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Posted on 10/10/2002 8:13:20 AM PDT by tutstar
Edited on 04/21/2004 9:00:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
September 1, 1998
Rod Sailor
Editor/Publisher
West Africa millionaire's story turns bizarre
Stories like this only happens in Hollywood. A strange bizarre tale out of Miami about a generous millionaire, a West African tycoon, Foutanga Dit Babani Sissoko, who allegedly put a Dubai Islamic Bank's branch manager under a spell to extort the bank's fund to the tune of $242 million.
"He must have put a spell on me" claimed Mohammed Ayyoub Mohammed Saleh, ex-branch manager for Dubai Islamic Bank, who is now behind bars.
The generous millionaire, Sissoko, reportedly, went on a spending spree in South Beach, Miami, spending $500,000 at a clothing store, $575,000 at Cartier, $125,000 at tiffany. By one report he bought out an entire car dealer's fleet of luxury cars and shipped them to Africa. He gave large sums of money to complete strangers, apparently, Sissoko was very giving to local high schools and homeless shelters.
The most bizarre twist to this story is the fact that there is no current law in the civilized world to prosecute someone accused of using black magic, how would it be proven? Better yet, does it exist?
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/03/22/clinton.millionaire/
Report: Jailed Millionaire Missed Dinner With Clinton
NEW YORK (AllPolitics, March 22) -- An African multi-millionaire had to pass up a dinner invitation with President Bill Clinton because he was being extradited from Geneva to Miami that evening, The New York Times reported Saturday.
The newspaper said a week before the September 6 dinner at a Washington hotel, Foutanga Dit Babani Sissoko was arrested on a U.S. warrant and charged with trying to smuggle two military helicopters to Africa and offering a $30,000 bribe to a U.S. Customs agent.
Asked about the matter Saturday, White House Associate Counsel Lanny Davis told CNN: "Without knowing the details of the incident, it appears that this is yet another example of inadequate screening procedures in place at the Democratic National Committee, which the President has said disappointed him greatly."
In its report, the Times said Sissoko, after arriving in Florida, tried to use the dinner invitation as a reason why he should be released from jail. The unimpressed judge set bail at $20 million, a south Florida record.
Sissoko, 52, quickly met bail and subsequently pleaded guilty to one reduced count of offering a "gratuity," rather than a bribe, to the Customs agent, the Times said. The smuggling charge was dropped.
Next month, Sissoko -- a dual citizen of Gambia and Mali -- is to begin serving a four-month sentence in federal prison followed by four months of house arrest in Miami, the newspaper said.
Sissoko owns a majority interest in Negoce International, a New York affiliate of his multinational corporation with diamond mines, casinos and other ventures in Africa and the Middle East. He had visited the United States on only two occasions before his arrest.
According to the paper, John A. Catsimatidis, a fund-raiser for the Democratic National Committee, extended the dinner invitation to Sissoko, hoping the multi-millionaire would donate money to the party. Much to the Democrats' current relief, he never made a donation.
This French article (I translated it at dictionary.com tells the tie between the bank and Osama/AlQueda, so would it be a far stretch to say that Corrine associated/associates with terrorist sympathizers?
Does anyone think that the CIA may have reason to check if Sissoko's has ties to terrorists?
(...) The Faisal Islamic, create in 1977, be direct by the prince Mohammad Al Faisal Al Saud of Saudi Arabia saoudite. (...) Other bank to have facilitate some transfer with profit of network of Oussama Ben Laden, the Dubai Islamic Bank, of which the CIA have establish that some movement regular feed of organization associated with Ben Laden. The Islamic banking house, created in 1975, is directed by Mohammed Khalfan Ben Kharbash, which is not other than the current Minister for Finance of the Emirates. The bank counts among its shareholders the governments of Dubaï and Koweït (with respective height of 10 % of the capital). The bank is shareholder of Bahrain Islamic Bank, Islami Bank Bangladesh and Tadamon Islamic Bank, present in the Al capital Shamal Islamic Bank. Dubai Islamic Bank was one of the principal shareholders of the BCCI, with more than 80 million dollars of credits in the latter. The bank was touched by several scandals, in particular the money bleaching for 242 million dollars to the profit of Foutanga, said Babani Sissoko, billionaire Malian. Saleh Abdullah Kamel in the financing of the networks of Oussama Ben Laden in 1999, with the company of communication Tihama for Advertising, Public Relations and Marketing, subsidiary of Dallah Albaraka Group. The company was quoted as being one of the relays saoudiens networks of financing of the terrorist activities of Oussama Ben Laden. Saleh Kamel to date was still not worried by the legal developments concerning the above mentioned structures.
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