torino con el Chavismo. La relación de Torino con el Chavismo son las mismas que con la oposición, es una relación informativa. Que significa informativa, quiero decir que los inversionistas internacionales están buscando información de la situación del país. Esta información la dan los dos sectores no solo un lado. Con esta información ellos toman decisiones de inversión en el mercado secundario o primario si existe una oportunidad bajo las condiciones adecuadas. Esto es nuestro trabajo y es el mismo de todos los bancos que están envueltos en mercados emergentes que son muchos como JPM, HSBC, Barclays, Citi, etc. Con este análisis informativo, Torino también hace reportes analíticos.<br />Hablemos de Francisco Rodriguez. La función de Francisco dentro de Torino es facilitar la información a través de un proceso de investigación y comunicarse y conversar con los inversionistas aquí afuera. Así que sus relaciones de los dos lados son parte de su trabajo. Por su posición muy senior dentro de la empresa está encargado y es responsable de lo que escribe y por eso decimos que lo que el escribe y su equipo no representa la opinión de la empresa necesariamente. Esto es así en todos Bancos. Si me pongo a revisarle todo lo que escribe y decirle que escribir el hombre me renuncia. Él es suficientemente senior y está encargado de las decisiones dentro de su departamento de investigación. Así que sus relaciones en su gran mayoría son parte de su trabajo. Por ejemplo para ser justo, el último evento que organizamos en New York sobre Venezuela era solo miembros de la oposición los invitados. Ahora bien, Francisco tienes sus tendencias y creencias del proceso político y económico en Venezuela a nivel personal. Esto es algo que esta fuera de mi jurisdicción como pienso estarías de acuerdo. Su posición personal es algo para hablarlo directamente con él.<br />Torino jamás ha donado a la campana de ningún político en Venezuela o en cualquier otra parte ya que está prohibido por los organismos regulatorios.<br />&nbsp;Espero esto ayude a aclarar algunos de tus puntos y déjame saber si necesitas más información de este u otro tipo.<br />Abrazo<br />Victor</div>
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On Thursday, June 1, 2017 1:26 PM, alek boyd &lt;alek.boyd@gmail.com&gt; wrote:</div>
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Hola Victor,</div>
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empecemos por el principio, que fue tu email inicial en Octubre de 2013.</div>
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Mi conocimiento del rol de tu padre en el manejo, gerencia y consecución de apropiación final ilegal del control absoluto de la Cadena Capriles es, debo admitir, subjetiva. Sólo he escuchado a una parte. Mis intentos de conocer la otra parte de la historia, es decir la de Michu, ha sido infructuosa. No obstante, de lo que he sido informado, y he podido corroborar, es que el Michu, con la ayuda de tu padre, básicamente se robó cientos de millones de dólares, no sólo del patrimonio de su hermanastro y madrastra -cuya existencia ni siquiera mencionaste en tu email, sino de su propia madre y hermanas. Sin duda, uno de los mayores casos de corrupción de la historia de Venezuela que he estudiado, en el cual tu padre tuvo un rol crucial.</div>
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Pero esa historia no viene al caso, y uno nunca debe culpar a los hijos por las acciones de los padres. Hice mención a tu persona, y a tu empleado Francisco Rodriguez en mi pequeño escrito sobre Goldman Sachs, por cuanto tengo entendido que el caballito de batalla de Torino Capital, el producto que lo mantiene a flote, es, precisamente, la deuda venezolana, o mejor dicho, la asesoría sobre la deuda venezolana por la cual los clientes de Torino están dispuestos a pagar comisiones.</div>
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Desde mi punto de vista, hablar bondades del narco régimen chavista -lease aseverar hasta la saciedad su capacidad de pago, que es finalmente lo que Torino hace en lo que respecta a Venezuela, es inadmisible, pues comporta un beneficio económico que resulta de convencer a los inversores de las ventajas de invertir en el chavismo. Encuentro, por tanto, inverosímil tu argumento &#8220;Ni yo ni Torino hemos hecho un solo negocio con Venezuela o PDVSA&#8230;&#8221; De hecho es un insulto a mi inteligencia que digas tal cosa, habida cuenta de la relación -digamos peculiar- que Torino tiene con el chavismo, y que ha sido reportada públicamente no necesariamente en cadenitas de WhatsApp, como uno de los apólogos de Rodriguez afirmara públicamente.</div>
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Así las cosas Victor, te invito a que me saques de lo que consideras mi posición errada. El no tener &#8220;cuentas de un solo politico venezolano&#8221; no exime de oprobio las notorias actuaciones de tu firma y de tus empleados, en lo que considero la perpetuación de la miseria en nuestro país.</div>
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Coloco al final de esta respuesta tu mensaje íntegro a través de FB messenger. Siéntete con plena libertad de aclarar cuanto desees, cuan extenso lo consideres, ya que no tengo pensado viajar a Nueva York en el futuro inmediato.</div>
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"Hola Alek, te quiero decir algo "off the record". Vi que me mencionaste en tu artículo de Goldman como banquero que hace negocios sin escrúpulos en Venezuela. Eso no puede estar más fuera de la verdad. Aplaudo tu coraje y te lo dije hace varios años atrás en un email personal pero para hacer justicia hay que ser justo y tener pruebas antes de exponer la reputación de una persona. Ni yo ni Torino hemos hecho un solo negocio con Venezuela o PDVSA de ningún tipo,eso son calumnias de grupos de interés. No tenemos cuentas de un solo político venezolano o de cualquier otro en el mundo ni estamos bajo ningún tipo de investigación. Somos altamente regulados por el SEC y FINRA y como parte de ese proceso nos han aauditado varias veces como lo hacen con todos los Bancos de Inversión en Estados Unidos y hemos salido de la auditoría con 5 estrellas. Nuestro negocio es principalmente con empresas norteamericanas. Te invito a almorzar y a que pases por nuestras oficinas y te explico bien nuestro negocio a detalle y con toda la transparencia si pasas por Nueva York. Somos un equipo integró de veteranos de Wall Street de todas las nacionalidades pero principalmente en su mayoría norteamericanos.<br />Tengo la mayoría de mi vida viviendo en los Estados Unidos que son ya 30 años. Nunca e trabajado en otro lugar que no sea en Nueva York y tengo una integra carrera en la industria en los Bancos más grades multinacionales. Ya son 23 años en la Banca.<br />Te invito a que me llames cuando necesites cualquier aclaratoria y en confianza. Mi número de Oficina es 212-661-2400 y también me puedes escribir a mi email personal victorsierrab@yahoo.com.<br />Voy más haya de lo que te escribo en decirte que puedo jurar sobre una Biblia que en mi carrera no me he robado un centavo ni enriquecido ilegítimamente. Decirte esto me llena de satisfacción porque mis amigos y mi familia conocen mis valores y principios y tengo mi conciencia limpia.<br />Si buscas justicia y eres amigo de la verdad deberíamos ser aliados y no enemigos. Yo como tú aborrezco a los corruptos.<br />Saludo! V&#8221;</div>
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Saludos,<br />Alek</div>
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On 22 Oct 2013, at 18:39, Victor Sierra &lt;victorsierrab@yahoo.com&gt; wrote:</div>
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Hola Alex,<br />Estuve la semana pasada con Miguel Octavio pasando unos días de vacación y me hablo de ti. Justo también me hablaron de tu página una amistad hace poco. Te escribo para felicitarte. Necesitamos más personas como tú en Venezuela. Eres muy valiente al publicar y dar tus opiniones de personas que han estado masacrando el país por años. Muchos de ellos vienen de familias de dinero bien y mal ávido.<br />Si necesitas mi ayuda en verificar u obtener información estoy a tus ordenes siempre y cuando sea en absoluta confidencialidad.<br />Tengo 26 años en USA. Estudie parte del colegio y luego en la Universidad de Boston (1991 -1994). Consecuentemente me vine a trabajar a New York donde la mayoría de mi carrera fue en ABN AMRO Bank pero estuve en otros bancos también. Estoy muy allegado al periodismo y comprendo intrínsecamente en parte su dinámica. Mi padre fue vice-presidente ejecutivo y mano derecha de Miguel Angel Capriles Ayala fundador de la Cadena Capriles por mas de 40 años. A su muerte mi padre pasa a ser presidente de las empresas por tres años. Después de tres años entrego la presidencia a el hijo heredero de Capriles senior, Michu. Corrientemente mi padre esta en retiro pero sigue como Director principal del Banco Mercantil. Podrás imaginar que crecí entre periódicos y revistas. Pero no estoy casado hablando de intereses con ninguna empresa, institución, o persona en Venezuela así que mis opiniones son parciales.<br />Soy fundador y Chairman de Torino Capital un Investment Bank americano que reside en New York.<br />Tu nombre me suena conocido. Si no te importa me cuentas un poco de tu bio.<br />Si te encuentras en New York me encantaría poder conversar contigo personalmente.<br />Muchos periodistas en Venezuela y offshore por miedo no publican mucha información y por eso tienes mi respeto. Continua valientemente tan importante trabajo<br />Saludo,<br />Victor</div>
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