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‘Official Partners’ of Azerbaijan’s COP29 Climate Summit Linked To Ruling Aliyev Family and Their Inner Circle
Whether it’s Silk Way West Airlines, the PASHA Holding conglomerate, or fabric company GILTEX — everywhere this year’s international visitors in Baku look, they’ll see companies that have been linked to the family of Azerbaijan’s authoritarian president, Ilham Aliyev.
Balkan Criminals Planned Murders Using Encrypted Phones from Canadian Start-Up Sky Global
Sky phones were a favorite tool for criminals to discuss logistics. Now, it turns out that some of Sky’s most prolific “resellers” were Serbian criminals affiliated with organized groups that have been wreaking havoc in the Balkans.
How a Canadian Company's Encrypted Phones Ended Up in the Hands of Criminals Worldwide
It didn’t take long for business to boom after Jean-Francois Eap launched a Vancouver-based start-up selling ultra-secure phones. Now facing charges in France and the U.S., Eap says he didn’t know his client base included organized crime. But his own distributors had connections to the criminal underworld — and their resellers often had convictions themselves.
‘Official Partners’ of Azerbaijan’s COP29 Climate Summit Linked To Ruling Aliyev Family and Their Inner Circle
Whether it’s Silk Way West Airlines, the PASHA Holding conglomerate, or fabric company GILTEX — everywhere this year’s international visitors in Baku look, they’ll see companies that have been linked to the family of Azerbaijan’s authoritarian president, Ilham Aliyev.
Balkan Criminals Planned Murders Using Encrypted Phones from Canadian Start-Up Sky Global
Sky phones were a favorite tool for criminals to discuss logistics. Now, it turns out that some of Sky’s most prolific “resellers” were Serbian criminals affiliated with organized groups that have been wreaking havoc in the Balkans.
How a Canadian Company's Encrypted Phones Ended Up in the Hands of Criminals Worldwide
It didn’t take long for business to boom after Jean-Francois Eap launched a Vancouver-based start-up selling ultra-secure phones. Now facing charges in France and the U.S., Eap says he didn’t know his client base included organized crime. But his own distributors had connections to the criminal underworld — and their resellers often had convictions themselves.
August 6th, 2007

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The Central Bank of Montenegro cited "improper reporting" as reason for special audit of the troubled First Bank, which is controlled by the family of Prime Minister Milo Đukanović.

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The Booming Global Trade in Smuggled Cigarettes