Thursday 17 June 2010

Re: “Daimler Admits Bribing Ghana Military”

What an interesting Thursday, 17 June 2010 www.ghanaweb.com general news web-page story, by Steve Manteaw – who writes from Washington D.C., the American capital. The question is: Why does the Public Agenda simply not contact Global Witness and the people behind "WikiLeaks" – who can use their British contacts to help unravel the ownership of Global Strategic Ventures Limited?


It is probably the Ghanaian subsidiary of an offshore special purpose vehicle set up by the crooks amongst those who used to rule us, either during the tenure of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) regime of Flt. Lt. Rawlings, or that of President Kufuor's New Patriotic Party (NPP), to receive their share of the kickbacks from Daimler-Benz! With respect, is it not extremely naive on the part of the Public Agenda, to think that the hirelings of those crooks will not hide details of the company lodged at the Registrar-General's Department: so as to protect them? Do they, after all, not work at the Registrar-General's Department, as a result of the munificence of yesteryear's powerful rogues? Hmmm, Ghana - enti yewieye paa enie? Asem ebaba debi anksa!

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1 comment:

traveller said...

In the specific case of Ghana, Daimler and Silver Star Auto are said to have entered into a contract to sell eight trucks to the Ghana Armed Forces in September 1997. The deal was negotiated through an agent, Global Strategic Ventures Ltd. It was understood that Silver Star Auto would pay Global Strategic Ventures a commission that would be passed on, in whole or in part, to Ghanaian Army officials in exchange for the aforementioned contract. Silver Star Auto paid Global Strategic Ventures a commission of $170,000, which was wired from a Daimler account in Germany to Global Strategic Ventures' account in London and debited to Silver Star Auto's TPA account.