Switzerland

SWITZERLAND

1 August 1291 – Switzerland gained freedom from its former mother country, the Holy Roman Empire. (Ancestry July August 2007).

1365 – Basel. Timeline of earthquakes.

6 Oct 1849 – A duel near Lausane Switzerland. Sergeant Bochot the Socialist rep for Paris and  a Spanish officer for the regent of Isabell Segunda. London news UK.

1876 – The future of archives. In 1876 Switzerland changed over from church registers to civil registration. Some church registers have been microfilmed LDS. (Practical family history august 2009).

1890s – A Verdingkind or contract child in Switzerland. Sex slavery and concubines, comfort women. (New York Times 11 Nov 2014).

12 Aug 1893 – Switzerland. Daily Telegraph. Papers Past NZ.

8 Feb 1919 – Berne Socialist conference. Colonist. Papers Past NZ.

10 Feb 1919 – Berne Socialist conference. Colonist. Papers Past NZ.

1930 – Lawyers, Sullivan and Cromwell was headed by John Foster Dulles. Allen Dulles, future head of the CIA, was a partner. Bank for the international settlements BIS, was set up in Switzerland in 1930, to channel war reparations between the US and Germany. Gold looted by the Nazis in Europe ended up in BIS vaults. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

13 March 1930 – Spies in Switzerland. The Manchester Guardian 1901-1959 UK.

28 March 1930 – Italian spies in Switzerland 8 men expelled consul position in question. The Manchester Guardian 1901-1958 UK.

July 1937 – Swiss sanitorium, after July 1937. Foreign patients did not register and the records of the main sanitorium at Danos and Leysin were destroyed. (Too secret too long. Chapman Pincher ©1984 US).

1943 – Alexander Rado in Switzerland was part of the Red Orchestra, a GRU spy network. It was broken up by Swiss police in 1943. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

May 1954 – Geneva peace conference sought a settlement to the wars in Korea and Vietnam. Set up the Int control commission in Vietnam observers. (GCHQ Richard J Aldrich ©2010 UK).

1955 – LDS President David McKay dedicated the Bern Switzerland temple. (Presidents of the church LDS book).

18 February 1969 – Gunfire attack on El Al Airliner in Zurich. One person was killed and four jailed. Three were freed after the 6 September 1970 attacks.

21 February 1970 – The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine blew up a SwissAir Convair airliner, leaving Zurich for Tel Aviv, killing 47 people.

20 June 1975 – Couple on trial for spying in Switzerland. The Times London UK.

23 June 1975 – Swiss imprison East German spies for 7 years. The Times London UK.

1976 – Banque de commerce et de placements BCP a BCCI affiliate opened in Geneva.

1976 – One of the main BCCI operations in Europe was Banque de Commerce et de placements, SA a joint venture in Switzerland. It was formed in 1976 in partnership with other financial institutions including the Union bank of Switzerland.

13 Sept 1982 – Juerg Heer the executive director of the credit section of Zurich Rothschild bank, Transfers from Calvi’s Luxemberg subsidiary to Gelli to corporate shell in Panama called Bell atrix. Loans of $142 million. On 13 Sept 1982 Gelli was arrested in Switzerland. (The annals of unsolved crime EJ Epstein ©2012 US).

1984 – Safety in numbers. The mysterious world of Swiss banking. Nicholas Faith. London UK Hamish Hamilton.

1988 – Zuricher union bank in Zurich opened an account and obtained a safe deposit box. Swiss banks safe deposit boxes. Banking secrecy laws in Switzerland and the Canasta player investigation. (Traitors among us ©1999 SA Herrington).

1990 – Switzerland launders whiter. Book Worldcat database. J Ziegler. West Germany. Money laundering from drug cartels.

29 Nov 1998 – Herald Journal. Prosecutors move against Russian mafia in Switzerland. By Naomi Koppel. AP. Geneva..Trial of Russia businessman Sergei Milhailov. Major Swiss.

1 Dec 1998 – Swiss put Russian mafia boss on trial. Peter Capella. The Guardian 1959-2003 UK.

7 November 2001 – Raid of a villa in Campione. Youssef  Nada, director of the Al-Taqwa bank of Lugano, who had an active association with the Muslim Brotherhood for more than 50 years. He admitted to being one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s international leaders. The raid was conducted by Swiss law enforcement at the request of the US White House. A crackdown on terrorist finances in the aftermath of 9/11. US Swiss investigators were looking into Al-Taqwa involvement in money laundering and funding Islamic terrorist groups, like al-Qaeda, Hamas, Algerian GIA and Tunisian Ennehdah. (Frontpage mag The Muslim Brotherhood project. Patrick Poole 11 May 2006).

3 June 2006 – Swiss sex industry is thriving. Prostitution is legal in Switzerland and generates $2.65 billion annually. Sex slavery.

9 October 2006 – In Geneva the UN declares an end to a security alert. There was a possible threat to the European HQ of the UN and its agencies.

26 January 2007 – Dual strategy for countering forced prostitution.( sex slavery), It was held  at the UEFA Euro in 2008. Federal office of police. Berne Fedpol.

7 December 2007 – Disappearances of newborn babies for illegal adoption in Europe. Social health and family affairs committee Ms Ruth Gaby Vermont Mangold. Trafficking in children. child sex slavery and child pornography. Disappearance of newborn babies, children found begging in the streets. Eastern Europe to western Europe.

2008 – The state owned Chinese oil company Sinopec spent $7.2 billion to buy the Swiss oil field exploration company Addax petroleum, which has reserves in Nigeria, Gabon and Iraq. (The shadow market Eric J Weiner ©2010).

2009 – KGB money laundering in Geneva and the credit suisse bank. It was used to fund links to organised crime families in the Middle East, terrorist groups. Money also went through Bulgarian intel, used to kill Soviet dissidents in the west. (Secret wars ©2009 G Thomas US).

17 June 2009 – Switzerland Wikileaks Lord Aikins Adusai Ghana Money laundering from Africa.

26 July 2010 – Swiss tackle Italian mafia on home soil. Flarenetwork The Ndrangheti moved arms and drug trafficking in Switzerland and laundering money.

19 December 2010 – Crime boss opens up about mob in Switzerland Swissinfo drugs.

26 December 2010 – AFP Italian mafia spreads in Switzerland.  Switzerland is also being used for drug trafficking on a large scale, and a hideout for mafia members hunted by police.

2011 – St Moritz Switzerland Bilderberg meeting. Infowars Alex Jones 26 Aug 2014. Steve Watson. The Austrian location of the 2015 Bilderberg meeting venue is owned by Swiss giant Liebher group.

18 May 2012 – Growing threat authorities brace for fight against the mafia Swissinfo Mafia crime in Switzerland.

19 November 2012 – Brazillian sex traffickers target Switzerland. Human trafficking a code of silence in Switzerland.

26 November 2012 – Former SNC LAVALIN executive was charged in Switzerland. Report. Toronto Reuters Yahoo news. Money laundering in Switzerland CBC news Canada. Riadh Ben Aissa was charged with fraud, corruption and money laundering in Switzerland.

December 2012 – The Swiss coordination unit against the trafficking of persons and smuggling of migrants KSMM Police department Switzerland.

5 December 2012 – Intelnews.org by Joseph Fitsanakis. A Swiss intel employee stole millions of classified pages. Reuters.

16 December  2012 – Money laundering public intel Money laundering banks fuel Mexican drug cartels.

16 July 2013 – Swiss bank leaker. Money is easy to hide. Spiegel online Tax evaders HSBC Swiss bank whistleblower Herve Falciani. Money laundering and drug cartels.

26 Aug 2014 – Mafia arrests. Swiss info. 16 members of Mafia arrested in Thurgau.

27 Aug 2014 – Secret meeting Calabrian. The Independent. Calabrian Ndrangheta gun and drug mafia. Swiss town of Fauenfeld north of Zurich.

28 Aug 2014 – Extortion cocaine heroin. Mafia. The Independent London. A gathering of Calabrian Ndrangheta gun and drug mafia, was held in Swiss the town of Frauenfeld, north of Zurich.

10 Sept 2014 – Peru closer trade with Switzerland. Freshplaza. Peru could become Switzerland’s new food provider. Demand for Peru’s products.

UAE

UAE

BCCI’s drug money laundering. The UAE and Hong Kong were major centres for heroin money. Banks in the UAE catered for traffickers for the golden crescent countries of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. Hong Kong banks received huge sums from traffickers in the world’s leading opium producing regions, the golden triangle of Burma, Thailand and Laos.

1966 – Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan became ruler of UAE, a British colony. Around this time Abedi meets Zayed.

December 1971 - UAE gained independence with Sheikh Zayed as President.

1972 – Abedi set up BCCI. Its main backers were Sheikh Zayed and the Bank of America.

1973 – After the 1973 oil shock, foreign and domestic banks opened hundreds of branches in UAE. Making it one of the most overbanked countries in the world.

1973-75 – At the end of 1973, BCCI’s first full year of operation. It had 19 branches in five countries, of these 8 were in the UAE and 4 in the UK. In 1975 BCCI had 64 branches in 13 countries, the UAE and UK had the lead with 19 branches each.

October 1973 – Egypt and Syria attack Israel. The Yom Kippur war. UAE was the first of several Arab countries to declare an embargo on oil exports to the US, as punishment for its support of Israel. Over the next few months OPEC quadrupled oil prices.

25 November 1973 – KLM airliner flying to New Delhi was hijacked to UAE, three hijackers surrendered, their fate was unknown.

December 1976 – In Abu Dhabi the UAE celebrated its 5^th anniversary with a parade of mirage fighters, missiles and armoured vehicles. While their ruler Sheikh Zayed pledged support for the Palestinian cause and called for Arab solidarity against Israel.

1978 – The UAE’s ambassador to Washington Hamad al-Midfa tried to manage the press, with regards to the takeover  -- BCCI takeover of Financial General. In 1978 Zafar Iqbal was head of BCCE the UAE affiliate of BCCI in which Zayed held a controlling interest. Iqbal became BCCI chief executive in 1990. BCCI takeover of Financial General was complete in 1982. First American .

1979 – By 1979 the UAE had 430 bank branches or one for every 2,000 citizens. The highest ratio in the world.

23 September 1983 – A Gulf Air Boeing 737 from Karachi to Dubai crashed near Abu Dhabi airport killing all passengers and crew. Was Abu Nidal behind the attack?

8 February 1984 – The ambassador of UAE was shot dead in Paris France.

25 October 1984 – A diplomat from the UAE was assassinated in Rome Italy.

20 September 1990 – BCCI moved its HQ from London to UAE after refusing to release six month financial statements.

9 September 1991 – Police arrest Naqvi and several other BCCI officers at the banks main office in Abu Dhabi UAE.

6 February 1995 – Gulf economy BCCI deal buoys UAE stocks. Ahmad Mardini.  Inter press service.

1998 – al-Qaeda accounts in the Dubai Islamic bank in UAE were closed under pressure from the US.

8 December 2000 – The pilot of flight 77 which crashed into the Pentagons southwest side is believed to have been Hani Hanjour. Several hijackers including Hanjour and al Mihdhar supplemented their finances with credit cards drawn on Saudi and UAE banks. The FBI said that Hani Hanjour arrived in San Diego from Dubai on 8 December 2000 and left San Diego with al Hazmi for Arizona several days later. Hanjour was in San Diego area with al Hazmi in December 2000. Hanjour was not identified by an FBI informant who met with him. (the 9/11 investigations ©2004 S.Strasser public affairs reports).

September 2001 – Pakistani UAE based, Saudi born Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi (alias Mustafa  Ahmed) coordinated finances for the 9/11 attacks.

22 September 2001 – UAE severs diplomatic ties with the ruling Taliban movement in Afghanistan.

2004 – HBO documentary about enslaved child camel jockeys in Dubai. They are  malnourished boys, beaten and sodomized.  (A crime so monstrous. E Benjamin Skinner ©2008 UK).

19 September 2006 – Crackdown to stop illegal immigrants entering UAE from Oman. Al-Hilli checkpoints security.

10 November 2006 – According to Italian police the accused Pakistanis smuggled huge sums of money to different countries. With the help of Indians based in UAE the accused smuggled illegal drugs into Europe via Turkey. Their group comprised Albanians who are also wanted. The Pakistani embassy in Italy asked Italian officials to provide details of arrested Pakistanis.

2009 – UAE, soldiers and laws for sex trafficking of women from Asia, into brothels in Dubai, and Uzbekistan in 2009. Sex trafficking in UAE. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

20 May 2009 – Ros Lehtinan Iieana. Ros Lehtinen comments on the signing of UAE nuclear agreement. House committee on foreign affairs.

30 Nov 2009 – Haseeb Haider.  UAE offers more funds to banks. Khaleej times. (The shadow market. Eric J Weiner ©2010).

2011 – Gridlock, labour, migration and human trafficking in Dubai. Pardis Mahdavi. ebook Sanford California uni press Worldcat database.

23 October 2012 – Iran may be using Dubai UAE to hide all the gold its trading with Turkey. Joshua Berlinger Business insider.

22 May 2013 – Woman sentenced to 15 years in Dubai jail for trying to smuggle drugs. Gulf news UAE.

28 June 2014 – Abu Dhabi stops three attempts to smuggle cocaine heroin into UAE. 7 days.