Research on Andrew Tate's ties to the Romanian Mafia, Telegram, Pavel Durov, Tommy Robinson, Candace Owens, and Info Wars
The Tate Brothers' have indirect connections to the British Tories, Russian-Israelis, Chabad Lubavitch, and the GOP. The Tate Bros 2022 arrests coincide with the UAE's $19B order from France.
The timing of the initial 2022 arrests of Andrew and Tristen Tate coincides with the French “cementing ties” with the UAE in 2021. The U.S. is using France as a middleman to clean up the UAE. U.S. taxpayers have supported the security of Europe since WWII, it’s nice to sit back and allow our allies to project ‘soft power’ in the region for us.
As Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder sang it best:
At the end of this substack, I detail the dates of French weapons shipments to the UAE and their corresponding anti-human trafficking policy changes and arrest of organized crime figures.
Pavel Durov turning himself in to the French authorities is much safer than staying in Russia. You never know when you might “fall” out of a third story window in Moscow.
Andrew Tate’s Ties to the Romanian Mafia
Andrew Tate Partnered in Casinos with Alleged Romanian Organized Crime Figures | OCCRP May 31, 2023
“In multiple interviews, Tate claimed to have partnered up with some ‘brothers, mafia guys,’ who owned ‘400 [gambling] locations from Estonia all the way down to the East of Europe,’ and to have helped his new partners push competitors out of business.”
How the Tate Brothers Came to Romania and How They First Made Contact with Organized Crime • Rise Project May 31, 2023
“The victims, however, didn’t know how much money they were actually making for the Tate brothers. The prosecutors say that the money sat in online banking platform accounts such as Revolut or PayPal.”
The Tate Brothers Split the Money They Make from Gambling with an Organized Crime Syndicate • Rise Project May 31, 2023
“Aside from the money from methamphetamine precursors, Arena Group also makes a pretty penny from renting out a casino, in which the two Tates associated with the Doroftei brothers.”
Tate’s Ties to Telegram & Pavel Durov
“The BBC's latest investigation - outlined in the documentary Andrew Tate: The Man Who Groomed the World? - centres on 12,000 pages of encrypted Telegram messages sent by hundreds of War Room members.”
Tates Ties to Tommy Robinson & Israel
Tommy Robinson and Tristan Tate are among overseas supporters of Irish anti-immigration activists – The Irish Times August 03, 2024
Andrew & Tristan Tate worked with Tommy Robinson who’s funded by Robert Shillman.
Shillman sits on boards of The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, and the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Why are US 'pro-Israel' groups boosting a far-right, anti-Muslim UK extremist? | The Times of Israel
Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, aka “Tommy Robinson,” is one of the most prominent anti-Muslim activists in the world. A political adviser to a right-wing British party, he is the founder and former chair of a far-right Islamophobic group…
According to a recent investigation by The Guardian, Robinson is being bankrolled by a nexus of international organizations. Many of those groups, it turns out, are part of the American right-wing infrastructure supporting the Israeli cause…
Robert Shillman, a US-based billionaire who gives frequently to Israeli institutions, financed a fellowship that payed for a position Robinson held in 2017 with a right-wing Canadian website, The Rebel Media, according to The Guardian. (Shillman did not respond to requests for comment.)
Pavel Durov’s Ties to Chabad Lubavitch
Pavel Durov is a Russian-born Emirati entrepreneur who found the social networking sites VK & Telegram.
How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook | WIRED Feb 8, 2022
In the mid-2010s, when the media began referring to Telegram as the “app of choice” for jihadists, it was Campo who fretted most about ISIS' use of the platform…
[Pavel] Durov, 37, has become one of the world's most powerful and meticulously enigmatic tech moguls. After years of professed nomadism, he and Telegram are now officially based in the United Arab Emirates…
Pavel's university portals eventually caught the attention of Vyacheslav Mirilashvili, a former schoolmate. Mirilashvili, who had moved to the US, had just seen Facebook take off there and thought something similar could work in Russia. With money Mirilashvili made working for his father, a wealthy Georgian-Israeli real estate mogul, he and Pavel reimagined the university website as a tool for finding childhood classmates and friends. Mirilashvili also brought on board a Russian-Israeli friend named Lev Leviev…
According to Andrew Rogozov, then VK's head of development, the trip was arranged by Russian-Israeli venture capitalist Yuri Milner's investment firm, which had stakes in both companies.
New representative of ex-Soviet Jewry is billionaire once jailed in Putin’s Russia | The Times of Israel 27 July 2017
Eight years after his release from wrongful imprisonment in Russia, the Israeli billionaire Mikhael Mirilashvili was elected to lead the World Jewish Congress Euro-Asian affiliate representing communities from Ukraine to Singapore…
Mirilashvili is one of Israel’s wealthiest citizens, according to Haaretz, with an estimated net worth of $3 billion. His leadership role at the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, especially if it is coupled with the allocation of new funding for projects, may reposition the organization as a more influential player in Jewish community politics than it has been in recent years.
Mirilashvili’s son Yitzhak is the owner of Israel’s Channel 20, a right-leaning television channel.
Chabad-Lubavitch announces emissary to United Arab Emirates - JNS.org November 1, 2020
“Chabad’s involvement with the UAE stretches back as early as 2008 when New York Jewish businesspeople who had been traveling to the UAE… In 2010, Chabad rabbinical students arrived in Dubai to lead the first-ever Yom Kippur service in the Arab state…”
Chabad Lubavitch & [Accusations] of Money Laundering X.com 🧵
Pavel Durov: Who is the billionaire Russian exile behind Telegram – and why does Elon Musk have him in his sights? | The Independent
Since then, it’s evolved into an essentially unmoderated chatroom. Along the way, it became a poster network for crypto users. In 2017, Telegram formed its own blockchain, TON. The unregulated subsequent sale of $1.7bn worth of cryptocurrency drew the attention and ire of the financial regulators and, in 2019, Telegram was ordered to return the money and fined nearly $21m by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
How Telegram Became a Terrifying Weapon in the Israel-Hamas War | WIRED
Telegram was already familiar to many Israelis, who, among other things, often procure cannabis through the app…
Nadim Nashif, a Palestinian digital rights activist, wasn’t just thinking about Hamas when he read Durov’s October 13 post about not blocking channels. “That means that Telegram is also not going to shut Israeli channels inciting [violence],” Nashif tells me via video call from his home in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Nashif and 7amleh, the civil rights organization he leads, have been documenting cases of Palestinians being threatened by Israeli channels and groups on Telegram since the conflict began. Doxing is rife, and attacks, arrests, and threats against their jobs are increasing. Nashif has also seen Israeli channels mocking murdered Palestinians. “Horrible videos you don’t want to see,” Nashif says, grimacing. “People abusing the [dead] bodies, making jokes …”
How did Israel and the UAE get to normalising relations? | Conflict News | Al Jazeera
“Clandestine relations – including intelligence sharing and direct and indirect flights – between Israel and the UAE have been going on for decades.”
The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research “became a conduit for contacts with Israel.”
Andrew Tate’s Ties to the British Tories
Lord Michael Farmer —George Famer’s dad and father-in-law to Candace Owens— is a former Treasurer of the Conservative Party, life peer in the House of Lords and traded base metals in the City of London. He’s on the trustee of the Council of Christians and Jews.
He began as a difference account clerk and messenger in AJ Strauss, a London Metal Exchange member firm at which his father had worked, earning eight pounds a week.[17][18][4] He spent most of his career in the City of London, involved in the trading of base metals, especially copper.[13][19] He was a protégé of top metal trader Manfred Kopelman.[13]
Major French bank to stop dealing on London Metal Exchange (msn.com) Story by City & Finance Reporter •4d ago
The third-largest bank in France will stop dealing on the London Metal Exchange (LME) next week in a blow for the open-outcry trading floor.
Societe Generale's exit on Tuesday will leave the LME Ring, which sets global prices for metals such as aluminium, copper and nickel, with just seven members.
Hedge fund’s co-founder never hedges about his religious beliefs - The Washington Post January 21, 2012
Farmer is active in politics, too. He has given millions of pounds in donations to Britain’s ruling Conservative Party, saying it has done more than rivals to promote family values.
Farmer and Lilley, 45, aren’t just owners of futures and options contracts tied to copper; they also trade the physical metal, buying the commodity in North and South America, storing it in warehouses around the world and selling it when the price is right to companies that turn it into the wire and pipes used in the construction of homes and vehicles…
Success in forecasting copper sales and prices depends on an understanding of the Chinese market, which consumes 39 percent of the world’s copper, according to Morgan Stanley estimates. RK Capital is involved in transactions that account for up to 15 percent of China’s supply in a given month, Farmer said.
“At Red Kite, you are dealing with people who have many years in metals, with great expertise in China and the physical world,” said Robin Bhar, a metals analyst at Credit Agricole in London. “What you can get from the physical market in terms of flows and views helps immensely to form a view in trading.”
London’s ‘Mr. Copper’ restructures his Red Kite fund (ft.com) January 5 2018
A City of London financier known as “Mr. Copper” is restructuring his influential Red Kite metals hedge fund, while his co-founder has announced plans to strike out with his own investment vehicle.
Michael Farmer’s RK Capital Management LLP, the management company that runs the Red Kite fund, is “in the process of a restructuring review” which may affect its activity in future years, according to UK filings. Separate filings show Lord Farmer’s co-founder David Lilley is setting up his own fund, called Drakewood Capital Management. Red Kite declined to comment.
Red Kite was set up in 2005 and for years was one of the largest traders of physical copper. In 2013, it generated a 50 per cent return for its investors. Lord Farmer, an evangelical Christian, became a multi-millionaire and major donor to the Conservative party, which made him a life peer in 2014.
More recently, the fund has moved away from trading physical copper towards mine finance and mining equities. Lord Farmer’s son, George Farmer, has also taken a bigger role.
George Farmer is on the board of billionaire Paul Marshall & Dubai-based Legatum's GB News. He was also the CEO of Parler app which is tied to Rebekah Mercer.
‘It’s crunch time’: GB News bosses meet to avert more censure after Ofcom inquiries | GB News | The Guardian 30 Sep 2023
The British channel, which was founded just over two years ago as a challenge to established broadcast media, is struggling to keep its credentials as a news network.
But the channel seems unlikely to move far from its radical libertarian tendencies since it has emerged this weekend that George Farmer, 34, a British banker and husband of the outspoken American pro-Trump influencer Candace Owens, also 34, has joined the board. His appointment, following a period running Parler, the dormant American right-wing social media platform, does not signal new distance from its known ideological territory.
Paul Marshall, the financier turned media baron bankrolling GB News - Financial Times Mar 9, 2024
“…he became a big investor in GB News alongside the Legatum Group, a Christian faith-driven investor based in Dubai. He is now interested in taking control of Telegraph newspapers and The Spectator magazine…”
My hypothesis for George Farmer & Andrew Tate relationship…
Are the Brits still profiting from slavery? In the middle of the US Civil War in 1963, the British & French bankers established the Imperial Ottoman Bank whose economy relied on slavery from Africa, Southern Europe, and Eastern Europe.
Kinda like where the Tate brothers operate in Romania.
Visiting Dubai Is Like Standing on the Sidelines of a Gang Rape - Middle East News - Haaretz.com
London is now the global money-laundering centre for the drug trade, says crime expert | The Independent | 04 July 2015
UK banks and financial services have ignored so-called “know your customer” rules designed to curb criminals’ abilities to launder the proceeds of crime, Roberto Saviano warned. Mr. Saviano, author of the international bestseller Gomorrah, which exposed the workings of the Neapolitan crime organisation Camorra, said: “The British treat it as not their problem because there aren’t corpses on the street.”
His warning follows a National Crime Agency (NCA) threat assessment which stated: “We assess that hundreds of billions of US dollars of criminal money almost certainly continue to be laundered through UK banks, including their subsidiaries, each year.”
British Tories Money Laundering
Tories under pressure to return Lycamobile donation after fraud ruling - Financial Times November 3, 2023
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak is facing pressure to give back donations the Conservative party accepted from a telecoms company after its French entities were last week convicted of money laundering and VAT fraud.
Lycamobile, the UK-headquartered international mobile virtual network operator, gifted £2.15mn to the Tories between 2011 and 2016, according to the Electoral Commission database.
The Paris criminal court convicted Lycamobile’s French corporate entities of committing fraud with respect to value added tax and money laundering in a decision issued on October 26. It fined them €10mn. Lyca Mobile France is appealing against the convictions.
The former chief executive of the company, Christopher Tooley, was found guilty and received a suspended jail sentence. Alain Jochimek, the head of the French business, was also found guilty and received a three-year prison sentence, which can be served under electronic monitoring.
Javad Marandi: Tory donor's link to massive money laundering probe (bbc.com) 16 May 2023
The BBC's reporting on Tuesday prompted an urgent question in the House of Commons from opposition MPs asking for an investigation into Conservative donations.
A National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation found some of Mr Marandi's overseas interests had played a key role in an elaborate money-laundering scheme involving one of Azerbaijan's richest oligarchs.
In January 2022, a judge ruled the NCA could seize £5.6m [$7m] from the London-based family of Javanshir Feyziyev, a member of Azerbaijan's parliament.
Andrew Tate’s Ties to the GOP & Info Wars
Andrew Tate, Candace Owens, and Paul Joseph Watson from Info Wars
Tucker Carlson Becomes Latest Champion Of Accused Human Trafficker Andrew Tate—Here’s Why Some Conservatives Love Him (forbes.com) Jul 12, 2023
Key Facts
Carlson, the former Fox News host, posted a two and a half hour interview with Tate on Tuesday night to his Tucker on Twitter show, urging viewers to “make up your own mind” about Tate.
Carlson had interviewed Tate as recently as August 2022, when Tate defended himself against charges from the Romanian investigation, and Carlson has called Tate “really smart,” praising his “core message,” which he considered to be “respect yourself, act like you’re worth something, achieve something.”
Elon Musk described Carlson’s interview with him as “interesting” in a tweet reply (Tate, meanwhile, offered to train Musk in his potential cage fight against Mark Zuckerberg, whom he considers the “enemy clan’s leader”).
Donald Trump Jr. has also supported Tate, calling his lengthy Romanian detention “absolute insanity.”
Popular podcast host Joe Rogan has also praised Tate as a “very smart guy,” stating he believes that Tate is just “playing the role of this boastful misogynist who smokes cigars and drives Lamborghinis” in an effort to bring in eyeballs and money.
Tate has also reportedly been linked to disgraced conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who urged Rogan to host Tate on his podcast, criticized Tate’s charges as “completely, absolutely, totally made up,” and praised Tate as a “good guy with incredible pull,” suggesting that “the power structure is insanely scared of him.”
Far-right commentator and conspiracy theorist Paul Joseph Watson has defended Tate as an “authentic maverick” to his million Twitter followers.
Breitbart reporter Lucas Nolan claimed in an interview with Tate that he was banned from social platforms because of his “pro-masculinity message.”
US Uses France to Project ‘Soft Power’ in the UAE
Cementing ties with France, UAE places $19 bln order for warplanes, helicopters | Reuters December 3, 2021
"’This French commitment in the region, this active cooperation in the fight against terrorism, the clear positions we have taken mean that we have increased our proximity to the UAE,’ Macron said…the UAE continues to hedge its security…”
Under Macron’s leadership, France is leading a middle power strategy in the Gulf. Here’s how. - Atlantic Council August 16, 2022
“France under Macron presents itself as a Western middle power promoting a multilateral environment and, therefore, unlikely to get local partners trapped in the US-China competition.”
Gangster's Paradise: How Dubai Finally Turned On Its Crime Lords (vice.com) October 12, 2022
“…Ridouan Taghi, a Dutch Moroccan king pin, Raffaele Imperiale, a senior member of the Italian Naples based Camorra mafia, Daniel Kinahan, an Irish mobster and a Bosnian drug lord named Edin Gacanin…controlling a third of the cocaine trade in Europe.”
Polish MEP hits back at report on payments from UAE and allegedly undeclared trips – POLITICO February 9, 2023
“…according to which Sikorski traveled to the United Arab Emirates regularly for a ‘free stay in luxury resorts’ and received €93,000 annually from the Gulf state for his role on the advisory board of the Sir Bani Yas Forum since 2017.”
Andrew Tate: Did 'king of masculinity' partner with 'mafia guys' in Romania? New documents reveal truth - MEAWW JUN 1, 2023
Police raids on Las Vegas casinos resulted in the arrest of dozens of accused gang members, including Mihăiță Doroftei and Sorin Doroftei. Mihăiță denies being on the run and is living in Poland.
*A Romanian Mafia figure with ties to Andrew Tate and the UAE is living in Poland and PiS Sikorski was being paid by UAE?
United Arab Emirates: New Decree-Law Issued to Combat Human Trafficking | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
“Decree-Law No. 24 of 2023, which repeals Law No. 51 of 2006 on Combating Human Trafficking Crimes, expands the definition of human trafficking, enhances penalties against perpetrators, and introduces new crimes that were not mentioned in the repealed law.”
“Another new provision of the decree-law that was not included in the repealed Law No. 51 of 2006 concerned the confiscation of travel documents…”
Plane grounded in France over human trafficking fears (bbc.com) 22 December 2023
“The Airbus A340 was flying from the United Arab Emirates to the Nicaraguan capital, Managua. It was grounded during a technical stopover at the small Vatry airport in Marne department on Thursday after an ‘anonymous tip-off’, prosecutors say.”
France/UAE: Abu Dhabi in secret talks to buy more Rafales - 08/07/2024 - Intelligence Online
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