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Great question! Then who is interested in knowing the truth or dealing with it, I think no one in the public domain is, no one in the government is, and certainly no one in the mass media dare to acknowledge the facts. Therefore, we all can live happy now.
Bout was captured on a newly manufactured charges pressed by the US, and which makes no reference whatsoever to the alleged earlier stories of arms dealing. Nonetheless, the new story does not make any reference to Richard Chichakli?
Once more, the facts tend to prove that whatever the US government alleged against Chichakli is false and Richard was used for a reason we will never know.
How comes Richard Chichakli is on OFAC list, and is for a fact frozen in the United States but the UN report lists nothing being frozen by the US government for Richard Chichakli? The person who’s assets listed frozen by the US government is Victor Bout, with no mention of Richard Chichakli! So it is either Chichakli and Bout is the same person, and we all know that is false, or the US government is playing a dirty game that aimed to destroy Chichakli. Why? that is what is yet to be seen, if ever!
Chichakli posted on his website letters he wrote to Bush and to few Senators and Representatives? Why all of the, so-called, law maker stopped short of acknowledging this injustice? Why the court refused to put his case to trial? Why he was subjected to assassination? why was he “sold” to the Syrian where he was detained and severely abused by the Syrian Intelligence apparatus; the same place where the US-paid abuse of Maher Arar took place according to witnesses! The US-Syrian deal concerning Chichakli is evident by the removal of Chichakli’s name from the US list of sanctioned US-Nationals and listing him in the UN report as “Syrian” rather than American, and with 100K frozen in Syria rather than his $2 million frozen for him in the United States!
Was Chichakli for a fact an associate of Victor Bout? a so-called financial manager of the day-to-day activities? There was no single paper, document, check, financial transaction, sell, buy, transfer, not a single transaction with his name or signature to substantiate the US-sponspred media/UN story? Do anyone believe that an alleged financial director can be invisible to bank and customers for “over a decade” as alleged by the UN report? Is this a story that can be bought or promoted, except for a reason and by a government capable of ordering the UN to do certain things? It is funny to see that the United State government rushed to obtain several US Security Council resolutions against Richard Chichakli more than what they ever did against BinLanden!!! You better believe it, the Bush administration placed Richard in five security council reports and “ordered” numerous “allied governments” to bann him and investigate him; and obtained NOTHING against BinLaden? Not even a restriction on international travel against Osama?
We are a nation without spirit, without dignity, and without a believe, a nation of pimps and prostitutes willing to sell our sole for money and maintain silence for fear.
I worked in Richard Chichakli’s administration in Sharjah free zone, and I saw him working 18 hours a day to bring the dream of Sharjah-UAE into reality. I witnessed the creation of a huge city out of nothing, more than 5,000 new job, and the deployment of more than $225,000,000 in projects within the zone in less than one year. Richard taught us honesty, discipline, and integrity, he was a man with a drive, motivation, and knowledge which are capable of moving mountains; and he did.
What a loss to see him go, what a loss to humanity, and particularly to the United States of America. He deserve justice dead was he or alive, his family deserve to be with him, his sonn deserve a father, and we all can learn from the man, and maybe, one day can ask his accusers to render justice.
I am doing research about Richard Chichakli’s matter and I need help with information from anysource that can help. What I am looking for is:
1- a verification of the reason the US government closed the investigation into his relation to Viktor Bout. I know there was not any charged filed against him and no indictment was issued.
2- I need information about the latest immunity offer given tcess to Richard after the termination on the investigation late Nov 2008. Any information of why this offer was issued by the Bush administration and what is it connected to?
3- Anyone in contact with Richard who could give me a direct access to him, his site is obviously maintained by someone else.
Please email me at vertolot@mail.ru Thanks
Hi,
I’d like to mention that Richard was named the financial manager of Victor’s so-called empire, the UN describes him to have held such position. Why has he not been called for testimony before the Congress as Douglas Farah had been? Writer Farah, although seemingly knowledgeable about all the world’s conspiracies, had not run day-to-day business activities of Bout. What would he know–he could only analize what has been written on the net by news-seeking and news-making crowd and what is readily available through official sources, but he did not see what deals were made, he is not an insider.
Salut to Richard, I hope the new administration hears your loud cries for justice and the rule of law. I would like to see your case being heard in court. Let the justice take over.
Helen, I do not totally agree with you although you’ve got a point you seem to have overlooked. That point is, all the information heard by the government; and disseminated to us, all of it came from people who never had any direct contact with Victor Bout. Every bit of information we have came from reports and unsupported theories written by those who hate Bout. I say unsupported because Victor Bout was not ever charged with arms smuggling, and even now what the US government is trying to charge him with is “conspiring to sell arm.” Therefore, my question will be:
Why would the government listen to people who never interacted with Bout instead of interrogating Chichakli? It was the US government, and all of those testifying for it – including Farah who is assuring us that Chichakli was working for Bout in a super senior rank and he knows everything about Bout’s organization!
Helen, your question should be “why asking anyone instead of the true insider?” I thing in this answer the key to the entire issue of Richard Chichakli can be found. I concluded since very long time that the Bush administration was not going after Richard Chichakli because of Victor Bout, make no mistake about it. What transpired between Richard Chichakli and the Bush government is something way too big for us to know, something caused the Bush administration to revert to the United Nation’s Security Council for five times in a series of endless attempts to pressure, silence, or totally get rid of Chichakli and whatever he knew. The Bush administration placed more priority on getting rid of Chichakli than whatever priority they had for capturing Bin Laden … Search the UN records and you will not be disappointed
There are two sides to any story, and we are hearing the government side only. The idea of hearing from Chichakli is very important idea, why the government did not do it is unknown. I think a debate between Chichakli and Farah can help to answer all of these questions. For that reason, I wrote Mr. Farah and I am posting the same for Mr. Chichakli asking both to have a live debate, youtube will do it. here’s what I wrote to Mr. Farah and the same goes to Mr. Chichakli
Dear Mr. Farah:
It is a fact that all the information heard by the government; and disseminated to us; all of it came from people who never had any direct contact with Victor Bout. Folks like you, Braun, and the rest of those whose fame was created upon the Victor Bout story; people with vested interest in keeping certain image attached to Bout. Isn’t “strange” that all we hear about Bout comes from those who never interacted with Bout?
It is also a fact that you keep telling us; with unquestionable certainty that Victor Bout sold arms and dealt with all of the bad guys in the world. Thus, Victor Bout was never, ever charged with smuggling arms; not even by the US government who is now trying to extradite him on a charge of “conspiring to sell arm.” Isn’t very strange that you happen to be so certain, while the entire world’s law enforcement apparatus combined cannot be so sure, proven for the lack of charges?
The other fact is that the United States government, those who testified before congress – including you, and almost all of the supposedly self-motivated about the Bout issue, all of you without any exception agreed that Richard Chichakli is the most senior, the most knowledgeable, and a “confirmed associate” of Victor Bout. Thus, he was not summoned to testify before the congress in February 2005; he actually never was made to testify about Victor Bout. Isn’t also amazingly unusual that the Bush administration never was interested in getting Chichakli to testify, at least if he lied and they supposedly can prove it, they would have had gotten him for perjury?
Mr. Farah, I watched your interview on Riz Khan and heard what you had to say about your book for being “supported”, it is a fact that your book does not have one single name or traceable lead to verify any of what you claim to be true. I also heard Chichakli challenging you, and I think it is the time for you to show us all what you are made of. I suggest you face-off with Richard Chichakli in a debate, a life debate on youtube or anywhere an audience can ask questions to both of you and hear what you guys say.
If you look at the photos of Bout and compare them with the one of ‘him’ in Africa next to a plane you will see that they seem to be different people. This poses the question, was there another man who used his identity
Richard Chichakli agreed to my idea for debating Douglas Farah concerning the issue of Victor Bout. However, Mr. Farah refused to debate Chichakli and wrote me the following, and which I am posting here and on Farah’s blog with my answer. I am inviting all those interested to call on Chichakli and Farah to debate the issue on mytube where we all can ask and here the answers of both and evaluate the evidence they present
Douglas Frah wrote —
You have clearly not read the book or anything else many of us have
written, because we do deal with people who deal with him. Why has he
always refused to discuss his dealings in person? So he can rely on
people like you to say he is defenseless and unheard. Chichakli has
said many things, then denies saying them, and is not a worthy
interlocutor. If the book, documents and interview are not enough,
then nothing ever will be.
—- This is the answer I Emailed and posted on his website:
Dear Mr. Farah:
Thank you for your response. I have read your book; and your book does not include any names I can call upon to verify what you stated in that book or the blogs you write. You are again saying that “you are dealing with people who deal with him” maybe you can name those people; maybe you can refer them to the US government.
t is no secret that your entire professional life is built around the story of Victor Bout, and therefore you are threaten by people like Richard Chichakli who are asserting that you are making up stories to stay alive. Chichakli’s site provides traceable documents while you provide nothing but your own words and stories. A debate is a platform than can help for making a comparison. Is it possible that you are worried about getting exposed?
Chichakli wrote me and stated that he is ready whenever you are, then he commented “Farah is making all possible efforts to stifle discussion about the case of Victor Bout because such discussion will expose his inventions. Farah sits and testify that Victor sold arms to FARC, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Islamist in Somalia, and the entire list of those named “terrorists or enemy” by the Bush administration. Victor was NEVER charged or convicted of arms trafficking and Farah knows it, but he lies any way.”
Mr. Farah, in the real world people are innocent until proven guilty, in your world you are asserting guilt without a proof. I am interested in seeing your proving what you are claiming with all certainty, the entire world is, and certainly the US government did not charge Victor with having sold arms to FARC but rather “conspiring to sell” thus, making what you keep saying worthless. I would love to hear you along with the thousands who can participate in an on-line debate, what are afraid of?
As to the material “many of you - as you stated” have written about Victor Bout, this material is something of your own making. Mr. Farah neither you, nor those written about Victor Bout have ever interact with Victor Bout, worked with him or with any of his organizations.
In fact I do find it funny that the US congress asked you to testify about Victor Bout, a person you never seen or dealt with while they do not summon Chichakli to testify. Was not the US government who said and is still asserting that Richard Chichakli possess the most knowledge in Victor’s affair? Then summon Chichakli and nail him for perjury if he lies; how hard that can be.
The fact that Chichakli was not summoned indicates that the Bush administration did not want the truth to be known, thus called you - a person who never seen Victor and is a known enemy of him to testify just two month prior to freezing Chichakli. It does not take a genius to see this through. So let us hear it from you and him, once more, what are afraid of if you are that sure? Please think how weak your position is by refusing to face those you are accusing
The latest from Mr. Farah was a posting on his blog in response to me repeated request. It was an od response and you make whatever you want out of it, he wrote the following: —–
Well, clearly you have not read the book, which is full of names and dates. I make my living far better when not writing books. I have never been asked to testify in Congress regarding Viktor Bout. Your facts are incorrect and Mr. Chichakli has, I would wager, made more money with his fantasies than I have from one book.
I think Douglas Frah is afraid of getting exposed through a debate, this is my own conclusion and you can draw yours on your own. However, I placed the following entry on his website, and I am doing the same here. The following is what I wrote to Mr. Farah: —
Mr. Farah:
Please help us by reciting some of the names se names in your book and how to contact them, just for the readers of this blog to make sure to call if they want to check your honesty. Your book does not have any, does it Mr. Farah?
As for you testimonies, the dates are Feb./16/2005 and Jul/31/2008 copies are available on the internet, and all you read there are your one million percent affirmations of what you alleged to know for sure what Viktor Bout did around the word, know how come you forgot? Just re-read what you have said here: http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/nefafarahhousefarhaffairs.pdf
As to Chichakli’s fantasies you mentioned, debate him and tell him that in front of an audience, it is possible he could prove you fantasizing? Chichakli is far educated person in comparison to you and his expertise worth more than yours for that reason alone, his educational back ground and certifications are posted on his site at http://chichakli.net/certifications.htm ; well, maybe you can tell us a little about your education and how come you are calling yourself an expert in all of these things you testifying about, international finance, aviation, arms, terrorism, islam, and the list goes on … personally, I do not think that you always happened to forget to talk about your qualification, I think you just do not have any to talk about.
Mr, Farah, it seems that you are obviously afraid of facing those you talk about because they can expose you as a person who claims expertise he does not have the qualifications for; a George Bush – made expert, just like the WMD in Iraq.
May be Farah is a UK/US stooge putting out stories about Bout because his identity was used by an agent of the UK government in selling arms and in return buying diamonds etc
Bernard Madoff admits stealing $50 billion and defrauding 5,000 person; thus, the media call him “the disgraced Financier” – Madoff is American
Josef Fritzl, admits to have imprisoned his daughter for 24 years, raped her repeatedly and fathered seven children by her; thus, the media calls him “suspect” – Fritzl is Austian
Victor Bout, accused of being Arms trafficker for the last 15 years without any evidence presented or seen, never was charged, tried, or convicted; however, he is treated by the media as being guilty without trial – Bout is Russian. Being other than “them”, and them being the Western crowd makes you guilty by default.
Victor Bout is being jailed without a trial for more than a year because the US government is yet to be able to show proof of conspiracy! This is the charge “conspiracy to sell arms” not actually selling; however, still having problems, in Thailand, to show evidence.
The US claims that they can only show evidence in the US, not in Thailand. In the US where Victor Bout is to be tried “fairly” and “impartially” by a jury of his “peers”, I don’t know what part of this statement seems out of order? Maybe the American peers part seem to be difficult. The man is being guilty for 15 years without proof, trial, or charges; however, the American government can now prove it; but only in the US? Is this real? I think the American government is shy to show the world “the proof and evidence” because they do not have any, never did, never had, and now they are trying to cover their crime.
I wonder why such “fair and impartial trial” was not offered to Richard Chichakli? Do you???
The Russian TV station NTV had Douglas Farah and Richard Chichakli phone interview, the full program will air on 3/28 (Richard’s birthday)
Farah in the interview denied that he ever said Victor was violating the law, he said “Victor’s activities was immoral not illegal” I wonder what was the reason for the change of heart?
Rumors are saying that the US congress is contemplating pressing charges against Farah for perjury after receiving several letters questioning the information provided by Douglas Farah before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
The Thai court confirmed to have received an affidavit by Richard Chichakli filed in connection with the hearing of Victor Bout extradition case; expected to be finalized next week on the 29th of April.
Are there any details about the content of that affidavit?
Here’s the latest,
It seems that Chichakli have released documents proves that the information submitted by the US government to the UN Security Council about his alleged relations to Sanair is false and unfounded.
In a letter delivered to the UN Undersecretary for legal affairs, Chichakli challenged the statement delivered by US State Dept and OFAC in which they claimed that “millions of dollars in arms sales were sent to a company of which he was a director.” The letters dated 1/29/2009 and 3/16/2009 provided bank statement showing that the company had an initial deposit of $20000 from which legal and accounting expenses were paid, then that account was closed and the company was dissolved - contrary to the official testimony given by OFAC and the US State Department statement.
Interesting to see where is this going!
Richard Chichakli you are one heck of man, one person standing in the face of the whole world, and against the current taking the heat. Whatever you are to Viktor Bout, you are an example of loyalty and “friendship” as you call it. I envy your courage, and I respect what you do, just cause.
God speed
Victor Bout Was in Thailand on Mission for the United States Government
Almost everyone is asking “why did Victor Bout go to Thailand?” and so far, all we have is a US-trumpeted answer alleging that he went to negotiate an Arms deal with the FARC. This story line came immediately after the neither unexpected nor planned intervention of Thai police into the 100% American plan to apprehend Victor and fly him out in an “Extraordinary rendition” type of operation. Victor Bout did not make it to the unmarked US government private jet waiting to “bag” him toward an unknown destination because of his name recognition, and because of one Captain in the Thai Tourist police. Andrew Smulian made that flight and ended-up in New York; however, instead of entering the Witness Protection Program, he was determined to know too much about the operation to be set free. Smulian agreement with the Bush administration was withdrawn and he ended up in the same ranks with Victor Bout. Recently, agents of the UK government interviewed Smulian, and there are plenty of whispers regarding his situation.
What we have on hand – for facts, is what the US alleged upon the news broke out on March 6, 2008 and these are the following:
Victor Bout was in Thailand to sell arms to FARC – according to the US indictment
The deal went through several countries, and several government participated in the operation – according to US indictment and the DEA’s agent in charge testimony on BBC public television
Victor made several trips to Thailand prior to this one – according to the testimony of the DEA’s agent in charge also in the same BBC interview
The analysis of these facts in view of what is being transpiring in Thailand as far as the court action concerns on the two cases involving Victor Bout provide an extraordinary contradictions between the alleged crime, the court action, and the defendant reaction. However, by placing the facts altogether, a plausible explanation supported by evidence can easily emerge.
Why Thailand?
The FARC is called a terrorist organization only by the United States and a handful of its allies, FARC is not considered a terrorist organization in Thailand according to the testimony of the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Thus a person who is supporting the FARC or dealing with FARC would not be committing a crime in Thailand. Victor Bout is not under any charges or indictment in Thailand and he is solely held for more than a year now because of a US indictment. That US indictment was issued after Victors arrest and the Thai government did not have any knowledge about it according to the Thai officials’ testimony given in the hearing.
Furthermore, it is an established fact now that Victor Bout was not arrested by the Thai police, nor was he under any indictment or outstanding warrant at the time of his arrest. That “False arrest” gave rise to Victor’s legal action against the Thai government and his imprisonment under Article 90 of the Thai law. The lawyers of the United States government lobbied very heavily to cause the dismissal or to stall the case filed by Victor under Article-90, the attempt for dismissal failed. Then the unsuccessfully attempted maneuvers to separate the US extradition case from the false arrest case, prior to finally trying to have a so-called “priority” assigned to the extradition case under a particular cooperation agreement between the US and Thailand, and that also did not materialize into any positive news for the US team. All of these political lobbying and legal maneuvering caused the unbelievable delay this case experienced. The Thai law allows the detention of persons not charged with a crime in Thailand for a maximum of 82 days. Thus, Victor Bout is being illegally detailed for more than one year.
The question of why Thailand, and why then in March of 2008 may have been answered in a written testimony provided to the Thai court by a person who seem to be impossible to dismiss, Richard Chichakli was the name of that person, a name that became synonymous with the Bout case.
Richard Chichakli is not an ordinary person, not by any account or available facts. Richard is the uncontested “most qualified account in the United States” according to the opinion of almost every Certified Public Accountant I interviewed. No other accountant in the United States, and probably the world holds the same qualifications and professional titles as Chichakli does. Chichakli is a state-licensed Certified Public Accountant in two US states and he managed three public accounting practices in Texas in Plano, Richardson, and Grand Prairie, in addition to one in Missouri. He also taught in US colleges in Collin County and Dallas County, Texas. Chichakli’s public military records are “made-up” without a question, evident by the record itself and here is why:
Richard’s VA and military records showing that he is a “disabled Veteran” receiving (20%) disability pay for service-connected injury received overseas “the desert syndrome”, it also indicate that he received the “Good Conduct” medal, a “Driver Badge”, “two campaign stars” and the “Southwest Asia” medal. The records also shows that he attended schools for two NCO leadership training, Air assault and Airborne Training, DLI Language School training, and the FAA school for Air Traffic Control training, in addition to his basic, AIT, and specialized Linguist identifier and MOS trainings, and several other schools and training in many different states around the US.
What does all of that mean? The answer is simple:
The records indicates that Richard total service is 30 month, that is two years and half which does not add-up even to the number of days he should have spent in military schools and training without serving a day of active duty!
Thus, no one out of Richard’s old colleagues seemed to forget the “older than usual” soldier who served on the US-elite “Rapid Deployment Forces” and who was serving with them in many places including Ft. Rucker, Ft. Huachuca, Ft. Bragg, and Ft. Campbell among many other military installations. Every person knew Richard Chichakli is still remembering him very clearly, here is some of what you may hear about Richard, “he spoke funny and looked like a spy”, he “smoked the younger kids on runs and PT, he was a hard-core Huwaa”, “he was a strange person - he use to give himself a hair cut every third day and never went to a barber”, “we use to call him DOC, he was a doctor of something”, “he had a hot temper but you would love to see him running the tower in high traffic, all pilots knew him - he sounded funny”, and “People hated him, he was smarter than all of them and made’em look bad, specially Mundt and Pritchet – but Masselli; the first sergeant loved him, I think he protected him a lot from getting hurt.”
There are hundreds of stories, and whatever they say, they all say one thing – Richard Chichakli was on active duty for several years, so why his military records were manipulated? The Good Conduct medal require a minimum of 36-month of service, the driver badge is given for 10,000 miles of accident-free driving, the SWA middle require service in SW Asia, the campaign stars require participating in military campaigns, the language schools and the Military Occupation Specialty schools require about 4-month each – multiply that by the number of MOSs held by Richard and the number of language certifications he received according to his official military records. Thus, and strikingly Richard Chichakli’s records shows less than 30 month of service, no overseas service, no military campaign service, nothing consistent with the records itself?
Out of the previous it is easy to conclude:
the information we were present with concerning Richard’s relation to Victor by the UN report S/2000/1225 is false and groundless. Chichakli’s site alleges that the report was “intentionally falsified by the preparer Johan Peleman, a Belgian UN contractor”, and that contractor did not contact Richard as he claims in the said UN report. Peleman refused to comment about the implausible presentation he made in the UN report regarding the alleged Richard 10-years employment of Richard with Bout, and he refuse to answer why he did not contact Richard as he alleged to have done.
OFAC’s allegation against Richard; which is based upon the aforementioned UN report as seen in the UN sanction resolutions is also false. Therefore, what was published by the US government directly or via the “approved media channels” regarding the cause of action against Chichakli is mere propaganda aimed to conceal the real cause of action. It is fact that Richard Chichakli is currently not, and never was charged, indicted, or convicted in connection with the bout case or other and he is not, nor ever was a fugitive as we see in “certain media” from time to time. The most important of all, Richard is very-likely know or aware of certain sensitive information related to Victor Bout and his operation; however, such information is highly damning to the US government to the point where the mighty US government can’t neither go after him, nor relief him, and the most important.
Richard could have divulged some of that information he possess regarding Victor case to the Thai court, causing the court to admit his statement into the record while dismissing all other statements submitted by the US lawyers and Victor lawyers.
What could be the real reason for Victor’s visit to Thailand?
According to the statements given in court by the US authorities including the DEA and DOJ, Victor have visited Thailand several times prior to his arrest. The automatic questions here, for what reason and why was not he arrested then?
We all know that Victor Bout was allegedly working for the US government as it was acknowledged by our esteemed colleague “Douglas Farah” and who is the “defacto” US government recognized authority on Victor Bout evidenced by being called to testify on many occasion before the FBI and before congress about Victor and his operations, and also as being acknowledged by hundreds of politicians, scholars, and reporters.
If Victor was working for the US government for a fact, why don’t we consider the possibility that he was visiting Thailand on orders by his American bosses to receive instructions, getting paid for services, or do whatever he does for the US government, and as he did several time before “in Thailand” according to the US official statement.
It might be the very fact that Victor Bout was in Thailand to do service to the US government as they acknowledged he did, but at this point George Bush who is leaving office wanted to cover his tracks by eliminating Victor. This is very plausible considering:
The Thai authorities were not notified or informed about the US government plan, thus, giving rise later to the false arrest case.
Victor have travelled to Thailand on several occasions before, fully knowing that Thailand is more or less, controlled by the US and that the US agents roam freely in Thailand
The US government who alleged to have had Victor red-handed and possessed all the needed evidence have failed to gain extradition after 14 months of courts’ hearings
The US government failed to show any evidence in connection with the alleged charges against Bout; however, trumpeting the same in the media and through propaganda vectors
Then, the statement of Chichakli which is said to consist of 8 pages and more than 250 pages of supporting document. The statement said to have provided critical information related to a 2004 dated problem of “political nature” between Victor and the Bush administration and possibly evidence proving that Victor Bout is an agent acting on behalf of the US government on official duty in Thailand.
This is an interesting extract from IANSA, which shows another company was working with Bout:
In 2002, the involvement of an Irish registered company with an international arms smuggling operation was revealed. The company, Balcombe Investments Limited, owned the aircraft operated by Renan Airways of Moldova to fly several shipments of illegal arms to Africa.
In December 2000, a United Nations report briefly mentioned suspicious dealings involving Renan Airways. A subsequent UN report on the arms embargo on neighbouring Liberia, confirmed those suspicions, identifying Renan Airways as having flown unauthorised cargos of arms from Moldova to Liberia. The report also detailed how Renan Airways had worked with another company, Central African Airlines - owned by former KGB officer Viktor Bout - to ship illegal arms to Sierra Leone.
Balcombe Investments was registered in Ireland in 1992 by a Dublin-based company formation agent on behalf of an Isle of Man company, Portman Consultants Ltd. Company formation agents are not generally aware of the activities of their client companies and would have had no knowledge of Balcombe’s arms trade link. The day after Balcombe Investments was formed it got a new set of directors based in the Channel Islands and employed by Portman Consultants. From then on Balcombe Investments was essentially a company of convenience which was used to register aircraft in Moldova.
When contacted by the Irish Examiner and asked about illegal arms sales to Africa, a Renan spokesman said: “Balcombe Investment have some aircraft. We transport cargo world-wide, they are the owners and we are the operators. It is an offshore company, so they acquire some aircraft and register it in the Republic of Moldova.”
I also read that until 1996, all papers and accounts for Balcombe Investments were presented to the company’s office by Portman Consultants in the Isle of Man. In 1996, Portman closed and its companies were transferred to a new company Portman Consultants International operating from Malta.
Who owned Portman Consultants and Portman Consultants International? What other companies does Portman own? And also what other companies does/did Donnelly, one of the Channel Island directors, have connections with?
June 19th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
I wonder where all the comments have gone?
August 18th, 2008 at 6:11 am
Great question! Then who is interested in knowing the truth or dealing with it, I think no one in the public domain is, no one in the government is, and certainly no one in the mass media dare to acknowledge the facts. Therefore, we all can live happy now.
Bout was captured on a newly manufactured charges pressed by the US, and which makes no reference whatsoever to the alleged earlier stories of arms dealing. Nonetheless, the new story does not make any reference to Richard Chichakli?
Once more, the facts tend to prove that whatever the US government alleged against Chichakli is false and Richard was used for a reason we will never know.
How comes Richard Chichakli is on OFAC list, and is for a fact frozen in the United States but the UN report lists nothing being frozen by the US government for Richard Chichakli? The person who’s assets listed frozen by the US government is Victor Bout, with no mention of Richard Chichakli! So it is either Chichakli and Bout is the same person, and we all know that is false, or the US government is playing a dirty game that aimed to destroy Chichakli. Why? that is what is yet to be seen, if ever!
Chichakli posted on his website letters he wrote to Bush and to few Senators and Representatives? Why all of the, so-called, law maker stopped short of acknowledging this injustice? Why the court refused to put his case to trial? Why he was subjected to assassination? why was he “sold” to the Syrian where he was detained and severely abused by the Syrian Intelligence apparatus; the same place where the US-paid abuse of Maher Arar took place according to witnesses! The US-Syrian deal concerning Chichakli is evident by the removal of Chichakli’s name from the US list of sanctioned US-Nationals and listing him in the UN report as “Syrian” rather than American, and with 100K frozen in Syria rather than his $2 million frozen for him in the United States!
Was Chichakli for a fact an associate of Victor Bout? a so-called financial manager of the day-to-day activities? There was no single paper, document, check, financial transaction, sell, buy, transfer, not a single transaction with his name or signature to substantiate the US-sponspred media/UN story? Do anyone believe that an alleged financial director can be invisible to bank and customers for “over a decade” as alleged by the UN report? Is this a story that can be bought or promoted, except for a reason and by a government capable of ordering the UN to do certain things? It is funny to see that the United State government rushed to obtain several US Security Council resolutions against Richard Chichakli more than what they ever did against BinLanden!!! You better believe it, the Bush administration placed Richard in five security council reports and “ordered” numerous “allied governments” to bann him and investigate him; and obtained NOTHING against BinLaden? Not even a restriction on international travel against Osama?
We are a nation without spirit, without dignity, and without a believe, a nation of pimps and prostitutes willing to sell our sole for money and maintain silence for fear.
I worked in Richard Chichakli’s administration in Sharjah free zone, and I saw him working 18 hours a day to bring the dream of Sharjah-UAE into reality. I witnessed the creation of a huge city out of nothing, more than 5,000 new job, and the deployment of more than $225,000,000 in projects within the zone in less than one year. Richard taught us honesty, discipline, and integrity, he was a man with a drive, motivation, and knowledge which are capable of moving mountains; and he did.
What a loss to see him go, what a loss to humanity, and particularly to the United States of America. He deserve justice dead was he or alive, his family deserve to be with him, his sonn deserve a father, and we all can learn from the man, and maybe, one day can ask his accusers to render justice.
February 16th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
I am doing research about Richard Chichakli’s matter and I need help with information from anysource that can help. What I am looking for is:
1- a verification of the reason the US government closed the investigation into his relation to Viktor Bout. I know there was not any charged filed against him and no indictment was issued.
2- I need information about the latest immunity offer given tcess to Richard after the termination on the investigation late Nov 2008. Any information of why this offer was issued by the Bush administration and what is it connected to?
3- Anyone in contact with Richard who could give me a direct access to him, his site is obviously maintained by someone else.
Please email me at vertolot@mail.ru Thanks
February 17th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Hi,
I’d like to mention that Richard was named the financial manager of Victor’s so-called empire, the UN describes him to have held such position. Why has he not been called for testimony before the Congress as Douglas Farah had been? Writer Farah, although seemingly knowledgeable about all the world’s conspiracies, had not run day-to-day business activities of Bout. What would he know–he could only analize what has been written on the net by news-seeking and news-making crowd and what is readily available through official sources, but he did not see what deals were made, he is not an insider.
Salut to Richard, I hope the new administration hears your loud cries for justice and the rule of law. I would like to see your case being heard in court. Let the justice take over.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Helen, I do not totally agree with you although you’ve got a point you seem to have overlooked. That point is, all the information heard by the government; and disseminated to us, all of it came from people who never had any direct contact with Victor Bout. Every bit of information we have came from reports and unsupported theories written by those who hate Bout. I say unsupported because Victor Bout was not ever charged with arms smuggling, and even now what the US government is trying to charge him with is “conspiring to sell arm.” Therefore, my question will be:
Why would the government listen to people who never interacted with Bout instead of interrogating Chichakli? It was the US government, and all of those testifying for it – including Farah who is assuring us that Chichakli was working for Bout in a super senior rank and he knows everything about Bout’s organization!
Helen, your question should be “why asking anyone instead of the true insider?” I thing in this answer the key to the entire issue of Richard Chichakli can be found. I concluded since very long time that the Bush administration was not going after Richard Chichakli because of Victor Bout, make no mistake about it. What transpired between Richard Chichakli and the Bush government is something way too big for us to know, something caused the Bush administration to revert to the United Nation’s Security Council for five times in a series of endless attempts to pressure, silence, or totally get rid of Chichakli and whatever he knew. The Bush administration placed more priority on getting rid of Chichakli than whatever priority they had for capturing Bin Laden … Search the UN records and you will not be disappointed
February 20th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
There are two sides to any story, and we are hearing the government side only. The idea of hearing from Chichakli is very important idea, why the government did not do it is unknown. I think a debate between Chichakli and Farah can help to answer all of these questions. For that reason, I wrote Mr. Farah and I am posting the same for Mr. Chichakli asking both to have a live debate, youtube will do it. here’s what I wrote to Mr. Farah and the same goes to Mr. Chichakli
Dear Mr. Farah:
It is a fact that all the information heard by the government; and disseminated to us; all of it came from people who never had any direct contact with Victor Bout. Folks like you, Braun, and the rest of those whose fame was created upon the Victor Bout story; people with vested interest in keeping certain image attached to Bout. Isn’t “strange” that all we hear about Bout comes from those who never interacted with Bout?
It is also a fact that you keep telling us; with unquestionable certainty that Victor Bout sold arms and dealt with all of the bad guys in the world. Thus, Victor Bout was never, ever charged with smuggling arms; not even by the US government who is now trying to extradite him on a charge of “conspiring to sell arm.” Isn’t very strange that you happen to be so certain, while the entire world’s law enforcement apparatus combined cannot be so sure, proven for the lack of charges?
The other fact is that the United States government, those who testified before congress – including you, and almost all of the supposedly self-motivated about the Bout issue, all of you without any exception agreed that Richard Chichakli is the most senior, the most knowledgeable, and a “confirmed associate” of Victor Bout. Thus, he was not summoned to testify before the congress in February 2005; he actually never was made to testify about Victor Bout. Isn’t also amazingly unusual that the Bush administration never was interested in getting Chichakli to testify, at least if he lied and they supposedly can prove it, they would have had gotten him for perjury?
Mr. Farah, I watched your interview on Riz Khan and heard what you had to say about your book for being “supported”, it is a fact that your book does not have one single name or traceable lead to verify any of what you claim to be true. I also heard Chichakli challenging you, and I think it is the time for you to show us all what you are made of. I suggest you face-off with Richard Chichakli in a debate, a life debate on youtube or anywhere an audience can ask questions to both of you and hear what you guys say.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:18 pm
If you look at the photos of Bout and compare them with the one of ‘him’ in Africa next to a plane you will see that they seem to be different people. This poses the question, was there another man who used his identity
February 26th, 2009 at 7:51 am
Richard Chichakli agreed to my idea for debating Douglas Farah concerning the issue of Victor Bout. However, Mr. Farah refused to debate Chichakli and wrote me the following, and which I am posting here and on Farah’s blog with my answer. I am inviting all those interested to call on Chichakli and Farah to debate the issue on mytube where we all can ask and here the answers of both and evaluate the evidence they present
Douglas Frah wrote —
You have clearly not read the book or anything else many of us have
written, because we do deal with people who deal with him. Why has he
always refused to discuss his dealings in person? So he can rely on
people like you to say he is defenseless and unheard. Chichakli has
said many things, then denies saying them, and is not a worthy
interlocutor. If the book, documents and interview are not enough,
then nothing ever will be.
—- This is the answer I Emailed and posted on his website:
Dear Mr. Farah:
Thank you for your response. I have read your book; and your book does not include any names I can call upon to verify what you stated in that book or the blogs you write. You are again saying that “you are dealing with people who deal with him” maybe you can name those people; maybe you can refer them to the US government.
t is no secret that your entire professional life is built around the story of Victor Bout, and therefore you are threaten by people like Richard Chichakli who are asserting that you are making up stories to stay alive. Chichakli’s site provides traceable documents while you provide nothing but your own words and stories. A debate is a platform than can help for making a comparison. Is it possible that you are worried about getting exposed?
Chichakli wrote me and stated that he is ready whenever you are, then he commented “Farah is making all possible efforts to stifle discussion about the case of Victor Bout because such discussion will expose his inventions. Farah sits and testify that Victor sold arms to FARC, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Islamist in Somalia, and the entire list of those named “terrorists or enemy” by the Bush administration. Victor was NEVER charged or convicted of arms trafficking and Farah knows it, but he lies any way.”
Mr. Farah, in the real world people are innocent until proven guilty, in your world you are asserting guilt without a proof. I am interested in seeing your proving what you are claiming with all certainty, the entire world is, and certainly the US government did not charge Victor with having sold arms to FARC but rather “conspiring to sell” thus, making what you keep saying worthless. I would love to hear you along with the thousands who can participate in an on-line debate, what are afraid of?
As to the material “many of you - as you stated” have written about Victor Bout, this material is something of your own making. Mr. Farah neither you, nor those written about Victor Bout have ever interact with Victor Bout, worked with him or with any of his organizations.
In fact I do find it funny that the US congress asked you to testify about Victor Bout, a person you never seen or dealt with while they do not summon Chichakli to testify. Was not the US government who said and is still asserting that Richard Chichakli possess the most knowledge in Victor’s affair? Then summon Chichakli and nail him for perjury if he lies; how hard that can be.
The fact that Chichakli was not summoned indicates that the Bush administration did not want the truth to be known, thus called you - a person who never seen Victor and is a known enemy of him to testify just two month prior to freezing Chichakli. It does not take a genius to see this through. So let us hear it from you and him, once more, what are afraid of if you are that sure? Please think how weak your position is by refusing to face those you are accusing
February 27th, 2009 at 4:30 am
The latest from Mr. Farah was a posting on his blog in response to me repeated request. It was an od response and you make whatever you want out of it, he wrote the following: —–
Well, clearly you have not read the book, which is full of names and dates. I make my living far better when not writing books. I have never been asked to testify in Congress regarding Viktor Bout. Your facts are incorrect and Mr. Chichakli has, I would wager, made more money with his fantasies than I have from one book.
I think Douglas Frah is afraid of getting exposed through a debate, this is my own conclusion and you can draw yours on your own. However, I placed the following entry on his website, and I am doing the same here. The following is what I wrote to Mr. Farah: —
Mr. Farah:
Please help us by reciting some of the names se names in your book and how to contact them, just for the readers of this blog to make sure to call if they want to check your honesty. Your book does not have any, does it Mr. Farah?
As for you testimonies, the dates are Feb./16/2005 and Jul/31/2008 copies are available on the internet, and all you read there are your one million percent affirmations of what you alleged to know for sure what Viktor Bout did around the word, know how come you forgot? Just re-read what you have said here: http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/nefafarahhousefarhaffairs.pdf
As to Chichakli’s fantasies you mentioned, debate him and tell him that in front of an audience, it is possible he could prove you fantasizing? Chichakli is far educated person in comparison to you and his expertise worth more than yours for that reason alone, his educational back ground and certifications are posted on his site at http://chichakli.net/certifications.htm ; well, maybe you can tell us a little about your education and how come you are calling yourself an expert in all of these things you testifying about, international finance, aviation, arms, terrorism, islam, and the list goes on … personally, I do not think that you always happened to forget to talk about your qualification, I think you just do not have any to talk about.
Mr, Farah, it seems that you are obviously afraid of facing those you talk about because they can expose you as a person who claims expertise he does not have the qualifications for; a George Bush – made expert, just like the WMD in Iraq.
February 27th, 2009 at 6:55 am
hey AM, can you verify that the emails you posted here are Frah’s emails?
February 27th, 2009 at 7:02 am
sure, I can forward you the email and headers. The same was posted by Farah on his blog!
March 7th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
May be Farah is a UK/US stooge putting out stories about Bout because his identity was used by an agent of the UK government in selling arms and in return buying diamonds etc
March 16th, 2009 at 7:25 am
Bernard Madoff admits stealing $50 billion and defrauding 5,000 person; thus, the media call him “the disgraced Financier” – Madoff is American
Josef Fritzl, admits to have imprisoned his daughter for 24 years, raped her repeatedly and fathered seven children by her; thus, the media calls him “suspect” – Fritzl is Austian
Victor Bout, accused of being Arms trafficker for the last 15 years without any evidence presented or seen, never was charged, tried, or convicted; however, he is treated by the media as being guilty without trial – Bout is Russian. Being other than “them”, and them being the Western crowd makes you guilty by default.
Victor Bout is being jailed without a trial for more than a year because the US government is yet to be able to show proof of conspiracy! This is the charge “conspiracy to sell arms” not actually selling; however, still having problems, in Thailand, to show evidence.
The US claims that they can only show evidence in the US, not in Thailand. In the US where Victor Bout is to be tried “fairly” and “impartially” by a jury of his “peers”, I don’t know what part of this statement seems out of order? Maybe the American peers part seem to be difficult. The man is being guilty for 15 years without proof, trial, or charges; however, the American government can now prove it; but only in the US? Is this real? I think the American government is shy to show the world “the proof and evidence” because they do not have any, never did, never had, and now they are trying to cover their crime.
I wonder why such “fair and impartial trial” was not offered to Richard Chichakli? Do you???
March 22nd, 2009 at 10:04 am
The Russian TV station NTV had Douglas Farah and Richard Chichakli phone interview, the full program will air on 3/28 (Richard’s birthday)
Farah in the interview denied that he ever said Victor was violating the law, he said “Victor’s activities was immoral not illegal” I wonder what was the reason for the change of heart?
Rumors are saying that the US congress is contemplating pressing charges against Farah for perjury after receiving several letters questioning the information provided by Douglas Farah before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:44 am
The Thai court confirmed to have received an affidavit by Richard Chichakli filed in connection with the hearing of Victor Bout extradition case; expected to be finalized next week on the 29th of April.
Are there any details about the content of that affidavit?
April 25th, 2009 at 6:46 am
Here’s the details you wanted:
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=13875176&PageNum=0
April 27th, 2009 at 4:34 am
Here’s the latest,
It seems that Chichakli have released documents proves that the information submitted by the US government to the UN Security Council about his alleged relations to Sanair is false and unfounded.
In a letter delivered to the UN Undersecretary for legal affairs, Chichakli challenged the statement delivered by US State Dept and OFAC in which they claimed that “millions of dollars in arms sales were sent to a company of which he was a director.” The letters dated 1/29/2009 and 3/16/2009 provided bank statement showing that the company had an initial deposit of $20000 from which legal and accounting expenses were paid, then that account was closed and the company was dissolved - contrary to the official testimony given by OFAC and the US State Department statement.
Interesting to see where is this going!
April 27th, 2009 at 4:40 am
any details concerning the outcome of these letters or the UN reactions to the information? Is it possible to get copies of these letters?
May 13th, 2009 at 4:08 am
When is the final court decision on Victor Bout extradition should be expected? Is it the 19 of May?
May 13th, 2009 at 8:24 am
On May 19 2009 the final hearing will be held. The court is expected to announce its decision later, perhaps early June.
May 13th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
The question must be why is the US going to such extraordinary lengths to get Bout jailed and why is this has happening now
May 23rd, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Richard Chichakli you are one heck of man, one person standing in the face of the whole world, and against the current taking the heat. Whatever you are to Viktor Bout, you are an example of loyalty and “friendship” as you call it. I envy your courage, and I respect what you do, just cause.
God speed
May 31st, 2009 at 3:04 am
Victor Bout Was in Thailand on Mission for the United States Government
Almost everyone is asking “why did Victor Bout go to Thailand?” and so far, all we have is a US-trumpeted answer alleging that he went to negotiate an Arms deal with the FARC. This story line came immediately after the neither unexpected nor planned intervention of Thai police into the 100% American plan to apprehend Victor and fly him out in an “Extraordinary rendition” type of operation. Victor Bout did not make it to the unmarked US government private jet waiting to “bag” him toward an unknown destination because of his name recognition, and because of one Captain in the Thai Tourist police. Andrew Smulian made that flight and ended-up in New York; however, instead of entering the Witness Protection Program, he was determined to know too much about the operation to be set free. Smulian agreement with the Bush administration was withdrawn and he ended up in the same ranks with Victor Bout. Recently, agents of the UK government interviewed Smulian, and there are plenty of whispers regarding his situation.
What we have on hand – for facts, is what the US alleged upon the news broke out on March 6, 2008 and these are the following:
Victor Bout was in Thailand to sell arms to FARC – according to the US indictment
The deal went through several countries, and several government participated in the operation – according to US indictment and the DEA’s agent in charge testimony on BBC public television
Victor made several trips to Thailand prior to this one – according to the testimony of the DEA’s agent in charge also in the same BBC interview
The analysis of these facts in view of what is being transpiring in Thailand as far as the court action concerns on the two cases involving Victor Bout provide an extraordinary contradictions between the alleged crime, the court action, and the defendant reaction. However, by placing the facts altogether, a plausible explanation supported by evidence can easily emerge.
Why Thailand?
The FARC is called a terrorist organization only by the United States and a handful of its allies, FARC is not considered a terrorist organization in Thailand according to the testimony of the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Thus a person who is supporting the FARC or dealing with FARC would not be committing a crime in Thailand. Victor Bout is not under any charges or indictment in Thailand and he is solely held for more than a year now because of a US indictment. That US indictment was issued after Victors arrest and the Thai government did not have any knowledge about it according to the Thai officials’ testimony given in the hearing.
Furthermore, it is an established fact now that Victor Bout was not arrested by the Thai police, nor was he under any indictment or outstanding warrant at the time of his arrest. That “False arrest” gave rise to Victor’s legal action against the Thai government and his imprisonment under Article 90 of the Thai law. The lawyers of the United States government lobbied very heavily to cause the dismissal or to stall the case filed by Victor under Article-90, the attempt for dismissal failed. Then the unsuccessfully attempted maneuvers to separate the US extradition case from the false arrest case, prior to finally trying to have a so-called “priority” assigned to the extradition case under a particular cooperation agreement between the US and Thailand, and that also did not materialize into any positive news for the US team. All of these political lobbying and legal maneuvering caused the unbelievable delay this case experienced. The Thai law allows the detention of persons not charged with a crime in Thailand for a maximum of 82 days. Thus, Victor Bout is being illegally detailed for more than one year.
The question of why Thailand, and why then in March of 2008 may have been answered in a written testimony provided to the Thai court by a person who seem to be impossible to dismiss, Richard Chichakli was the name of that person, a name that became synonymous with the Bout case.
Richard Chichakli is not an ordinary person, not by any account or available facts. Richard is the uncontested “most qualified account in the United States” according to the opinion of almost every Certified Public Accountant I interviewed. No other accountant in the United States, and probably the world holds the same qualifications and professional titles as Chichakli does. Chichakli is a state-licensed Certified Public Accountant in two US states and he managed three public accounting practices in Texas in Plano, Richardson, and Grand Prairie, in addition to one in Missouri. He also taught in US colleges in Collin County and Dallas County, Texas. Chichakli’s public military records are “made-up” without a question, evident by the record itself and here is why:
Richard’s VA and military records showing that he is a “disabled Veteran” receiving (20%) disability pay for service-connected injury received overseas “the desert syndrome”, it also indicate that he received the “Good Conduct” medal, a “Driver Badge”, “two campaign stars” and the “Southwest Asia” medal. The records also shows that he attended schools for two NCO leadership training, Air assault and Airborne Training, DLI Language School training, and the FAA school for Air Traffic Control training, in addition to his basic, AIT, and specialized Linguist identifier and MOS trainings, and several other schools and training in many different states around the US.
What does all of that mean? The answer is simple:
The records indicates that Richard total service is 30 month, that is two years and half which does not add-up even to the number of days he should have spent in military schools and training without serving a day of active duty!
Thus, no one out of Richard’s old colleagues seemed to forget the “older than usual” soldier who served on the US-elite “Rapid Deployment Forces” and who was serving with them in many places including Ft. Rucker, Ft. Huachuca, Ft. Bragg, and Ft. Campbell among many other military installations. Every person knew Richard Chichakli is still remembering him very clearly, here is some of what you may hear about Richard, “he spoke funny and looked like a spy”, he “smoked the younger kids on runs and PT, he was a hard-core Huwaa”, “he was a strange person - he use to give himself a hair cut every third day and never went to a barber”, “we use to call him DOC, he was a doctor of something”, “he had a hot temper but you would love to see him running the tower in high traffic, all pilots knew him - he sounded funny”, and “People hated him, he was smarter than all of them and made’em look bad, specially Mundt and Pritchet – but Masselli; the first sergeant loved him, I think he protected him a lot from getting hurt.”
There are hundreds of stories, and whatever they say, they all say one thing – Richard Chichakli was on active duty for several years, so why his military records were manipulated? The Good Conduct medal require a minimum of 36-month of service, the driver badge is given for 10,000 miles of accident-free driving, the SWA middle require service in SW Asia, the campaign stars require participating in military campaigns, the language schools and the Military Occupation Specialty schools require about 4-month each – multiply that by the number of MOSs held by Richard and the number of language certifications he received according to his official military records. Thus, and strikingly Richard Chichakli’s records shows less than 30 month of service, no overseas service, no military campaign service, nothing consistent with the records itself?
Out of the previous it is easy to conclude:
the information we were present with concerning Richard’s relation to Victor by the UN report S/2000/1225 is false and groundless. Chichakli’s site alleges that the report was “intentionally falsified by the preparer Johan Peleman, a Belgian UN contractor”, and that contractor did not contact Richard as he claims in the said UN report. Peleman refused to comment about the implausible presentation he made in the UN report regarding the alleged Richard 10-years employment of Richard with Bout, and he refuse to answer why he did not contact Richard as he alleged to have done.
OFAC’s allegation against Richard; which is based upon the aforementioned UN report as seen in the UN sanction resolutions is also false. Therefore, what was published by the US government directly or via the “approved media channels” regarding the cause of action against Chichakli is mere propaganda aimed to conceal the real cause of action. It is fact that Richard Chichakli is currently not, and never was charged, indicted, or convicted in connection with the bout case or other and he is not, nor ever was a fugitive as we see in “certain media” from time to time. The most important of all, Richard is very-likely know or aware of certain sensitive information related to Victor Bout and his operation; however, such information is highly damning to the US government to the point where the mighty US government can’t neither go after him, nor relief him, and the most important.
What could be the real reason for Victor’s visit to Thailand?
According to the statements given in court by the US authorities including the DEA and DOJ, Victor have visited Thailand several times prior to his arrest. The automatic questions here, for what reason and why was not he arrested then?
We all know that Victor Bout was allegedly working for the US government as it was acknowledged by our esteemed colleague “Douglas Farah” and who is the “defacto” US government recognized authority on Victor Bout evidenced by being called to testify on many occasion before the FBI and before congress about Victor and his operations, and also as being acknowledged by hundreds of politicians, scholars, and reporters.
If Victor was working for the US government for a fact, why don’t we consider the possibility that he was visiting Thailand on orders by his American bosses to receive instructions, getting paid for services, or do whatever he does for the US government, and as he did several time before “in Thailand” according to the US official statement.
It might be the very fact that Victor Bout was in Thailand to do service to the US government as they acknowledged he did, but at this point George Bush who is leaving office wanted to cover his tracks by eliminating Victor. This is very plausible considering:
The Thai authorities were not notified or informed about the US government plan, thus, giving rise later to the false arrest case.
Victor have travelled to Thailand on several occasions before, fully knowing that Thailand is more or less, controlled by the US and that the US agents roam freely in Thailand
The US government who alleged to have had Victor red-handed and possessed all the needed evidence have failed to gain extradition after 14 months of courts’ hearings
The US government failed to show any evidence in connection with the alleged charges against Bout; however, trumpeting the same in the media and through propaganda vectors
Then, the statement of Chichakli which is said to consist of 8 pages and more than 250 pages of supporting document. The statement said to have provided critical information related to a 2004 dated problem of “political nature” between Victor and the Bush administration and possibly evidence proving that Victor Bout is an agent acting on behalf of the US government on official duty in Thailand.
June 21st, 2009 at 9:04 pm
This is an interesting extract from IANSA, which shows another company was working with Bout:
In 2002, the involvement of an Irish registered company with an international arms smuggling operation was revealed. The company, Balcombe Investments Limited, owned the aircraft operated by Renan Airways of Moldova to fly several shipments of illegal arms to Africa.
In December 2000, a United Nations report briefly mentioned suspicious dealings involving Renan Airways. A subsequent UN report on the arms embargo on neighbouring Liberia, confirmed those suspicions, identifying Renan Airways as having flown unauthorised cargos of arms from Moldova to Liberia. The report also detailed how Renan Airways had worked with another company, Central African Airlines - owned by former KGB officer Viktor Bout - to ship illegal arms to Sierra Leone.
Balcombe Investments was registered in Ireland in 1992 by a Dublin-based company formation agent on behalf of an Isle of Man company, Portman Consultants Ltd. Company formation agents are not generally aware of the activities of their client companies and would have had no knowledge of Balcombe’s arms trade link. The day after Balcombe Investments was formed it got a new set of directors based in the Channel Islands and employed by Portman Consultants. From then on Balcombe Investments was essentially a company of convenience which was used to register aircraft in Moldova.
When contacted by the Irish Examiner and asked about illegal arms sales to Africa, a Renan spokesman said: “Balcombe Investment have some aircraft. We transport cargo world-wide, they are the owners and we are the operators. It is an offshore company, so they acquire some aircraft and register it in the Republic of Moldova.”
I also read that until 1996, all papers and accounts for Balcombe Investments were presented to the company’s office by Portman Consultants in the Isle of Man. In 1996, Portman closed and its companies were transferred to a new company Portman Consultants International operating from Malta.
Who owned Portman Consultants and Portman Consultants International? What other companies does Portman own? And also what other companies does/did Donnelly, one of the Channel Island directors, have connections with?