A maze, you say?
Yes, it is. I ended up looking a Canadian companies last week and got lost in it. They all seem interconnected with projects and big energy companies.
The
Cuntrera-Caruana clan specialized in laundering hundreds of millions of drug dollars. This may well have been why it had come to Aruba. The island is one of the many
Caribbean tax-havens famous for their relaxed
off-shore regulations popular at the shady side of the money business.
http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?page=archives_tblick_aruba----------------------------------------------------
MAFIA HEROIN-MOVERS:Gambino family
Cunterras
Michael Posner
http://www.ipsn.org/themob.htmlThe Aruba trip was a turning point for me. Besides cashing in the main event, I made a final table of a side tourney, made good money in side cash games – and most importantly
met someone who turned me on to the idea of propping online. He had been doing it for about a year and explained the how the deals worked. It sounded intriguing and I looked into it when I returned home.
As most of you know,
propping involves starting new tables, playing heads-up, and playing short-handed. As soon as a table fills up and the game gets good, you have to leave the table.http://guinnessandpoker.blogspot.com/2005_07_03_archive.htmlHOW THEY ARE ALL CONNECTED:The
Intercon Financial Bank on Aruba is represented by the law-firm Croes & Wever. One of the partners is former Minister of Justice Hendrik Croes. <snip>
Hendrik Croes – a brother of the island's legendary leader, the late Betico Croes who guided Aruba to its semi-independent status in the Dutch realm – is one of the leading political figures on the island. He led several election campaigns for the MEP, now in the opposition.
The Croes Family has been accused of ties with Cuntrera-Caruana. The Sicilian mafiosi payed for a trip of another brother, Rudy Croes (who succeeded Hendrik as Minister of Justice in a previous MEP government) as party secretary to a meeting of the Socialist International in Turkey.
<snip>
According to Canadian police reports, in 1978, Pasquale Cuntrera owned the Holiday Inn Casino
<snip>
DEA agent David Lorino, the case-officer in Operation Wiseguy, claims that
"when the Cuntrera's moved to Venezuela they carried some 15 to 30 million dollars with them, which were invested in hotels in Caracas, but also on Curaçao and Aruba." <snip>
"He told us that his ships transported narcotics and money
from Caracas to Aruba and Europe," says Lorino. As mentioned before
Canadian investigations show that the clan used Aruba as a trampoline for cocaine to North America. (72)
<snip>
The island has been a
smugglers' paradise - admits Prime Minister Eman.
<snip>
The US Attorneys Office in Miami gathered an insight in this pattern when, in December 1993, it indicted – among others –
Aruban business-men Randy Habibe and Jossy Arends in its case against the La Costa Cartel. This 'enterprise' is accused to have smuggled some 80 tons of cocaine and 250,000 pounds of marijuana to the United States, and
laundering some 800 million US dollars from 1980 onwards. The Arubans managed the logistics.
They brought in the precursor chemicals necessary for the
production of cocaine out the coca leaves; they bought the planes and ships to transport the merchandise; and last but not least, they laundered the proceeds through the accounts of their import-export firms in the Aruban Free Zone, skimming a percentage for their services.<snip>
The Cuntrera-Caruana clan had links with another Aruban bank: the Interbank. <snip>
An amount of money is deposited cash at a bank and the bank lends the money back: now there is a clean and legitimate source of earnings.<snip>
The Interbank is owned by the Mansur Family.<snip>
company-ownership or real estate property could well be hidden through the construction of Aruban off-shore limited liability companies offering strong secrecy provisions.<snip>
http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?page=archives_tblick_arubaWHO HANDLED CONTRACTS = PAULUS VAN DER SLOOTPaulus “ has worked as an attorney for the Aruban judicial system for court prosecutors. PAULUS then was given a different assignment: the government wanted him to only set up contracts.
http://www.hasibokos.com/hbknews/extra/pvds.htmINTRICATE WEAVING IN ARUBA OFFICIALS:SPECIALIST IN OFFSHORE INVESTMENT:*
Johan Sjiem Fat and
Lincoln Gomez are on the board of directors of
Aruba Financial Center Association.
Antonio Carlos worked for Johan Paul Sjiem Fat, Sjiem Fat & Sjiem Fat, Aruba
Johan Paul Sjiem Fat considers the impact of these three countries on the tax regime operating in Aruba.
http://www.offshoreinvestment.com/magazine/issue?id=87Antonio Carlos – represents Joran van der Sloot
Lincoln Gomez is the President of the Board of Directors for Aruba Financial Center Association along with the law firm that represents Joran van der Sloot
Lincoln Gomez worked at: Zielinski, Gonzalez and Gibbs, who at that time was outside counsel to the Ministry of Justice.
Mr. Gomez has acted as an aid to the Minister of Public Works in Aruba in charge with the development of infrastructure and urban planning.
He has also acted as assistant general-counsel for the Ministry of Justice and the Permanent Secretary to the Council of Ministers of Aruba.Mr. Gomez is (was) a director and shareholder of numerous companies including: ZGB Trust Services Aruba N.V., Golden Rainmaker Telecom Services N.V., Aruba E-Trade Center N.V., Conexxions Airlines N.V. and Tony Roma’s Partners (Aruba).
He was alos on the board of directors for Charles Croes company – Digicel.You don't remember Mr. Gomez who came out in the very early stages of the case and gave an interview on Greta. Kind of odd isn' it? I don't think he needed the $150.00 pay for the Fox Interview.*
Gomez is in charge of litigation,
corporate Finance and Telcom forAFCAhttp://www.afca-aruba.com/news/new_fiscal_framework.html*
Andin C.G. Bikker, President of the Aruba Financial Center Association.
Partner @ Gomez & Bikker Law Offices, in charge of Litigation,
Corporate Finance & Telecom.http://www.afca-aruba.com/news/new_fiscal_framework.htmlNilo Swaen - He is the Minister of Finance & Economic Affairs
http://www.exxun.com/Aruba/j_cf.htmlNilo Swaen is a member of OCTA(Overseas Countries and Territories Association)
CMB BANK – Arlene Ellis-Schipper – board of director
Aruba Hotel & Touism Association Pesquera, President & CEO
Bill Carson, CMB Carribean Mercantile Bank;
David Smith,
Valero Refinery;Rick Zeolla, Marriott Resorts
Rob Smith, Aruba Westin Resort & Casablanca Casino
Peter Steinmetz, AAA, Aruba Airport Authority
JUDGE SMID - participated in the Carribean Financial Task Force as
expert on money laundering. (the Judge who let the suspects free)
http://www.cfatf.org/eng/typoexe/casino/index.pdfJUDGE SMID: let Paulus van der Sloot win damages case that was later overturned.Father of Holloway suspect wins damages for detention
3 August 2006
The judge in the civil case stressed his ruling related solely to Paul van der Sloot. Paulus won his suit to be dismissed as a suspect in November. The judge was Rick Smid
http://tinyurl.com/rbfaeIn January, federal prosecutors in New York issued an 88-count indictment charging 17 defendants with operating an illegal gambling business that, over the last four years, brokered more than $200 million
in bets on horse racing and other sporting events.
<snip>
Besides the Lakes Region race track, the other entities named in the indictment include Racing and Gaming Services (St. Kitts); Euro Track (Isle of Man); Tonkawa Indian Reservation (Oklahoma); Coeur d’Alene Casino (Idaho); International Racing Corp. (Curacao); Elite Turf Club
(Curacao);
Excelsior Casino (Aruba); Capital Sports Limited (Australia),
and Darwin All Sports (Australia).
<snip>
-- the U.S. Attorney this week announced he would retry 20 counts of a bribery conspiracy case that a federal jury failed to reach verdicts on.
http://www.greyhoundaction.org.uk/iUSAnews.html_____________________________________________
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Aruba under control of Mafia:http://www.tni.org/archives/tblick/aruba.htmTITO: HE LEFT THE ISLAND BUT REASONS UNKNOWN.. H
E ALSO OWNS A COUPLE OF OTHER PLACES ON THE ISLAND. HIS NAME IS MICHEAL POSNER.Does/did Joran have open credit at one or more island casinos?
TITO:
HE FREQUENTED CASINOS.COSBY: What about Michael Posner? There‘s this gentleman who owns a Excelsiorcasino where Natalee and Joran were seen spending time. Apparently, Joran has a big credit line there. I went into that casino. What do you know about the guy that owns that casino, Harold?
COPUS: Well this guy has that casino.
He‘s alleged to have organized crime ties back to Chicago. And you can say alleged, he‘s actually served time. He‘s been convicted.
So he comes up into Aruba and is able to get a gambling casino. At the same time, we‘re told that Joran and his dad both are gambling there. It really makes you wonder how that‘s happening and how they got this line of credit.
COSBY: Yes. And a big, big line of credit. Beth, I know you‘ve actually been to the casino, right? And Michael Posner threatened you, is that correct? HI
HOLLOWAY TWITTY: Well, there was a phone call made. And it was just really having me refer to—you know, I‘d only mentioned the fact
I had gotten from prosecuting attorney as far as the open line of credit, and that Joran is in his casino gambling, and
I don‘t think there was ever a question that Joran and Paulus Van Der Sloot had been in that Excelsior Casino, and, particularly, on the night of the 29th where he and his father met Natalee.(source:
http://www.scaredmonkeys.com/?p=1635#more-1635)
Mike Posner of Aruba is the same Mike Posner from the Chicago Mob. The answer is yes. He did some time in the 80s, but after his release the Chicago outfit rewarded him by putting him in charge of their Aruba interests. In Chicago he was identified in the newspapers as “The Vice Kingpin of the Northwest Suburbs.” He ran gambling, adult bookstores, strip clubs and prostitution.
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2005/09/harrytho_on_the.phpRunner Messenger Service, a
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WHAT DID PVDS ACTUALLY DO FOR ARUBA ?http://www.hasibokos.com/hbknews/extra/pvds.htm"Van der Sloot got a different assignment:
the government wanted him to only set up contracts.... He became cabinets leader for the public ministry and gave classes of Administrative Law at the local university. "
The Cuntrera-Caruana clan specialized in laundering hundreds of millions of drug dollars. This may well have been why it had come to Aruba. The island is one of the many
Caribbean tax-havens famous for their relaxed off-shore regulations popular at the
shady side of the money business.http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?page=archives_tblick_aruba1991 - Paulus was in Holland worked as an attorney and moves to Aruba - he was appointed for five year as lawyer for the Aruban government
1996-1997 - Paulus was administrator on Judges panel and the Polis chief worked for him and answered to him. Source: p.129 Beths book
====================================
Jossy Mansur
NANCY GRACE
October 4, 2005
GRACE: Jossy, regarding the connection, what I perceived to be a close connection between the judge, Paulus Van Der Sloot and the retired chief of police who initially handled Natalee`s case, Van Der Stratten, were they friends?
MANSUR: Of course,
they were friends. It stands to reason they were friends because Paul Van Der Sloot had many friends within the police department; he had many friends within the Department of Justice. And he had many friends with -- and he was friendly with all the judges in Aruba. He
worked out of the same office as they did and did the same work.Paulus van der Sloot June 23, 2005 Statment
"
I also was in almost daily contact with Jan van der STRATEN."GRETA'S BLOG - this is Greta's post
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
The pictures show Paulus van der Sloot being sworn in as a lawyer yesterday in Aruba.
He had wanted to be a judge, but that did not quite work out (and I have heard a few reasons why and still don't understand why.) He is now sworn in as a lawyer and working with his son's lawyer in the law firm.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182018,00.html WHY WOULD PAULUS NOT BECOME A JUDGE? HE STUDIED, HE WAS WORKING AS AN ATTORNEY FOR THE GOV'T, HE WORKED AS AN ATTORNEY IN HOLLAND, HE WENT BACK TO HOLLAND TO STUDY ALONG WITH JUDGE SMID, BUT EVEN GRETA SAYS THE REASONS HE DID NOT BECOME A JUDGE DO NOT ADD UP......Paulus van der Sloot: I am a replacing member of the joint court of justice of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba [1] and I am appointed for a period of three years, from January the first, 2003, until January the first, 2006.
Reporter (Twan Huys): So, you are replacement judge?
Paulus van der Sloot: Yes.
Reporter (Twan Huys): Do you know the people very well, for example, the people here from the public prosecutors' office that ordered your detention?
Paulus van der Sloot: Yes, for sure, because, before that, I have worked for eight years as chief of the cabinet of the prosecutor general [2].
(source:
http://scrux.com/natalee/paulusinterview.htmhttp://www.novatv.nl/novaplayer/player.html?id=rep-3540-0June 28, 2005)
Paulus Van Der Sloot was in the Prosecutors office/ substitute judge, Van Der Straaten is Police Superintendent/Police Commissioner working under Paulus.
Eric Mansure’s sister-in-law is Jan van der Straaten’s secretary. (p.153 Dave Holloway).
THE WEB IS IN PLACE - HOW DO YOU PROTECT MONEY LAUNDERING....In 1994 (AVP in power) the U.S. indicted cousins Eric and Alex Mansur for using Interbank to launder money from Colombian drug sales in the U.S.
The gov't owned the hotels The gov't are on the boards of the banks ie: Obdur, Swaen, Lincoln Gomez, Arelene Ellis-Schipper is on CMB, etc.
Paulus van der Sloot deposited money at CMB bank Gov't debt to other gov'ts with mounting interest Gov't protects casino's
money thru banks Judges (
paulus van der Sloot set up contracts for gov't & business' Van der Sloot's father, Paul, is a respected judge on the island.
The family is part of the island's social elite. Joran, despite being 17, was a regular in the casinos
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/jul/03/usa.focusAntonio Carlo, Joran's attorney and Paulus' bossman, use to work at a firm, Sjiem Fat & Co.
One of the owners of that firm is Standard Trust Co., who coincidentally is also the managing director of the company that owns C&Cs. Oh did I forget to mention Antonio Carlos also worked for the gov't as an attorney.
Ponson previously owned a Cyberzone II Internet Cafe in the Renaissance.
CYBERZONE II INTERNET CAFÉ
PONSON, GIOVANNI REGINALDO;
Residing in RUBY 72, NOORD, ARUBA
Born in ARUBA on 13 DECEMBER 1964
CONNECTIONS ......CONNECTIONS IS THE NAME OF THE GAMEhttp://p103.ezboard.com/bthefillyscorral.showUserPublicProfile?gid=faith00Dana Pretzer/Jossy Mansur Dec. 14/2006<snip>
Dana:
One of the comments that came from your last interview with me Jossy, was your discussion regarding Paulus van der Sloot having a brother in the government in the Netherlands and I again talked to you about this, I've been swamped with those that have come to me and said "that's not true". Can we go over that part of it again, just to clarify please?
Jossy:
We have been informed from Holland, from our sources in Holland and if our sources are wrong we will apologize, we have no problems with that but our sources in Holland tell us he has a brother called Marco who's a member of the VVD Party and the party is in government and I think he's in some kind of committee for economic affairs but his party has always helped the government with defense and
police (inaudible) that's as far as I can tell you about this.======================================
"Joran is believed to be friends with a known ecstasy dealer in Aruba and police think that's where he got the drug," said the source.
<snip>
"
The police are looking into Paulus van der Sloot's finances and whether he might be connected to mobsters that may have ties to Aruba's casino business," said the source. "Paulus is a known high-stakes poker player."
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/crime/63316POSNER OWNED THIS DATE OF INCORPORATION 2001
BRICKEL BAY BEACH CLUB N.V. Business address J.E. IRAUSQUIN BLVD. 370, NOORD
Legal form LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
Name of the company BRICKEL BAY BEACH CLUB N.V.
Statutory seat ARUBA
Date of incorporation 25 APRIL 2001
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Paulus:
It’s because of the judicial authorities that all has ended well.(thiis is from another interview = need the link)
LOOK AT THE NAMES ON THIS:www.cbaruba.org/cba/readBlob.do?id=1069The justices on the Curacao bench
mr. H.A.C. Smid (since march 1st 2005)
CENTRAL BANK OF ARUBAPAGE 19:
"
In 2006, money supply expanded by AFL. 66 million, down from an expansion of Afl. 142 million a year earlier.www.cbaruba.org/cba/readBlob.do?id=1069www.cbaruba.org/cba/readBlob.do?id=1069Hendrik S. CroesLawyer in Oranjestad, Aruba
Member
View firm profile of Croes, Wever & Tchong
Location
Arulex Center, P.O. Box 650
Oranjestad, Aruba
Contact Information
Phone: +297-58-22138
Fax: +297-58-32363
Send Us Email
croes attorney at law
i
http://scaredmonkeys.com/2008/03/10/scared-monkeys-protests-aruba-at-the-st-louis-travel-show-in-st-charles-mo-and-a-show-of-unity-for-justicefor-natalee-holloway/# Arulex BuildingPunta Brabo
Phone: 297 5822138
#
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Tel: 826912
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If I am reading this correctly - someone can set up a business through AEC and they do not have to pay taxes.Paulus being the man in charge of setting up contracts in Aruba would be the one to set up an Exempt companyAFCA Members: * ABN-AMRO Trust Aruba N.V.
* Admanco Trust N.V.
* Alfaro, Ferrer, Ramirez & Aleman Aruba N.V.
* Amaco Aruba N.V.
* AMTR N.V
* Aruba International Trust Company N.V.
* Ascor Trust N.V
* Century Trust Agencies N.V.
* Comanco Aruba N.V.
* CTF Aruba N.V.
* Ernst & Young
* Euro Trust International N.V.
* F.van Lanschot Aruba Management
* First Independent Trust N.V.
* HBM Aruba
* ING Trust Aruba N.V.
* KPMG Accountants
* KPMG Tax & Legal Services
* Loyens & Loeff
* M.A.S. Management & Advisory Services N.V.
* IMC Trust Aruba N.V.
* O.M.S. Overseas Management Services N.V.
* Pricewatershouse Coopers
* RBTT Bank
* Solimar International Trust Co. N.V.
* Standard Trust Company N.V.
* Vokad Aruba N.V.
* Whitehill trust
* ZGB Trust Services N.V.
The A.V.V. is exempt from any taxation
in Aruba with regard to its income, whatever the nature thereof.
<snip>
the A.V.V. must obtain a declaration of no objection from the Minister
of Justice on its articles of incorporation;
<snip>
# the A.V.V. must have its registered office in Aruba and must have a
Registered Agent in Aruba (“Legal Representative”). Only a Limited Liability Trust Company established in Aruba with the Trust Business
License may act as a Registered Agent;
# the board of managing directors of an A.V.V. may consist of one of
the following: a Limited Liability Trust Company established in Aruba
with a Trust Business License, non-resident legal entities or
non-resident individuals;
http://www.amtraruba.com/form-01.htmlAFCA board of directors:The board of directors of the AFCA for the year 2004-2005 consists of :
Lincoln D. GomezPresident
Robin Croes
Vice-president
Stanley Looman
Treasurer
Suzette Yarzagaray
Secretary
Johan P. Sjiem FatOfficer
Angel Gomez Osorio
Officer
Rita Oosterwijk
Officer
DIGECELL BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Lincoln D. Gomez_______________________________________