According to data from the IMF and other studies, the Balkans including NATO members Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro and Romania lost over $111.6 billion in illicit financial outflows to crime, corruption, and tax evasion between 2001 and 2010.
“Little will change however without you as ordinary citizens do your part — refusing to pay bribes, calling out waste, corruption and election irregularities, letting your voice be heard, and, most importantly, voting to hold your leaders accountable.” — Eric Nelson, U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina
October 21, 2020 | Washington, D.C. | Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Leaders advancing reforms in the Balkans and Eastern Europe have welcomed a poignant message relayed by Eric Nelson, US Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, that engages and challenges local citizens in the post-war and former communist state to be a part of the reform process and to hold elected leaders accountable. …
Montenegro: Is this Mafia State joining NATO?
First published via The Western Journal |First Published: April 25, 2014
By The Honorable Maurice McTigue, QSO, Natasha Srdoc, Joel Anand Samy and Boris Divjak.
Washington, DC — US Vice President Joe Biden met with Montenegro’s Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, April 8, 2014. The purpose was to address Montenegro’s interest in joining NATO.
The people of the Balkans depend on countries like America and officials like Vice President Biden to communicate to individuals like Prime Minister Djukanovic that corruption and international money laundering are major concerns, and that they expect to see measures put in place to stamp out this illegal activity. As America has put enormous resources to work to identify and prosecute those involved in money laundering, it expects its friends in the international community to help in this war against illicit transactions. …
The West’s Strong Rule of Law Nations Must Hold Croatia’s Government to Account | Block US Visa Waiver Program for Croatia and Freeze All Taxpayer Aid to the Balkan Nation
October 13, 2020, Washington, D.C. — Croatia, a NATO member in the Balkans was taken to task for blocking the return of Jewish property through a public statement issued by two American Senators and a recent U.S. State Department report. In contrast, Serbia was publicly praised for Holocaust property restitution by the U.S. government through its official statements and the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade’s website.
The U.S. State Department’s Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act Report on Croatia released on July 29, 2020, stated the following:
“Croatia does not have adequate legal mechanisms to address Holocaust-era property restitution, and the government generally has not demonstrated the political will to return property taken from Jews during the Holocaust and after WWII. The U.S. government has long advocated with the Croatian government for restitution of Jewish individual and communal property, and for Croatia to develop a mechanism to address issues related to Jewish property rendered heirless as a result of the Holocaust.” …
US Senate Briefing | US & Europe’s Economic, Financial & Security Risks: Crisis on the European Continent | Senate Russell Office Building, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC — Co-Hosted by U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, International Leaders Summit and Adriatic Institute for Public Policy
“Many of the evolving economies are having their very stability threatened by rampant corruption. Croatia and the election where 1 million illegal votes were cast in a population of only 4 million people. Hold another election or no entry into Europe. The corruption within the government of Ukraine probably played a major role in destabilizing that country. Make international aid subject to conditions of lawfulness. The populations of these countries are being starved of resources, investment and jobs by this illicit activity creating a fertile climate for unrest.” — Hon. Maurice McTigue, QSO, US Senate Briefing
The US Senate Briefing co-hosted by US Senator Jeff Sessions and International Leaders Summit featured New Zealand’s former cabinet member Hon. Maurice McTigue (advising The White House Office of Management and Budget, US State Governors and legislators) and think tank leaders. …
EU and NATO Member Croatia Fuels Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Revisionism in the Balkans | The West’s Rule of Law Nations Must Cordon the Balkan State and Freeze All Aid to Croatia
In a published report, a high-ranking Nazi official was quoted describing the brutality in Jasenovac death camp in Sisak County, Croatia — the Auschwitz of the Balkans: “General Edmund von Horstenau, Hitler’s envoy in the capital city of Zagreb, called the place the epitome of horror.”
Published reports have stated — “The Croatian parliament reportedly donates 500,000 kunas ($71,500) for the event.”
May 20, 2020, Washington DC — A week after Americans and Europeans joined together through virtual events in commemorating the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe (V-E Day), remembering the significant sacrifices of an entire generation fighting for freedom against tyranny, the Croatian parliament co-organized an annual event honoring pro-Nazi Ustasha soldiers of the Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska — NDH), a fascist regime which forged strong ties with Nazi Germany during the Second World War. …
US and EU taxpayer funds— sustain corrupt networks in the City of Rijeka — and block legitimate private investments.
European Union (EU) and US taxpayer funds, kleptocracy and money laundering have kept two mayors in the city of Rijeka in power for the last 30 years. These mayors have made the City of Rijeka entirely dependent on free money (US and EU taxpayer grants), cheap money (US and Europe’s taxpayer loans via the World Bank) and stolen monies (money laundering of illicit gains). The construction company GP Krk does all the construction for the old boys’ network.
Inadvertently, the unintended consequences of the EU and US “free and cheap money (taxpayer funds)” in Croatia are the further erosion of the rule of law, absence of independent judiciary and lack of protection of property rights, which can not take hold in this Balkan mafia state. …
Sunday, March 15, 2020, Washington, DC — This past week China’s foreign ministry spokesman issued a public statement suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 — the corona virus sweeping through the world was planted by the U.S. Army in Wuhan during the Military World Games in October last year.
While Twitter is banned in China, the Foreign Ministry’s new spokesman Lijian Zhao (formerly served at the Chinese Embassy in Pakistan) tweeted the following statement in both Chinese and English on Thursday based on the briefing on Capitol Hill presented by Dr. Robert Redfield, director, Centers for Disease Control:
“When did patient zero begin in U.S.? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be U.S. army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! U.S. owe us an explanation!” …
By Jaime Harlow, CEO/Pres at Netfuel, Inc.
First posted in Quora.
It’s a Chinese bioweapon that escaped a BSL-4 Laboratory in Wuhan. Reparations to ALL are in order.
Recall a gas leak incident on the night of December 2, 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is considered to be the world’s worst industrial disaster. The reparations paid by Union Carbide were equivalent to $845 million in 2018 — for killing 3,787 in the gas release, and to 574,366 injured victims…in India where daily wage was roughly US$0.50/day in 1984. Today’s annual wage in PRC and EU, respectively, is US$10/day and $100/day. …
World Economic Forum’s Competitiveness Report Shows EU and NATO Member Croatia Worse than Russia, Serbia and Ukraine
Croatia’s Parlous State of the Judiciary at 126th — Worst within the European Union | Russia is 91st, Nigeria 99th, Serbia 101st, Ukraine 105th and Zimbabwe 113th on Judicial Independence out of 141 countries ranked
February 17, 2020 | Washington, DC — In the 2019 Global Competitiveness Report presented by the World Economic Forum (WEF), Croatia’s judicial independence was ranked 126th out of 141 countries, rated the worst within the European Union (EU), and falling further behind non-EU member states including Russia, Ukraine and Serbia. In the previous year’s 2018 report, Croatia’s judicial independence ranked 120 out of 140 nations reviewed.
If the European Commission is serious about addressing grand corruption and the destruction of the rule of law in Croatia, then Brussels’ leaders ought to immediately trigger the “Cooperation and Verification Mechanism” for Croatia.
The report’s findings expose a flawed EU enlargement project which continues to ignore the most significant bedrock of democratic governance — the foundational rule of law which protects human rights, private property and safeguards democratic institutions. Independent judiciary is necessary for the rule of law to prevail, otherwise, the legal rights of citizens and private economic stakeholders are abused. …
Croatian politicians fuel Holocaust revisionism, prop-up anti-Semitic figures and brazenly remove “concentration camp” to “collecting center”
January 22, 2020 — Washington, DC | A new wave of anti-Jewish sentiment is sweeping through Croatia, fueled by politicians from the Croatian Democratic Union (Hrvatska demokratska zajednica — HDZ), while supported and funded in part by Croatia’s diaspora in America, Australia, Europe and South America. Croatia’s few independent media groups and international organizations have called out HDZ politicians for their direct roles in fueling Holocaust revisionism including concerted efforts undertaken by its President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic and Ivo Stier. Through their silence, Croatia’s Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic representing the HDZ government and Gordan Jandrokovic, the speaker of the parliament are complicit in whitewashing the Balkan country’s evil past. …
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