Ukraina : Korrupsjon og drapsforsøk - Og PwC bannlyst av Ukrainas sentralbank

En samling dokumemtasjon av mulig korrupsjon i Ukraina.
Det gjelder hva som skjedde i banksektoren der.

Stikkord: Privatbank, Kolomoisky og Ukrainas sentralbank og PwC

Her kommer diverse oppslag. Det innledes med mulig drapsforsøk i London:

NY Times 19.jan.2020
“Giuliani flying in — rather than fighting corruption, he was supporting and meeting with all of the past corrupt people,” said Valeria Gontareva, the former head of Ukraine’s central bank."

"It is possible that when a car drove into Valeria Gontareva at a pedestrian crossing in Knightsbridge, central London, in late August it was merely an accident.
But soon after, while Gontareva was recovering in hospital, her son’s car was set on fire back home in Kyiv. A few days after that, her family home in the Ukrainian capital was also burned down. For Gontareva there is no doubt that the attacks are part of a disturbing pattern."

"Since Zelenskiy’s election, Kolomoiskiy has returned to Ukraine, amid rumours he is seeking a financial settlement for the PrivatBank case, and international investors have been spooked by Zelenskiy appointing a number of Kolomoiskiy-linked figures to key posts, including making the oligarch’s former lawyer, Andriy Bohdan, his chief of staff." 

NY Times 5. mars 2021: Biden setter inn sanksjoner
"U.S. Sanctions Key Ukrainian Oligarch"

NY Times 3. nov 2019:
"In 2017, Mr. Kolomoisky went into self-imposed exile in Switzerland and then Israel after the government seized his prize asset, Privatbank, and accused him of embezzling billions of dollars. He returned to Ukraine this year after the comic Volodymyr Zelensky, a former business partner of the oligarch, won the presidential election in April.

OCCRP 7. august 2020: 
"US Targets Property Linked to Multi-Billion PrivatBank Scandal"
"The $5.5 billion hole in PrivatBank’s balance sheet was also not reported by its auditor, PwC – one of the world’s largest accountancy firms – which was banned by Ukraine’s central bank from performing future audits in the country."

EDIT:
12. april 2022
PwC ble bannlyst av Ukrainas sentralbank i 2020 for mangelfull revisjon av Privatbank.
Og så er PwC i søkelyset nå i april 2022 for sin hjelp til russiske oligarker, ref mitt innlegg av 11. april 2022:

"PwC har bidratt til gjemsel av oligarkenes midler - Reform av eierskapsform for revisjonsselskaper må til"
https://innkast.blogspot.com/2022/04/pwc-har-bidratt-til-gjemsel-av.html

 

Skudeneshavn  4. april 2021 / 12. april 2022

Jan Marton Jensen

 

På Twitter:

14. april 2022
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1514518282304425991

Kilde:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/igor-kolomoisky/ 

https://moneyinc.com/ihor-kolomoyskyi/

 
7. mars 2021
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/ny/dozens-of-jewish-institutions-tied-to-alleged-money-laundering-scheme/2021/03/07/

 

7. mars 2021
https://www.timesofisrael.com/controversial-ukrainian-oligarch-igor-kolomoisky-banned-from-us/ 

 

5. mars 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/world/europe/ukraine-sanctions-oligarch-kolomoisky.html 

 

5. mars 2021

https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2021/03/u-s-sanctions-ukrainian-oligarch-featured-in-fincen-files-investigation/

 

7. august 2020

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/12916-us-targets-property-linked-to-multi-billion-privatbank-scandal

19. januar 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/19/world/europe/zelensky-ukraine-corruption.html

13. november 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/world/europe/ukraine-ihor-kolomoisky-russia.html

12. november 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/12/revenge-ukraine-ex-central-banker-oligarch-attacks

3. november 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/world/europe/ukraine-kolomoisky-zelensky-ski-resort.html

13. september 2019
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-summit-kolomoisky/with-zelenskiy-in-charge-ukraine-tycoon-kolomoisky-sees-amicable-solution-on-privatbank-idUSKCN1VY1P8 

26. mai 2019
http://uawire.org/kolomoisky-fled-israel-fearing-extradition-to-the-us

8. april 2019
https://www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-ukrainian-oligarch-ihor-kolomoisky-under-investigation-by-fbi

PwC har bidratt til gjemsel av oligarkenes midler - Reform av eierskapsform for revisjonsselskaper må til

Nye Pandora-lekkasjer viser hvordan PwC, et av verdens største revisjonsselskaper, har vært konstruktøren av russiske oligarkers oppbygging av hemmelige selskaper i skatteparadiser, der eierstruktur er skjult best mulig:

"The oligarch’s accountants: How PwC helped a Russian steel baron grow his offshore empire."
(ICIJ 11. april 2022, se Kilde)

Nok en gang er de store revisjonsselskapene i søkelyset for dubiøs moral.

Der er noe grunnleggende feil med eierstrukturen i disse selskapene.
Det er lønnsomt for partnerne å strekke grensene ... av grådighet og med tvilsom etikk.

Dette er bidrag til korrupsjon ... og dette vet ledelsen i selskapene.
Men de bryr seg lite.

Søkelyset må settes mer på av mediene.
Og lovregulering vurderes mht til akseptabel eierstruktur som gir åpenhet og ansvar.

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Jeg har tidligere skrevet om dette i et innlegg fra 2018:

"Når vokterne må voktes" (11. juni 2018).
https://innkast.blogspot.com/2018/06/nar-vokterne-ma-voktes.html

Pandora Papers har tydelig bekreftet behovet for lovregulering som  gir åpenhet om det som skjer i disse store selskapene.

EDIT 10. juli 2023:
1) Skandale i Autralia der PWC har misbrukt fortrolig informasjon til å rådgi selskaper til å unngå skatt, se Reuters-artikkel under Ny Info.

2) Artikkel i Dagsavisen 10. juli 2023: "Putin, skatteparadisa og vi", se Ny Info.

Konklusjon:
Det er tydelig hvilken destruktiv rolle skatterådgivere, advokater og konsulentfirmaer kan ha.
Mer fokus må til, slik som artikkelen i Dagsavisen 10. juli 2023, som konkluderer:
"Men fyrst trengst det eit haldningsskifte i diskusjonen om skatt og openheit. Er ein opptatt av å styrke demokrati, bør det å bekjempe skatteparadis tufta på hemmeleghald bli sett som det det eigentleg er – sikkerheitspolitikk."

Skudeneshavn  11. april 2022  /  10. juli 2023

Jan Marton Jensen

På Twitter:
11. april 2022
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1513605724277985291

12. april 2022
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1513800133422505988 

16. juli 2023
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1680513582566342658

Ny Info:
10. juli 2023
https://www.dagsavisen.no/debatt/kommentar/2023/07/10/putin-skatteparadisa-og-vi/

3. juli 2023
https://www.reuters.com/business/pwc-australia-sacks-eight-partners-over-tax-leak-scandal-2023-07-03/

Kilde:
11. april 2022
https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/mordashov-pwc-russia-richest-offshore/

Regeringskrise i Israel - Er løsningen å angripe Iran?

Det er blitt regjeringskrise i Israel.
Da  anbefaler en israelsk "strategisk rådgiver" å angripe Iran:

"On Wednesday, Moshe Klughaft, who has worked as a strategic adviser for both Netanyahu and Bennett, was interviewed on Army Radio. Asked what he would recommend to Bennett under the new circumstances, he replied without hesitation: Attack Iran."  (Haaretz 8. april 2022).

Hva skal man si til dette?
Og hvem skal si det?

Skudeneshavn  8. april 2022

Jan Marton Jensen

På Twitter:

8. april 2022
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1512357958251864064

 

Kilde:

8. april 2022

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-the-common-thread-between-recent-terror-attacks-in-israel-1.10728149

Arbeidet med Samfunnsplan 2021-2030 for Karmøy bør diskuteres og evalueres

Behandlingen av den foreslåtte nye samfunnsplan for Karmøy for årene 2021-2030 ble utsatt i Karmøy kommunestyremøte 4. april.
Det var to angitte årsaker:
- Melding om flere tusen nye planlagte arbeidsplasser på Gismarvik i Haugaland Næringspark.
- Usikkerhet om foreliggende plan hadde politisk flertall i kommunestyret.

Forut for den politiske behandlingen i kommunen ble det stort engasjement og deler av planen fikk justert innhold og ordlyd. Allikevel må man spørre seg hvorfor det gikk som det gikk.

Om dette har jeg gitt en kommentar i Haugersunds Avis den 5. april 2022.
Her er min kommentar til et innlegg der fra Hein Berdinesen den 4.april 2022, se Kilde.

"Den nye samfunnsplanen for Karmøy har betydelige svakheter.

Den fremstår i form så "overordnet" .... at virkeligheten er blitt underordnet.

Dette vises tydeligst av det samfunnsplanen IKKE behandler grundig ... eller ikke i det hele tatt.

Bærekraftsmessig er Haugesund nærmeste by for Fastlandssiden i Karmøy.

Å ta opp dette konkret ville vært naturlig både FAGLIG ... og ikke minst POLITISK.

Og så er det i planen ikke belyst alternative scenarier ut fra Karmøys største satsing næringslivsmessig: Haugaland Næringspark på Gismarvik.

Det er som om Karmøys satsing her har vært  en ikke-sak.

Så å si 1 minutt på tolv ble nyheten om batterifabrikk og flere tusen nye industriplasser på Gismarvik saken som ga utsettelse av behandling av samfunnsplanen i kommunestyret idag. - En slik mulighet skulle vært behandlet i samfunnsplanen som et mulig utfall, gitt satsingen.

Nå blir både nye arbeidsplasser og ikke minst Karmøysamfunnets fysiske nærhet til Gismarvik et naturlig tema.

Det vil  ha betydning både for samfunnsplanen og for arealstrategien.

Derfor var det godt at det nå blir tid til å rette opp de svakheter som samfunnsplanen har hatt. - Det er alltid positivt når virkeligheten innhenter teorien."

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Man bør trekke lærdom både faglig og politisk av denne prosessen.

Da må diskusjonen og vurderingene fortsette saklig. 

Både forarbeidet, planleggingen, organiseringen og gjennomføringen av prosessen bør evalueres.

Slik at man raskt høster lærdom til det videre arbeid.

Og til neste planprosess.

Skudeneshavn   8. april 2022

Jan Marton Jensen

 

Kilde:

6. april 2022
https://www.h-avis.no/kontroversiell-plan-utsatt-positivt/s/5-62-1327816

4. april 2022
https://www.h-avis.no/faktaforakt-svar-til-halleland/o/5-62-1326589

 

Okkupasjon korrumperer okkupanten

B. Michael peker i et innlegg i Haaretz den 5. april på hvordan langvarig okkupasjon påvirker okkupanten:

"There Is No Such Thing as a Free Occupation, nor Even a Cheap One" 

Michael går tilbake  i tid og beskriver hvordan grenser er blitt flyttet  ... til det stadig verre.
Han begynner med den oppstandelsen det ble første gang IDF fjernet oliventre på den okkuperte Vestbredden.
Og fortsetter med en rekke konkrete eksempler på det som er blitt dagligdags nå. (HELE artikkelen nederst).

 Han konkluderer:

"I remember a country in which all of the above had not yet become yawn-inducing routine.

A country that had not yet been corrupted or turned ugly, losing its soul and conscience. A country that had some chance of being normal and humane. This chance was also taken away by the occupation."

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Sterke ord:
Grusomheter gjesper man av. Det er blitt rutine.
Landet mister sin sjel, sin samvittighet, sin humanisme.

Ja, langvarig okkupasjon korrumperer okkupanten.
Man merker det ikke selv. 

Og faktisk opplever  ... stor lykke.
18. mars 2022 kom meldingen:
"Israel kåret til et av verdens lykkeligste land" (se Kilde) 

EDIT
10. mai 2023
"5,000 Trees Vandalized in Palestinian West Bank Villages in Less Than Five Months"

 

Skudeneshavn  5. april 2022   / 10 mai 2023

Jan Marton Jensen 

På Twitter:
11. mai 2023
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1656331010512936960

Ny info:
10. mai 2023
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-05-10/ty-article/.premium/5-000-trees-vandalized-in-palestinian-west-bank-villages-in-less-than-five-months/00000188-00b8-de69-a3ac-befb50690000

 

Kilde:
5. april 2022
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-free-occupation-nor-even-a-cheap-one-1.10719997 

18. mars 2022
https://miff.no/samfunnsliv/2022/03/18israel-karet-til-et-av-verdens-lykkeligste-land.htm

5. januar 2012
https://forskning.no/krig-og-fred-partner-senter-for-internasjonalisering-av-utdanning/lykkelige-israel-ulykkelige-palestina/733757

 

HELE artikkelen i Haaretz 5. april 2022:

 

B. Michael

Opinion |

There Is No Such Thing as a Free Occupation, nor Even a Cheap One 

Israeli soldiers take part in a raid in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank April 1, 2022.  

Credit: REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

"Waves, being waves, pretty much repeat themselves. Sometimes they’re high, sometimes low. Sometimes fierce, sometimes gentle. Sometimes gladdening, sometimes wistful. At this very moment, yet another wave is washing over us.

It, like all the waves that came before and all the ones to follow, carries with it all the usual components: blood, death, bravery, burial. Deep shock, photogenic shock, resolute leaders, furrowed brows, orchestrated hysteria, a rising and howling rabble. All-day special programming that manages to make even grief and death boring. Herds of hosts who call for censure to prove their patriotism to their public.

Cliches at cemeteries, promises at press conferences. Mobilization of reserve soldiers, “heightened presence,” a show of elite forces. And of course a motley crew of retired generals is brought out of mothballs and given protected tenancy status at the TV studios, where they fill the airwaves with the same pearls of wisdom that got us to where we are today.

This goes on until the all-clear signal. Until routine is resumed. Until the next wave. This is what we’ve grown accustomed to over the past 55 years, convincing ourselves that this is the full cost of the occupation: a few people killed every year, a few days of fear and commotion, and that’s it. Not so terrible. We can live with that.

But there’s no such thing as a free occupation, nor even a cheap one. To correctly determine the full, cumulative cost of the occupation, it’s not enough to price out only current events. One has to drag in the past as well. Those who are old enough can rummage through their memories.

I am old enough. I remember, for example, the first television story (was it by Rafik Halabi?) about an olive tree the Israel Defense Forces had removed in the occupied West Bank. What a commotion it stirred up! It can’t be. That’s impossible, it’s wild slander. “Our army doesn’t uproot trees,” said people shaken by the news. The reporter was almost fired.

I also remember the first time live gunfire was directed at protesters. The first person wounded. The first one killed. I remember the days when the earth quaked when private Palestinian land was stolen by cunning to serve the pagan whim of settlers. I remember a country in which there was no torture (at least not officially), a country in which the army spokesman occasionally spoke the truth. A country that prided itself on its oranges, and not on “stripping” the fertile land of the vanquished and manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and oppressing all who are needy.

I can still remember a country that didn’t have a ghetto for millions of prisoners, as well as millions of disenfranchised people. A country whose army was not an occupying police and whose “armed forces” had not become the suffocating arms of an octopus. That did not brutalize tens of thousands of people daily, that did not compile hit lists or have “target banks.” That did not steal water from the thirsty or demolish the homes of the destitute. That did not deploy legions of sharpshooters to kneecap teens. That did not turn a blind eye to pogrom gangs and in which the Smotriches and Ben-Gvirs were reviled.

I remember a country in which all of the above had not yet become yawn-inducing routine. A country that had not yet been corrupted or turned ugly, losing its soul and conscience. A country that had some chance of being normal and humane. This chance was also taken away by the occupation."

 

 

 

Arkeologi som ikke tåler dagens lys?

Artikkel fra 29. juli 2019:

På okkupert område på Vestbredden foretas arkelogiske utgravinger.
Israels Høyesterett har vedtatt at dette arbeide ikke tåler dagens lys.
Retten konkluderer at dette må være hemmelig.
Ellers kan det bli uønsket oppmerksomhet om HVA som foregår og HVEM som er involvert:

 Haaretz 19. mai 2019:
"Israeli West Bank Archaeological Digs Must Not Be Made Public, Top Court Rules"
"Supreme Court rejects NGOs petition, arguing that publishing information publicly could expose archaeologists to academic boycott and undermine Israel’s position in future diplomatic negotiations." 

En ekstraordinær situasjon.
Tydeligvis er arkelogi blitt en del av Israel/Palestina-konflikten.
Hva betyr det?

 TILLEGG 4. april 2022

Haaretz 4. april 2022

"From West Bank Debris to Evangelical Hands: The Shady Journey of a Bible-era Curse"
"Researchers recently claimed a groundbreaking find in biblical archaeology: the oldest Israelite inscription, dating from the 13th century B.C.E. In addition to doubts about whether it’s ‘kosher,’ the manner in which it was obtained in the West Bank is also arousing suspicion."

Det er gjort funn på ulovlig vis.
Ingen ansvarlige vil vedstå seg sakens behandling.
Hva funnet innebærer diskuteres ... men vil aktørene bak funnet og publiseringen bistå?

Er disse aktørene ... "messianske evangelister" ... som noen anfører:
"In terms of the why, it’s a group of evangelicals that are not interested in findings and science, they are looking only for things designed to confirm and illustrate known history, that is part of a missionary process of messianic prophecies." (Haaretz 4. april 2022).

Hva skal man tro når arkeologi blir utført slik?

Skudeneshavn  19. mai 2019 / 4. april 2022

Jan Marton jensen 

Kilde:

4. april 2022
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-curse-inscription-from-the-west-bank-ended-up-in-israeli-and-american-hands-1.10718635

29. juli 2019
https://www.klassekampen.no/article/20190729/ARTICLE/190729968

19. mai 2109
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-west-bank-archaeological-digs-must-not-be-made-public-israel-s-top-court-rules-1.7255369



HELE artikkelen i Haaretz 19. mai 2019:

Iraeli West Bank Archaeologiscal Digs Must Not Be Made Public, Top Court Rules

Supreme Court rejects NGOs petition, arguing that publishing information publicly could expose archaeologists to academic boycott and undermine Israel’s position in future diplomatic negotiations

Israel is not obligated to release information about archaeological digs in the West Bank, the Supreme Court ruled last week, rejecting an appeal by two nongovernmental organizations.

The decision upholds both the state’s position and a lower court ruling. The state had argued that releasing the names of the archaeologists carrying out the digs would make them vulnerable to academic boycotts.

It also argued that releasing the location of the digs could undermine Israel’s position in future diplomatic negotiations.

The original petition was filed with the Jerusalem District Court by two left-wing organizations, Yesh Din and Emek Shaveh. After the court rejected the petition, the organizations appealed to the Supreme Court. 

The petition sought to make public information about digs carried out under the auspices of Israel’s Civil Administration in the West Bank, including their location, the names of the archaeologists conducting them and details of any findings loaned to museums, research institutes or exhibits.

Under the 1954 Hague Convention, an occupying power is forbidden to remove archaeological findings from occupied territory.

But justices Yosef Elron and Noam Sohlberg accepted the state’s position in full, with Justice Anat Baron dissenting.

“There’s a clear and genuine fear that publishing the names of the archaeologists … could cause concrete damage to their professional and financial interests, as well as those of the institutions with which they are affiliated,” Elron wrote. “Publishing the archaeologists’ names exposes them to academic boycotts in a manner that could genuinely damage their research work and their academic futures.” 

He stated that publishing their names could limit their ability to publish their research in international journals, give lectures, participate in academic conferences, cooperate with colleagues and volunteers from other countries, obtain stipends and research grants, and participate in programs at academic institutions overseas.

“In addition, I’ve been convinced that publishing the archaeologists’ identities could even undermine their ability to complete the specific digs about which information has been requested and to make their future results known through academic publications,” he said.

Elron also accepted the state’s argument that revealing the site of the digs would undermine Israel’s foreign relations in various ways, including “undermining its interests in the framework of future negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, and could even serve as a tool of attack for parties that seek to harm Israel in the international arena.” 

The one concession made to the appellants in the ruling was that the state should give them the names of any archaeologists who didn’t explicitly object to this.

Baron, in her dissent, argued that fear of boycotts didn’t justify keeping information from the public.

“Nondisclosure has the power to silence public debate over the legitimacy of archaeological digs in Judea and Samaria,” she wrote, using the Hebrew term for the West Bank. “And as noted, this is a controversial issue.

“Public debate could indeed invite criticism of the archaeologists, and perhaps even a boycott, as argued by the respondents,” she continued. “But silencing the debate by concealing the information is no cure for these fears. 

“There is no democracy without a vibrant free market of ideas and opinions, and preventing public debate for fear of criticism, or even of boycotts, poses a real danger to the democratic values Israel espouses. The fear of a slippery slope on this issue is also tangible.”

Emek Shaveh said it had wanted the court to order the state “to apply the academic standards accepted in Israel and worldwide to the West Bank as well,” and was disappointed that the court didn’t do so. 

 “As Justice Baron said in her dissent, it’s impossible to apply one law within Israel, under which archaeological research and findings are available to the public, and at the same time treat archaeological digs and artifacts discovered in the West Bank as a state secret,” its statement continued. “Ultimately, this decision says that under current circumstances, even basic academic standards are superfluous, and continued Israeli rule over the West Bank requires maintaining two different legal systems under the same government, even in academia.”

MIFF tyr til "Lawfare"

En vekjent metode i Israel-/Palestinakonflikten er det som er blitt kalt "Lawfare".
Det er faktisk en del av Israels venners strategi å bruke rettsapparatet til krigføring mot palestinske synspunkter og aktører.

Ved trussel om rettssak truer man både med å skvise motstandere for penger og man får oppmerksomhet.

Dette har lenge pågått i USA ... men nå tar MIFF i bruk samme metode i Norge.
Man truer CappelenDamm med rettssak om innholdet i en av forlagets skolebøker, se Kilde.

Lawfare er blitt så omfattende at det er undervisning om dette ved Univeristetet i Bergen, se Kilde.
"Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change."

Kanskje Universitetet i Bergen skulle se nærmere på krigføring mot norske lærebøker?

Skudeneshavn   3. april 2022

Jan Marton Jensen 

På Twitter:

26. juli 2022
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1552036665090269187

 

Ny Info:

12. juli 2022
https://miff.no/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/kjennelse-MIFF-Cappelen-Damm.pdf

 

Kilde:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawfare_Project

29. mars 2022
https://miff.no/norge-og-israel/2022/03/29miff-krever-at-cappelen-damm-trekker-anti-israelsk-laereverk-varsler-rettssak.htm

Undervisning i Lawfare ved Universitetet i Bergen, pågående kurs:
https://www.uib.no/en/course/AORG908 

28. september 2021
https://charityandsecurity.org/csn-reports/the-alarming-rise-of-lawfare-to-suppress-civil-society-the-case-of-palestine-and-israel/