Nadhmi Auchi

Billionaire and thief, henchman of Tony Rezko, a rich criminal who colluded with Obama, a foreigner who is not eligible to be the President of the United States but tried it on anyway. The Wiki currently [ December 2010 ] claims that Nadhmi Auchi is clean. Believe them if you want.

From Billionaire fraudster Nadhmi Auchi legal attack on New Statesman over Wikileaks link, 20 Oct 2008

 

Billionaire fraudster Nadhmi Auchi legal attack on New Statesman over Wikileaks link, 20 Oct 2008
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The file presents a 20 Oct 2008 legal demand to the respected left-leaning British current affairs weekly, The New Statesman. The letter requests censorship of content and compensation. The demand was issued from London lawyers Carter Ruck, representing British-Iraqi multi-billionaire and convicted fraudster (2003) Nadhmi Auchi. Mr. Auchi has recently attracted US media attention due to his close relationship with the Chicago figure and convicted fraudster (June, 2008) "Tony" Rezko, a former associate of Barack Obama.

Carter Ruck's legal threats demand all manner of disproportionate redress for an October 2008 blog entry by New Statesman political editor Martin Bright. Bright's blog linked to the Wikileaks page "Eight stories on Obama linked billionaire Nadhmi Auchi censored from the Guardian, Observer, Telegraph and New Statesman". The Wikileaks page also contains links to an analysis of the censorship issue and links to a 2004 US military anti-corruption report describing Nadhmi Auchi's business dealings in Iraq circa 2003-2004.

Wikileaks, the organization holding the reports in question, has never been contacted by Carter Ruck or Nadhmi Auchi—something which is fundamentally at odds with claims of wanting to correct the record. Indeed many of the refutations appear to be baseless or wordplay. The action appears to be little more than a punitive attack designed to terrorize the British Press for its previous investigations into Madame Auchi's dealings (the results of which are preserved on Wikileaks). See Wikileaks to New Statesman over billionaire fraudster Nadhmi Auchi attack, 4 Nov 2008.

Despite being the 7th richest man in the United Kingdom (Guardian, 2003), with extensive business and political dealings in the UK, and being a person of interest in the US Presidential election, Nadhmi Auchi's name has, as far as we can establish, not appeared in a major British newspaper since May[1] when the censorship attacks began.
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Carter Fuck is well known to readers of Private Eye and a greedy bunch of shysters. Libel law in England is oppressive and wide open to abuse by rich criminals like Robert Maxwell, thief, murderer and traitor. Judges in England seem eager to apply the law on the flimsiest of grounds while media operations bottle out at the drop of a hat; see inter alia Private Eye passim ad nauseam.

 

Wikileaks to New Statesman over billionaire fraudster Nadhmi Auchi attack, 4 Nov 2008

 

Nadhmi Auchi, The Crook And The Libel - From Private Eye 1223/26
EVER since Watergate, investigative reporters have known that the cover-up can do more damage to their targets than the original crime. They are now daring to hope that lawyers at Carter-Fuck have over reached themselves in their frantic efforts to censor critical reports about the convicted Iraqi fraudster Nadhmi Auchi.

As the last Eye reported, Carter-Fuck swung into action when the world started to take an interest in the plutocrat after Barack Obama's friend and Auchi's business partner Tony Rezko was convicted of 16 counts of fraud and money-laundering by a Chicago jury. To date, its success in scrubbing the web on behalf of a criminal client has been near total.

The Observer, Telegraph and New Statesman all removed articles from their sites rather than face a cripplingly expensive libel action that might drag on for years. The US freedom of information site Wikileaks is now the only place in the world where readers can find the banned reports.

Observer lawyers were the most spineless. They not only agreed to delete a series of articles from 2003 but also accepted that there were "substantial inaccuracies" in their journalists' reporting. The National Union of Journalists told the Eye that the reporters weren't consulted. It stood by their journalism and was willing to take action to protect their professional integrity.

Emboldened by the Observer's surrender, Carter-Fuck has gone writ-happy. Last month the New Statesman's website mentioned in passing that readers could read more about Auchi by looking at Wikileaks. Threatening letters duly followed demanding that the Staggers take down the link, which it did, and demanding a grovelling apology and, of course, loads of money - an ultimatum Auchi may yet regret.

The American journalists who run Wikileaks checked out the Auchi story before putting it on their site. They watched the censorship in London with amazement and decided to act. According to a letter seen by Index on Censorship, they tell Jason Cowley, editor of the New Statesman, that any apology suggesting the reports contained "substantial inaccuracies" would be libellous. "Such a statement will defame the professionalism of our investigative reporters and writers," they wrote. "These include editor Julian Assange and former Pentagon aide John Shaw."

Not only will Wikileaks sue, it will invite all the maligned Fleet Street hacks to join their action. "Auchi and his representatives have never contacted us to question or qualify any material appearing in our publications, or indeed at all," the Wikileaks letter concludes. "As such we consider his behaviour in relation to the New Statesman linking to our articles a clear mischief. We warn the New Statesman not [to] make itself a party to this mischief."

The threat is not an idle one. As the Eye has reported, the judiciary has prostituted the English law by turning London into the libel tourism capital of the world. Even the law lords can't stop honest journalists from Wikileaks flying in from Washington and suing, too.

Meanwhile, leading British lawyers are disgusted by Auchi's success in silencing a supine media, and are willing to help. Anthony Julius, of Princess Diana fame, has offered his services free to journalists who are sued by Auchi or feel the need to protect their reputations by suing the Observer, the New Statesman or anyone else.

This leaves Cowley with a problem. He recently arrived at the Statesman after editing the arts magazine Granta and is a literary gent, more used to dealing with Booker Prize juries than high court judges. Now he faces being sued by Auchi if  he doesn't apologise or being sued by the Americans and half the investigative reporters in London if he does.
 

 

. Nadhmi Auchi - Wikileaks
    "17 Dec 2008 ... Nadhmi Auchi (Arabic: نظمي أوجي‎) is a British resident Iraqi billionaire and former Ba'ath party member who left Iraq in the early 1980s. ..."
    wikileaks.org/wiki/Nadhmi_Auchi
9. Eight stories on Obama linked billionaire Nadhmi Auchi censored ...
    "26 Sep 2008 ... More worrying was the news that the Guardian/Observer has been forced to pull down six articles about Nadhmi Auchi, the Iraqi businessman ..."
    wikileaks.org/wiki/Eight_stories_on_Obama_linked_billionaire_Nadhmi_Auchi_censored_from_the_Guardian,_Observer,_Telegraph_and_New_Statesman
10. Arab and Muslim community in France honour Nadhmi Auchi
    "President of AAO - Nadhmi Auchi thanked for essential role in releasing French hostages in Iraq."
    nadhmiauchi.org/
11. American Thinker: Obama's Iraqi Oil for Food connection
    "6 Mar 2008 ... Among other things, he failed to tell her about a $3.5 million loan from London- based Iraqi billionaire Nadhmi Auchi -- a loan that was ..."
    www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/obamas_iraqi_oil_for_food_conn.html
12. Nadhmi Auchi relationship map - Muckety

 

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