UAE – corruption, torture, genocide

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UAE Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s “purchased” 49% of Trump’s cryptocurrency company World Liberty Financial for $500 million – 4 days before Trump was crowned president for the second time.

The investment made Tahnoon‘s Aryam, World Liberty’s largest shareholder. The deal placed 2 Aryam executives on World Liberty’s five-person board - Martin Edelman and Peng Xiao.
Edelman is a New York real-estate lawyer, who advises the Abu Dhabi royal family and sits on the board of multiple Tahnoon companies, including G42 and MGX, and is a longtime friend of Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.
In 2024, a Republican committee chairman said that Xiao was behind an “expansive network” of UAE and China-based companies supporting Chinese “military-civil fusion and human rights abuses” (no Emirati “abuses”?!?).

Tahnoon met Trump and Steve Witkoff several times in the White House and soon got access to 500,000 advanced “AI chips” a year.
On Trump’s first day in office, Donald announced the $500 billion Stargate project, by OpenAI and SoftBank at the White House, which included Tahnoon’s MGX.


As for the scandals they want covered up… which show really how our technocratic overlords plan to weaponise these data centers…
Tahnoon bin Zayed has led several spying and smear campaigns…

The UAE’s Project Raven spied on other governments and human rights activists, including through hacking phones and computers.
Project Raven started in 2008 as DREAD, developed by Richard A. Clarke through his advisory group Good Harbor Consulting for UAE de facto dictator Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

That’s the same Richard Clarke that tipped off Bin Laden’s high-ranking UAE and Saudi friends, including UAE dictator Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (!) and Abu Dhabi royal Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum.
During the Rwandan genocide of 1994, Clarke advised then–US Ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright, to request to withdraw all UN troops from Rwanda.

By the end of 2010, Karl Gumtow’s CyberPoint replaced Good Harbor in Project Raven.
Between 2012 and 2015, Raven teams hacked into rival governments, including Qatar over winning the right to host the football World Cup.


Near the end of 2015, the UAE cybersecurity firm DarkMatter was contracted for Project Raven, with some CyberPoint staff moving to DarkMatter.
Its surveillance targets included Americans, which implicated its American staff in unlawful behaviour.

Project Raven monitored the internet for mentions of DarkMatter.
Project Raven’s target lists included not only authors, but also others connected to that person.

This gives a glimpse on how data centers that store everything about us will be used…

also the “author’s boyfriend, girlfriend, or brother … two or three hops out” from the original target. The idea was to hack anyone who might be communicating with the target, Cole said, and to “go get anyone you can to get a foothold in this organization” in order to spy on their sources, as the source put it.
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If targets traveled to the UAE, Project Raven would take advantage of their proximity, at times going so far as to break into a target’s room, explained the hacking team source: “If they’re in country we just go to the service provider and say, ‘Hey, we need … access,’ [or] poison their wireless access at a hotel.” This source said that Project Raven tasked members of the Emirati State Security Department to “dress up as cable guys, do fake repairs, be in a hotel where you needed to be, swap out your laptop charger for one that looks similar” in order to compromise a target’s devices.

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Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan also hired the Swiss intelligence company Alp Services (led by Mario Brero) for smear campaigns against Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe, particularly in France.

The French Roland Jacquard worked for Alp Services and the Emirati secret services. Jacquard has done the rounds in the media as an 'expert' on Islamist radicalism.
In emails, Jacquard provided secret information from the top of the French government. He supplied information that came from the security services and even President Macron himself. In September, October 2020, Jacquard told his Emirati contact that he had “private” meetings with Macron, Macron’s advisors, PM Jean Castex, interior minister Gérald Darmanin and justice minister Éric Dupond-Moretti, about a new law against radical Islam.

Alp Services reportedly also generated news reports to criticise a Geneva prosecutor, at the request of a mistress of former Spanish King Juan Carlos.

In 2018, Macron's former bodyguard Alexandre Benalla started to work for Alp Services’ Mario Brero, after Benalla had been dismissed as Macron’s personal bodyguard, for getting caught beating up peaceful protesters in Paris.
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Project Raven started in 2008 as DREAD, developed by Richard A. Clarke through his advisory group Good Harbor Consulting for UAE de facto dictator Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Looking for more on Project Raven, I found the following…

In 2007, the UAE approached Mati Kocahvi’s company 4D Security Solutions to build a ‘smart’ surveillance system in Abu Dhabi. Mati Kocahvi’s AGT International won the $6 billion contract.
Mati Kochavi is an Israeli arms dealer, billionaire, spy and Holocaust movie producer.
In 2016, Kochavi provided the UAE with FalconEye, a collection of cameras and artificial intelligence sensors to implement practically total surveillance of the UAE.

In 2011, the UAE contracted CIA veteran Larry Sanchez to expand the UAE’s intelligence apparatus.

DarkMatter’s offices are only 2 floors away from UAE’s intelligence agency, the National Electronic Security Authority (NESA).
DarkMatter’s senior vice-president of technology research was formerly employed by NESA.

Simone Margaritelli described how a representative described how DarkMatter works:

Imagine that there’s a person of interest at the Dubai Mall, we’ve already set up all our probes all over the city, we press a button and BOOM! All the devices in the mall are infected and traceable.

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In April 2017, DarkMatter signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Huawei for “Big Data” systems and “Smart City” solutions. Huawei is praised by communist China for its role in the Belt Road Initiative (BRI). One of the BRI’s signature projects is Ecuador’s national emergency system for which Huawei developed surveillance equipment, facial recognition technology, and wireless access controllers.

The UAE played a pivatol role in building Saudi Arabia’s owns surveillance capacity for which the UAE connected the Saudis to the Israeli NSO Group. Saudi Arabia acquired a similar system as what the UAE is using.
As part of the deal, Saudi Arabia acquired the hacking software Pegasus, which it used to hack journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s phone prior to his murder, as well as (other) “dissidents, enemies and political opponents”.

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Flynn also joined the advisory board of OSY Technologies, part of the NSO Group, a cyber weapons dealer founded by former Israeli intelligence officials. Flynn also consulted for Francisco Partners, an American private equity firm that controls NSO. According to Steve Eisner, general counsel of Francisco Partners, Flynn had served the company in a relatively limited advisory role.

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It is odd that the Western media ‘forget’ to report that similar totalitarian surveillance systems are used all around the developed world, which I think should concern us more than what is happening in the Middle East (your own government is spying on you, helped by all the smart fools walking around with the surveillance equipment called cell phone!)…

The New York Times reported that the app ToTok was “used by the government of the United Arab Emirates to try to track every conversation, movement, relationship, appointment, sound and image of those who install it on their phones”, and was removed from the app stores of Google and Apple.

Because ToTok doesn’t encrypt messages end-to-end, the company can read the messages. ToTok’s Privacy Policy explicitly states that they collect “Address Book Data” and “Messages”. While this is as bad as it sounds, popular communications tools have similar architectures to ToTok, so these corporation “could” likewise read messages and listen in on VoIP calls. Popular examples include Gmail, Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, and Twitter.
For some reason the writer of this interesting essay argues that this isn’t anywhere near as bad as ToTok, because they are ‘private’ companies (ignoring that these companies were founded with the help of intelligence agencies!).

The essay does show suspicious connections from ToTok to UAE’s National Security Advisor Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a brother of Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed.

ToTok’s developer was listed as “Breej Holding Ltd”.
Breej Holding’s sole director was listed as Hasan Mohamed Saif Hasan Alremeithi. Hassan Al-Rumaithi (a.k.a. Hassan Alremeithi) is Sheikh Tahnoon’s adopted son.
See Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed with Hassan Al-Rumaithi.


ToTok Technology’s sole director is Osama Hussein Saleh Hussein Alahdaly, whose address is listed as the address for Royal Group UAE, Sheikh Tahnoon’s holding company.

“Group 42 Holding Ltd” appears to have created the ToTok app, based on YeeCall, a VoIP app from a Chinese company..
Group 42 is a UAE-based AI company, whose CEO is the former CEO of Pegasus LLC, formerly a division of DarkMatter Group. Pegasus LLC was renamed to “PAX AI”, and is now a division of Group 42. Group 42 appears to have created ToTok as an app called “G42 IM”.

Group 42’s sole director Hamad Khlfan Ali Matar Alshamsi is “Public Relations Manager at the Office of H.H. Sheikh Tahnoun Bin Zayed Al Nahyan”.
Group 42’s CEO is Peng Xiao, former CEO of DarkMatter Groups’s Pegasus LLC division. DarkMatter of course hacked dissidents for Project Raven.

Martin Pegman was transferred from DarkMatter to Group 42.

Sheikh Tahnoon was linked to a hack of UAE activist Ahmed Mansoor’s computer in 2012.
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One of the many scandals involving the UAE is currently making news headlines.
English football club Manchester City were found guilty of 114 out of the 115 charges brought against them by the Premier League.

In 2008, Emirati royal Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan (who also controls the UAE Central Bank and is chairman of sovereign wealth funds Emirates Investment Authority and the $1.3 trillion worth Mubadala Investment Company) acquired a majority stake in English football club Manchester City through his Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG) holding company. ADUG now owns “City” football clubs around the world.

See Mohammed bin Zayed putting a Manchester City scarf on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while his brother Mansour looks on, when City won the Champions League in Istanbul in 2023 (1 of the 2 City matches ever attended by Mansour).


From 2009 to 2018, Mansour breached the UEFA’s and Premier League’s financial rules, by inflating sponsorship income and reducing expenses (paid by Mansour using Emirati companies), which totalled more than £900 million of inflated revenue and reduced costs. They also used fake consultancy contracts to pay coach Roberto Mancini and others (salary not on the books of Man City).
As far as I can tell, they have no other option than relegation of Manchester City (but I wouldn’t be surprised if they come up with another solution...).
https://youtu.be/1o7i2jrQiZY

In 2009, UEFA established the Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations to prevent clubs from spending more than they earn. In 2013, the Premier League finalised the similar Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR).

In November 2018, Der Spiegel published a four-part investigative report that revealed "evidence of backdated contracts, illusory sponsoring payments and cavalier, "We can do what we want," business practices" by the owners of Manchester City, the Abu Dhabi royal family.

The UEFA was forced to launch an investigation that in February 2020 found Man City guilty of "serious breaches of the UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations by overstating its sponsorship revenue in its accounts and in the break-even information submitted to Uefa between 2012 and 2016", and barred City from the UEFA Champions League for 2 years.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) bizarrely overturned the ban in July 2020 after an appeal, with the court stating that "most of the alleged breaches were either not established or time-barred" (they didn’t allow the most important evidence!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancheste ... es_scandal


Are we supposed to believe that the UAE stopped illegally funding Manchester City since 2018?!?
Maybe the strangest is that this scandal was already reported in November 2018 by Der Spiegel (almost 8 years ago!).
An internal May 2012 document, describes that Mansour had already invested 1.1 billion pounds (1.3 billion euro) in Manchester City since 2008, which includes a header "Supplement to Abu Dhabi partnership deals" (to circumvent the financial regulations of UEFA and the Premier League).


I found the following interesting link in one of the Der Spiegel stories from November 2018...
To artificially reduce their expenses, Manchester City transferred the marketing rights for its players to the marketing company Fordham Sports Management. This bookkeeping-wise reduced the club's spending on the marketing fees paid to players, and also generated additional revenues for the club (coming from Mansour of course).

Manchester City selected Jonathan Rowland and his father David to construct the scheme. Mansour's Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG) transferred money to the Rowlands for the purchase of the marketing rights and to pay Man City's players: https://web.archive.org/web/20260527204 ... 36347.html

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Abu Dhabi (UAE) sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan invested several millions pounds in the world’s biggest windfarm, which earned Queen Elizabeth II (may she burn in hell) a fortune.
Mohammed bin Zayed has been friends with King Charles’ brother, former prince Andrew, since Gordonstoun School in Scotland.

Did Mohamed Bin Zayed also use Rowland to send cash to King Charles’ disgraced brother, Andrew (and his daughters)?!?

In June 2011, Andrew discussed getting money in messages with Jonathan Rowland, then chief executive of Banque Havilland. Andrew expected £300,000 from David Rowland, of which Beatrice and Eugenie would each receive £50,000. They would then each invest half of their sum in investment firm Jellybook, which Jonathan Rowland had just launched

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