| After OneCoin Trial Tweets Named Alex
Ortega Inner City Press Follows Trail to
Latin America
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
BBC
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Source
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 1 – As Inner City
Press covered the OneCoin
trial this month, a number of
names of indicted
co-conspirators emerged on
which we are now following up.
One of
them was Amer Abdulaziz
Salman, whom Inner City Press
exclusively exposed, see
below. Now we turn to an even
shadowier person named as a
money launderer: Alex Ortega.
See Inner City Press Nov 6
tweet here.
Inner City Press can now
report that his full name is
Alexandro Marco Vinicio Ortega
Mejia, a
director of One
Network
Servicos
Brazil LTDA
and Network
One Servicos
Eireli
(Brazil) - the
country in
which he was
mentioned at
the Mark Scott
trial as money
laundering in
- and also a
director of SERVICIOS DE
EDUCACION ONLINE, S.A. (Panama)
and One Life Servicios
República Dominicana.
The bank
accounts in Brazil:
Bank:
ITAÚ Bank Bank
account
holder:
Network One
Servicos
CNPJ (company
ID number):
24.064.905/0001-93
Ag: 6328
CC: 14440-4
Bank:
Banco Do Brasil Bank account
holder: Network One
Servicos CNPJ (company
ID number): 24.064.905/0001-93
Ag: 1744-2 CC:
23,548-2
Bank: Caixa
Economica Bank account holder:
Network One Servicos CNPJ
(company ID number):
24.064.905/0001-93 Ag:
2995 Op: 003 CC:
00001361-8
So why is
the US Attorney for the SDNY
withholding the exhibits,
which has made Inner City
Press file a FOIA request? And
what have the regulators been
doing?
More on Patreon here.
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As Inner City Press
exclusively reported on
November 6, surprise
cooperating witness Konstantin
Ignatov brought up Amer
Abdulaziz during his
testimony, live-tweeted
@InnerCityPress, and see here.
On
November 24 those tweets were
used without any credit in a
derivative article by the
Racing Post's Peter Scargill -
apparently dodginess pervades
this part of the industry.
Inner City
Press has been contacted from
Dubai of Sheikh Mohammed bin
Rashid al Maktoum, from Amer
Abdulaziz's native Bahrain and
elsewhere by whistleblowers in
the horse racing industry,
with extensive information
about Amer Abdulaziz's
previous schemes and sudden
windfall with OneCoin money.
After some delay, and not
insubstantial humiliation for
Ajay Anne with his connections
to Dubai Sheikh Mohammed's
Darley and the repeat promise
that an Abu Dhabi sheikh was
coming in, investment in
Abdulaziz by OneCoin and Ruja
Ignatova occurred.
As we've previously noted,
through his Phoenix fund, Amer
Abdulaziz has been buying up
thoroughbred horses. Among
those he's worked with, and
with whom authorities may wish
to speak and even play
lets-make-a-deal are not only
Ajay Anne but also (why not?)
Sheikh Mohammed, Tom Ludt and,
having broken with Phoenix
Thoroughbreds as with her
husband who trained all the
horses, Kerri Radcliffe.
As to
Dubai and the UAE and Inner
City Press' ongoing focus on
the regulatory failures that
allowed all this, including
OneCoin, after the disgrace of
Abraaj with its SDNY
connections and the real
failings of DIFC/DFSA (Dubai's
offshore center and
regulator), the fact that Amer
Abdulaziz managed to open up
companies under their
jurisdiction should be
something that Dubai should be
ashamed of - and should be
noted and acted on by
supra-national regulatory
bodies. More on Patreon here.
Phoenix
Thoroughbred's horses have
included "Advertise," the son
of Showcasing, set to begin a
stallion career projected to
be lucrative at the National
Stud in New Market in 2020.
But is it
all based on money laundering
for OneCoin? And what of the
royals who have been linked
in, not only Queen Elizabeth
through the Jockey Club but
also the al Thani family of
Qatar, the Saudi royals and
the the Maktoum family of
Dubai, whom some sources tell
Inner City Press have harbored
Ruja Ignatova herself . We'll
have more on this. More on
Patreon here.
This is the
ninth in an Inner City Press
series. More on Patreon here.
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