| After OneCoin Trial Tweets Named Amer
Abdulaziz Other Links Raised To Inner City
Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Periscope
BBC
- The
Times UK - Honduras
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Source
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 26 – During the jury
trial of Mark Scott this month
for laundering money for
OneCoin and Ruja
Ignatova, a number of
names of indicted
co-conspirators emerged.
One of
them was Amer Abdulaziz
Salman. Now his Phoenix
thoroughbred fund is
liquidation, even as the
company makes legal threats
against Inner City Press'
reporting of sworn testimony
from the trial.
As Inner City Press reported
on November 6, surprise
cooperating witness Konstantin
Ignatov brought up Amer
Abdulaziz during his
testimony, live-tweeted
@InnerCityPress, and see here.
Inner City
Press has been contacted from
Dubai of Sheikh Mohammed bin
Rashid al Maktoum, from Amer
Abdulaziz's native Bahrain and
elsewhere by whistleblowers in
the horse racing industry,
with extensive information
about Amer Abdulaziz's work
and sudden windfall with
OneCoin money.
Abdulaziz
for example was described as
not paying for three horses,
with it being reported that
Fasig-Tipton had not received
payment for grade I winner
Crisp and the broodmares
Little Bonnet and Sky Mom, who
were sold for more than $1.9
million combined...
Dubai-based agent Ajay Anne
purchased the three horses for
a group of Dubai-based
investors headed by Amer Abdul
Aziz. Crisp (by El Corredor )
brought $900,000 while the
stakes-placed winner Little
Bonnet (by Coronado's Quest),
who is the dam of grade I
winner Boys At Tosconova , and
grade III winner Sky Mom (by
Maria's Mon) brought $725,000
and $320,000, respectively.
Abdulaziz, in an interview
[that he apparently later
claimed was off the record and
reportedly paid to get removed
from the Internet], indicated
the transactions were close to
being finalized. “We
purchased the horses because
they are very exciting horses,
top quality,” he said. “There
have been some delays because
of the formation of the
investment company and that is
being finalized. We are just
liquidating the funds into the
company’s account. As we speak
the payment is being
made. “Everything was
finalized two days ago so we
are looking at closing the
deal in the next couple of
days. There was some delay
with the licensing, there was
some delay with the
investors."
After some delay, and not
insubstantial humiliation for
Ajay Anne with his connections
to Dubai Sheikh Mohammed's
Darley and the repeat promise
that an Abu Dhabi sheikh was
coming in, investment in
Abdulaziz by OneCoin and Ruja
Ignatova occurred.
As we've previously noted,
through his Phoenix fund, Amer
Abdulaziz has been buying up
thoroughbred horses. Phoenix's
horses have included
"Advertise," the son of
Showcasing, set to begin a
stallion career projected to
be lucrative at the National
Stud in New Market in 2020.
Among the many connections now
being explored by Inner City
Press is that former New
England Patriots tight end and
now FOX Sports studio analyst
Rob Gronkowski bought a
substantial stake in one of
Amer Abdulaziz's horses,
bearing his name, see link here.
During the trial, Inner City
Press tweeted its surprise the
Amer Abdulaziz was, unlike
Ruja Ignatova, living in plain
sight. It has continued: he
has re-tweeted as recently as
November 20.
While some say he is going
into hiding, it would seem
that the US FBI or its
overseas partners could easily
bring him in. So
why haven't they? This is an
ongoing Inner City Press
series. More on Patreon here.
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