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The director of investments for the Iraqi Secret Service under the regime of authoritarian leader Saddam Hussein. Al-Dulaimi, who handled overseas investments on behalf of the intelligence agency, was sanctioned by the United States in 1992, and by the United Nations in 2004. Dulaimi’s legal representative commented to OCCRP that its inquiry was “old news” and “not accurate.”
The son of one of a group of officers led by Muammar Gaddafi that overthrew Libya’s monarchy and took power in 1969.
Hamedi is president of the International Organization for Peace, Care and Relief, which the UNHCR once described in press releases as its “main partner in Libya on ensuring protection for refugees and asylum-seekers.” In regional media, he has also been an outspoken defender of Gaddafi and his father, el-Khweldi el-Hamedi, who have both been accused of human rights abuses and large-scale corruption.
Hamedi’s father’s rank in the Libyan military, his close relationship to Gaddafi, and his alleged role in the bloody crackdown on protests, raised the ire of NATO.
King Abdulla II Bin al Hussein and Queen Rania Al Abdullah
Political
Jordan
CHF 230,278,386
Jordan’s monarch since 1999, the authoritarian King Abdullah II has used wide-ranging executive powers to crack down on free speech and political opposition following accusations of corruption at home.
Last year’s Pandora Papers investigation revealed how the monarch funneled US$100 million through secret companies to buy luxury real estate in the U.K. and U.S. Abdullah’s wife, Queen Rania, also held an account with at least 39.1 million Swiss francs.
The royal family’s lawyers said the “relevant accounts are used for the acquisition of assets, investments, operational and personal expenses and general disbursements, including the funding of certain royal initiatives” and that the king and queen “have never extracted, in any manner, funds from the Treasury, public assets, international assistance or government budget to accounts situated abroad or for his personal enrichment.”
The former president of state-owned Banco Industrial de Venezuela was sanctioned by the U.S. for his role in a $2.4 billion bribery scheme, run through a controversial currency exchange program. The U.S. Treasury Department described him as a financial “front man” for corrupt Venezuelan officials.
He has also been suspected of laundering money on behalf of a Colombian terror group, and was a politically-exposed person (PEP) long before he first opened his accounts.
Known as LAFICO, the state-owned fund oversaw the Libyan government’s investments inside and outside of the country.
It was widely understood to be controlled by the family of Muammar Gaddafi before his downfall, and over the years reportedly acquired minority shares in the Italian Juventus football club, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and the carmaker Fiat.
The former financial director of La Electricidad de Caracas, a subsidiary of Venezuela’s state oil firm PDVSA.
In 2017, he was arrested in Spain and extradited to the U.S. for his role in a sprawling bribery scheme within PDVSA. He pleaded guilty to receiving kickbacks from businessmen in return for assistance and state contracts. He was also charged that same year in Andorra for laundering the proceeds through Banca Privada d’Andorra.
A Libyan oil tycoon who funded lobbying efforts that helped promote the Gaddafi regime, implicated in corruption allegations in Jordan and Venezuela.
His highest-value account, which he denies ever having, was worth roughly half a billion dollars in 2010, a year before the Libyan uprising. Since then he’s also supported the campaign of a renegade general opposed to Libya’s U.N.-recognized government, and announced plans to run for president himself.
Counting presidents from Africa to Latin America amongst his friends, this Portuguese businessman based in Angola billed his venture Escom as a point of contact for nations and international entities looking to invest in Africa. With success has come scrutiny, in several corruption probes across Europe. He is also a close associate of Álvaro Sobrinho, suspected of laundering money while serving as head of an Escom-linked bank in Angola.
According to Portuguese newspaper Expresso, the pair shared a company engaged in $1.6 billion worth of irregular transactions and loans. They also shared three accounts at Credit Suisse.
Bataglia told OCCRP that he had closed all of his accounts with Credit Suisse by 2021, but denied having shared accounts with Sobrinho.
When Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos was toppled in 1986, having stolen up to $10 billion in state funds over two decades, he fled to Hawaii. There he enlisted the help of a lawyer, Helen Ann Teodoro Rivilla, to launder $3 million on his behalf through Honolulu banks over a period of two years. The U.S. indicted both her and her husband, Antonio C.M. Rivilla.
The Rivillas’ names appear on two accounts in the data: one whose maximum balance was over 8 million francs, shared between Antonio and seven other people surnamed Rivilla, and a smaller one holding just under 180,000 Swiss francs shared between Helen and Antonio Rivilla.
Hussein Salem
Political
Egypt
CHF 104,780,404
Egyptian tycoon with longtime ties to intelligence agencies and the ruling Mubarak family. Hussein Salem’s name had become a byword for cronyism and corruption by the time of the Arab Spring.
At least a dozen Credit Suisse accounts were opened in his name, despite public corruption scandals dating back to the early 1980s.
Long-time secretary general of Uzbekistan’s Tennis Federation.
In 2005, Shepelev was awarded the “Order of Friendship” for “courage in defense of national interests” among other achievements, by then-President Islam Karimov. The order listed him as an employee of the State Security Service.
Nothing else is known about his work within the service — which has been accused of gross violations of human rights.
Taiwanese politician who served as secretary-general of Taiwan’s Kuomintang Party (KMT) and has played a prominent role in Taiwanese politics throughout the past 30 years. Today he leads his own party, and mounted an unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 2020.
The KMT took him to court claiming he embezzled millions of dollars of the party’s funds, though the charges were eventually dropped. Later, Soong was accused by a former French foreign minister of receiving kickbacks from a 1991 navy procurement deal, signed while he was secretary-general of the KMT. He denied corruption and no actual proof of his involvement was ever found.
The head of the customs office in the border town of Brod was placed under investigation and detained for corruption in connection to a crime ring that included the customs authorities.
According to the state prosecutor, the scheme to fake invoices of imports into Bosnia and Herzegovina cost the state budget 153 million euros. The alleged scheme ran all the way to the top of the national tax authority.
José Filomeno dos Santos
Political
Angola
CHF 18,255,265
The son of Angolan dictator José Eduardo dos Santos, José Filomino was appointed head of Fundo Soberano de Angola (FSDEA), Angola’s $5 billion sovereign wealth fund, at just 35 years old.
After his father’s notoriously corrupt 38-year rule came to an end in 2017, José Filomino was sentenced to five years in prison in Angola for embezzling $500 million from FSDEA in a scheme involving transfers to a Credit Suisse account in London.
During World War II, when Leningrad was besieged by the Germans, Vladimir Putin’s mother fell ill. Medics wanted to take her away – not to take her to the hospital, but because they believed she would soon be dead. But Putin’s father stopped the paramedics, and he nursed his wife until she was well. “She lived until 1999. He died at the end of 1998,” the Russian president wrote in an article that appeared in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.”
A Georgian woman named Vera Putina, born in 1926, claims to be Vladimir Putin’s mother. Her “Vova,” as she called the boy, was born on October 7, 1950, illegitimately – the child’s father was already married and never met his son.
When Vera Putina married herself a few years later, the problems began: Her husband did not accept his stepson, so “Vova” grew up with his grandparents. At the age of nine, they also passed him on to a childless couple to whom they were distantly related: Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin and Maria Ivanovna Putina. Officially, these two are Putin’s biological parents. According to Vera Putina, they moved to Leningrad with the boy, registered him with the authorities, and in the process had his birth certificate changed.
This story is already 15 years old; Vera Putina told it in January 2000 to a Chechen named Rustam Daudov, who was working at the Chechen representative office in Tbilisi at the time. A Russian journalist to whom Daudov was about to hand over the video containing Putin’s testimony died on the way to Tbilisi – his plane crashed in March 2000 after taking off from Moscow. An Italian journalist to whom Daudov gave a copy of his video was murdered in October 2000. Three years later, a Rustam Daudov was shot dead in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku – another Daudov, a namesake.
As mentioned in the beginning, the Chechen Rustam Daudov contacted Vera Putina. Several times he traveled to her place and filmed her statements. Again and again he tried to get the video out to the public. Time and again, major reporting was prevented:
► In March 2000, investigative reporter Artyom Borovik mysteriously died in an airplane accident. He was on his way to Tbilisi to meet with Daudov and watch the video.
► That same month, Daudov offered the story to the major daily newspaper “Türkiye” and to a Turkish television station. His hope: if the story made it big abroad, the Russian press would finally start reporting it, too. Immediately after it was printed, Daudov recounts, the Russian Embassy in Istanbul tried to prevent the broadcast. If the news ran on television, the major project on the Blue Stream gas pipeline would be canceled, the diplomats are said to have threatened. The broadcast was not shown. Putin won the presidential election.
► On October 15, 2000, Italian war reporter Antonio Russo met Daudov, got a copy of the video from him. A day later his body was found, his death was never properly solved. His computer and the videotape were stolen from his hotel room. Two Italian investigators, with interference from Russian intelligence, were expelled shortly after arriving in Georgia. The two Georgian police officers investigating Russo’s case died under strange circumstances (suicide and poisoning).
► In September 2003, Daudov himself came into the investigators’ sights. Russian television showed his photo and reported that he had been killed in a robbery-murder. Yet Daudov was alive! Presumably, he told Time later in an interview, a namesake was murdered. After this incident, the United Nations helped him and his family to leave Georgia and get a residence permit abroad. Today Daudov lives in the West, wishing to remain anonymous for security reasons.
The murders are not the only oddities. In February, Dobbert himself went to Metechi, the village near Tbilisi where Vera Putina still lives. One of her daughters prevented the German journalist from speaking to her. “She is not allowed to tell anything anymore. She has been forbidden to talk to journalists,” said the woman, who could be Putin’s half-sister. Russian-Georgian relations are strained: the two countries went to war in 2008, and Russia also supports breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
A few years ago, two men and two women came and took blood from her mother, Vera Putina’s daughter recounted. She is sure that these people came from the Russian secret service. She never heard from them again. Even without a blood test, she is convinced that her mother’s story is true. “Nobody here doubts that Vladimir Putin is our mother’s son.”
Algeria’s longest-serving president, leading the country from 1999 until his 2019 resignation following months of mass protest against his appointment for a fifth term. His rule was marred by allegations of fraud and vote-tampering at successive elections.
A major pillar of former Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad’s rule, Khaddam served in high-level government posts from 1970 until 2005, first as foreign minister and then vice president.
During this time, Assad’s regime routinely engaged in human rights violations and persecuted political opponents. Associated with the regime’s rampant corruption, Khaddam helped oversee Syria’s brutal occupation of Lebanon, which ended in 2005.
Florida-based businessman who pleaded guilty to bribing Venezuelan officials in order to win rigged bids for state contracts with Venezuela’s oil company PDVSA, together with his business partner Roberto Enrique Rincón Fernández.
Shiera was a beneficiary of seven Credit Suisse accounts. Three of which appeared to have remained open after his 2015 arrest.
A powerful official in the government of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, accused of embezzling billions of dollars during the two decades he spent as head of the state-run Organization for Development of Administrative Centers.
Ali Ibrahim Dabaiba held at least one Credit Suisse account during this period. It remained open until August 2012, months after Gaddafi was deposed. At least four of his family members and business associates also had accounts with the bank, some of which stayed open for several years after that. One joint account, held by Dabaiba’s son and a Costa Rican company, reached a maximum balance worth over 18 million Swiss francs.
A close associate of Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, energy mogul Aleksin burst onto Belarus’ business scene in 2012, just after a cadre of senior oligarchs were sanctioned in response to the regime’s brutal crackdowns on political protest. Part of Aleksin’s fortune was stashed in Credit Suisse that same year.
In 2021, the European Union and United States finally blacklisted Aleksin as well, describing him as one of Lukashenko’s “wallets.”
Alubaf International Bank Tunis
Sanctioned
Tunisia
CHF 35,720,294
As subsidiary of the state-owned Libyan Arab Foreign Bank, Alubaf International Bank’s Tunisia branch was named in three rounds of U.S. sanctions.
The former head of Portuguese bank Banco Espirito Santo’s subsidiary in Angola, suspected of laundering funds from a $5.7-billion fraudulent loan scheme.
Sobrinho had a dozen corporate accounts with Credit Suisse, several of which stayed open until at least 2015, when he was already publicly known to be under investigation in Switzerland and Portugal.
A son of Azerbaijan’s former Minister of National Security, Eldar Mahmudov, who was dismissed from his post in 2015 after a spectacular fall from grace. Although Mahmudov worked as a government official for his entire career, his family controls a business and property empire across Europe worth over 100 million euros, a 2020 OCCRP investigation found.
In 2015, a few days after his father’s sacking, Anar Mahmudov closed his corporate bank account at Credit Suisse. A few months later, he also closed his personal account.
Anas Ahmed Nabih El-Fekky
Criminal
Egypt
CHF 3,045,763
A former information minister and key ally of deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Fekky’s foreign assets were targeted over allegations of corruption in the aftermath of the so-called Arab Spring. He was subsequently convicted by an Egyptian court for squandering state funds and sent to prison. After years of retrials and appeals, his conviction was upheld in March 2021.
Accused money launderer for Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta organized crime group.
Italian prosecutors believed Velardo, along with a convicted Irish Republican Army bomber, swindled investors in an Italian seaside development built by the ‘Ndrangheta. Another partner in the seized venture, named Jewel of the Sea, was a member of the ‘Ndrangheta’s powerful Morabito clan.
Armenia’s president until his abrupt resignation in January 2022, shortly before OCCRP member center Hetq revealed that he had secretly obtained citizenship in the Caribbean island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis.
Sarkissian began his political career in the 1990s, serving as Armenia’s first post-Soviet ambassador to the U.K. and, briefly, prime minister, before leaving politics to work as an adviser for multinational corporations including British Petroleum (BP) and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
On being reappointed ambassador to the U.K. in 2013, Sarkissian did not declare funds he held in a Credit Suisse account that was open between 2006 and 2016, as was required by law. He told OCCRP that he took on the role on a “pro bono” basis and so it was unclear whether the rules applied in such circumstances.
Bank Mellat
Sanctioned
Iran
CHF 95,039,964
The partially state-owned Iranian commercial Bank Mellat has been sanctioned by the U.S. for its role in supporting Iran’s nuclear proliferation program. Bank Mellat circumvented those sanctions and gained access to US dollar markets by hiding behind companies controlled by infamous Turkish-Iranian money launderer Reza Zarrab.
Bayartsogt Sangajav
Political
Mongolia
CHF 7,874,819
Former Mongolian finance minister, investigated in Switzerland for opening Credit Suisse bank accounts that received bribes from other Mongolian politicians, allegedly relating to an investment deal for major gold and copper mine, Oyu Tolgoi.
In 2020, Sangajav was reportedly convicted of taking kickbacks from the mining project and laundering the proceeds by a Mongolian court. He was reportedly sentenced to 10 years in prison, before being released last year.
Bo Stefan Sederholm
Criminal
Sweden
CHF 229,554
One of two Swedes who were reportedly jailed for life for violating Philippines’ human trafficking laws. The pair had run a cybersex den catering to foreigners in the tiny Philippine town of Kauswagan where online customers could watch livestreamed sex acts, often of an abusive nature.
A representative for Sederholm said Credit Suisse never froze his accounts and did not close them until 2013 when he was unable to provide due diligence material. Asked why Sederholm needed a Swiss account, they said that he was living in Thailand when it was opened, adding: “Can you please tell me if you would prefer to put your money in a Thai or Swiss bank?”
Bojan Krišto
Political
Serbia
CHF 1,938,267
The former manager of the Serbian state lottery and Deputy Prime Minister’s cabinet member, he is charged with embezzlement while serving as the director of Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Airport. He is accused of changing the company’s internal rulebook to allow salary increases, thus allowing himself to dish out excessive salaries and bonuses to himself and other management.
Krišto told OCCRP that the foreign funds were acquired before his state appointments, and partly before his birth, through his family’s business activities across Europe.
Branislav Bogićević
Investigated
Serbia
CHF 4,607,539
The manager of Minaqua, a bottled water brand that dominates almost a fifth of Serbia’s market. More than a century old, it was privatized in 1999 and his family became the majority shareholders. Ever since, he has faced trial numerous times for alleged economic crimes and fraud that have taken place at the company.
Carlos Eduardo Kauffman Ramírez
Criminal
Venezuela
CHF 8,868,204
U.S.-based businessman and former racecar driver convicted for his role in an elaborate plot to obscure the government of Venezuela as the source of a $800,000 cash contribution to the Argentine presidential campaign to then-candidate Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
Dariga Nazarbayeva
Political
Kazakhstan
CHF 21,611,765
Eldest daughter of Kazakhstan’s authoritarian ruler Nursultan Nazarbayev. As well as performing opera, Nazarbayeva has founded her own political party and become an MP and deputy prime minister, as well as speaker of the Senate.
After Nazarbayeva’s husband was charged, intially with kidnapping and then later the murder of two executives at a bank he controlled in 2007, she and her son took over his stake, swelling her considerable fortune. In 2013, Forbes named her on its list of 50 richest Kazakhs with assets of US$595 million which included a major media holding.
Dragutin Pihler
Investigated
Serbia
CHF 2,047,442
Director of the Moscow office of the Serbian architectural firm Centroprojekt. He and other company officials were investigated by Serbian authorities for financial crime on suspicion that they embezzled 6.5 million euros. The scheme, which ran from 2005 to 2008, involved falsifying documents in order to redirect payments destined for Centroprojekt – at the time a state-owned firm – to an identically-named private firm incorporated by the suspects.
Pihler told OCCRP’s partner KRIK that the funds in his Swiss account are savings that he legally earned in Russia, and were deposited into a Credit Suisse investment account in order to accrue income on his capital.
Eduard Seidel
Criminal
Germany
CHF 54,535,616
The managing director for the Nigerian operation of German industrial conglomerate Siemens, which was fined a combined $1.34 billion for bribery in 2008. Over two decades Seidel bribed Nigerian officials in order to win contracts for Siemens.
Although allegations that he had been part of the Siemens bribery scandal in Nigeria were first reported in 2007, two of Seidel’s six accounts — both of which were jointly owned with his wife — remained open for at least almost 10 more years.
A longtime official who has served as mayor or deputy mayor of several cities in Azerbaijan and districts of its capital, Baku. He is currently Baku’s mayor. Azizov is known for a number of controversial actions, including using municipal funds to pay for extremely long cakes for President Ilham Aliyev’s birthday.
While Azizov was mayor of Ganja, a corporate bank account was opened at Credit Suisse of which he, his wife, and his daughter were beneficiaries. His son held power of attorney. It’s unclear what kind of company the family might have had, but Azerbaijani law prohibits state officials from engaging in business.
Gamal and Alaa Mubarak
Political
Egypt
CHF 277,220,932
Sons of Egypt’s long-ruling President Hosni Mubarak, the two brothers and their allies prospered from the liberalization of the country’s economy — a policy effort led by Gamal himself. After the Arab Spring revolt of 2011, the two were charged in multiple corruption cases, although many were later dropped.
Their lawyers told OCCRP that neither Swiss nor Egyptian investigations have found any evidence of suspicious activity in their Swiss assets.
A long-serving former chief of Yemen’s intelligence services and a key enforcer for former strongman leader Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Al-Qamish has been accused of overseeing abduction and torture as part of the U.S.’s extraordinary rendition program. Qamish’s official salary was estimated to be not more than $5,000 a month, but sources say he had “an open budget made up of millions of dollars” to spend as he pleased.”
A former ally of Pope Francis who made history as the first Vatican cardinal to be tried on criminal charges by a civil court. Nine others are also accused of crimes including extortion, embezzlement, money laundering and abuse of office. Prosecutors allege that the ring lost 350 million euros of church funds on a scandal-ridden London property venture, and also that Becciu funneled Vatican funds to his brothers’ businesses in Sardinia.
Court documents say this Credit Suisse account, which belonged to the Vatican and listed Becciu amongst its four signatories of the account, was used in the embezzlement. Becciu’s legal representatives declined to comment on the account and told OCCRP that the Cardinal will answer to the court. They added that his brothers’ business was a charity, and maintained his innocence.
“Correction: This profile has been corrected to clarify that the account was state-owned and that the charges were filed against others.”
Gulrukh Tillyaeva
Political
Uzbekistan
CHF 2,226,946
An aunt of Timur Tillyaev, whose wife Lola Karimova is the daughter of Uzbekistan’s former dictatorial president Islam Karimov. Tillyaeva shares her Credit Suisse account with Nikita Kalinichenko, who media reports say was her husband and ran Abu Sahiy, one of the largest trading centers in Central Asia, as a frontman for Tillyaev.
The East German intelligence agency, commonly known as the Stasi, was notorious for its vast network of spies and informants during the Cold War era. Some of the top East German spies include:
Markus Wolf: Known as the “master spy,” Wolf was the chief of the foreign intelligence division of the Stasi. He is considered to be one of the most successful intelligence agents of the Cold War and was responsible for numerous operations in the West.
Werner Stiller: Stiller was a high-ranking officer in the Stasi who defected to the West in 1979. He provided valuable information about the Stasi’s operations and was instrumental in uncovering the identity of several other East German spies.
Günter Guillaume: Guillaume was an East German spy who infiltrated the inner circle of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. He was ultimately exposed and arrested, which led to Brandt’s resignation in 1974.
Harry Tisch: Tisch was a top-level Stasi operative who infiltrated the East German Communist Party. He later became a member of the party’s Politburo and played a key role in East German politics until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Rainer Rupp: Rupp was an East German spy who infiltrated NATO in the 1980s. He provided the Stasi with valuable information about NATO’s military strategy and plans.
It’s important to note that these individuals were involved in activities that violated the privacy and security of others, and their actions were often unethical or illegal.
The world of espionage has always been shrouded in mystery and intrigue. From the famous double agents of the Cold War to the modern-day cyber spies, the field of espionage has seen some of the most fascinating characters in history. In this article, we will take a look at the top 100 spies of all time, based on their impact on history, their skills and accomplishments, and their level of notoriety.
Kim Philby – One of the most famous Soviet double agents in history, Philby was a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring during the Cold War.
Mata Hari – A Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan, Hari was executed by the French during World War I for allegedly spying for Germany.
Aldrich Ames – A CIA agent who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia in the 1980s and 1990s.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg – American citizens who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and executed in 1953.
James Bond – While not a real person, the fictional British spy created by Ian Fleming has become an icon in popular culture.
Robert Hanssen – An FBI agent who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia from 1979 to 2001.
Richard Sorge – A Soviet spy who worked undercover in Japan during World War II and provided crucial intelligence to the Soviet Union.
Sydney Reilly – A British spy who operated in the early 20th century and was known as the “Ace of Spies.”
Virginia Hall – An American spy who worked for the British Special Operations Executive and the American Office of Strategic Services during World War II.
Juan Pujol García – A Spanish spy who worked for both the Allies and the Germans during World War II, and was awarded both the Iron Cross and the MBE.
Klaus Fuchs – A German-born physicist who spied for the Soviet Union during the Manhattan Project.
Nathan Hale – A American spy during the Revolutionary War who famously declared, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Oleg Gordievsky – A KGB officer who defected to the United Kingdom in 1985 and provided valuable intelligence to the West.
Harold “Kim” Philby Jr. – Another member of the Cambridge Five spy ring, Philby worked for both MI6 and the KGB during his career.
Markus Wolf – The head of East Germany’s foreign intelligence agency during the Cold War, Wolf was known as “the man without a face.”
Sidney George Reilly – An early 20th-century British spy who was rumored to have been the inspiration for James Bond.
William Donovan – The head of the American Office of Strategic Services during World War II, Donovan is considered the “father of modern American intelligence.”
Ashraf Marwan – An Egyptian businessman who worked as a spy for both Israel and Egypt during the Yom Kippur War.
Harry Houdini – While primarily known as an escape artist, Houdini also worked as a spy for the American government during World War I.
Mataeo Ilic – A Croatian spy who worked for the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II and was responsible for the assassination of a German general.
Roald Dahl – The British author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach also worked as a spy for MI6 during World War II.
Frank Abagnale Jr. – A former con artist who worked as a consultant for the FBI and other government agencies, Abagnale’s story was famously told in the film Catch Me If You Can.
Alexander Litvinenko:Alexander Litvinenko was a former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) who fled to the United Kingdom in 2000 and became a British citizen. He was known for his criticism of the FSB and its operations, and for his allegations of corruption and human rights abuses within the Russian governmet. In 2006, Litvinenko became ill after meeting with two former KGB agents in a London hotel. He was eventually diagnosed with poisoning by radioactive polonium-210 and died a few weeks later. Litvinenko’s death was investigated by British authorities, and it was determined that he had been deliberately poisoned. The investigation led to a diplomatic dispute between the UK and Russia, with the UK accusing Russia of involvement in Litvinenko’s murder. In 2016, a public inquiry in the UK concluded that there was strong evidence that the Russian government was involved in Litvinenko’s death, and that his murder was probably approved by President Vladimir Putin. The Russian government has denied any involvement in Litvinenko’s death.
James Armistead Lafayette – a slave who was recruited as a spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, Lafayette was able to provide critical intelligence to General Lafayette, which helped to secure the victory
“The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings…Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe…no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of “clear and present danger,” then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent…For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.” ― President John F. Kennedy
Throughout history, there have been numerous secret societies that have captured the imagination of people all over the world. These groups often operate outside of the mainstream, keeping their activities and goals hidden from the public eye. Some are shrouded in mystery and intrigue, while others have been the subject of conspiracy theories and speculation.
Secret societies can be traced back to ancient times, with groups like the Eleusinian Mysteries in Greece and the Mithraic Mysteries in Rome. These groups were shrouded in secrecy, with members swearing oaths of secrecy and participating in elaborate rituals. The purpose of these groups is not entirely clear, but it is believed that they served as a way for members to bond over shared beliefs and practices.
In more recent times, secret societies have taken on a more political or philosophical focus. One of the most well-known secret societies is the Illuminati, which was founded in Bavaria in the 18th century. The group claimed to be dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and enlightenment, but they were also accused of subversive activities and plotting to overthrow governments.
The Freemasons are another secret society that has been the subject of much speculation and intrigue. The organization was founded in the 17th century, and its members include many influential figures throughout history, such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. Freemasonry is often associated with symbolism and ritual, but its exact purpose and goals remain unclear.
Another secret society that has gained attention in recent years is the Bilderberg Group. This organization brings together influential figures from politics, business, and academia for an annual conference. The group is known for its secretive nature and has been accused of manipulating world events to further its own agenda.
The Knights Templar is another secret society that has captured the imagination of people for centuries. The organization was founded in the 12th century during the Crusades and was initially tasked with protecting Christian pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land. The Knights Templar were known for their military prowess and became incredibly wealthy and influential. However, they were eventually disbanded by the Catholic Church, and their members were persecuted and executed.
One of the most infamous secret societies in history is the Thule Society, which was founded in Germany in the early 20th century. The group was deeply interested in the occult and believed in the superiority of the Aryan race. Many of its members went on to become prominent members of the Nazi Party, and it is believed that the Thule Society played a significant role in shaping Nazi ideology.
In more recent times, secret societies have taken on a more lighthearted tone. The Order of the Phoenix is a fictional secret society in the Harry Potter series, dedicated to fighting against the evil Lord Voldemort. The show “Rick and Morty” has the “Citadel of Ricks,” a secret society of different versions of the character Rick, existing in a different dimension.
While secret societies can be fascinating to study and speculate about, their true purpose and goals remain shrouded in secrecy. Some believe that these groups are simply a way for like-minded individuals to come together and bond over shared beliefs and practices, while others see them as a way to manipulate and control society for their own gain. Regardless of their true nature, secret societies continue to captivate our imaginations and intrigue us with their mystery and secrecy.
Knights Templar
The Knights Templar is a medieval Christian military order that was founded in the 12th century during the Crusades. The order’s original purpose was to protect Christian pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land, but they quickly became known for their military prowess and eventually became one of the most powerful and wealthy organizations of the time.
The Knights Templar were initially founded by a French knight named Hugues de Payens, who along with eight other knights, vowed to protect pilgrims traveling to Jerusalem. The order was granted official recognition by the Catholic Church in 1129 and was given various privileges, including the right to collect taxes and the right to build their own churches.
The Knights Templar quickly grew in power and wealth, acquiring land, property, and assets throughout Europe and the Middle East. They became known for their military prowess, and their fighting skills were highly respected by their enemies. The order was also involved in banking and finance, and their efficient banking system made them incredibly wealthy.
However, the Knights Templar’s power and wealth eventually led to their downfall. The order’s leaders were accused of heresy and other crimes, and they were persecuted by the Catholic Church and the King of France. In 1307, the Knights Templar were disbanded, and many of their members were tortured and executed.
The Knights Templar have since become the subject of many myths and legends, with many people believing that the order was involved in various secret societies and occult practices. Some even believe that the Knights Templar possessed hidden knowledge or artifacts, such as the Holy Grail or the Ark of the Covenant.
Today, the legacy of the Knights Templar lives on in various ways. The order has been romanticized in literature and film, and their symbols and iconography continue to be used in modern culture. Many secret societies and organizations, such as the Freemasons, have been influenced by the Knights Templar, and they continue to capture the imagination of people all over the world.
“Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something.” ― Dejan Stojanovic
The Bilderberg Group is an annual invitation-only conference attended by approximately 130 participants from North America and Europe, including political leaders, business executives, journalists, and academics. The meetings are closed to the public, and the discussions are off the record.
The group was founded in 1954 by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, with the aim of promoting cooperation between Europe and North America. The conference takes its name from the Hotel de Bilderberg in the Netherlands, where the first meeting was held.
Critics of the group allege that it is a secretive organization that exerts undue influence over global affairs, but supporters argue that it provides a valuable forum for discussing important issues in a private and informal setting. The group has been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories, with some suggesting that it is part of a shadowy global elite that controls world events.
The Bilderberg Group has been the subject of controversy and speculation for decades, with some viewing it as a secretive and powerful organization that works behind the scenes to shape global affairs. However, others argue that it is simply a forum for discussing important issues in a private and informal setting. Regardless of one’s perspective on the group, it remains an influential and closely-watched organization.
The Eleusinian Mysteries were a religious initiation ceremony held annually in ancient Greece at the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore (Persephone) in the city of Eleusis, near Athens. The mysteries were dedicated to the goddess Demeter and her daughter Kore, also known as Persephone, who was abducted by Hades and taken to the underworld.
The exact nature of the Eleusinian Mysteries is not known, as the initiates were bound by secrecy and were not allowed to reveal what they experienced during the ceremony. However, it is believed that the mysteries involved a ritualized reenactment of the myth of Demeter and Persephone, and that the initiates were promised eternal life and happiness in the afterlife.
The mysteries were open to both men and women, and initiates came from all over Greece and beyond. The initiation ceremony took place over several days and included fasting, purification rites, and a procession from Athens to Eleusis. The climax of the ceremony was the revelation of the “sacred objects,” which were believed to be the key to the mysteries.
The Eleusinian Mysteries were considered to be the most important of all the Greek mystery cults and were held for over 1,500 years, from around 1500 BCE to the 4th century CE. They played a significant role in the religious and cultural life of ancient Greece and were attended by many of the most prominent figures of the time, including Plato and Cicero.
The Mithraic Mysteries were a mystery religion practiced in the Roman Empire from about the 1st to 4th centuries CE. The religion was centered on the god Mithras, who was a god of light and truth, and was often depicted slaying a bull. The religion was particularly popular among soldiers, and many Mithraic temples were located along the frontiers of the Roman Empire.
The details of the Mithraic Mysteries are not well known, as the religion was secretive and its teachings were only known to initiates. The religion had a complex hierarchy of seven grades of initiation, and each grade was associated with a different planet and had its own set of mysteries and rituals.
The central ritual of the religion was the taurobolium, in which a bull was sacrificed and the initiate stood underneath it, bathing in its blood. This was believed to purify the initiate and grant them eternal life.
The Mithraic Mysteries declined in the 4th century CE, and were eventually supplanted by Christianity as the dominant religion of the Roman Empire. Today, very little is known about the religion, as the Mithraic texts were lost and only fragments of information have survived.
The Illuminati is a secret society that originated in Bavaria, Germany, in the late 18th century. The group was founded on May 1, 1776, by a Bavarian law professor named Adam Weishaupt. The Illuminati aimed to promote Enlightenment ideals and to oppose religious influence over public life.
Weishaupt believed that society was in need of a new world order, which he believed the Illuminati could bring about through its secretive activities. The group was made up of intellectuals and freethinkers who believed in the power of reason and science.
The Illuminati’s goals were not necessarily nefarious, but their secretive nature and perceived influence over political and social events has led to many conspiracy theories about the group. Some people believe that the Illuminati still exists today and is involved in controlling world events from behind the scenes.
However, there is no concrete evidence to support these theories, and most historians believe that the Bavarian Illuminati disbanded in the late 18th century due to government crackdowns and internal divisions.
Freemasonry is a fraternal organization that traces its origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which existed in the Middle Ages. Today, Freemasonry is a worldwide organization that includes men and women from all walks of life who are united by a commitment to self-improvement, charity, and community service.
One of the defining characteristics of Freemasonry is its use of symbols and rituals to convey moral and ethical teachings. Members progress through a series of degrees, each of which involves learning new symbols and teachings, and taking part in various ritual ceremonies. These degrees are conferred within a lodge, which is the basic organizational unit of Freemasonry.
Another defining characteristic of Freemasonry is its emphasis on brotherhood and mutual support. Members are expected to help one another, both within the lodge and in the wider community. Many lodges engage in charitable work, and some have established their own charitable foundations.
Freemasonry has been the subject of much speculation and conspiracy theory over the years, with some people alleging that it is involved in secret plots and power struggles. However, most Masons maintain that their organization is simply a fraternal society dedicated to personal and social improvement, and that any allegations of nefarious activity are unfounded.
The Thule Society was a secret society founded in Germany in 1918, shortly after the end of World War I. The group was named after the mythical northern land of Thule, which was believed to be the ancient homeland of the Aryan race. The Thule Society was interested in Germanic mythology, the occult, and the esoteric, and its members sought to promote these beliefs.
The Thule Society was one of many secret societies that emerged in Germany in the early 20th century, and it played a role in the development of the Nazi Party. Some members of the Thule Society, including its leader, Rudolf von Sebottendorff, later joined the Nazi Party and played important roles in the formation of the party’s ideology.
The Thule Society’s beliefs in the superiority of the Aryan race and the need for a strong, authoritarian government were embraced by the Nazis, and some historians argue that the society’s ideology played a significant role in the rise of the Nazi Party and the development of Nazi policies. However, the precise extent of the Thule Society’s influence on the Nazi Party remains a matter of debate among historians.
The Bohemian Grove is a private club located in Monte Rio, California. It is known for hosting a two-week long annual summer retreat for some of the world’s most influential political and business leaders, as well as artists and other high-profile individuals.
The club was founded in 1872 as a gathering place for artists, writers, and musicians, and it has since evolved into a more exclusive club with membership limited to male individuals from a select group of industries and professions.
The Bohemian Grove’s most notable event is the “Cremation of Care” ceremony, which takes place at the beginning of the summer retreat. The ceremony involves a symbolic effigy being burned in front of a large owl statue, and it is said to represent the members’ release from the cares and concerns of the outside world.
The Bohemian Grove has attracted controversy over the years, with some people claiming that the exclusive nature of the club and the secretive nature of its events are cause for concern. However, the club maintains that it is simply a gathering place for like-minded individuals to socialize and exchange ideas in a private setting.
“The Bohemian Grove has held secret meetings for the global elite since 1873 in a redwood forest of northern California. In addition to Republican presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, members have included James Baker, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, David Rockefeller, William Casey, and Henry Kissinger. Each year, the members don red, black, and silver robes and conduct a ritual in which they worship a giant stone owl.” ― Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World’s Two Most Powerful Dynasties
Throughout history, there have been numerous events and discoveries that have been kept hidden from the general public. These secrets are often referred to as above top secret or ATS, meaning that they are classified above the highest level of government secrecy. Some of these secrets have become well-known over time, while others continue to remain shrouded in mystery. In this article, we will discuss some of the most famous above top secrets.
Area 51
One of the most well-known ATS is Area 51, a United States Air Force facility located in Nevada. The base is surrounded by mystery and conspiracy theories, and for years, the government denied its existence. Area 51 is believed to be a testing site for experimental aircraft and weapons, but some people believe that it also houses evidence of extraterrestrial life.
The Manhattan Project
During World War II, the United States secretly developed the atomic bomb through a project known as the Manhattan Project. The project was so secret that only a handful of people knew about it, and its existence was not revealed to the public until after the war ended. The Manhattan Project is considered one of the most significant scientific achievements of the 20th century and forever changed the world’s geopolitical landscape.
The Roswell Incident
The Roswell Incident refers to an alleged UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. The United States military initially stated that the crash was a weather balloon, but many people believe that it was an extraterrestrial spacecraft. The incident has become a source of fascination for many conspiracy theorists and has been the subject of countless books, movies, and TV shows.
Operation Mockingbird
Operation Mockingbird was a secret campaign by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to influence media coverage during the Cold War. The CIA used a variety of tactics, including bribery and coercion, to control the narrative in the media. The operation was exposed in the 1970s, but its full extent is still unknown.
The Philadelphia Experiment
The Philadelphia Experiment was a supposed military experiment that took place in 1943, in which the US Navy allegedly attempted to make a ship invisible to radar. The experiment was said to have gone horribly wrong, resulting in the ship’s disappearance, time travel, and other bizarre phenomena. While there is no concrete evidence that the experiment ever took place, it has become a popular conspiracy theory.
The Vatican Archives
The Vatican Archives is a vast collection of documents and artifacts stored in the Vatican City. While some of the archives are open to researchers, many documents remain classified and inaccessible to the public. Some conspiracy theorists believe that the archives contain evidence of extraterrestrial life, lost texts from the Bible, and other secrets that the Catholic Church wants to keep hidden.
Conclusion
Above top secrets are often the subject of fascination and speculation, and they continue to capture the public’s imagination. While some of these secrets may never be fully revealed, they provide a glimpse into the shadowy world of government secrecy and the unknown. Whether or not these secrets are real or just elaborate hoaxes, they remind us of the power of mystery and the human desire to uncover the truth.
Former Nigerian spy chief, presidential and vice-presidential aspirant, and close associate of corrupt military dictator Sani Abacha. Shinkafi’s son-in-law, Atiku Bagudu, also served as a key money launderer for the Abacha family, according to U.S. prosecutors.
Throughout history, spies have played a crucial role in wars, politics, and espionage. Some have achieved notoriety for their exceptional skills and daring exploits, becoming legends in their own right. Here are some of the most famous spies in history:
Mata Hari: Born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, Mata Hari was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who became a spy for Germany during World War I. She was accused of passing on vital information to the Germans and was executed by a French firing squad in 1917.
Nathan Hale: Nathan Hale was an American soldier and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He was captured by the British and hanged at the age of 21, famously declaring, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Sidney Reilly: Sidney Reilly was a Russian-born British spy who operated during the early 20th century. He was known as the “Ace of Spies” for his skill at espionage, and his adventures inspired many fictional spies in books and movies.
Richard Sorge: Richard Sorge was a Soviet spy who operated in Japan during World War II. He was able to penetrate the highest levels of Japanese society and provide valuable intelligence to the Soviet Union. He was eventually caught and executed in 1944.
Kim Philby: Kim Philby was a British intelligence officer who spied for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He was able to rise through the ranks of British intelligence while passing on valuable information to the Soviets. He defected to the Soviet Union in 1963 and died there in 1988.
Aldrich Ames: Aldrich Ames was a CIA officer who spied for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He was able to provide the Soviets with a large amount of information, including the identities of CIA agents operating in the Soviet Union. He was eventually caught and sentenced to life in prison.
Klaus Fuchs: Klaus Fuchs was a German physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, the American effort to develop a nuclear bomb during World War II. He was also a Soviet spy and passed on valuable information to the Soviets. He was eventually caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Harriet Tubman: Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist who worked as a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War. She provided valuable intelligence to Union commanders and led raids that freed hundreds of enslaved people.
Virginia Hall: Virginia Hall was an American spy who operated in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. She worked for the British Special Operations Executive and the American Office of Strategic Services, providing valuable intelligence and assisting in the organization of resistance networks.
In conclusion, spies have played a significant role in history, and these famous spies are just a few examples of the impact they have had. Whether working for their country or for their own gain, these spies have left a lasting legacy that continues to intrigue and inspire.
A close associate of Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, energy mogul Aleksin burst onto Belarus’ business scene in 2012, just after a cadre of senior oligarchs were sanctioned in response to the regime’s brutal crackdowns on political protest. Part of Aleksin’s fortune was stashed in Credit Suisse that same year.
In 2021, the European Union and United States finally blacklisted Aleksin as well, describing him as one of Lukashenko’s “wallets.”
Accused money launderer for Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta organized crime group.
Italian prosecutors believed Velardo, along with a convicted Irish Republican Army bomber, swindled investors in an Italian seaside development built by the ‘Ndrangheta. Another partner in the seized venture, named Jewel of the Sea, was a member of the ‘Ndrangheta’s powerful Morabito clan.
Bo Stefan Sederholm
Criminal
Sweden
CHF 229,554
Description
One of two Swedes who were reportedly jailed for life for violating Philippines’ human trafficking laws. The pair had run a cybersex den catering to foreigners in the tiny Philippine town of Kauswagan where online customers could watch livestreamed sex acts, often of an abusive nature.
A representative for Sederholm said Credit Suisse never froze his accounts and did not close them until 2013 when he was unable to provide due diligence material. Asked why Sederholm needed a Swiss account, they said that he was living in Thailand when it was opened, adding: “Can you please tell me if you would prefer to put your money in a Thai or Swiss bank?”
Bojan Krišto
Political
Serbia
CHF 1,938,267
Description
The former manager of the Serbian state lottery and Deputy Prime Minister’s cabinet member, he is charged with embezzlement while serving as the director of Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Airport. He is accused of changing the company’s internal rulebook to allow salary increases, thus allowing himself to dish out excessive salaries and bonuses to himself and other management.
Krišto told OCCRP that the foreign funds were acquired before his state appointments, and partly before his birth, through his family’s business activities across Europe.
Branislav Bogićević
Investigated
Serbia
CHF 4,607,539
Description
The manager of Minaqua, a bottled water brand that dominates almost a fifth of Serbia’s market. More than a century old, it was privatized in 1999 and his family became the majority shareholders. Ever since, he has faced trial numerous times for alleged economic crimes and fraud that have taken place at the company.
Dragutin Pihler
Investigated
Serbia
CHF 2,047,442
Director of the Moscow office of the Serbian architectural firm Centroprojekt. He and other company officials were investigated by Serbian authorities for financial crime on suspicion that they embezzled 6.5 million euros. The scheme, which ran from 2005 to 2008, involved falsifying documents in order to redirect payments destined for Centroprojekt – at the time a state-owned firm – to an identically-named private firm incorporated by the suspects.
Pihler told OCCRP’s partner KRIK that the funds in his Swiss account are savings that he legally earned in Russia, and were deposited into a Credit Suisse investment account in order to accrue income on his capital.
Eduard Seidel
Criminal
Germany
CHF 54,535,616
Description
The managing director for the Nigerian operation of German industrial conglomerate Siemens, which was fined a combined $1.34 billion for bribery in 2008. Over two decades Seidel bribed Nigerian officials in order to win contracts for Siemens.
Although allegations that he had been part of the Siemens bribery scandal in Nigeria were first reported in 2007, two of Seidel’s six accounts — both of which were jointly owned with his wife — remained open for at least almost 10 more years.
Giovanni Angelo Becciu
Investigated
Vatican City
CHF 252,918,387
Description
A former ally of Pope Francis who made history as the first Vatican cardinal to be tried on criminal charges by a civil court. Nine others are also accused of crimes including extortion, embezzlement, money laundering and abuse of office. Prosecutors allege that the ring lost 350 million euros of church funds on a scandal-ridden London property venture, and also that Becciu funneled Vatican funds to his brothers’ businesses in Sardinia.
Court documents say this Credit Suisse account, which belonged to the Vatican and listed Becciu amongst its four signatories of the account, was used in the embezzlement. Becciu’s legal representatives declined to comment on the account and told OCCRP that the Cardinal will answer to the court. They added that his brothers’ business was a charity, and maintained his innocence.
“Correction: This profile has been corrected to clarify that the account was state-owned and that the charges were filed against others.”
Hélder Bataglia dos Santos
Investigated
Portugal
CHF 42,167,683
Description
Counting presidents from Africa to Latin America amongst his friends, this Portuguese businessman based in Angola billed his venture Escom as a point of contact for nations and international entities looking to invest in Africa. With success has come scrutiny, in several corruption probes across Europe. He is also a close associate of Álvaro Sobrinho, suspected of laundering money while serving as head of an Escom-linked bank in Angola.
According to Portuguese newspaper Expresso, the pair shared a company engaged in $1.6 billion worth of irregular transactions and loans. They also shared three accounts at Credit Suisse.
Bataglia told OCCRP that he had closed all of his accounts with Credit Suisse by 2021, but denied having shared accounts with Sobrinho.
Janko Jovanović
Investigated
Bosnia and Herzegovina
CHF 1,681,480
Description
The head of the customs office in the border town of Brod was placed under investigation and detained for corruption in connection to a crime ring that included the customs authorities.
According to the state prosecutor, the scheme to fake invoices of imports into Bosnia and Herzegovina cost the state budget 153 million euros. The alleged scheme ran all the way to the top of the national tax authority.
Rodoljub Radulović
Criminal
Serbia
CHF 3,393,470
Description
The head of the customs office in the border town of Brod was placed under investigation and detained for corruption in connection to a crime ring that included the customs authorities.
According to the state prosecutor, the scheme to fake invoices of imports into Bosnia and Herzegovina cost the state budget 153 million euros. The alleged scheme ran all the way to the top of the national tax authority.
Ivan.Guta&The Guta family
Investigated
Ukraine
CHF 222,878,343
Description
The Gutas ran one of Ukraine’s largest grain producers, but orchestrated its collapse by funneling at least $100 million out of the company and into offshore firms they controlled. Ivan Guta and his wife, Klavdiya, founded Mriya Agro Holding Public Limited in 1992, and their two sons, Andriy and Mykola, joined later.
By 2012 Mriya was managing close to 300,000 hectares of agricultural land. Two years later, the company had run out of cash, leaving creditors sitting on claims exceeding 1 billion euros.
Between them, Ivan, Klavdiya, Andriy and Mykola Guta were listed as account holders of a total of 16 Credit Suisse accounts.
Vugar Abbasov
Political
Azerbaijan
CHF 7,955,738
Description
President of Cahan Holding, a major conglomerate in the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan in Azerbaijan. For years rumors have swirled that the company is controlled by the family of Vasif Talibov, who has ruled the enclave with an iron fist for nearly three decades.
In 2008, Abassov founded a bank with several members of the Talibov family. The following year, he opened a Credit Suisse account that received transfers from shell companies which were used in major “laundromat” fraud schemes previously discovered by OCCRP.
An electricity mogul who converted his experience at the helm of Yugoslavian state energy firms into a personal fortune after the country’s dissolution, trading energy and debt between the newly formed regional utilities through his business group, Energy Financing Team (EFT). Although Hamović was never charged with a crime, his business has drawn the attention of prosecutors and investigators in multiple countries.
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In her book, former GDR civil rights activist Freya Klier recalls the political murders committed by the State Security, which terrorized an entire nation as the “shield and sword” of the SED. The fates described get under the skin – and have lost none of their social significance even 32 years after the fall of the Wall.
The civil rights activist Freya Klier, born in 1950 in Dresden, arrested several times in the GDR and finally expatriated, has written a new book. It deals with the political murders and attempted murders by the State Security Service, or Stasi for short. In stirring descriptions, the author exposes the inhuman nature of the GDR secret service, which spied on, harassed and terrorized millions of East Germans on behalf of the state party SED – and committed dozens of homicides.
Klier’s work could not have appeared at a better time – shortly before the Bundestag elections on September 26, 2021.
Freya Klier: Book about Stasi murders and brutal GDR regime The reason: The Left Party, which has now been in the Bundestag for 16 years, is preparing to assume government responsibility for all of Germany – more offensively, more confidently than ever before. And large sections of the SPD and the Greens are welcoming the repeatedly renamed successor party to the SED with open arms.
However, the Left is not merely a party that wants to radically change our economic and social order. It is also a party that still has an unresolved relationship with its dark past, i.e., its predecessor party. Several members, right up to the leadership level, stubbornly refuse to call the GDR an unjust state and instead glorify the old system.
Author Klier was lucky to survive assassination attempt in 1987 There is no question that the SED regime committed massive and systematic injustice. Even if the GDR officially guaranteed its citizens freedom of speech, freedom of assembly or freedom of the press – if it went against its own interests, the state trampled such rights underfoot. With the Ministry of State Security, the SED had created a monster that secured its rule – among other things by forcibly removing disfavored citizens from the way.
In her book “Unter mysteriösen Umständen. Die politischen Morde der Staatssicherheit” (Herder Verlag), Freya Klier allows many eyewitnesses and victims to have their say, shedding light on a chapter of GDR history that has so far been very sparsely illuminated. Klier herself survived an assassination attempt in 1987 only by luck. The Stasi had tampered with her and her husband’s car, setting the stage for a serious accident. Klier’s brother was driven to suicide by the Stasi henchmen.
The author’s intention with her book is not to legally “prove” murders and assassinations. Rather, she wants to “set a monument” to the victims. She speaks of about 70 dissidents, pastors and writers who died an unnatural death in the GDR. “Others are seriously ill or are wasting away in some way” – obvious late effects of years of Stasi terror.
Klier takes up prominent fates, such as that of Michael Gartenschläger. He was shot by a special Stasi commando in 1976 when he tried to dismantle a self-firing device at the border. Quote: “The commando awaits him, sees his silhouette. As Michael ducks toward the border fence, he walks directly into the muzzle flash. Four men empty their magazines – just as they vowed to do. Riddled with gunfire, the 32-year-old dies on the death strip.”
Operation “Scorpion”: Enemy of the State Should Be Liquidated The case of Wolfgang Welsch is also shocking. Sentenced to ten years in prison after a failed escape attempt in 1964, he was mistreated and psychologically tortured in GDR jail; the prison warden even staged a mock execution to wear the inmate down. In 1971, the German government bought Welsch’s freedom. But he found no peace in the West either. The Stasi opened the Central Operative Procedure (ZOV) “Scorpion” – Welsch was to be decomposed and finally liquidated.
Freya Klier notes in her book, “With a lot of luck, the persecuted survived three assassination attempts between 1979 and 1981, the last of which is probably the most famous – thallium poisoning by means of meatballs at an Israeli campsite.” Before that, the Stasi killers had tried explosives, then a sniper.
Driven to suicide: Klier’s brother took his own life Klier’s book also addresses the high suicide rate in the GDR. About 5,000 people killed themselves each year, including many women, men and young people “who could no longer stand the harassment of the state authorities.” One of them was Klier’s brother. At the age of 30, he took his own life, pulverized by forced stays in prison and closed psychiatric wards. “He discovered an empty house near our apartment where the gas line was still working. There he puts his head in a gas oven.”
An obvious Stasi murder moves not only Freya Klier to this day, but also the victim’s family, friends, acquaintances: The strangulation of political prisoner Matthias Domaschk in 1981. He died in a dark prison cell in Gera, Thuringia.
Matthias Domaschk: Expert believes in “strangulation from behind The Stasi informed Domaschk’s parents that their son had “hanged himself from a heating pipe shortly before he was to be released.” Klier in her book: “That Stasi people killed him and then hanged him to deceive him, nobody doubts that.”
This thesis is supported by an analysis of the renowned forensic pathologist Michael Tsokos from Berlin. After studying the Stasi documents available to him, the expert expressed “some doubts” about the official cause of death “hanging”. From his point of view, another possibility comes into consideration – “a strangulation from behind”.
In addition to other moving fates of victims of the GDR secret service, the author dedicates herself in detail to the topic of poison murders, in particular the hauntingly effective “Toxdat poison file.”
The “Killer Project” Eliminating Political Opponents with Poison Background: In 1987, Stasi deputy chief Gerhard Neiber commissioned two officers to research possible poison murders. The top-secret project was called “Toxdat.” In this way, the Stasi looked for ways to “make life extremely difficult for resistant citizens or even to end it without their officers being identifiable as the perpetrators of the murders,” according to book author Freya Klier.
The more than 900-page Poison File describes exactly how more than 200 toxic substances are to be administered in such a way that they lead to death in a barely detectable manner. Among other things, attacks with radioactive poisons such as uranium or plutonium, radionuclides from strontium-90 to plutonium-238, but also with tiny amounts of spent fuel rods from nuclear power plants are described.
Eigendorf and Berger: They too were hit by the Stasi poison dart The collection also includes the contact poison used on professional soccer player Lutz Eigendorf in Braunschweig in 1983, which led to a fatal car accident. And probably also the soccer coach Jörg Berger, who came from the GDR, was a victim of a poison attack. In 1986, Berger suffered from mysterious symptoms of paralysis in Aachen. At the time, it was believed to be a viral infection.
Years later, Munich forensic pathologist Wolfgang Eisenmenger analyzed Berger’s medical records against the background of the Toxdat study. His unequivocal finding was that Berger had been poisoned. “If one appreciates the clinical picture, heavy metals from the group of lead compounds and arsenic compounds come into consideration above all.” Berger died of colon cancer in 2010, at 65.
The criminal Stasi just a GDR fossil? Not at all! To deal with atrocities committed by the Stasi on behalf of the SED 32 years after the fall of the Wall may not seem sensible and urgent to everyone. Some will object: What does that have to do with the present? What does it concern us?
The answer: a great deal.
The topics of SED dictatorship and Stasi crimes did not simply disappear with the end of the GDR. They have a profound effect right up to our own time. Freya Klier had to painfully experience this firsthand.
Merciless GDR lawyer active in SED successor party After reunification, an elderly woman contacted her family and asked for an apology. It was that merciless GDR prosecutor who had accused Freya Klier’s then 17-year-old brother of a trivial offense, whereupon he was sentenced to four years in prison. Continually harassed by the state power, he later took his own life.
The bottom line: The ex-state prosecutor was later active for the SED’s successor party, the PDS. In doing so, she “unabashedly praised the GDR and its humanity,” according to author Klier, “and then lashed out at the capitalist West with its contempt for humanity.”
“Der Schoß ist fruchtbar noch, aus dem das kroch.”
“The US will have to send their sons and daughters exactly the same way as we are sending our sons and daughters to war. And they will have to to fight, because it's NATO that we're talking about, and they will be dying."
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🇮🇱 “IT HAS DISAPPEARED”: THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT CLAIMS TO HAVE LOST THE AGREEMENT WITH PFIZER on COVID-19 VACCINES!
The Israeli government has just indicated in court that it cannot find the contracts under which the experimental COVID-19 mRNA injections were performed.
The Israeli Ministry of Health revealed on Wednesday (Dec. 14): “We cannot find the signed agreement with Pfizer. It has disappeared.”
“We have not found the signed agreement. We searched everywhere.”
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The Israeli government has just indicated in court that it cannot find the contracts under which the experimental COVID-19 mRNA injections were performed.
The Israeli Ministry of Health revealed on Wednesday (Dec. 14): “We cannot find the signed agreement with Pfizer. It has disappeared.”
“We have not found the signed agreement. We searched everywhere.”
“Due to the change of government, we are not sure whether an agreement has been signed or not
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NO AMNESTY NO MERCY NO DEALS
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Actually, the RAND Corporation is not exactly known for a pacifist stance. But the Pentagon-affiliated think tank warns of the risks of a protracted Ukraine war and calls for an end to the conflict through negotiations.
Eleven months into the Russian military operation in Ukraine. It is a warlike conflict that has already claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and is unlikely to come to an end for some time to come as a result of the West’s ongoing arms deliveries to the Kiev regime. But while top politicians from Washington to London to Berlin and Warsaw in particular continue to advocate unconditional support for the Ukrainians, influential U.S. military strategists seem to favor an early end to the conflict.
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In her book, former GDR civil rights activist Freya Klier recalls the political murders committed by the State Security, which terrorized an entire nation as the “shield and sword” of the SED. The fates described get under the skin – and have lost none of their social significance even 32 years after the fall of the Wall.
The civil rights activist Freya Klier, born in 1950 in Dresden, arrested several times in the GDR and finally expatriated, has written a new book. It deals with the political murders and attempted murders by the State Security Service, or Stasi for short. In stirring descriptions, the author exposes the inhuman nature of the GDR secret service, which spied on, harassed and terrorized millions of East Germans on behalf of the state party SED – and committed dozens of homicides.
Klier’s work could not have appeared at a better time – shortly before the Bundestag elections on September 26, 2021.
Freya Klier: Book about Stasi murders and brutal GDR regime The reason: The Left Party, which has now been in the Bundestag for 16 years, is preparing to assume government responsibility for all of Germany – more offensively, more confidently than ever before. And large sections of the SPD and the Greens are welcoming the repeatedly renamed successor party to the SED with open arms.
However, the Left is not merely a party that wants to radically change our economic and social order. It is also a party that still has an unresolved relationship with its dark past, i.e., its predecessor party. Several members, right up to the leadership level, stubbornly refuse to call the GDR an unjust state and instead glorify the old system.
Author Klier was lucky to survive assassination attempt in 1987 There is no question that the SED regime committed massive and systematic injustice. Even if the GDR officially guaranteed its citizens freedom of speech, freedom of assembly or freedom of the press – if it went against its own interests, the state trampled such rights underfoot. With the Ministry of State Security, the SED had created a monster that secured its rule – among other things by forcibly removing disfavored citizens from the way.
In her book “Unter mysteriösen Umständen. Die politischen Morde der Staatssicherheit” (Herder Verlag), Freya Klier allows many eyewitnesses and victims to have their say, shedding light on a chapter of GDR history that has so far been very sparsely illuminated. Klier herself survived an assassination attempt in 1987 only by luck. The Stasi had tampered with her and her husband’s car, setting the stage for a serious accident. Klier’s brother was driven to suicide by the Stasi henchmen.
The author’s intention with her book is not to legally “prove” murders and assassinations. Rather, she wants to “set a monument” to the victims. She speaks of about 70 dissidents, pastors and writers who died an unnatural death in the GDR. “Others are seriously ill or are wasting away in some way” – obvious late effects of years of Stasi terror.
Klier takes up prominent fates, such as that of Michael Gartenschläger. He was shot by a special Stasi commando in 1976 when he tried to dismantle a self-firing device at the border. Quote: “The commando awaits him, sees his silhouette. As Michael ducks toward the border fence, he walks directly into the muzzle flash. Four men empty their magazines – just as they vowed to do. Riddled with gunfire, the 32-year-old dies on the death strip.”
Operation “Scorpion”: Enemy of the State Should Be Liquidated The case of Wolfgang Welsch is also shocking. Sentenced to ten years in prison after a failed escape attempt in 1964, he was mistreated and psychologically tortured in GDR jail; the prison warden even staged a mock execution to wear the inmate down. In 1971, the German government bought Welsch’s freedom. But he found no peace in the West either. The Stasi opened the Central Operative Procedure (ZOV) “Scorpion” – Welsch was to be decomposed and finally liquidated.
Freya Klier notes in her book, “With a lot of luck, the persecuted survived three assassination attempts between 1979 and 1981, the last of which is probably the most famous – thallium poisoning by means of meatballs at an Israeli campsite.” Before that, the Stasi killers had tried explosives, then a sniper.
Driven to suicide: Klier’s brother took his own life Klier’s book also addresses the high suicide rate in the GDR. About 5,000 people killed themselves each year, including many women, men and young people “who could no longer stand the harassment of the state authorities.” One of them was Klier’s brother. At the age of 30, he took his own life, pulverized by forced stays in prison and closed psychiatric wards. “He discovered an empty house near our apartment where the gas line was still working. There he puts his head in a gas oven.”
An obvious Stasi murder moves not only Freya Klier to this day, but also the victim’s family, friends, acquaintances: The strangulation of political prisoner Matthias Domaschk in 1981. He died in a dark prison cell in Gera, Thuringia.
Matthias Domaschk: Expert believes in “strangulation from behind The Stasi informed Domaschk’s parents that their son had “hanged himself from a heating pipe shortly before he was to be released.” Klier in her book: “That Stasi people killed him and then hanged him to deceive him, nobody doubts that.”
This thesis is supported by an analysis of the renowned forensic pathologist Michael Tsokos from Berlin. After studying the Stasi documents available to him, the expert expressed “some doubts” about the official cause of death “hanging”. From his point of view, another possibility comes into consideration – “a strangulation from behind”.
In addition to other moving fates of victims of the GDR secret service, the author dedicates herself in detail to the topic of poison murders, in particular the hauntingly effective “Toxdat poison file.”
The “Killer Project” Eliminating Political Opponents with Poison Background: In 1987, Stasi deputy chief Gerhard Neiber commissioned two officers to research possible poison murders. The top-secret project was called “Toxdat.” In this way, the Stasi looked for ways to “make life extremely difficult for resistant citizens or even to end it without their officers being identifiable as the perpetrators of the murders,” according to book author Freya Klier.
The more than 900-page Poison File describes exactly how more than 200 toxic substances are to be administered in such a way that they lead to death in a barely detectable manner. Among other things, attacks with radioactive poisons such as uranium or plutonium, radionuclides from strontium-90 to plutonium-238, but also with tiny amounts of spent fuel rods from nuclear power plants are described.
Eigendorf and Berger: They too were hit by the Stasi poison dart The collection also includes the contact poison used on professional soccer player Lutz Eigendorf in Braunschweig in 1983, which led to a fatal car accident. And probably also the soccer coach Jörg Berger, who came from the GDR, was a victim of a poison attack. In 1986, Berger suffered from mysterious symptoms of paralysis in Aachen. At the time, it was believed to be a viral infection.
Years later, Munich forensic pathologist Wolfgang Eisenmenger analyzed Berger’s medical records against the background of the Toxdat study. His unequivocal finding was that Berger had been poisoned. “If one appreciates the clinical picture, heavy metals from the group of lead compounds and arsenic compounds come into consideration above all.” Berger died of colon cancer in 2010, at 65.
The criminal Stasi just a GDR fossil? Not at all! To deal with atrocities committed by the Stasi on behalf of the SED 32 years after the fall of the Wall may not seem sensible and urgent to everyone. Some will object: What does that have to do with the present? What does it concern us?
The answer: a great deal.
The topics of SED dictatorship and Stasi crimes did not simply disappear with the end of the GDR. They have a profound effect right up to our own time. Freya Klier had to painfully experience this firsthand.
Merciless GDR lawyer active in SED successor party After reunification, an elderly woman contacted her family and asked for an apology. It was that merciless GDR prosecutor who had accused Freya Klier’s then 17-year-old brother of a trivial offense, whereupon he was sentenced to four years in prison. Continually harassed by the state power, he later took his own life.
The bottom line: The ex-state prosecutor was later active for the SED’s successor party, the PDS. In doing so, she “unabashedly praised the GDR and its humanity,” according to author Klier, “and then lashed out at the capitalist West with its contempt for humanity.”
“Der Schoß ist fruchtbar noch, aus dem das kroch.”
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