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...“I believe there will then be more likelihood of co-operation, collegiality, trust and confidence building.”...
...‘Clan is king’ Not long after the unification of the Trust Territory of Italian Somaliland and British Somaliland in 1960, Somalia began to come apart under socialist dictator Siad Barre, who came to power...
...“There has been a sharp increase in demand for setting up trust structures that can help conceal ownership,” comments one financial adviser....
...“What you’re basically saying is we don’t trust [the Nigerians] with such valuable objects,” she said....
..., foreign exchanges.”...
...He asks Ireland’s foreign ministry to talk to the UAE government about it urgently. Days later, the Prince of Bahrain dumps Kinahan as an advisor....
...French tycoon Bernard Arnault, chief executive of luxury group LVMH, has a family office, as does Italy’s Agnelli industrial clan....
...He would go on to work for the scion of a venerable New England clan that, with the inauguration of President George Herbert Walker Bush in 1989, had become an American dynasty....
...“I’m not privy to all of his conversations with Bassem, but . . . the sense I got was that Prince Hamzah didn’t really trust Bassem,” he adds....
...region have sought refuge in family, clan, sect and tribe....
...“The government is hugely popular right now because people trust us, trust the chancellor, trust the federal government and trust the prime ministers of the regions to get us through this crisis,” he said...
...But there are no guarantees that the Trump clan will, guilty or not, go quietly from the scene....
...As intriguing as family feuds are, and here at DD we’re big fans of espionage stories, this is about more than just cracks appearing in the Barclay clan....
...In the Chua clan, 72-year-old Chua Thian Poh remains firmly in command....
...Lebanon defaulted on its foreign debt in March, for the first time....
...This was established to help families avoid the “third generation curse” by adapting foreign experiences for south-east Asia....
...We have a family clan in the government.”...
...In the clan-based world of Kazakh politics, his influential lineage gives the couple increased leverage....
...“Up until Aachen, [France and Germany] were partners,” says Claire Demesmay, of the German Council on Foreign Relations....
...Similarly, Guangdong International Trust & Investment Corporation, with $7bn in assets, went bankrupt in 1999....
...“We need a leader that Pakistanis can trust because most people today do not trust the other two [parties].” To outside observers, there appears to be a clear choice....
...Most of the remaining fortune (calculated at $3.3bn by Forbes) was in family trusts of which he was a beneficiary but not an owner....
...In Syria, pulverised into scores of fragments, the iron centralism of the Assad clan’s version of Baathism also failed....
...“What Isis has done is provide for the first time a real umbrella that can link across the region, across clan and across ethnicity.”...
...He has charm and a remarkable ability to make people trust him.” The website also calls Robertson “a key player in Kazakhstan and Central Asia”....
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