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Smartmatic Chairman Connected to Transitional Government Calls for Venezuela
Lord Malloch-Brown is also Chairman of the International Crisis Group, which has called for a “transitional government” in Venezuela.
Venezuela’s National Electoral Council said over 8 million people had cast their ballots and disputed his claims.
Mark Malloch Brown, a minister of state at the Foreign and Commonwealth office under the former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, is Chairman of Smartmatic.
The British Lord is also Chairman of the International Crisis Group, which has called for a “transitional government” in Venezuela.
The Morning Star reports that Lord Malloch-Brown has close links to the Hungarian-born U.S. billionaire NGO kingpin George Soros.
Malloch Brown was a member of the Soros advisory committee on Bosnia from 1993-94.
As the United Nations Development Fund administrator in 2002, he suggested the agency work alongside Soros’s Open Society Institute.
He also served briefly as the UN deputy secretary-general in 2006.
In May 2007, Malloch Brown was made vice-president of Soros’s tax-haven hedge fund the Quantum Fund, but resigned in September that year when he joined Gordon Brown’s short-lived government.
Soros also serves on the Board of the International Crisis Group, and his Open Society organization is one of the group’s main funders.
And he is a major financier of New York-based Human Rights Watch.
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