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Sunday, January 24, 2016

Thailand corruption clues

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1534 – The King of Siam (Thailand) died of smallpox. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

1700s – Thailand controlled most of Laos and divided Laos into 3 states. Luang Prabang in the north, Vientiane in the center and Champassak in the south.(Worldatlas.com Laos timeline).

1828 – Siam Thai forces invaded Laos. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

1853 – Elder Elam Luddington was the first LDS Mormon missionary to Thailand. Then called Siam. (LDS Sept 1995).

June 1943 – Tens of thousands of British POWs, slavery for Japan in Thailand, Malaysia and Borneo. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).

1944 – The Bangkok bank was founded. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

1946 – Thailand’s King Ananda Mahidol was found shot dead in his bed at the Bangkok Royal palace. (The annals of unsolved crime. EJ Epstein ©2012 US).

9 June 1946 – King Ananda was assassinated. Bhumibol Adulyadej (born in 1927), took the throne as a teen king, after his older brother's death. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

11 May 1949 – Siam changed its name to Thailand. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

1950s – The Chinese nationalist KMT efforts in the Golden triangle also involved the CIA. Colonel Paul Helliwell operated the Transport company that flew supplies from Thailand to the KMT in Monghsat. (Merchants of madness. B Lintner M Black ©2009 Thailand).

1950-60s – Since the 1950s the Golden Triangle of Burma, Thailand and Laos was a global source of heroin. Corsican mafia and American mafia. The CIA backed a small army of Laos and Vietnamese heroin dealing mercenaries. CIA and local heroin warlords. (The mafia killed JFK. David E Scheim (c)1988 US).

1951 – Paul Helliwell and BCCI. Castle bank was set up and controlled by Paul Helliwell. In 1951 Paul Helliwell set up and ran Sea Supply corp, a CIA front for ten years. Sea Supply was used to supply KMT in Burma and Thailand, police, opium trafficking. (Global research.Peter Dale Scott 6 Sept 2008).

April 1951 – Thai border and Kuomuntang KMT. Thai Bangkok CIA front company Sea supply corp. Took control of local opium trade in Burma and Yunnan China. (Air America. Christopher Robins (c)1979 UK).

1952 – Opium, the cash crop of the Hmong hill tribes in Laos and Tonkin in 1952. The (Communist), Viet Minh confiscated almost the entire crop, then sold it on the open market in Bangkok Thailand, to fund arms from China.

1952 – Thailand was never colonized by a European power. A system of Royal legal cultural archives, of palm leaf manuscripts and bark paper. National archives were set up in 1952. Preserving historical records of the government. (Archives (c)2005 Sue McKemmish Australia).

1957-64 – In 1957 at the start of the Vietnam war, there were at least 19,000 sex slaves in Thailand, seven military bases, the US navy invested $16,000,000 in the Thai economy each year. In 1964 sex exploitation. 300,000 American brothels. “comfort women” in war zones. Korea and Japan military brothels, created by the Japanese military during World War Two. (Slavery inc Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

17 Sept 1957 – The Thai army seized power in Bangkok. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

Mid 1960s – In Laos and Thailand heroin refineries. Labs where raw opium was refined into morphine and heroin. (Merchants of madness. D Lintner. M Black ©2009. Thailand).

1962 – The New Zealand military was sent to Thailand as part of SEATO anti Communist war in Laos. NZ History.

11 May 1962 – The US sent troops to Thailand. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

Sept 1972 – Recipes from Thailand. Vicki H Budge. Friend mag.LDS Mormon.

28 Dec 1972 – Black September's Ali Hassan Salameh and the attack on the Israeli embassy in Bangkok Thailand. PLO. 6 Israelis were taken hostage. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008 UK).

3 June 1974 – The last Air America aircraft left Laos. American forces left behind 36,000 Laos hill tribes who had been fighting the North Vietnamese troops. The Hmong and Iu Mien hill tribes fled to Thai refugee camps. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

Late 1970's – Robert Jantzen was the CIA station chief in Thailand. Nugan Hand bank in Australia. Drug trafficking between Thailand and Australia. Money laundering.

1975 – Vasily Ivanovich Timofeyev Thailands KGB agent intel service. Journalist cover in Bangkok 1975. Returned in 1993. Nikolai Petrovich a KGB resident in Thailand. In 1975 in Bangkok the Vietnam war had ended. The US had some military bases in Thailand after the war. The KGB were interested in these bases. Pentagon documents in Thailand and the KGB describing the administration of US military bases in Thailand. Bases was closing and the US personel were being scaled down. The KGB brought documents for $5,000 (Under cover lives ©1998 H Womak).

1975 – Voyage of a NZ yaucht the Valkay, went to Thailand to bring back drugs to NZ. National party MP's and lawyers. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).

April 1975 – The LDS Mormon church in Thailand. Friend. Thailand land of living waters.

15 May 1975 – US aerial evacuation of 2,500 Hmong to Thailand from Laos.

1976 – Australian Murray Riley and Michael Hand. Nugan Hand bank. Heroin trafficking and the US mafia. Had a branch in Chiang Mai Thailand. Thai based drug trafficking, George Pierce Contis from San Francisco. Michael Hand, Stephen Hill and Mayer of Nugan Hand bank, Las Vegas. South East Asian drugs business. (Smack express. Clive Small ©2010 Australia).

March 1976 – 450,000 Thai buddha sticks were smuggled into New Zealand on the yacht “Brigadoon” in March 1976. This gave Mr Asia's Terry Clark the money to buy hundreds of kilos of high grade heroin in Asia. Martin Johnstone was Mr Asia. He got drugs on credit.(Mr Asia ©2010 Aust NZ. J Shepherd).

20 July 1976 – US Air Force brig gen Harry Aderholt lowered the US flag for the last time at military HQ in Bangkok. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

Jan 1977 – Ensign LDS Thai translation of the Book of Mormon.

1978 – British teacher John Dewhurst aged 25 was arrested by the Khmer Rouge in 1978 in the Gulf of Thailand on holiday. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

April 1978 – Khun Sa was the opium warlord whose troops controlled most of the Golden triangle, which lies between Thailand and Burma. Khun Sa controlled the heroin trade for 40 years. Mr Asia drug syndicate connections. (Mr Asia ©2010 Aust NZ J Shepherd).

1979 – The government in Laos was forced to change. Food shortages and hundreds of thousands of people fled to Thailand. (Worldatlas.com Laos timeline).

1979 – UN refugees 90,000 Khmer Rouge camps inside Thailand Sakeo camp, starvation. Camp controlled by the Thai military UNHCR starving refugees. Sakeo camp a place of control the Khmer Rouge commander Phak Lim. After the Khmer Rouge collapsed in 1979 Cambodia. A third of the population were dead. Temples were destroyed. Mass graves were found in every province. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1979 – Refugee camps on the Thai Cambodian border. The Khmer Rouge crisis. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1979-80 – The Khmer Rouge, the killing fields, archives and documents at the prisons. Mass graves. A museum opened to the public in 1980. The cold war was at its height. In Thailand, ragged starving refugees. The Thai military alert. In Jan 1979 a meeting in Ut Apao air base Thailand. Black market, smuggling, sex slavery. Thai, Chinese, American, CIA. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

3 July 1979 – Money laundering of $US3 million for corrupt officials of the Thai govt. Nugan Hand and Deak links. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).

1980s – Refugee camp on the Thai Cambodian border run by the Khmer Rouge. Khao I Dang camp in Thailand registered with the UNHCR for repatriation to Australia. Many Khmer Rouge responsible for killings slipped through the net. More than 230,000 relocated to the US, Europe, Canada and Australia. Khmer Rouge refugees. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1981 – A Regional conference of CIA station chiefs was held in Bangkok Thailand. Attending was Howard Hart who wanted weapons for the Afghan Mujahadeen from Pakistan.

1981-82 – Drug smuggling in Asia Pacific in the 1970s. 1981 the Cape Elizabeth boat. Thailand drugs, marijuana made into waterproof bricks. From Thailand to Singapore then onto America. 1981 The American drug market. Thai went for $1,200 to $1,700 per pound. $9 million. Singapore branch of an international bank. The Far East Trading centre in Hong Kong 1982. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK)).

Jan 1982 – Ensign LDS Mormon Church welcomes Thai Royalty.

1983 – Thailand experienced severe flooding. (Timeline of history. Siam Thailand).

1983 – Cambodian Khmer Rouge archives fell into the hands of the Vietnamese. Thai border protected by Thai soldiers. Bangkok int airport Khmer Rouge. Thai border town of Aranyaprathet unit 838, set up by the Thai military for the Khmer Rouge. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1983-92 – June 1986 China, Beijing Khmer Rouge and Vietnam. Cambodian refugees in Thailand. China, the Soviet Union and US, politics of the cold war. On the Thai side of the border early 1992 refugee camps Khmer Rouge village Chinese 1991 1983 1986. Thailand Sisakat province refugee camp Thai military and Khmer Rouge. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1984 – Paul and Elaine Lewis. People’s of the Golden triangle. Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-509-7314-8.

1984 – Thai military protection of Khmer Rouge from Cambodia. Thai Cambodia border 1984 Nong Samet, a camp 60,000 people. Thai soldiers, bombing by Vietnam, shells 10,000 shells fell on the camps in the attacks, refugeee camps set up by the UN Khao I Dang. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1985-86 – The Khmer Rouge in Thailand. Thousands of people in these camps. In 1985, 5,000 people were moved by the Khmer Rouge from Site 8 across the Thai border into Cambodia. In 1986 1,500 people were taken to Natrao and Ta Mok camps. Disappearances, control of captive people. Khmer Rouge control inside Thailand Borai 4,000 people. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1985-86 – Khmer Rouge leaders at Borai refugee camp UN supplied. Thai soldiers guarded the camp Site 2 the largest camp 152,000 people. Cambodia's second largest city after Phnom Penh, it was in Thailand. People under control, refugees trapped in these camps, rapes and murders at Site 2. Stephane Rousseau worked for UNBRO at Site 2. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executoner (c)2005 US).

1987 – Tony Jackson. Just waiting to die. Cambodian refugees in Thailand. Oxfam.

1988 – Largest opium seizure made in Bangkok, the 2,400 pound shipment of heroin was bound for New York. It originated with Khun Sa in Burma. PBS frontline.

1989 – N Tapp. Sovereinty and rebellion.The white Hmong of northern Thailand. Oxford uni press.

1989 – Josephine Reynell. Political pawns, refugees on the Thai Kampuchean border. Refugee studies program Oxford.

1989 – Bob Maat. The sad times end of mission. The Thai Cambodian border UNBRO.

Aug 1989 – Ensign LDS Mormon Thai officials visit church leaders and sites.

1991 - Sex trafficking in Burma and Thailand. Slavery. Trafficking of Burmese women and children in brothels in Thailand. Internet. Sex Ezine.

1991 – Arrest of a Thai intel official at Heathrow airport with 49 kilos of heroin, human trafficking. (The new spy masters. Stephen Grey (c)2015 UK).

Jan 1991 – In an FBI undercover op code named 'Operation Dragon Chase', the FBI in New York seized 28 pounds of China white heroin and got indictments on ten people in the US and Thailand, with the main subject arrested in Bangkok for drug trafficking

Nov 1991 – Norah Niland. The politics of suffering. The Thai Cambodian border. Use and abuse of humanitarian aid. Uni of Dublin Ireland UK.

1992 – The Hmong began living at the Tham Krolbok Buddhist monastery . 2,000 Hmong opium addicts. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

May 1993 – The saints of Thailand. David Mitchell. Liahona LDS Mormon.

July 1993 – In Nakhon Ratchasima, a six story building collapsed, killing 102 people. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

1994 – Sex in Thailand and southeast Asia. Justin Hall. Brothels and soldiers. (Slavery inc. Lyda Cacho ©2010 UK).

1994 – It was a Hezbollah cell in Thailand that in 1994, almost, drove a truck laden with explosives into the Israeli embassy in Bangkok.

1994-98 – 1994 Refugee camps in Thailand. Cambodian and Burmese. Aug 1996 Khmer Rouge in Thailand refugee camps Ban Ma Muang. More than 60,000 refugees in Thailand. 1998 Ban Ma Muang camp UN refugees. Thai Catholic releif agency in Borai camp. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

17 March 1994 – Hezbollah terrorists tried to bomb the Israeli embassy in Bangkok. The attack failed because the terrorists got in a car accident and fled the scene. The government later found C4 explosives in the car. Hezbollah has a long record of plotting terrorist attacks in south east Asia. (The Australian 9 June 2003)

12 June 1994 – US blacklist links Thai MPs to the drug trade. Golden Triangle routes. Independent UK. Heroin trafficking and the Thai parliament.

1995 – Thailand closed all its refugee camps. Forcing 4,500 refugees living in the camps to either go to the US or Laos. Also in 1995 Thailand experienced severe flooding. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

1996 – Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn university estimated that $28.5 billion went through Thailand’s money laundering system, the equivalent to 15% of Thai GDP.
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June 1997 – Thailand devaluated its currency. Foreign exchange. Thailand got a $17 billion loan. (The money mafia. World in crisis. Paul T Hellyer (c)2014 US).

20 June 1998 – The arrest of foreign paedophiles in Thailand. Craig Skehan. The Age Melbourne Vic. Thai children and foreign paedophiles living in Thailand.

20 June 1998 – New arrest in war on foreign paedophiles in Thailand. Craig Skehan. The Age Melbourne. Thai children and foreign paedpophiles living in Thailand.

28 Nov 1998 – The US embassy closes amid a security alert. Bangkok Post.

1 Oct 1999 – Burmese embassy seizure. Burmese dissidents seized the Burmese embassy in Bangkok, taking 89 people hostage including one US citizen.

15 Jan 2000 – Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almidhar fly into Los Angeles from Bangkok Thailand. Both became suicide hijackers on 9/11.

2 April 2000 – 100,000 Karen refugees from Burma (Myanmar) were living along the Thai border. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

June 2000 – A Thai said the relocation led to about 50 new meth labs along the border, Yaba pills, police corruption in Thailand. (Merchants of madness. B Lintner M Black ©2009 Thailand).

11 Sept 2001 – The al Qaeda network in Thailand from where two of the 9/11 hijackers were launched, after a meeting in Malaysia in Jan 2000, remained uninterrupted. (Inside al Qaeda ©2002 R Gunaratna).

2002 – Sean Parlaman, an American who suspiciously fell from a high rise window in Pattaya Thailand in 2002 and died. He was an anti paedophile activist, who was investigating child trafficking across the Burmese border and sex slavery of children.

13 Jan 2002 – Sex trafficking. Sunday Star Times Washington. Bangkok paedophiles and Thai police.

Sept 2002 – Tony Davis. The complexities of unrest in southern Thailand. Janes intel review vol 14 no 9.

13 Feb 2003 – Thailand arrested financier Thomas Frank White, on a request from the Mexican government. Rape of a teen boy. In 2004 he was indicted on two counts of sex tourism. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

2 May 2003 – Chuwit Kamolvisit, a brothel owner. In Bangkok was destroying homes and shops to start another brothel. Called the Taj Mahal. He spent at least $289,156 paying corrupt police. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

Aug 2003 – Arrest of Riduan Isamudddin aka Hambali in Thailand. The link between al Qaeda and the south east Asian, Bali Indonesia attack. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).

2004 – Thailand's biggest lender, the Bangkok bank, the Sophonpanich family, patriarch who founded the bank, still owned up to 20%. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

26 Dec 2004 – A size 9 Earthquake and tidal wave. 9,000 dead, 230,000 in 14 countries. 9 quake. The 5th largest since 1900. 5,322 dead in Thailand but migrants were not included. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

7 Jan 2005 – Bodies line trenches in Thailand. In Chelsea a makeshift morgue. The London Evening Standard.

26 May 2005 – In Tham Krabokthe, largest refugee camp for Hmong who had fled from Laos, was closed. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

5 July 2005 – Thousands of poor Hmong refugees from Laos. 6,500 people were evicted from their bamboo shacks. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand AP).

April 2006 – Thai tragedy shooting by hit men. 12 June 2006. NZ news weekly. Jonica Bray. Anouska Beukman. Steve Miller of Tauranga NZ was killed by hit men in Thailand in April 2006. Natlib.govt.nz journals homocide.

21 Nov 2006 – The Moroccan govt reported that a key aide to Ayman al Zawahiri recently travelled to Morocco, using a Thai passport, pretending to be an Asian antiques dealer. His object was to coordinate the activities of a number of terrorist groups in North Africa. Western oil companies operating in Algeria, Libya and tourist sites in Tunisia and Morocco are all seen as targets. (Sratfor terror intel report. 21 Nov 2006).

20 may 2008 – Ian Shuttleworth aged 42, a British policeman, was arrested in Bangkok. Sex trafficking. He was providing security and bodyguards for Thai. Sex slavery and forcing women into brothels. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

2009 – A history of Thailand. Christopher John Baker. Pasuk Phongpaichit. Google books.

2009 – Thailand sent more than 4,000 ethnic Hmong asylum seekers back to Laos. (Worldatlas.com Laos timeline).

2009 – Merchants of madness. The meth explosion in the Golden triangle. Bertil Lintner. Michael Black. Sikwow books. ISBN 978-974-9511-59-6.

11 Aug 2009 – Judgement office Act on extradition in case betweeen public prosecutor (Thailand) and Mr Viktor Bout. Bangkok criminal court. Black case no 3/2551.

12 Dec 2009 – A New Zealand registered aircraft was detained in Thailand. Arms trafficking. A New Zealand shell company, SP trading, the plane. Simon Powers responded. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

2010 – Thailand gets 5.1 million sex tourists each year. EC VAT says 500,000 local men pay for sex with adults and minors. Despite laws against sex trafficking. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – The Thai population was about 67 million. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

2011 – Global human smuggling. Comparative perspectives. David Kyle. Roy Koslovski. Smuggling in south east Asia. History south east Asia sex slavery.

27 Nov 2011 – A mental and physical hell. Sex slavery in Thailand. Aljazeera.

27 Nov 2011 – Scand Asia.com. Owners of 11 Thai brothels suspected of human trafficking. Police in Lahiti. Victims.

29 Nov 2011 – Thailand forced labour and child labour discrimination. Press release ITUC Brussels Belgium. Rape is not work. Scoop NZ.

6 Dec 2011 – Cheryl Pereras one child fails to break the chains of child sex slavery. Samarith. Steve McLean. Toronto.

9 Dec 2011 – Lawi Weng. Burmese migrants sent for deportation trafficked in Thailand. Brothels in Thailand. The Irrawaddy.

31 March 2012 – Thailand arrests Vito Roberto Palazzolo, South African Mafia banker wanted in Italy. Global Post.

1 April 2012 – Interpol, capture of mafia boss in Bangkok Thailand wanted in Italy. Vito Roberto Palazzolo aged 64. Money laundering and drug trafficking. Royal Thai police.

17 Nov 2012 – Safe world for women. Thailand’s officials blame tourists, rape victim. Reuters Trustlaw.

19 Nov 2012 – Southeast Asia women face increase of sex trafficking. Bikya Masr. Bangkok Thailand police, women are forced into the sex trafficking

13 Dec 2012 – DRI cracks down on gold smuggling from Thailand. New Delhi India. Economic Times.

7 June 2013 – Thailand battles escalating drug trade. Drug trafficking in Myanmar, Laos and Thailand is a threat. CCTV news.

18 July 2013 – Thailand fights drug gangs in Golden Triangle with help from China. Huffington post. General Manop Senakun.

17 Aug 2013 – Tourists as targets of Bangkok bombers. A Taiwanese man was in intensive care, Mr Xu. Terrorists second Bangkok bombing. Khaosod English. The Guardian UK.

27 Sept 2013 – Christopher Bucktin. British drug barons accused of missing one of the worlds biggest smuggling operations being established from Thailand trial in New York. Mirror UK.

17 Oct 2013 – Thailand must do more to end human trafficking. New Internationalist blog. Iris C Gonzales. Sex slaves and begging.

16 Dec 2013 – Kiwi on meth charges. Olivia Wannan. Tried to sell crystal meth in Thailand. Life in jail. Halpin Thailand for crystal meth. Dominion Post.

5 May 2014 – 6.3 earthquake. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

6 May 2014 – Thai meth bust nets Cambodian. The Phnom Penh Post.

26 June 2014 – Russian mafia boss arrested in Thailand. Anadolu agency. Alexander Matusov aged 52. Chelkovo mafia members kidnappings in Russia.

5 July 2014 – Two held for kidney trafficking scam. Two Cambodians arrested for trafficking in human kidneys, sent organ donors to Thailand for operations. Bangkok Post.

15 July 2014 – Kiwi (New Zealand), tourist Casey Hanson aged 21. Thai police station. Possession of counterfeit US currency. Myles Hume. The Press. Stuff.co.nz.

23 July 2014 – Anti drug cop arrested in Thailand over meth. The Phnom Penh Post. Cambodia.

10 Aug 2014 – Thailand clamps down on surrogates. Thai police investigate surrogate baby trafficking network with ties to organised crime in Japan and China. Sunday Times UK.

2 Sept 2014 – Fears paedophiles targeting Thai surrogacy. 3 news NZ. Tom McRae Australia.

18 Oct 2014 – Trafficking of Rohingyas. Terrified victims of human trafficking face uncertain future. Thai police and army guilty of trafficking. Thai police and military sell Rohinghas to human traffickers, for abuses. Thailand is downgraded to the lowest on a US report on human trafficking. Organised slave trade. (Jonathan Head. BBC UK).

19 Oct 2014 – Trafficking captives in Thailand tell. Behind bars. Families fight to be free. Phuketun. Men, women and children held captive for seven. Report by Chutima Sidasatian in Hat Yak and Alan Morison in Phuket. Phuket wan tourism news.

20 Oct 2014 – Phuket wan tourism news. Thailand’s secret trade in people creates divisions between police and trafficking experts. Chutima Sidesathiam and Alan Morisen.

3 Nov 2014 – Thailand’s trafficking trade grows as officials avoid the truth. Phuketwan Tekuapa. Human trafficking the world’s destitute people.

13 Nov 2014 – New Zealand’s Wynyard and Thai drug crime. Software company Wynyard group and the Royal Thai government, drug trafficking signed a contract. Thailand drugs agency. Stuff.co.nz.

13 Nov 2014 – New Zealand company Wynyard group. Royal Thai government. Narcotic and corruption. UAE. https://www.wynyardgroup.com/media/607674/141113_oncb_media-release_final.pdf

17 Nov 2014 – In Thailand about quarter of a million children were held in sex slavery in brothels. (Aangirfan).

25 Nov 2014 – Thai police corruption. Police corrupt patronage. The Guardian UK.

1 Dec 2014 – Thailand, crown prince strips wife’s family of royal name amid corruption. Thailand’s crown prince Vajiralongkorn and royal consort princess Srirasm in Mardeka in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Fox news.31 Aug 2007 photo.

26 Dec 2014 – Kiwi New Zealander, busted with drugs in Phuket. In a Thai jail, Taylor Grainger aged 41. 1.2grams of meth and 0.95 gams of cocaine. Newstalk NZ.

26 Dec 2014 – New Zealander accused of drug possession in Thailand. Meth, a Kiwi in his 40s in Patong. 1.2 grams of meth in 2 packs and one gram of cocaine. TVNZ.

30 Dec 2014 – A New Zealander, Kiwi, was arrested in Phuket for drug dealing, he is wanted for fraud in NZ. Grainge Taylor and credit card fraud, Westpac. Archives on paper. Phuket Gazette.

30 Dec 2014 – James Ihaka who was arrested in Thailand is also wanted in NZ. A Kiwi on drugs charges. Grainger Madgwik. 1g of cocaine and 1.2g of meth. Taylor Grainger 41 years old aka Grange Taylor. NZ Herald.

8 Jan 2015 – Thailand wants refugees back. Ekaphop Luera aka Tang Acheewa. Shown with New Zealand passports on facebook. NZ Herald.

9 Jan 2015 – Thailand’s police officers were sacked for corruption. Gambling dens, sex slavery, smuggling and trafficking. Ancient Buddhist relics and statues were also taken from Cambodia. (Private Eye mag UK).

28 Jan 2015 – UK tourists in New Zealand, Jameison aged 47 with 52,000 child porn images. He was a teacher who had child porn. Middlebourgh news. Andrew White. He worked at a school in Thailand, he was deputy head teacher and head child protection officer. The Northern Echo UK.

29 Jan 2015 – Kiwi New Zealanders mystery death in a Thai hotel. A NZ man went to the UK, to ask about his sister, who was found dead in a Thai hotel. TVNZ. Cosmopolitan.

31 Jan 2015 – A New Zealander was shot and injured in Thailand. NZ Herald

2 Feb 2015 – Two bombs exploded in Bangkok in shopping malls. Explosions in shopping malls. Siam Paragon shopping mall. Sydney Morning Herald.

2 Feb 2015 – Thai rich train on fire. The river Kwai in Kanchanaburi, 200 European tourists. Stuff.co.nz.

5 Feb 2015 – Murdered, found dead in New Zealand. Ivan Peter Kapluggin aged 76. A British man with a UK passport. He got a New Zealand visa to live in Thailand. Suspected Paedophile. Sun Live.

5 Feb 2015 – US Santa Cruz county deputy, going to fight human trafficking in Thailand. Santa Cruz Sentinel US.

2 May 2015 – More than 30 graves, migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh. Found in southern Thailand. The mass grave site was found in the Sadao district of Songkhla province. Int Business Times.

9 May 2015 – More than 100 migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar were found in Thailand's south. More than 100 Rohingya migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh were found in Thailand's southern Songkhla province. 111 migrants in the jungle. Reuters.

17 May 2015 – More officials suspected of corruption to be suspended. Government workers face investigation for corruption and fraud. Suspended from work. Thai visa news Bangkok.

19 May 2015 – Thailand arrests a boss of a human trafficking network, amid boat arrivals in Indonesia. People smuggling crisis in the region. ABC online.

20 May 2015 – Arrested Thai, alleged human trafficking boss has connections to a Thai political party. Straits Times.

20 Aug 2015 -Terrorists target tourists. 10 of the dead at Erawan in Bangkok were tourists. Telegraph UK.

21 Aug 2015 – Two missing tourists have been found safe in Phuket. Two tourists went missing during a trip to Koh Racha Noi. Thai visa news.

25 Aug 2015 – Man accused of killing British tourists in Thailand. Two Burmese men have been accused of the murder of two British tourists in Thiland in Sept 2014. The Guardian UK.

1 Sept 2015 – French tourist Florian Bourdla, and a fatal fall down a Thai waterfall. Five tourists. Daily Mail.

19 Oct 2015 – Bomb explosion in southern Thailand. Two soldiers were killed and five wounded. Twitter. Sputnik.

23 Oct 2015 – Anonymous hacked the Thai government Telecom website and exposed data. Techworm. Bangkok Post. Vijay Prabu.

10 Nov 2015. Thai general trafficking. Death camps on the Thai Malaysian border. Victims starved to death. AFP. Yahoo news.

2 Dec 2015 – The body of kidnaped Australian Hells Angels member Wayne Schneider was found in Thailand. The 38 year old NSW Hells Angels member's body was found in Sattahip district of Chonburi province Thailand. A Thai warant for the arrest of Antonio Bagnato age 26 for kidnaping and meth. Wayne Schneider's Thai wife is in UAE Dubai. Corrupt police Sex tourism area of Pattaya Thailand. Stuff.co.nz. Lindsay Murdoch. Ransa Spooner. Fairfax Australia.

4 Dec 2015 – Ten Syrians linked to ISIS entered Thailand in Oct 2015 to attack Russian interests. Ynetnews.

4 Dec 2015 – A Malaysian businessman was shot dead in Songkhla province southern Thailand. The 54 year old victim Le Ah Han from Alor Setar Kedah. Two gunmen hit the victim with 10 shots while he was in his car. Business in property in Thailand. The Star.

4 Dec 2015 – Variety Jones from Silk road was arrested in Thailand. Wired.

4 Dec 2015 – An Israeli man who was wanted by Interpol red notice, for organ trafficking and fraud, was arrested at Ataturk airport Istanbul Turkey. Boris Walker arrived on a flight from Bangkok Thailand. Todays Zaman.

5 Dec 2015 – American confessed to the kidnap and murder of Aussie biker. Tyler Gerard age 21 was arrested at the Cambodian border. Hells Angels member Wayne Schneider. 26 year old Australian Antonio Bagnato and 3 other Australian men . Drug trafficking, meth with bikies in Australia;. Bangkok post.

10 Dec 2015 – Convicted Australian paedophile with a New Zealand passport was arrested in Thailand on child sex offences. An Australian teacher Peter Dundas Walbran from Sydney. He was found teaching at a school 600km from Bangkok. Rape and molestation of boys. (One news TVNZ. ABC Australia).

10 Dec 2015 – Paedophile travelling on a New Zealand passport was arrested in Thailand. An Australian convicted of child sex offences. Peter Dundas Walbran age 59 from Sydney Rape and molestation of boys some aged 8. He will be deported to New Zealand. MFAT NZ ministry of foreign affairs and trade. NZ Herald.

17 Dec 2015 – Anti Corruption digest. Thai police general who exposed corrupt officials and human trafficking seeks asylum in Australia. http://anticorruptiondigest.com/anti-corruption-news/2015/12/17/thai-officer-who-exposed-corrupt-officials-involved-in-human-trafficking-seeks-asylum-in-australia/#axzz3yEgWll3y

21 Dec 2015 – In Chiang Mai Thailand a bus plunged into a ravine. The driver fled from an earlier crash with a truck. 13 Malaysians were killed. The Star online. http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2015/12/21/thai-holiday-ends-in-tragedy-bus-plunges-into-ravine-as-driver-flees-from-earlier-collision-with-a-t/

23 Dec 2015 – A man from Singapore dies in Thailand. He fell from a bridge then got. hit by a car. Mr Wu Zhiming age 47 worked 3 jobs. A security officer, a Uber driver and in a resaurant. He had operated kindergartens for small children. The Starits Times. Shea Driscoll. http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/singaporean-man-dies-in-thailand-after-falling-from-bridge-and-getting-hit-by-car

25 Dec 2015 – Two British tourists were murdered in Thailand. Amnesty int wants an independent probe into Thai police torture. BBC UK. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35178204

14 Jan 2016 – Anonymous releases 1gb of data from the supreme court of Thailand. Softpedia news. Catlin Cimpanu. http://news.softpedia.com/news/anonymous-releases-1gb-of-data-from-supreme-court-of-thailand-498941.shtml

22 Jan 2016 – New Zealand's Wynyard group signs with Thailand corruption. Asha Barbaschow. Telstra links. http://www.zdnet.com/article/wynyard-group-signs-thailands-anti-corruption-commission/

24 Jan 2016 – New Zealander Ariana Brown age 43 killed in Thailand motorcycle crash. http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/76197665/amazing-woman-ariana-brown-killed-in-thailand-motorbike-crash


25 Jan 2016 – Body found in Thailand on a New Zealand registered yaucht. NZ Herald. Phuket's Nai Harn beach. The Waitane II yaucht. The man died about 10 days ago. Found by a hotel worker. Newstalk ZB. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11579357

25 Jan 2016 – 68 year old New Zealand man dies in Thailand. Patong beach Phuket. Condo owned by a bar owner. Also New Zealander Ariana Brown died hours after a Thai fight in a motorcycle crash into a tree. Stuff.co.nz. http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/76206992/new-zealand-man-dies-in-thailand

25 Jan 2016 – New Zealander dies, sex and bar owner in Thailand. NZ City. http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=220160&cat=1033&fm=newsmain%2Cnarts



















































​Wynyard Group signs Thailand's Anti-Corruption Commission | ZDNet

​Wynyard Group signs Thailand's Anti-Corruption Commission | ZDNet

Thai officer who exposed corrupt officials involved in human trafficking seeks asylum in Australia | Anti Corruption Digest

Thai officer who exposed corrupt officials involved in human trafficking seeks asylum in Australia | Anti Corruption Digest

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Brazil research

BRAZIL



1532 – Brazil’s slavery and bondage plantation economies. Sugar was the main crop in colonial Brazil in 1532. Sugar plantations or “fazendas” in Rio de Janero (timeline internet).

1550 – African slaves were transported to Brazil for sugar plantations.

16th to 18th centuries – High demand for sugar production resulted in the import of vast numbers of slaves from west. (21 Sept 2012).

1662-1807 – Between 1662 and 1807 British ships carried 3.25 million Africans across the Atlantic. 70% of them destined for the sugar economies of Brazil and the Caribbean. (The trader, the owner, the slave. James Walvin ©2007 UK).

Jan 1748 – Brazil and back to the UK. The “Greyhound” with African slaves. (The trade, the owner, the slaves. James Walvin (c)2007 UK).

1811-43 – About 50,000 slaves arrived at Valongo. This was Brazils main landing stage for African slaves.

1822-89 – Period of the Brazilian monarchy (timeline internet).

7 Sept 1822 – Brazil declared independence from Portugal (AP 9/7/97 timeline internet).

1839 – Italian revolutionary Garibaldi arrived in Brazil to help rebels there (timeline internet).

1865 – After the American civil war some southerners moved to Brazil where slavery was still permitted.

1874 – The “Adamant” ship arrived in Nelson New Zealand on 8 Aug 1874. On one voyage it ran aground off the coast of Brazil, but was refloated and continued its voyage. The voyage of the “Adamant” from Plymouth UK to Nelson NZ took 93 days. There were nine voyages to NZ altogether. (NZ genealogist. Jan Feb 2009).

13 May 1888 – Slavery was abolished in Brazil. About 4 million slaves were imported, the most of any country in the west.

13 May 1888 – Princess Isabel of Brazil signed 'Lei Aurea' abolishing slavery. (HistoryOrb.com Today in history 13 May 2015).

1900 – 1957 – Brazil killed more than 80 Indian tribes. The population went from one. million to less than 200,000. (Worse than war. David Jonah Goldhagen (c)2009 US).

11 Feb 1935 – Johann “Jonny” Heinrich de Graff was sent to Brazil. Luis Carlos Prestes revolutionary movement wanted to overthrow the right wing government of Pres Getulio Vargas who had seized power in 1930. There was no SIS station in Brazil but the UK had business there. Canadian owned Brazilian Traction light and power company was the Rio utility company. (M16 SIS Keith Jeffery ©crown 2010 UK).

24 Aug 1942 – Brazil and the allies. NZ Herald. Daily southern cross. Papers past.

26 Aug 1942 – Brazil. Christchurch Press NZ. Papers past.

29 June 1943 –Reading Eagle. Former Nazi envoy in Brazil jailed. 19 suspected as German spies. Rio de Janeiro, Kurt Preuffer, former German ambassador to Brazil and 18 others as Nazi spies.

May 1944 – In Brazil there were many arrests and 86 convictions, Abwehr Germans in Brazil. (FBI a history. Rodri Jefferys Jones ©2007 US).

30 May 1945 – Government of Brazil. The Press Christchurch NZ. Papers past.

1950’s – A Norwegian who had fought in the forests during the resistance of World War Two, and went to Harvard business school, landed in Brazil. Erling Lorentzen, was seeking pulp from Eucalyptus trees in Brazil. (The emerging market century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).

1954-87 – Alfreedo Stroessner an army general ruled Paraguay since 1954 when he seized power in a coup. Smuggling was a pillar of the economy, cigarettes, liquor and cars imported into Paraguay found their way to Brazil. Another racket was the laundering of stolen cars. Thousands of stolen cars from Brazil were taken to Paraguay and legalised on payment of a fee. The Stroessner regime was also linked to the drug trade. During the 1980’s Paraguay was importing chemicals used for coca paste into cocaine. Paraguay was one of the first Latin American countries where BCCI set up a branch. Ghaith Pharaon flew to Paraguay in late 1987.

1967-1980 – Red cross passports. Nazi Franz Stangl arrived in Brazil in 1967. He died in a German prison in 1971. Commander of Sobibor and Treblinka death camps. Where 1,250,000 Jews and gypsies were gassed to death. Stangl Nazis escaped on Red Cross passports. Gustav Wagner commander at Sobibor death camp. Arrested in Brazil in 1978and freed in Oct 1980, died in Sao Paulo Brazil. (Gods bankers. Gerald Posner. (c)2015 US).

3 September 1969 – The US ambassador to Brazil was kidnapped. Charles Burke Elbrick was kidnapped by the Marxist revolutionary group MR-8.

1970’s – Germany and a $5 billion contract with Brazil to build some power reactors and a reprocessing plant for spent nuclear fuel. President Carter vetoed the program because Brazil would have been able to produce enough plutonium to build an atomic bomb a month. The Germans eventually backed down. 1970’s German nuclear technology Helmut Schmidt and Jimmy Carter. German exports of advanced nuclear technology. (Last days of America. ©1981 PE Erdman).

1973 – John FW Dulles. Anarchists and Communists in Brazil. Austin Texas.

June 1973 – Order for 42 Northrop Tiger fighters worth $120 million Brazil (Arms bazaar. ©1977 Sampson).

1976 – A Roman ship was found, underwater archeology. Rio de Janero in 1976 from 250 AD in Brazil. (Atlantis and other lost worlds. Frank Joseph (c)2008 UK).

30 October 1978 – LDS President Kimball dedicates the Sao Paulo Brazil temple. (President LDS Mormon ©2006).

1980-2002 – Luiz Inaco Lula da Silva 2002 election in Brazil. A member of the progressive welfare party in 1980 helping the poor. Oil and gas reserves. (The secret history of the American empire. John Perkins ©2007 US).

Oct 1980 – Gustav Wagner died in Sao Paulo Brazil. (Gods banker. Gerald Posner. (c)2015 UK).

1988 – Antonio Bardellino and Mario Iovine, fish flour and cocaine business and murder. Interpol tracking. Bardellino’s body was never found. (Gomorrah, the other mafia. Roberto Saviano (c)2007 Italy).

1990s – In Brazil the Cali cartel worked closely with Italy’s organised crime groups there from Cyprus to launder drug money. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

1994 – Orphans and the transition from slave to free labour in northeast Brazil. John Meznar. Journal of social history.

1 May 1997 – Christopher Colombo missing person.

1998-Nov 2005 – China’s President visited in Nov 2005, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Peru. Chinese business, a satellite program in 1998. (The secret of the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).

1999 – A concise history of Brazil. Boris Fausto. Google books.

2000-2001 – Illicit trafficking in firearms. Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Pericles Gasparini Alves. UN institute. New York UN Worldcat database.

24 July 2002 – Ukraine and Brazil launch construction of a new booster rocket. Development of Tsiklom4 SLV for use from Brazils Alcantara facility. $180 million project equally shared by Ukraine involves more than 50 Ukraine firms. (Interfax FBIS doc CEP)

29 Oct 2003 – A shipment from Manaus Brazil through Rijeka Croatia was stopped in Hamburg Germany port with 255 kilos of cocaine. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

Feb 2004 – Cupola leader Fabio Franco was pulled out of the boot of a car by Brazil’s police after his arrest in Sao Paulo. (The history of organised crime. David Southwell ©2006 UK).

25 August 2004 – Brazil police seize black market uranium ore, taken from a secret mine. 1,320 pods of ore containing radioactive metals in a pick up truck was seized.

Jan 2005 – World Socialist forum in Brazil. (The secret of the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).

2006 – Smuggling charges as organs are harvested from street children in Brazil. Costa Nostra. (The history of organised crime. David Southwell ©2006).

13 May 2006 – Sao Paulo violence, a rebellion in several prisons in Brazil. (HistoryOrb.com Today in history 13 May 2015).

9 August 2006 – Violence in Sao Paulo, suspected gang members exchanged gunfire with police, and hurled Molotov cocktails at banks, and burned buses in and around Sao Paulo, for a second day. A Brazilian died when he opened a grenade with a sledgehammer. Rios armed drug gangs who raid military bases.

27 November 2006 – Fake suicide bomber threaten to blow up Sao Paulo stock exchange. A masked man threatened to blow up the building of the Sao Paulo Stock exchange. Later it was discovered he was carrying a fake bomb.

2007 – A Brazilian CEO became head of Inbev Ambev, the world largest beer company, in a merger. (The emerging markets century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).

2007 – Brazil’s CVRD made a $17.6 billion takeover bid for Canadian nickel giant Inco ltd. (The emerging market century. ©20076 Antoine van Agtmael).

2007 – The regional jets you fly are made by Embraer in Brazil. (The emerging markets century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).

16 Feb 2007 – Brazil’s air force chief, major general Pedro Rafael Pena Antonio said on 15 Feb 2007. The Brazil government has offered to sell eight combat airplanes to the Dominican republic, Estadao reported. The transaction would include a funding plan for 100% of the aircrafts value. (Stratfor intel summary 16 Feb 2007).

2010 – UNICEF says 18% of children under five in Latin America and the Caribbean have not been legally registered. In Brazil 25 million people do not have a birth certificate. Three million babies in Colombia have not been legally registered. In Mexico’s Chiapas 25,000 boys and girls do not have a birth certificate. A person with no ID is not able to identify themselves. Those who “do not exist”. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

12 Nov 2010 – Transport trailers. Port of Gioia Tauro Calabria operation meta. An undocumented container from Brazil filled with trailers for agriculture. Metal tubes frames 1,000 blocks and 1,000 kilos of cocaine. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

February 2011 – LDS Mormon Church history in Brazil. Ensign p70.

8 April 2011 – 1,200 kilos of cocaime was sent from Brazil in cans of palm, container at the port of Livorno was seized. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

21 Dec 2011 – At Fiumicino airport a Spanish model from Sao Paulo Brazil was detained. 2.5 kilos of pure cocaine crystals were found in her artificial breasts and buttocks. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

19 March 2012 – Secret files show 9,000 Nazis fled to South America after world war two. 2,000 Nazis in Brazil. Secret files from Bazil and Chile. Daily Mail online. Allan Hall. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2117093/Secret-files-reveal-9-000-Nazi-war-criminals-fled-South-America-WWII.html

June 2012 – LDS Mormon President Dieter F Uchtdorf dedicated the temple in Manaus Brazil. Ensign. Nov 2012.

8 June 2012 – Peanuts. The port of Gioia Tauro found in a container from Bazil was 630 kilos of cocaine. 580 blocks stuffed in 16 bags hidden in a shipment of peanuts. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

15 June 2012 – Sugar. The port of London UK a harbor terminal on the Thames. 30 kilos of cocaine was found hidden in a load of sugar in a cargo ship from Brazil. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

22 July 2012 – In Portugal the police arrested a man from Vicenza and found 120 kilos of cocaine in a container of skins from Brazil. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

3 Sept 2012 – At Lagos Nigeria airport a Nigerian from Brazil Sao Paulo. Customs found 2.5 kilos of cocaine hidden in roast chicken. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).

19 November 2012 – Brazil’s sex traffickers target Switzerland. Human trafficking a code of silence in Switzerland.

1 Jan 2013 – Mushtaq Ahmed. Missing person. Interpol.

12 May 2013 – Tammy Emanuele Alves Caldeira. Missing person.

13 March 2014 – NZ police look for cocaine smuggling suspect. Brazilian $1 million cocaine bust. South America. A cocaine supply route between Auckland and Christchurch New Zealand. Waikato Times NZ.

5 June 2014 – Daniel Stuckey. Andrew Blake. How FBI informant Sabu helped Anonymous hack Brazil. Motherboard Vice.

6 June 2014 – Two Brazilian's admit supplying cocaine. Possession of cocaine for supply 2.35 kilograms of cocaine worth 3.5 million was hidden. The Press NZ. David Clarkson.

23 June 2014 – FIFA world cup forces homelessness on thousands of children. Sick and elderly too. Liberty voice. Forced evictions by government. Liberty voice. Rebecca Savastio.

8 July 2014 – Brazil torture techniques revealed in declassified US documents.

6 Aug 2014 - . Four Brazil police officers arrested on rape charges. in a poor area. slums and police units. Latino Fox news EFE.

18 Sept 2014 – Tait expands in South America. New Zealand communications company buys Brazil giant SGM telecommunicacoei. Christchurch New Zealand based Tait communications. A digital wireless business. Sao Paulo military and police riots and anti poor people. Military police in Panama too. NZ Herald. Holly Ryan.

28 Sept 2014 – Senator dismissed for corruption in Brazil now behind bars. Banker construction magnate Luiz Estrevao. Fox news Latino.

4 Oct 2014 – Brazil elections. Wall street journal. Rio de Janeiro Rochinha slums. Reuters Sao Paulo.

6 Oct 2014 – The persistence of corruption in Brazil’s politics. Embezzlement and corruption. Brazil politics. Deusche Welle.

16 Oct 2014 – 51 arrested for child porn in Brazil. Brazil Business Today. Paedophiles.

22 Oct 2014 – Brazil corruption. Presidential voting, the evil of corruption is spreading like an epidemic. New York Times.

29 Oct 2014 – Lucas Lindemann Aagesen. Missing 9 year old boy. Interpol. San Paulo Brazil.

29 Oct 2014 – Brazil Socialist. The New Yorker. Dilma Rousseff. Brazil’s Socialist elected pres. The world’s fifth most populous country. Socialism and corruption. The Guardian UK.

31 Oct 2014 – Petrobras, law firms, corruption investigation., Petrobras is Brazil’s biggest company. Corruption scandals, money laundering and manipulation investigations.

31 Oct 2014 – Socialism and corruption in Brazil. Rouseff. The Guardian UK. embezzlement.

4 Nov 2014 – Petrobras int CEO. Wall Street Journal. Rio de Janero. Brazil State run company Petroleo Brasileko SA. Seattle SP.

4 Nov 2014 – Intelnews.org. Joseph Fitsanakis. Brazil to Portugal internet cable to avoid US intel agencies.

Nov 2014 – NZ prison guard denies corruption and bribery. Phillip Smith, murder and paedophile escaped from a NZ jail in Nov 2014 and went to Brazil. Robert Sikora denied charges. TVNZ. One news. Chris Chang. 21 Oct. https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/prison-guard-denies-corruption-charges-in-phillip-smith-investigation-q16644.html

5 Nov 2014 – Brazil police and deaths in Belem. Police revenge attacks. Reports of off duty police killing nine people in Belem. BBC UK.

5-6 Nov 2014 – Nine people are killed in Brazil. Police vigilantes. San Paulo. The poor port city of Belem. Police killed nine people. Int business Times. Wall street journal.

9 Nov 2014 – US opens investigation into Brazil’s Petrobras. Nasdaq. US dept of justice. CNBC.

10 Nov 2014 – US turns up heat on investigation into Petrobras. Brazils biggest company, corruption case. Pres Dilma Rousseff. Financial Times.

10 Nov 2014 – Phillip Smith is now in Brazil. Brazil business news. Interpol.

11 Nov 2014 – Killer and paedophile from New Zealand is now in Brazil. Daniel Galvin. Passport Phillip John Traynor. Stuff.co.nz.

11 Nov 2014 – New Zealand murderer and prison escaper, paedophile may have joined up with an international paedophile ring in Brazil. NZ Herald. John Weekes.

11 Nov 2014 – Gherkin brought by Brazil’s banking rich for 700 million. Joseph Safra, Brazils second richest man is worth $12.2 billion. Bloomberg billionaires index. Telegraph UK.

11 Nov 2014 – The Gherkin, sold to Brazil’s Joseph Safra. The Gherkin is a London skyscraper. The Guardian UK.

11 Nov 2014 – Trail of escaped killer and paedophile leads to Brazil. Interpol spokesman Ricardo Quiroz.

11 Nov 2014 – Police talk to pair over Smith’s escape. A US based police officer is on his way to Brazil. Interpol alerts.

12 Nov 2014 – Skynews. Australia. International hunt for New Zealand paedophile killer. AAP.

13 Nov 2014 – Brazil police kill six people a day says report. Brazil forum on public safety. Police killed 11,197 people over the past 5 years. The Guardian UK.

13 Nov 2014 – Let Brazils homeless speak for themselves. Citylab. Removal of minors on the streets. Treatment of homeless by government is harsh.

13 Nov 2014 – Brazil’s police captured New Zealand murderer and paedophile Smith. Wellington Nick Perry. Brad Brooks in Rio de Janeiro.

15 Nov 2014 – Petrobras scandal widens, earning delayed. Sao Paulo, federal police arrested former executive. Wall street journal.

15 Nov 2014 – Brazil police arrest 18 in Petrobras corruption raids. State run oil firm Petrobras. BBC UK.

29 Nov 2014 – Skanska quits South America over corruption. 20 senior managers with a construction company in Brazil have been arrested for corruption. P
aying bribes. The Local.

14 Dec 2014 – Corruption allegations. Costa and moneylender Alberto Youssef among the first 20 to be arrested in March 2014. Corruption in Brazil. Telegraph UK.

17 Jan 2015 – Brazil and Tait. Tess McClure. Christchurch New Zealand tech company Tait communications. Brazil hub in Sao Paulo, Garry Diack. Contracts with the Sao Paulo police. Military police of the state of Parema and Petrobras. The Press Chch NZ. Stuff.co.nz.

22 Jan 2015 – A Brazilian surfer was shot dead by a police officer who was drunk. Funeral for the surfer with thousands of mourners. The Guardian UK.

27 March 2015 – Audrey Young. GCSB spying report. Brazil demands an explanation from New Zealand. Brazil diplomat Roberto Azevedo. The New Zealand GCSB spied on Brazil at the WTO. NZ Herald.

28 March 2015 – Corruption currents. Brazil new bribery scandal. Petrobras state owned oil company. Wall street journal.

28 March 2015 – Brazil police say massive tax fraud scheme. Sao Paulo AP Federal police say companies fraud amounts to $2 billion in unpaid fines and taxes. NZ Herald.

12 May 2015 – A mega city runs dry. Brazil's largest city is the focus of the worst water crisis. The largest city in a country, that holds 20% of the earth's fresh water supply ends up without any. Dandelion Care2.

8 June 2015 – Two people are dead after a prison riot erupted in south east Brazil's overcrowded jail. Two prisoners died. TVNZ. CTV news.

12 June 2015 – HSBC and Citigroup, Socgen foreign banks in Brazil. HSBC holdings pic. Scaling back in Bazil. Bloomberg.

26 June 2015 – Italy's mafia and cocaine trafficking. Calabrian crime syndicate Ndrangheta, drugs going through Brazil. 80% of all cocaine entering Europe goes through Santos port. Brazil. The Guardian UK.

29 July 2015 – Brazil businessman Odebrecht charged in corruption scandal. BBC UK.

29 July 2015 – CEO from Brazil Electonuclear was arrested in corruption probe. Electrobras unit. Bribes from construction companies between 2009 and 2014. Wall street journal.

1 Aug 2015 – HSBC nears $4 billion sale with Brazil. Bradesco is Brazil's second largest private bank, in talks with HSBC. Reuters. Financial Times.

19 Oct 2015 – Petrobras corruption. UK taxpayers pay millions, Brazil oil company. The Independent UK. Chris Green.

22 Oct 2015 – The horrors of Brazil's prisons. Jorges story. No matress to sleep on. State of Pernambuco, over crowded east Brazil. Human rights watch. The week in rights.

23 Oct 2015 – Killings of street children by police in Brazil, leading up to the 2016 Olympics. Twitter. CSC.

23 Oct 2015 – Street children are being killed in Brazil. Twitter. CSC.

4 Nov 2015 – Brazil's construction tycoon has been jailed for 19 years, for Petrobras corruption. Money laundering and racketeering. $8.3 million in bribes and Petrobras. Merco pres Sergio Cunha Mendes.

6 Nov 2015 – Dams burst in Brazil. 16 people were reported dead. A mining company in south east Brazil. Drowning homes and cars nearby. NZ Herald. Sydney Morning Herald.

27 Nov 2015 – A 6.4 earthquake hit western Brazil. G+. Griffin Walker. NDTV. USGS.

5 Dec 2015 – Corruption and economic crisis. The corruption scandal at Petrobras the . state owned energy company. Financial Times.

5 Dec 2015 – Global crisis. Goldman Sachs says that Brazil has plunged into an outright economic depression. One of the most important banks in the western world. A full blown economic depression. Brazil's economy and things are going to get far worse. An economic disaster. G+. Before its news.

12 Dec 2015 – Corruption in big irrigation plan. Millions of dollars was diverted. Arrests in corruption of water project. NZ Herald. Wall street journal. Sao Paulo. AP. Reuters.

24 Dec 2015 – Brazil and a mosquito virus. Link between mosquito virus and birth defects. VOA. State of emergency in Brazil. http://www.voanews.com/content/brazil-grapples-with-mosquito-borne-virus/3116730.html

5 Jan 2016 – Brazil heads for worst recession since 1901. Last time was 1930 to 1931 the Great Depression years. David Biller. Bloomberg. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-04/brazil-analysts-ring-in-new-year-with-deeper-recession-forecast



































































Brazil Heads for Worst Recession Since 1901, Economists Forecast - Bloomberg Business

Brazil Heads for Worst Recession Since 1901, Economists Forecast - Bloomberg Business