Hints and tips:
...London’s top diplomat in Caracas, Colin Dick, is officially described as a chargé d’affaires ad interim, rather than a full ambassador....
...Windhorst last week testified under oath in the High Court about his assets and financial arrangements, in a hearing on the Lefebvre d’Ovidio case....
...Another email from Adams’ assistant private secretary, dated November 5 2020, said: “I think the minister may have shared these names with you previously but are ones he’d like considered....
...Heritage Travel and Tourism, a Bahamian investment vehicle linked to d’Ovidio, a Monegasque billionaire cruise magnate, won a €172mn judgment against Windhorst in London’s High Court last year....
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...“If we were advising them, we’d say, ‘stop, you need to make a number of checks’.” He said the firm would be subject to UK sanctions rules even though its operations are in Turkey....
...Lefebvre d’Ovidio declined to comment Windhorst has so far made payments of €50mn to Heritage towards the 2021 judgment, the court heard....
...And yeah, after all the effort we'd gone to, it was frustrating to be denied this basic information. Beyond that, this whole episode raised an even bigger question....
...On the short walk back to the lift, Alphaville showed Ahmed a printed picture of Jo Johnson and asked if he’d ever been spotted in the office....
...By Cynthia O’Murchu and Rob Smith. One more thing . . . Untold: The Retreat is a brand new four-part FT podcast series — and it’s unlike anything you’ve heard from us before....
...And while Sex and the City’s other three players — Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davies — have all performed on the London stage in the past, Sarah Jessica Parker is about to make her West End...
...(Construction Physics) — The great confusion (Exante Data) — NBA giant Shaquille O’Neal proves surprisingly hard to find for lawyers trying to serve him with an FTX lawsuit (The Block) — What really happened...
...“You’d have to take over their email address, in which case the legitimate person would ordinarily see emails arriving into their inbox,” he said....
...My first film was called Matchless, a spoof spy thriller with Patrick O’Neal and Donald Pleasence. My father reacted very badly – it annoyed him that I undressed on screen....
...Just the day before Gupta’s defence was released, the FT’s Cynthia O’Murchu and DD’s Kaye Wiggins reported that the father of Aman Chourasia, the owner of a Hong Kong sandwich shop and founder of Spring...
...The entrepreneur’s name has emerged in an alleged half-billion-dollar international fraud at commodities group Trafigura, the FT’s Cynthia O’Murchu in London and DD’s Kaye Wiggins report....
...The list of addresses included a chateau in the south of France widely reported to have been bought by Abramovich in the glamorous Cap d’Antibes peninsula in 2001....
Latest vessel’s discovery highlights veil of secrecy over sanctions-hit oligarch’s assets
...An object I’d never part with is a small Giambologna bronze Venus holding the tools of architecture. I’ve had it for several years and I want to be buried with it....
...“Before that, I’d look at a tag and I’d think, How has anyone done that with all the CCTV? Whereas nowadays, I’d knock that out at 3 o’clock in the afternoon on a Thursday....
...Corvallis and H2O, other major creditors that signed the standstill include Heritage Travel and Tourism, a Bahamian investment vehicle linked to Monegasque billionaire cruise magnate Manfredi Lefebvre d’...
...Back in 2019, DD’s Rob Smith and Cynthia O’Murchu from the FT’s investigations desk pored over H2O’s fund filings and made a startling discovery: the firm had well over €1bn invested in illiquid bonds linked...
...The firm orchestrated a covert campaign to oust the team’s then-president Werner Gegenbauer, according to the court papers, obtained by the FT’s Cynthia O’Murchu and Rob Smith with the assistance of the...
...Representatives for Siem, Lefebvre d’Ovidio and McCourt declined to comment. Paying off There are signs the frantic flight schedule is beginning to pay off....
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