The greats of this world would prefer that we not focus on Qatar, a small country that throws down all its rhetoric of fighting for democracy and human rights, and a “rules-based international community” not to mention financial transparency.
Because Qatari traces appear in an inconceivable number of scandalsthey finance terrorism, they massively bribe MEPs, they harbor the leadership of Hamas, and no one with weight in the international sphere points the finger at them, quite the contrary: everywhere they are received with a red carpet.
And from Qatar, precisely, comes the last (alleged) known scam of the Biden ‘family’. Now the publication Politico, not at all suspected of aversion to Democrats, reveals that the Biden family’s ties to Qatar “would constitute some of the closest known financial ties between a relative of President Joe Biden and a foreign government”if testimony in court about the foreign fundraising efforts of Jim Biden, Joe’s brother, is corroborated.
It all started when, in June 2017, Qatar’s neighbors, led by Saudi Arabia, joined together to cut diplomatic relations with the country. The excuse was his ties to Islamist terrorism, but the reality had more to do with the country’s rapprochement with respect to the Iranian enemy, with whom it was jointly exploiting a huge marine gas pocket. Be that as it may, the country was plunged into a sustained crisis.
But a country that swims in gas and oil soon finds new friends to get it out of trouble. So the Qataris began to entertain Westerners with connections and guarantee financial benefits to Westerners, “sometimes in the form of investment financing”according to Politico.
And here it is At the time, Jim Biden was trying to raise $30 million for the embattled Americore hospital chain., in collaboration with Florida businessman Amer Rustom, CEO of the Platinum Group, who boasted of his ties to Middle Eastern officials, as well as fund manager Michael Lewitt. The three joined together to seek funds in the Middle East, and that is how they arrived in Qatar. According to public records, Jim Biden took advantage of his relationship to solve these insidious problems of restrictions on international capital movements, including a plan — which may or may not have been implemented — to move money in the form of gold bullion.
“My family could provide a wealth of presentations and business opportunities at the highest levels that I believe would be worthy of Your Excellency’s interest,” Jim Biden and Rustom wrote in a draft letter to an official at Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund. the Qatar Investment Authority. “On behalf of the Biden family, I appreciate your interest here”the draft continues.
The transactions in this setup are central to a recently resolved fraud case brought by the US securities authority, the SEC, and are under new scrutiny as part of a federal criminal investigation in South Florida.
Jim Biden suggested to congressional investigators in February that his fundraising efforts were stalled by a lack of viable projects. But previously undisclosed testimony from fund manager Michael Lewitt about the ownership of the two companies (Platinum Group USA and Obermeyer Engineering Consulting) indicates that Jim Biden forged closer ties to the Qatari government than previously believed, the report claims. by Politician
In February of this year, Jim Biden told the impeachment inquiry that approximately $600,000 in payments from Americore were for its role in arranging a series of bridge loansof which $200,000 was transferred to Joe Biden in March 2018 for what the White House says is a repayment of an unrelated loan between siblings.