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Keeping
Foreign Corruption Out of the United States: Four Case
Histories |
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Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations
The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has
scheduled a hearing, ”Keeping Foreign Corruption Out of
the United States: Four Case Histories,” on Thursday,
February 4, 2010, at 9:30 a.m., in Room 342 of the
Dirksen Senate Office Building.
The Subcommittee hearing will examine how some
politically powerful foreign officials, their relatives,
or close associates – referred to in international
agreements as “Politically Exposed Persons” or PEPs –
have used the services of U.S. professionals and U.S.
financial institutions to bring millions of dollars in
suspect funds into the United States to advance their
interests. Four case histories will illustrate how some
PEPs have used U.S. lawyers, realtors, escrow agents,
lobbyists, bankers, and others to circumvent U.S.
anti-money laundering and anti-corruption safeguards. It
will also look at how some U.S. professionals have
actively helped PEPs avoid bank scrutiny or facilitated
suspect transactions with no questions asked.
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Human Rights Watch |
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Conditions in
Equatorial Guinea cast serious doubt about the
credibility of the forthcoming presidential
election,
Human Rights Watch
said
today.
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who has
ruled the oil-rich West African country since
seizing power in a coup in 1979, is widely
expected to easily win the presidential vote
scheduled for November 29, 2009.
"President Obiang
claims that he's committed to the rule of law,"
said Arvind Ganesan, director of the Business
and Human Rights Program at Human Rights Watch.
"But his actions time and again are those of a
dictator determined to hang onto power and
control of the country's oil money."
There are
indications that visas might be
restricted again this year. In mid-November,
while speaking at an oil and gas
conference in London, the vice minister
of mines, industry and energy announced
that the government was instituting a
new visa regime "to defend Equatorial
Guinea" from "people without good
intentions.
See full report
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TO
SUCCEED IN YOUR PROJECT AND/OR ENTERPRISE
IN EQUATORIAL GUINEA, AFRICA & MADAGASCAR
WELCOME TO
MADESTA
INTERNATIONAL
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Equatorial Guinea:One-Man Rule in Equatorial
Guinea |
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Equatorial Guinea, a
geographical speck on the landscape of Africa,
is surely one of the sad stories of the
continent. The late President Masie Nguema
Biyogo, the uncle of the present dictator,
remains one of the worst tyrants ever produced
by Africa. His 11-year reign in Equatorial
Guinea was characterized by brutal massacres and
horrifying atrocities against his
compatriots.For instance, about 150 alleged coup
plotters were executed at the national stadium
on December 25, 1975 with the killings
accompanied by the sound of a band playing Mary
Hopkin's tune, **Those Were The Days**! An
estimated 7,000 Europeans were said to have
emigrated from a country of about 300,000
population, while about 45,000 Nigerians were
evacuated in 1976. In all, between September
1968 when Nguema Biyogo was inaugurated as
president and August 1979 when he was overthrown,
an estimated 80,000 citizens were reported to
have been killed by the regime with about one-fourth
of that number fleeing into exile.
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Equatorial Guinea:President Confident of
Electoral Landslide |
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So confident is
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of the
outcome of Equatorial Guinea's election on
Sunday that he expects to win by the same
margin as in 2002 - with 97.1 percent of the
vote, reports Le Pays of Ouagadougou.
The
newspaper also reports that Obiang
Nguema, who came to power in a coup
in 1979, could very possibly achieve
his objective, since the only
opposition leader in the country's
parliament, Plácido Micó Abogo, is
not strong enough to provide a real
challenge to the ruling
party.Moreover, says the paper, all
state power is concerntrated in the
hands of the president and his ,
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associates who will do
everything to make sure he gets re-elected. |
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Topical Focus Pages: Equatorial
Guinea |
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Zimbabwe:
Equatorial
Guinea Joins Cholera Fight
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EQUATORIAL GUINEA has donated a
consignment of 57 tonnes of drugs and water treatment
chemicals to Zimbabwe to assist in the fight against
cholera.Equatorial Guinea Deputy Foreign Minister Mr
Jose Esono Micha handed the first 40 tonnes
of the consignment to Health and Child
Welfare Deputy Minister Dr Douglas
Mombeshora and the ministry's permanent
secretary, Dr Gerald Gwinji, at Harare
International Airport yesterday.Mr Micha --
who earlier paid a courtesy call on
President Mugabe at Zimbabwe House and
delivered a special |
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message from President
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo -- flew into
Harare with the consignment yesterday. He said
after reports that Zimbabwe had been hit by a
cholera outbreak, Equatorial Guinea felt obliged
to assist Harare as a friend
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Nigeria:
Maduekwe
Visits Equatorial Guinea Over Attack
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Nigeria 's Foreign Affairs Minister
Ojo Maduekwe during the week visited President Theodore
Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea over the recent attack on
the presidential palace in Malabo. |
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Central Africa:
Cameroon-Equatorial Guinea Border Sealed
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Maritime
transactions between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea have
reportedly been halted since Tuesday, February 17,
following attacks by unidentified armed men at President
Obiang Nguema's Presidential lodge in the capital city
of Malabo. |
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Nigeria Says Delta
Militants May Have Been Involved in Equatorial Guinea
Attack
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Nigerian
Foreign
Minister
Ojo Maduekwe (file photo)Nigeria says it is conceivable
that militants from its
Niger
Delta may have been behind Tuesday's attack on
Equatorial
Guinea's presidential palace. Foreign...
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Delta militants may
be behind Guinea raid
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By Felix Onuah Abuja -
Militants from the
Niger
Delta or foreign mercenaries may have been behind an
attack on
Equatorial
Guinea's presidential palace, Nigeria's foreign
minister
said on Wednesday. Gunmen in...
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Shootout reported
near presidential palace in Equatorial Guinea's capital
of Malabo
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MALABO,
Equatorial
Guinea
(AP) — Gunmen clashed with security forces near the
presidential palace in Equatorial Guinea early Tuesday
but officials said it did not appear to be a coup
attempt in the...
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CAF
officials lament shoddy services at AWC |
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There
seems to be no end in sight to the poor
organization, which has characterised the
sixth edition of the African Women
Championship (AWC) currently going on in two
centers in Equatorial Guinea.Ever
since the commencement of the championship
last Saturday, there have been complaints of
poor organisation from players and officials
of the visiting teams, especially in the
areas of transportation, feeding and
accreditation. |
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All
journalists covering the championship have equally been
subjected to various degrees of hardship, as they were
denied such services as accreditation, the use of media
center, mixed zone and press tribune. |
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Sheba hospital suspected of selling know-how to foreign
countries |
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The Health
Ministry became aware of Sheba's extensive ties with
hospitals abroad years after they had begun, according
to documents, letters and memorandums shown to Haaretz.
On December 10, 2007, the deputy director general of
Sheba Medical Center, Dr. Yitzhak Zeidis, detailed the
hospital's activities abroad to Prof. Israeli. According
to Zeidis, the hospital had then ceased training doctors
and nurses for the hospital in Equatorial Guinea.
However, Zeidis told Israeli that Sheba was still
involved in training medical staff and providing
expertise on building hospitals and laboratories to
several countries such as Kazakhstan, the Ivory Coast,
Russia and China. In addition, he said that Sheba
medical staff was in talks regarding providing expertise
to hospitals in Georgia, Ukraine, Hungary, China and
India. |
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Guinea Gulf piracy needs international response-UN |
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The United Nations has called for an international
response to a growing threat from seaborne pirates attacking oil facilities,
ships and towns on or around the coast of West Africa. |
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Western and other nations have already sent warships to fight the pirates
threatening shipping off the Horn of Africa.
But on the other side of the continent, heavily-armed gunmen in fast launches
have in the last year preyed on oil plants, oil and fishing boats and even
coastal towns in a region grouping the main African suppliers of crude oil to
the West and China.Seaborne raiders initially focused on Nigeria's Niger Delta, where militants
are battling the government over oil |
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revenues.But more recently raiders have
robbed banks and confronted security forces in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and
Benin. |
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US
trains Cameroon, Guinea military |
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The
US Navy has trained Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea Navy and
Air Force Officers in Search and Rescue Operations. The
exercise is to help Cameroon's Air Force and Navy
officers ability to jointly conduct search and rescue
operations while working with a US Navy P-3 Orion
maritime surveillance aircraft. Search and
Rescue (SAR) classes were given to Cameroon Navy and Air
Force officers at Douala Air Force Base. The SAR mission
flew over |
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Cameroon waters with the
country’s Air Force and Navy riders on board the P-3.At
the end of the exercise, the armed forces of Cameroon
honed their ability to locate a vessel in distress and
rescue survivors utilising a combination of search
aircraft, rescue vessels and their newly fielded
Automatic Identification System (AIS). |
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Dear
Mr. President BUSH |
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I am deeply
concerned that aforementioned statements and actions by you and high
ranking administration officials directly contradict the policy you
articulated in your second inaugural address when you said that the
United States will encourage reform in other governments by making
clear that success in our relation "will require the decent
treatment of their own people." |
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The
government of Equatorial Guinea has an abysmal track
record in the area of human rights, democracy and
transparency. According to this year's Country Reports
on Human Rights, "(t)he government's human rights record
remained poor, and the government continues to commit or
condone serious abuses," including torture by |
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the
security forces, abridgement of citizens' right to
change their government, government and judicial
corruption, and severe restrictions on freedom of the
press.
President Obiang, who took over Equatorial Guinea in a
coup in 1979, has never stood for free and fair
elections. The State Department found that "(t)he 2002
presidential election was marred by extensive fraud and
intimidation," and "the international community widely
criticized the 2004 parliamentary elections as seriously
flawed." |
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