South Africa - Part 6 Sins of the Fathers

Sins of the Fathers – Part VI – And the Money –

Where has it all gone?

This report has been floating around on the Internet, some of it may not be true, but a mighty lot seems to fit in with what is known today.

FW DE KLERK AND COVERT DEALINGS PRIOR TO THE 1994 ELECTIONS

For 2, decades, accusations against the FW de Klerk government have been flying about. Many people have been whispering about vast sums of money being paid over by Swiss bank accounts to NP politicians and government operators to hand over the SA government to the ANC. For 18, years, nothing could be proven, until now:

CITIBANK

‘black gold’ through Project Hammer – some 30 accounts used. Asked where these accounts were located, Cocke responded saying – in almost one solid block at Citibank.

Gen. Erle Cocke ran Nugan Hand Bank’s Washington office. In April 2000, Cocke gave a deposition running to 67 pages concerning his knowledge and involvement in Project Hammer. Ten days later, he died from pancreatic cancer. His explosive deposition reveals him as a immensely significant and well connected player in a world few of us are familiar with. Cocke related in his report how Citibank was used as halfway stop for dodgy financial dealings in

PROJECT HAMMER

Project Hammer was a desperate undertaking by the USA government to rescue some of its leading

banks, who, by the end of the 1980 has, faced insolvency. These banks included Citibank, HSBC, Chase Manhattan and the Bank of New York. The project was designed to cipher gold and diamonds as collateral as an emergency buoy for the ailing banks and to put the USA’s economy on track again. It is at this stage that South Africa’s De Klerk government entered the fray – as major gold and diamond supplier, it was the easiest and cheapest way to rescue the USA banking sector. Only one small problem: South Africa was in political turmoil with the white rightwing challenging the NP government on all fronts. The perfect smokescreen Citibank could reflect upon to move large amounts of money and gold bullion was:

Create political instability (between the NP goverment and the ANC). Then create a political vacuum where dodgy gold and diamond deals could be done without too many questions (maybe even an interim NP/ANC goverment. Where the minimum control would facilitate covert gold and diamond movements). Project Hammer involved the trading of $13.6 trillion in debentures resulting in ‘fallout’ of about $1.1 trillion which was stashed in the Howard Hughes account in Credit Suisse. Obviously, in a project of this size, many organizations had to be involved: The CIA, FBI, all the NSA agencies, Pentagon in the broadest senses of it and as such, the Treasury and Federal Reserve. Nobody got out of the act, and everybody wanted to get in on the act – for there were lots and lots of money to be made.

EXECUTIVE OUTCOMES, SANDLINE and the STASI

  Another person who has played a prominent role in Project Hammer was Roelf van Rooyen, who operated a number of business entities including one called ‘Oceantech’ and another called ‘Eastech’ International Bank. At one, time, Van Rooyen worked for SA Intelligence and is also believed to have been working for the CIA at the time Project Hammer was in the process. Of significance is the fact that Gen. Cocke and Van Rooyen knew each other, although Cocke says he only spoke to him on the phone but never ‘shook hands with him’. During a police interrogation in Germany in1995, Van Rooyen when questioned about Project Hammer responded: if you are referring to Operation Hammer, it is an extremely large, extremely delicate operation in co-operation with the authorities of different countries in which Oceantech is involved. Working alongside Van Rooyen was SA Intelligence operative Riaan Stander.

 Both Stander and Van Rooyen were board members of the “Eastcorp Syndicate” which

Boasted of having some boasted almost two dozen other companies in its stable.
Included were Intercol Pty, Ltd, Cavo Shipping – which conducted intelligence gathering missions for governments, and Bridge S.A. The latter was registered in Monrovia, Liberia. According to Peter Goslar, once a close friend of Riaan Stander, other board members of Bridge S.A., were Colonel Tim Spicer and Mick Ranger of ‘Sandline’ fame. In a letter written to a Washington law firm involved in a lawsuit involving Project Hammer, Goslar fingers Bridge S.A. – and hence Van Rooyen and Riaan Stander, as ‘part of the Executive Outcomes operation. Eastech International Bank was underwritten by a Mexican firm Ro-Mar Pharmaceuticals, a firm claiming to control over $100 billion in gold.

Van Rooyen and Stander entered via Eastech into an agreement to purchase 5000 metric tons of gold at a reduction of 4% from the Second London Fix. This gold was held in the free zone area beneath Zurich’s Kloten Airport. Interestingly, the contract, which ran to six pages, bears the official stamp of the Swiss Police, authorizing and validating the transaction. By 1995, Eastech International Bank had begun to hit the radar screen of regulatory authorities around the world that viewed it with suspicion, but by then it seems likely that much of Project Hammer’s SA objectives had been fulfilled. Fearing the worse, Roelf Van Rooyen left SA and travelled to Germany. According to his one-time friend, Peter Goslar, this is where he still lives albeit protected by former members of the East Germany’s Stasi spy-network.

Rudolph Ignatius van Rooyen – born in Kroonstad on 29 April 1959

ID no. 590429 5021 085

Last known address: Rheinstern Hotel 1610, Rheinstern, Dusseldorf, Germany.

Alias – Rolf Rondine.

Director – Eastech International Bank, established in China and underwritten by a Mexican Firm. Contact person – Miss Lin Ying, China.

Riaan Stander - Security director of Eastech

Steve Potnak – managing director of Eastech Bank

Steve Pansegrow – military intelligence officer supplying Eastech with intelligence reports. He also supplied highly confidential information to C1, in the names of Eugene de Kock and Pieter Botha. Pansegrow’s wife was a receptionist for Van Rooyen and Stander.

Irma Els – operator helping in Ifafa – Eastcorp.

Fanie Smith – operator who signed validation certificates for Eastcorp.

- Letter of credit no. 9022101 signed by Fanie Smith and honored by the bank and with a revenue stamp of the Greek goverment.

- Certificate of deposit of $5 million, stamped by the Greek Government, signed by Fanie Smith.

- Certificate of deposit of $25 million, stamped by the Greek Government, signed by Fanie Smith.

- Directors of Eastcorp and Intercol as at the registrar of companies: Roelf van Rooyen, Riaan Stander, Douglas Randall. Intercol: Eugene de Kock, Gen. Tai Minnaar, Pieter Botha. Police officers and members of military intelligence served on both Eastcorp and Intercol.

- Dr. HP Bauer – involved with operator “Rosie,” Dr. HJ Schuster – agent of FAS in the US, Julian Rosie – director of FAS in South Africa.

- Riaan Stander liaised directly with Intel Officers from C1 (SA Police), namely Eugene de Kock, Chappies Kloppers, Pieter Botha and Willie Nortje. They asked help from Eastech to infiltrate rightwing groups in Pietersburg and for help in the movement of large quantities of weapons.

- MAS 57/08/92 – Pretoria North Case ref, investigation officer – Lt. Col. AE Botha conducted an investigation into the irregularities, but it was never made public or brought to court.

In October 1998, a German intelligence operator forwarded a document marked “Top Secret” to Gerhard Laubsher of the SA National Intelligence Agency, marked MZ/HRB/10-10/98 ser. Noj/IBI citing the disappearance of $223 104 000 008 from the South African economy through ‘black gold’ dealings.

In the report, the following 47 persons were named:

Dirty Hands????

FW de Klerk, Hernus Kriel, Chris Stals, Japie Jacobs, Org Marais, Anton Rupert, Johan Rupert, James Cross (SARB), Christo Wiese (SARB), Christo Wiese (Boland Bank), Dr. Swanepoel, Dr. Groenewald, Mr. Potgieter, Alwyn Lombard, Jan Lombard, Barend du Plessis, Commissioner Blaauw (Western Cape), Simon Nothnagel, Simon and Peter Nassau, Giel Nieuwoudt, Ben Zuma, Anton Welch, George Hill, BB de Klerk, Chris Nissen, Kobus Kirsten, Van Deventer, Boet Claasen, Big John Smith, Willem Korden/Kordan, Daniel Julius, Jan Koch, John and Faize Adams, Peter Blake, Nick Fourie, Magistrate Liebenberg, Casiem and Shahida Brey, Peter Mopp, Riaan Engelbrecht, Peter Goslar, Detective Justin Swart, Charles/Lester Newton, Robert Ferguson and Wynand Louw:

The report quotes:

4.7 The RSA has in excess 3000 tons of gold in storage. We can identify that Cloten in Switzerland, Luxembourg and London are used extensively for stored gold.

4.8 The RSA has a small refinery in Switzerland and deals with another small refinery in Luxembourg (owned by Italian members) to refine gold; remove the markings on the gold.

4.9 The RSA selling 550 tons of gold every year and almost

50 tons of gold are stolen every year. (That was then).

4.12 Some of this money is then recycled back in RSA.

4.13 Some examples: The announced merger of Goldfields and Gencor. The purchase of BOE, NBS, OK Bazaars etc. by Christo Wiese. Old Mutual Bibby Group. Gencor’s Billiton Group. Rembrandts Richmond Group. Anglo Americans Miners Group.

6.3 High yield investments go mainly through Volkskas Bank (Now incorporated to form ABSA), Nedbank, Boland and Standard-Chartered Bank RSA, all with approval from the SARB.

6.4 Arnold van Eck, offshore in – Imposses des Michandes, Veyreier du Luc, 74000 Anmecy-France, Bis Avenue D’Albigny, 74000 Anmecy-Le Veux, Adriaan (Riaan) Stander, Switzerland, 17 Rue de Levi, Crans Montana.

6.5 Van Ecks Associates, Clientel, Co. Directors are all well-known military intelligence officers and political figures. Large sums of funds amounting to $1.6 billion were handled and controlled by the Van Eck Syndicate, on instructions by politicians and intelligence officers – There is in RSA R37 million in farms unaccounted for. $40 million are being held in secret accounts in Van Ecks name. An unauthorized amount of $6 million was paid to Mrs. Van Eck. There are in RSA various assets of enormous value, belonging to Afri-Air, a total of at least R700 million. Overseas funding in $ 400 million is also unaccounted for.  

 A further amount of $ 7000 million unaccounted, and it is controlled by said Van Eck.
 After scrutinizing some of Riaan Stander’s bank accounts, the following was found:

Adriaan Barend Stander

Selbornelaan 141

Lyttelton Manor, Pta.

Account name: Intercol Consultants (Pty) Ltd.

Volkskas bank – 0609-142-596, Verwoerdburg branch.

Account name: Intercol Consultants

Nedbank
Arcadia, Pretoria branch

Eastcorp South Africa

Bankcorp London

Swiftref – TBOAGB2L

90 Long Acre

London SC2E 9SF

Account name

Eastcorp main account – 01-38496030-4

El Rosario Trust account – (Eastcorp HQ) – 01-38497030-0

Anti Crisi (Eastcorp Technical Division) 01-38498030-5

Eastech International Bank SA

Boland bank

Swiftref: BOLBZAJC

Pretoria branch

Account name: Eastech International Bank – 136 873 6001

Relevant bank official – Mr. L. Coetzee – Gen Man.

Eastech International Bank – Tacoma, Washington.

Tony Giordiadis, from Greece. Giordiadis had exceptionally close ties with Richard Charter (corporate manager of BMW at the time).

Moving money between accounts is easy, especially when it is done with the blessing of the major banks and government, but moving gold and weapons around the globe is not so easy. Enter one of the key players, shipping tycoon

On May 11 and 12, 1990, De Klerk paid an official visit to Greece. Here, he met with Pres. Caramanlis and Prime Minister Mitsosakies. De Klerk also met Tony Gordiakis at this time. Of Greek origin, but London based, Georgiadis shipped oil to SA in contravention of sanctions and developed close relations with members of the NP goverment. To distribute money freely, Georgiadis opened a bank account in Liberia for Mallar Incorporated (it was also through this account that bribes to the tune of $22 million were paid to ANC officials during the Arms Deal). Geordiadis’s father-in-law Lanaras once served as director of the shipping firm Alandis. The conspirators were faced by another huge obstacle – the loyal members of the Defense Force, Military Intelligence, National Intelligence Agency and the South Africa Police, who would immediately put a stop to the transactions, should they find out. Georgiades divorces his wife, and she is currently the wife F W De Klerk.

‘THE NIGHT OF THE GENERALS’

De Klerk fired all loyal officers to that his collaborators could move freely. On December 19, 1992, FW de Klerk fired 23 senior army officers, including navy officers, who could pose a threat to his plans. So great was the speed with which De Klerk acted that even the army’s public relations office was not informed of the press conference. In addition, many of the officers disciplined, were on holiday and were unaware of their suspension. The axed officers included: Major-General Chris Thirion, Deputy Chief of Staff Intelligence, who had a reputation of being one of the more progressive of the younger generation of generals, Major-General Hennie Roux, Chief of Army Intelligence, Brigadier Ferdie Van Wyk, Director of Army Communications, who master-minded Project Echoes, Brigadier Tolletjies Botha, Director – Directorate of Covert Collection, which was raided in November by investigators of the Goldstone Commission, including UN personnel, Brigadier Oos van der Merwe, Director of Army Intelligence, Commander Jack Widdowson of the Navy. He named only three other officers, Colonel At Nel, Colonel Chris Prinsloo and Commandant Stephen Snyders, who were all put on compulsory leave.

This followed the purge of 19 police generals in August as part of a drive to bring the police in line with the negotiation process. The extra Indemnity Act pushed through Parliament in August, needed to help ease officers out. The November raid on Military Intelligence’s Directorate of Covert Collection in November, by Goldstone investigators, which provided the pretext for setting up the eventual probe by Genl Pierre Steyn. A top-level meeting between senior Umkhonto We Sizwe and SADF officials in early August took place, brokered by the National Intelligence Service, which generally carries out the will of the cabinet. December’s ‘rationalization’ measures, which include the retrenchment of 6000 middle ranking officers, followed. In just 5 months, De Klerk had opened the door wide, for his own operators to continue the sell-out. “I have never before seen a government destroy its own power base, such as this one is doing” – said former chief of Military Intelligence, Gen. Tienie Groenewald, while the country is steadily moving towards complete chaos, the government has effectively neutralized the SADF’s intelligence capacities by removing the eyes, ears and nose of the defense forces.

The Greek shipping tycoon could now go about his business unhindered. Georgiadis was of course also

implicated in the swindle with the sinking of the Greek ship, Salem, off the African coast earlier in what was described by Lloyds of Great Britain as the biggest maritime swindle ever. “Salem – Lloyd’s pursues what may be the biggest maritime swindle ever – At 10:50 am Greenwich time on Jan. 17, crewmen aboard the tanker British Trident, sighted a ship in distress off the coast of Senegal in Northwest Africa. The Salem, a 214 000 ton supertanker, registered in Liberia, was listing and dead in the water. By radio contact with the tanker, Trident learned that a series of mysterious explosions was responsible for the disaster. Indeed, a cloud of orange smoke billowed from the tanker’s deck. By 11:30 the disabled ship’s Greek-born captain, Dimitrios Georgoulis, and his 22 crewmen, most of them Tunisians, had abandoned the ship.”

‘n Plek waar die son weer skyn. Nevertheless, Marike de Klerk was not done yet. Then, sadly, on 2 Dec. 2001, she was brutally murdered in her Dolphin Beach complex, Bloubergstrand apartment, hours after sending an undisclosed fax to Holland. Curiously – the European Union paid R30 000 into the account of the murder accused – Mboniswa, channeled by the Foundation for Human Rights, for DNA tests. Mboniswa stood trail in the Western Cape High Court and was found guilty of the murder, without taking the stand in his own defense.

Side note: It was at this time that the entire Project Hammer was put at risk by FW de Klerk’s impulsiveness. German operators learned that De Klerk was having an affair with Georgiadis’s wife, Elita (Lanaras’s daughter). A memorandum was sent to the CIA, who decided to put a lid on the affair, until after the completion of Project Hammer. Knowledge of the affair would not only open an assortment of problems, but it was not clear what Georgiadis’s response to the affair would be. This only became public after another two years. There would be a twist – Marike de Klerk. When FW de Klerk divorced Marike to marry Elita, a clause was written into the divorce agreement that De Klerk would be able to censor any books or article Marike might decide to write – which indeed he did when he prevented the publication of a chapter titled Grotgesprek (cave conversation) in the autobiography titled

What was to follow was the orchestrated and directed ‘political reform’ as was dictated to by foreigners of this country. The reform was steered by international banks/financiers as well as foreign intelligence agencies. The subsequent buy-out of South African politicians and role players, culminated in the demise of a country.

In their book “THE FALL OF THE ANC “ by Prince Mashele & Mzukisi Qobo, they refer to the fact from 1989 until 1994 under then Pres F W De Klerk the RSA’s foreign debt had snowballed from R 91,2 billion to R 237 billion, in current prices. Therefore, is this article from the Internet so farfetched?

Today we have questionable characters who claim on  one instance they represent Pres Zuma and on the other, they renounce him and in effect slander him? The Sereti Commission in Pretoria is busy investigating the Arms Deal and the resultant corruption. Again, we see and hear a lot of nonsense put forth. The supposed secrecy provisions in these Commissions is not so much as to protect t the interests of the RSA, but rather that of the individuals that benefited from that. The admissions by people such as Vice-ADMIRAL Johnny Kamerman (retired) to the fact that the Minister of Defense had a prerogative in the choosing of the suppliers of equipment does not ring true. Yet, nobody seems to have grasped the importance of this admission. An issue to which we shall return later on whilst we have regarded to the role such con artists such as Chad Thomas is playing in order to mislead the public. In addition, the fact that the Intelligence Services in the RSA is populated with such scoundrels who are jell bent on stuffing their pockets and misleading the government.

Why is President Zuma, the man with the splinter in his eye, so vilified? Does this all relate to these historical happenings, which still plays a role in the current South Africa’s?