Great – now there’s a link between Malta government consultant Shiv Nair and the supply of private militias/mercenaries operating in sub-Saharan Africa
Information on Nair and his link to private militias/mercenaries operating in undemocratic states has been emerging slowly. But here’s a message I’ve just received. Bureau Securitas and Lonestar are his operations.
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Hi Daphne, I happen to know Robert Hudson from Bureau Securitas, which is owned by the British North Borneo Company, and it’s all bad news I’m afraid.
Hudson is linked to the defunct PMC (Private Military Company, or mercenary if you prefer) Executive Outcomes and Sandline International, either by the personnel he works with or more directly.
A few years back he was parading his financial backers, two large Texan men, around Tripoli hoping to get into the oil business with the Ghadaffi regime before the revolution put an end to that idea.
The fund that the Texan backers claimed to represent was called Lonestar plc and according to them it had capital reserves of 2 billion dollars. At the time I had carried out a due diligence on their supposed fund but found virtually nothing about it.
The entire story behind the British North Borneo company is developing into something that could have been written by Fredrick Forsyth, and even though it is intriguing, it is worrying at the same time since Malta’s economy is too fragile to be blackened by this sort of hall of mirrors, we are now getting pulled into.
So much for transparency.
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Why aren’t newspapers reporting this?
Lonestar plc is the public procurement company of British Borneo Holdings, lately renamed British Borneo Holding.
http://www.bureausecuritas.com/pages/companyprofile/
The URL http://www.lonestarplc.com/ is inactive. It is registered in the name of Ian Smith on behalf of British Borneo Holdings
http://whois.net/whois/lonestarplc.com
Domain Name: LONESTARPLC.COM
Registrant Name: ian smith
Registrant Organization: British Borneo Holdings
Name Server: NS01.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server: NS02.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
That’s what one gets when one looks through kaleidoscope eyes.
On a different note.
Gozo Channel has suspended it’s Duty Manager in the Anton Refalo affair.
If, as Refalo says, he was so adamant against the boat turning back for him to the point of stating that he shouted into his phone for the boat not to turn back then why did he board it when it did?
Simple n’est-ce pas?
Lonestar plc appears to have morphed into something else.
Premium Borneo Communications (a Nair company) says on its website that Mark L Zammit is a key facilitator in the operations of RAM Borneo Associates and is also Director of Lonestar Corporation (www.lonestarltd.com) and Bureau Securitas Ltd (www.bureausecuritas.com).
http://www.lonestarltd.com is inactive. The domain name is registered as follows:
Domain Name: LONESTARLTD.COM
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Registrant Name: shiv shanker
Registrant Organization: Malta Holdings Ltd
Name Server: NS01.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server: NS02.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
(Malta Holdings Ltd lists a director by the name of Shiv Preyan Shanker at Flat 5 Richmond Park Towers St Julians, with identity number 093071554.)
Premium Borneo Communications’ website also says that Nair is a director of RAM-Borneo Ltd, a joint venture with International RAM Associates of the US, British Borneo Steam Ship Co., Eastern and Oriental Capital and British Borneo Petroleum Ltd.
http://opencorporates.com/companies/mt/C44202 says that Ram Borneo Associates is registered at 12/15 Strait Street Valletta as company number C 44202
The company registry of Malta Financial Services Authority lists company number C 44202 as Lonestar Holdings Limited, at 30A Palazzo Trigona, Victor Denaro Street, Msida MSD 1603.
The directors, shareholders, legal representatives and judicial representatives are given as Shiv Preyan Shanker (Valletta) with ID number 40711A and Peter Sullivan (Sliema) with ID number 604460M. The secretary is Rustam Ismailov (Msida) with ID number 48968A. The auditor is Lucienne Cini whose identity document number is given as 19837.
Peter Sullivan also owns Peter N Sullivan & Associates Ltd, listed at the same address as Lonestar Holdings Ltd, i.e. 30 Victor Denaro Street, Msida.
Out of curiosity, is it so far out of the realm of possibility that Shiv Nair also gave Muscat himself a load of money that he now keeps hidden somewhere?
After all, this sort of thing is what got him blacklisted by the World Bank in the first place.
Out of curiosity, is it possible that the Labour Party got a stash of money that helped it get elected so that Muscat would be PM and Nair would have someone he could really do business with?
You remind me of the half million in “flus kontanti” Manwel Mallia admitted to hoarding at home.
Has a decent explanation been provided by Manwel Mallia about the source of those funds?
And where are they now, still under the mattress?
Electrogas is one of the finalists in supply of gas to Enemalta for the next 18 years. Electrogas is a consortsium made up of the Tumas Gasan group and the state of Azerbaijan as reported in Malta Today. I would not be surprised if Nair is in there somewhere. My gut feeling is that this Company will win the contract. Any bets?
I have the same feelings exactly. The company has to have Maltese interests somewhere.
Azerbaijan is one of the highly corrupt countries in the Transparency International list – ranks in 139th place out of 176 countries. And that’s not because of the Eurovision vote rigging.
Wait for the BIG BANG…..all the fault of the former government no doubt.
It is about time that politicians in parliament press for some information from government on what they know about this person whom it uses as a consultant.