Anonymous ID: cf280b Feb. 6, 2022, 11:05 a.m. No.124992   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5077 >>5111 >>5112 >>5161 >>5164 >>5173

French AF CTM0021 A330 on descent for Moscow

Just after 10pm local arrival

 

French President Macron to meet Putin in Moscow, travel to Ukraine

 

French President Emmanuel Macron will meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow on February 7 and the leader of Ukraine on February 8 to discuss the Ukraine situation, as Western world leaders try and avoid a major conflict with Russia over Ukraine. Macron’s office added he would meet Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv a day after his meeting with Putin.

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/02/04/French-President-Macron-to-meet-Putin-in-Moscow-travel-to-Ukraine

Anonymous ID: cf280b Feb. 6, 2022, 4:51 p.m. No.125028   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5043 >>5111 >>5112 >>5161 >>5164 >>5173

German AF GAF917 A340 inbound to JBA from Berlin depart earlier today

 

Germany's Olaf Scholz goes to Washington amid criticism

 

There's a cloud of ambiguity hanging around Chancellor Olaf Scholz as he makes his first trip to visit President Joe Biden. In Germany, critics and social media jokers have been making snide remarks about Scholz's apparent reluctance to make forceful statements on the Ukraine crisis. ("Someone has to tell Scholz he's switched to mute," as one user remarked on Twitter.) NATO allies and Scholz's political opponents at home have expressed frustration at Germany's unwillingness to deliver weapons to Ukraine.

 

Scholz's cause hasn't exactly been helped by the pronouncements of his party colleague and predecessor as Social Democrat chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, a man never shy about publicly defending his friend Vladimir Putin: Schröder seemed to justify the Russian troop-buildup as reaction to NATO maneuvers while accusing Ukraine of "saber-rattling."

 

Meanwhile, the German media has speculated about cracks in transatlantic relations: Der Spiegel reported in late January that Scholz had found no time in his busy schedule to meet with Biden. The story was quickly and vehemently quashed by the White House.

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-olaf-scholz-goes-to-washington-amid-criticism/a-60643913

 

>>125003

SAM274 USAF C-40B on approach for JBA

Anonymous ID: cf280b Feb. 6, 2022, 5:15 p.m. No.125029   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5030 >>5111 >>5112 >>5161 >>5164 >>5173

Italian Guardia di Finanza ATR 72-600M doing some surveillance werk out of Lille on French and Belgian coastline

 

See vid in next post

The Guardia di Finanza is an Italian law enforcement agency under the authority of the Minister of Economy and Finance. It is a militarized police force, forming a part of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, not the Ministry of Defence. Guardia di Finanza is essentially responsible for dealing with financial crime and smuggling; it has also evolved into Italy’s primary agency for suppressing the illegal drug trade. It maintains over 600 boats and ships and more than 100 aircraft to serve in its mission of patrolling Italy’s territorial waters.

https://www.itamilradar.com/2019/11/15/first-guardia-di-finanza-atr-72-600mp/

Looks like it was brand new in 2019

 

The trace above it is from the German GAF917

Anonymous ID: cf280b Feb. 6, 2022, 5:17 p.m. No.125030   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5111 >>5112 >>5161 >>5164 >>5173

>>125029

from earlier today arriving at Lille

"Guardia Di Finanzia" ATR 72 Arrives at Lille-Lesquin

 

An Italian ATR 72 (MM62311) from the "Guardia Di Finanzia" arrives at Lille-Lesquin Airport after a 5 hour patrolling mission over the French and Belgian North Sea Coast line.

The purpose of this visit and missions above the North Sea is to spot and prevent refugees from trying to cross the Channel to the United Kingdom.

Recently, also a Danish aircraft was deployed from Lille in order to support the French in this matter.

The ATR 72 from "Guardia Di Finanzia" are normally stationed at Pratica Di Mare Air Base, just outside Rome.

Anonymous ID: cf280b Feb. 6, 2022, 6:40 p.m. No.125037   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5163 >>5164 >>5173

This Is the Only Goldman Banker Standing Trial for 1MDB

 

Day after day, the scene has replayed: Roger Ng, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker, left his Manhattan apartment and, with an electronic monitor strapped to his ankle, headed downtown to build the case that might save him from prison.

 

It’s been nearly three years since Ng landed in the U.S. from southeast Asia to face federal charges over his role in a scheme to loot billions from the Malaysian fund known as 1MDB. In that time Malaysia’s former prime minister has been convicted of crimes while Goldman has paid $5 billion in fines and apologized for breaking the law, one of the biggest black marks in its 153-year history.

 

Now, at long last, Ng is about to get his day in court – as the only person in all of Goldman Sachs to stand trial in the U.S. for a scandal that stretched from Singapore to Hollywood to Wall Street and beyond. He has pleaded not guilty. Free on a $20 million bond, Ng, 49, has been confined to his apartment except for runs on Manhattan’s West Side, trips to the grocery store and his lawyer’s office. He has spent his days at that office poring over millions of documents in the sprawling case. He sits at a desk that was previously occupied by “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli, who was sentenced to prison for securities fraud in 2018, in another high-profile legal drama. Ng’s trial, delayed for two years because of the pandemic, is finally set to begin with jury selection Monday and is expected to last at least five weeks. Ng faces as many as 30 years in prison. “No one expected him to be here for three years,” his lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, said at a recent hearing. Ng and Agnifilo declined to comment for this story. While his defense team has cast Ng as a deputy to star Goldman banker Tim Leissner and the first to warn compliance about Malaysian financier Jho Low, prosecutors say Ng played a critical role in a bribe-paying and money-laundering scheme.

 

By now the broad outlines of the 1MDB scandal, or at least its most salacious details, are well known on Wall Street. There is the gob-smacking dollar figure: $2.7 billion supposedly plundered, the scheme greased by bribes to various officials in Malaysia and Abu Dhabi. Some of the money went to a $200 million superyacht. Some went to paintings by Monet, van Gogh and Basquiat. Still more went to finance a movie based on other real-life market mayhem: “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

 

The U.S. says the “brazen” scheme couldn’t have been pulled off without help of bankers at Goldman Sachs. Ng, the former head of investment banking in Malaysia, is charged with helping Low and Leissner launder billions of dollars embezzled from 1Malaysia Development Berhad, or 1MDB. He’s also charged with violating U.S. anti-bribery laws. Low, the alleged mastermind of the fraud, has denied wrongdoing and remains at large. Leissner secretly pleaded guilty in 2018 to conspiring to violate U.S. anti-bribery laws, as well as to engaging in a money laundering conspiracy. Leissner agreed to cooperate with the U.S. and is expected to be a star witness at Ng’s trial.

 

Ng has said he was the first to inform Goldman Sachs compliance about Low, sending “red flag warnings” not to do business with him. Agnifilo, Ng’s lawyer, has also said Leissner cooperated with the U.S. and implicated Ng to save himself. Agnifilo contends that Ng played no role in the fraud. “Roger is a relatively insignificant figure caught between the Department of Justice and the government of Malaysia in a case of overwhelming significance,” Agnifilo said in a 2019 interview. “He’s really the yo-yo between these two countries.”

moar

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/this-is-the-only-goldman-banker-standing-trial-for-1mdb-1.1719259

Anonymous ID: cf280b Feb. 7, 2022, 10:13 a.m. No.125128   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5161 >>5164 >>5173

RCH601 USAF C-17 Globemaster west from Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport after about 2.5 hours on ground

 

Humvees, U.S. troops land in Poland

 

Five U.S. military planes landed at Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport, located around 100km (62 miles) from the Ukraine border, on Monday (February 7).

 

U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday (February 2) ordered nearly 3,000 extra troops to Poland and Romania, as Washington moves to reassure jittery NATO allies.

 

As Russia masses more than 100,000 troops near the border, Moscow has said it is not planning an invasion but could take unspecified military action if its security demands are not met.

 

Those include a promise that NATO will never admit Ukraine, a demand the United States and the 30-nation Western security alliance have called unacceptable.

https://news.yahoo.com/humvees-u-troops-land-poland-164111225.html

Anonymous ID: cf280b Feb. 7, 2022, 10:52 a.m. No.125134   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5161 >>5164 >>5173

JAKE21 USAF WC-135W Constant Phoenix (nuke sniffer) over central France heading back to RAF Mildenhall

It arrived at Mildenhall as ATOM01 on 0130-from Lincoln Muni, NE

 

Constant Phoenix

The aircraft is a modified C-135B or EC-135C platform. The Constant Phoenix's modifications are primarily related to its on-board atmospheric collection suite, which allows the mission crew to detect radioactive "clouds" in real time. The aircraft is equipped with external flow-through devices to collect particulates on filter paper and a compressor system for whole air samples collected in holding spheres. The cockpit crew is from the 45th Reconnaissance Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., and special equipment operators are assigned to Det. 1, Air Force Technical Applications Center at Offutt AFB. General Dwight D. Eisenhower commissioned the Constant Phoenix program on Sept. 16, 1947, when he charged the Army Air Forces with the overall responsibility for detecting atomic explosions anywhere in the world. In September 1949, a WB-29 flying between Alaska and Japan detected nuclear debris from Russia's first atomic test--an event thought not possible until mid-1950.

 

Beginning in August 1950, WB-50 aircraft were converted for the air-sampling mission over a two-year period. WC-135 aircraft began replacing the WB-50s in December 1965 and became the workhorse of the atmospheric collection program.

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https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104494/wc-135-constant-phoenix/