How Georgia pays for weapons?

 Oh What a tangle web we weave!!! Golden Rule: He who has the gold rules!!!

I know these links and any details to current events, I understand that there is a big link with overseas transfers of money - these included connections with Gazprom, QuartzigLtd and Levan Mamaladze, and connections with the current Georgian government.

As a journalist you can appreciate that lifting the lid on a can of worms is usually difficult - and this is especially the case with high level political corruption, and it is hard to say quite how worm-ridden this sector actually is.

I will look forward to any additional insight into these links - and I even understand that some of this gold was used to support the Pankisi operation, and justification for the US train and equip program  - which was a safe haven for Chechen and international terrorist a few years ago, and paid for by the American People. USAID.

Can you give me more information on the three brothers?

Michael - in the UK - his history with Peter Shaw (agribusiness bank, Tbilcredit bank - that was connected with Russian intelligence and Azot (fertilizer plant (Itera/Gazprom). I understand that there is some connection with Saakashvili's brother who was employed in the UK by BP at the time, and that is but the beginning of this story.

THE FINANCIAL BRAINS BEHIND THE 3 BROTHERS,  AND HELPED ARRANGED THE AGREEABLE KIDNAPPING OF PETER SHAW. BOTH RECEIVED A LOT OF MONEY FROM THE DEAL, THEN MICHAEL MOVED TO THE UK TO MAINTAIN HIS LINKS WITH SHAW. TBILCREDIT BANK PROVIDED MONEY TO AZOT, (Nitrongen Fertilizer PLANT) THEN CONSOLIDATED CONTROL TOOK OVER THIS PROVIDED AND CYANIDE TO BOLNISI GOLD AT VERY INFLATED PRICES, AGAIN WITH HIS BROTHER GIORGI AND NORMAN SECKOLD OF BOLNISI, ALL BENEFITING FROM THE PRICE HIKE.

Giorgi - as you said - connected with the Gold cup scam and Bolnisi gold (the gold was not only from the ground but a stock swindle with various Australians stakeholders, and this was a investment - Quartzig Ltd. Madnevli Mines is or was David Lobenzdze and Levan Mamaladze (and my information has it that he was supplying Georgian passports to various transiting Arabs - and this was also with Investbank - and that is owned by London International Bank in the UK

 GIORGI RAN QUARTZITE, THE GEORGIAN JV PARTNER WITH BOLNISI, PART OF MADNEULI. HE WAS CUT OUT OF THE GOLD LOBENIDZE STOLE, SO INFORMED ON HIM TO THE GOVERNMENT.

Levan, Head of Foreign Investment at the State Chancellery for the Georgian Government.

Was not Saakashvili's father working in the Chancellery at this time - what is the nexus, if any?

Investment/London International Bank/The chain of operations include the following:

What is the nexus with Silk Road Bank?

Same- what is nexus with David Lobenidze/Georgian intelligence?

THESE MATTERS I DO NOT KNOW ABOUT.

I think we are looking at but the tip of the iceberg in these matters.

Aside form the dear:

I understand that you are looking into corruption re. a Golden Cup financial scam in Georgia in the early 1990's, and how it is linked to Madneuli Mining and a major theft of gold from the Georgian Government.

There are several parties to these linked scams - Norman Seckold, CEO of Bolnisi Gold in Australia, Giorgi Mgaloblishvili, General Director of Okra Taci (Golden Cup) and of Mdaneuli Mining and the biggest Georgian shareholder in Bolnisi Gold, his brother Mikhail, former Deputy Chairman of TbiliCom Bank, close after 5m USD was stolen from the bank, and their 3rd. brother Levan, Head of Foreign Investment at the State Chancellery for the Georgian Government. Other parties are Mamuladze, former Governor of Bolnisi, now in exile in Moscow and wanted for many crimes in Georgia, and David Lobenidze, under house arrest in Switzerland after stealing possibly up to $40m. of gold from Bolnisi/Georgian Government, and believed part owner of London International bank, majority shareholder in Investbank in Georgia, engaged in laundering money in and out of Georgia.

I hope this is useful - I am based in the UK and write as a freelance journalist on Eastern European financial corruption.

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