spoke to neighbor and this is one I have been dropping hints to since the Q-400 flight. She mentioned she just finished a great movie that was referenced on the globes award show…..
white squall. She could not recite the phrase so I completed it for her. Was much moar chatty about goings on than ever before. In california. Slowly…it's sinking in.
Carlos Ghosn $100 mil. sent to 5 countries
The Yomiuri Shimbun Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn had about $100 million (about ¥11 billion at the current exchange rate) paid from the automaker’s confidential funds to agents and other entities in five Middle Eastern nations between 2009 and 2017, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
The special investigation squad of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office is examining this flow of money and has requested assistance from investigative authorities in those nations. This money includes a total of $14.7 million (about ¥1.6 billion) sent from Nissan funds to Ghosn’s acquaintance in Saudi Arabia.
According to sources, the money came from confidential funds called “CEO reserves.” Ghosn apparently ordered his subordinates to establish the fund in around December 2008, when he was Nissan’s chief executive officer. Money from this fund could be disbursed at Ghosn’s discretion.
Ghosn had Nissan Middle East FZE, a Nissan consolidated subsidiary based in the United Arab Emirates, make payments from the confidential funds to entities in the five Middle Eastern nations.
Of the about $100 million, $14.7 million (about ¥1.6 billion) went to Saudi Arabia, $35 million (about ¥3.9 billion) went to Oman, $20.4 million (about ¥2.2 billion) to Lebanon, $25.6 million (about ¥2.8 billion) to the UAE and $2.5 million (about ¥300 million) to Qatar. This money was sent to Ghosn’s Saudi acquaintance starting from 2009 and to the four other nations from 2011, according to the sources.
The money, which was sent to agents involved in selling Nissan vehicles and other entities in those countries, was nominally for “sales incentives” among other purposes.
A Nissan Middle East official told The Yomiuri Shimbun: “It was Nissan Middle East’s decision to make the payments for necessary expenses in accordance with their sales performance, but separately there were instructions from Ghosn to ‘pay the money.’ The objective of providing the money was unclear.”
The money remitted to Oman and Lebanon was paid to companies that separate acquaintances of Ghosn were involved in managing. The special investigation squad is examining the possibility that these expenditures had no connection to Nissan’s business operations.
In October 2008, Ghosn shifted appraisal losses worth about ¥1.85 billion arising from a private investment to Nissan. From June 2009 to March 2012, he had a total of about ¥1.6 billion sent to the Saudi acquaintance who had provided about ¥3 billion as “guarantee fees” and other purposes to help secure a credit guarantee for Ghosn’s investment. Ghosn has been rearrested on suspicion of aggravated breach of trust under the Companies Law.
The special investigation squad believes Ghosn funneled the Nissan funds to his acquaintance to reimburse him for the guarantee fees and as a token of gratitude.
Ghosn, 64, denied these allegations when he attended a hearing Tuesday at the Tokyo District Court to disclose the grounds for his detention. Ghosn said the acquaintance was appropriately compensated — an amount approved by the relevant officers at Nissan — in exchange for critical services that benefited Nissan.
According to Ghosn’s lawyer, Ghosn explained the payments made to the entities in the Middle Eastern nations were proper because the money was paid as incentives in line with their sales performance.
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0005473094
a3e178 (5)
No you have been wrong about EVERYTHING!
Remember when you ran like a pussy each time you got called out for your lies?
You are a marathon runner
i member
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Israelis, Palestinians segregated on new highway
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel inaugurated a new highway in the occupied West Bank on Thursday that features a large concrete wall segregating Israeli and Palestinian traffic.
One side of Route 4370 — located northeast of Jerusalem — will be open to Israeli vehicles only, while the other half will only be open to Palestinian traffic. Critics have branded it an “apartheid” highway, saying it is part of a segregated road system that benefits Jewish settlers.
The highway was built as part of a planned ring road east of Jerusalem that would connect the northern and southern West Bank. Construction began in 2005, but the 5-kilometer road lay unfinished for years until 2017.
Israeli officials inaugurating the new road on Wednesday touted it as a means of better connecting West Bank settlements north of Jerusalem to the city.
Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan called the highway “an example of the ability to create coexistence between Israelis and Palestinian while guarding [against] the existing security challenges.”
The Palestinian Authority said in a statement that the “apartheid” road “poses a challenge to the credibility of the international community.”
“It’s a shame on the international community to see an apartheid regime being established and deepened without doing anything to stop it,” the statement said.
Israel captured east Jerusalem and the West Bank in the 1967 war, territories the Palestinians want to be part of their future state. The Palestinians and most of the international community consider Israeli settlements to be illegal and an obstacle to peace.
The eastern ring road was conceived as a means of connecting the northern and southern West Bank. Critics of the settlements fear that if the road is completed, Israel will then proceed with settlement construction in an area east of Jerusalem known as E1.
The Palestinians have long feared that construction in E1 would split the West Bank in half, making a future state inviable. With the road completed, Israel could argue that the territory was still contiguous.
Development in E1 has been largely frozen under U.S. pressure, even as Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank has boomed under the Trump administration.
Betty Herschman, a spokeswoman for the Ir Amim activist organization, said that “we can only speculate” concerning the timing of the highway’s opening after years of dormancy, “but what we do know is that because of the relationship to E1, we should all be on high alert as to what this indicates.”
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0005472542
she knew Admiral Kimmel's family CO at Pearl on dec 7th. She knows something is not right.
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Just STFU. Tired old bullshit
don't ask it questions