Friday, April 26, 2013
" SFP Pushes El Materi Issue To Wall Street"
Tunisia in Spat With Seychelles Over Ben Ali Son-in-Law
Tunisia’s government is locked in a diplomatic battle with the tiny African island nation of Seychelles in hopes of winning the extradition of one of its most-wanted men, the flamboyant, jet-setting son-in-law of deposed leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
The son-in-law is Saker el-Materi, a man reputed to keep pet tigers and to enjoy fine cigars, and whose wealth increased dramatically after marrying the former president’s daughter in the mid-2000s, a process that Tunisian judicial authorities allege was due to corruption and abuse of power.
Like most of the former ruling family, Mr. Materi fled Tunisia in early 2011 before public protests overthrew Mr. Ben Ali, yet he did not follow his in-laws to Saudi Arabia. Instead, he has been living in the Gulf Arab nation of Qatar, before flying to the island resort nation of Seychelles late last year.
Tunisian courts have convicted Mr. Materi in absentia on corruption charges, and have sentenced him to 16 years in prison and fined him 97 million Tunisian dinars. They have also convicted Ben Ali and his wife, plus other members of the extended clan, of corruption and abuse of power. Known colloquially as “The Family,” the Ben Ali clan is reviled by many Tunisians for their immense wealth and alleged strong-arm tactics in taking over thriving businesses during Mr. Ben Ali’s three-decade rule.
Mr. Ben Ali and his wife haven’t spoken publicly since their flight to Saudi Arabia. But lawyers for the family have said they aren’t guilty of any crimes.
Despite an Interpol warrant for his arrest and the prior conviction in Tunisia, the Seychelles allowed Mr. Materi into the country in December 2012. It is unclear how he was allowed to stay, however, as Tunisian media have reported that he arrived on an expired Tunisian diplomatic passport.
Since then, Seychelles has ducked the insistent requests to expel him to Tunis, citing a lack of extradition treaties between the two nations.
Saudi Arabia also has ignored numerous requests by Tunisia to hand over Mr. Ben Ali and his wife Leila Trabelsi, a former hairdresser turned First Lady.
Tunisia’s new foreign minister, Othman Jerandi, denounced the authorities in Seychelles earlier this week for failing to hand over Mr. Materi. In a phone call Monday to his counterpart in Victoria, Seychelles, he reiterated Tunisia’s promise for fair court hearings against its former rulers, according to Tunisia’s state news agency.
Seychelles, a country that has had its own one-party rule for several years and whose government has a checkered human rights record, has confirmed that it has given Mr. Materi a one-year residency permit, according to the Tunisian government.
Tunisia’s new democratically elected government has won strong international support in its quest to fight financial crimes committed under its former regime – and it has racked up more success than other Arab Spring nations in winning back illicit gains stashed abroad by their former rulers.
Earlier this month, Tunisian authorities received $28 million dollars from the Lebanese government from a bank account kept in Beirut by the president’s wife. Italian authorities have also returned a yacht registered to the wife.
The extended Ben Ali family controlled an estimated one-third of the Tunisian economy by the time that the president was forced out of office in January 2011. Mr. Materi is considered by many Tunisians as one of the most rapacious of the clan, increasing his wealth in dramatic style in part by allegedly pressuring Tunisian partners of foreign owned conglomerates like Nestle SA to sell him their shares.
Mr. Materi also founded a bank, bought a 25% stake in Tunisia’s second-largest telecom operator, got elected to parliament and acquired a media group. But Mr. Materi has insisted that his wealth is due to his business acument, not to his ties to the Ben Ali family. A quote from part of his biography posted on his personal web site before the revolution that unseated Mr. Ben Ali reads: “One may envy his status as son-in-law of the president, but no-one can denigrate him by implying that he only owes his success to [Ben Ali].”
Friday, April 19, 2013
'Seychelles Communists Grants Asylum without Law in Place'
16 April 2013 Last updated at 09:41 GMT
Sakher El Materi was convicted of corruption in absentia by a court in Tunisia
Tunisia Ben Ali son-in-law granted asylum in Seychelles
The son-in-law of Tunisia's former president has been granted asylum in the Seychelles, officials say.
Businessman Sakher El Materi was arrested as he tried to enter in the island state in December 2012 and reportedly applied to stay in February.
He had fled Tunisia for Qatar after the uprising that ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011.
Months later, a court in Tunisian convicted him of corruption in absentia.
Materi, along with his wife and their three children, have now been granted a 12-month residence permit in the Seychelles, according to its immigration department.
The Indian Ocean archipelago was a regular holiday destination for the former president and his close family.
The country's law did not make specific provisions for political asylum, a government statement said.
But the permit was issued because it believed Materi would not receive justice in his home nation, according to AFP news agency.
"The government of Seychelles has not satisfied itself that the conditions exist in Tunisia at this point for a free and fair trial if Mr El Materi were to be repatriated back to face the charges set out against him there," immigration officials said.
Materi was convicted of corruption in absentia, along with his wife, Nesrine, and her father, Tunisia's ousted president.
Materi and Ben Ali were sentenced to 16 years in prison and Nesrine was given an eight-year jail term.
Monday, April 8, 2013
SFP Ambassador In UK To Unmask Offshore Secrecies And PL Stuffed Bank Accounts. Accountability And Justice will Prevail! (Roten PL I anba Lasann)
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
PL Promises To Implement SFP/MSR Kredo Rasinist Ideology
James Michel
promised the People of Seychelles in the State of the Nation Address that his
government will now deal with his own administration policy of the selling of
passports, fast tracking naturalization, the restriction of the sale of land to
foreigners which has been in place for 30 years, but not implemented, and a
plethora of other grievances addressed in the Mouvman Seselwa Rasin Kredo
Rasinist Manifesto “Sesel Pou Seselwa “and the Seychelles Freedom Party
Manifesto “Seselwa Unite”.
The MSR/SFP Struggle
These issues
have been at the forefront of MSR/SFP struggle as focus issues because behind
these issues, are our quest as a People, the Seychellois People to self
determination when we face political dilution of our interests in our own
country after the Communist regime of F.A. Rene, and more so today, James
Michel’s government, accelerated the sale of our citizenship to raise funds,
accelerated the sale of land to foreigners under their rule, at cheap prices ,
disenfranchising our people in our own country, regulating many Seychellois to
live out their lives in flats, planting pepper plants in discarded tires and
milk tins, when every Seychellois should rightfully have a title deed in his
and her name owning land and be able to cultivate the same if they wish.
As much as
35,000 Seychellois Rasin have formed part of a diaspora from 1977 onwards, being replaced by Fabrike citizens (made Seychellois
illegally) to keep SPPF PL in power,( MSR Manifesto Article 8) and taking our
citizenship and our land. Consequently, Bona fide Seychellois are losing
political control on their patrimony Seychelles, our Motherland. James Michel
has accelerated this diabolical formula to destroy our people. In the State of
the Nation speech, he even referred to Bona Fide Seychellois as all being
foreigners at one point, and all foreigners he said should be welcome to
Seychelles and treated as Seychellois. A leader could not offend his people
much more than that, when the history of Seychelles is clear: we were all
subjects under different flags as a people oppressed and never considered “citizen”, be it the French or English
rule. As subjects we were treated in an inferior manner contrary to UN recognized
rights to self determination.
In the next
election, Mr. Michel may well have Gurhkas vote for him and control the voting
boxes. Who knows, our next Election Commissioner can be a Gurhka and even Mr.
Gappy will be sent to live in Australia to retire where he will join 30,000
Seychellois. Even our next Attorney General may be a Gurhka. So Mr. Govinden
needs to reflect carefully on his position start defending the rights of
Seychellois instead of crushing them.
“King Salesman Jim” a.k.a James from
Anse La Mouche
No other
President has sold more land to foreigners then the Presidency of James Alix
Michel. This President has made F. A. Rene look conservative, and he has made James
Mancham look like a small time realtor in his day when he drove around town in
a convertible Rolls Royce showing
Kashoogi the lands available in Seychelles up for grabs for cheap. These
days, Michel shows off assets for sale by helicopter, much faster than a
convertible Rolls Royce, but he is still selling land in Seychelles on the
cheap, sometimes for Scr. 1.0.
Mr. Michel
has implemented a policy of sell baby sell, for years, and today, he says this
will stop. Can we trust James Michel? No. Should we trust James Michel? No. Is
James Michel someone we can trust with our fishing resources, our land, our
passports, our water, electricity and money? No. Is this true? Yes. Ask his Ex
Wife, she is singing. The soon to be ex- wife is singing as well. In time, the
next wife will sing too.
Fabrikes Everywhere Today
In the Kredo
Rasinis Manifesto of MSR, the terminology of “Fabrikes “ was introduced to
Seychelles. “Fabrikes” are “fake Seychellois”.
Even At State House
Ironically, today, Mr. Michel talks to us
about these Fabrikes in his speech, yet two years ago, it was illegal according
to him to discuss this issue. He even
attempted to post a blog once to say that it is racist, never understanding the
definition of racism. Under pressure from SFP, he now says now, “Even the
President will not be allowed to grant citizenship”.
Additionally, the residency requirement for
naturalization will go from 5 years to 10 years. Why should a person married to
a Seychellois wait 10 years to be naturalized? Should we trust Mr. Michel with
this sensitive issue? No. Why? He is not to be trusted. Fabrikes make up the
vast majority of James Michel support. He has allowed them to hijack Seychelles
by riding Rene’s coattails and now he even punishes decent folks to hide his
crimes of selling passports and granting citizenship in a loose manner.
Foreigners Have No Right To Own Land
In Seychelles
In his
speech, Mr. Michel attempted to announce Article 19 of the MSR Manifesto as his
government’s policy from 2013 onwards. He says foreigners will now not be able
to own land in Seychelles. They will be able to lease land only for up to 70
years. Thereafter, the lease will terminate and the land will revert back to
the Seychellois.
Article 19
of the MSR Manifesto says that the Seychellois Rasin (SESELWA RASIN) has
exclusive right to own land in Seychelles in Fee Simple. What has Michel said
different from what MSR said? Michel
said foreigners will not be able to renew leases. MSR said they could, if they
pay the owner and agree. Why would Michel restrict investment in Seychelles by
imposing such a thieving principle on land leases?
One SFP
activist said to me: “he did that because it is his instinct to steal and shaft
people, even after 70 years”.
MSR Said 75 Year Lease With Option to
Renew
The MSR
Manifesto permitted foreigners the right to lease land for 75 years with option
to renew leases so they do not lose their investments. They can keep it if they
can agree to pay a Seselwa Rasin a fair price for renewals. In such a case both
parties benefit.
Michel’s
proposal is mad and prohibits renewal of leases, so under his program, foreign
investment will eventually be diluted to nothing. This is stealing Mr. Michel
if you did not know.
It looks as
if MSR had a clear head compared to James Alix Michel and the rest of his empty
spirit when they deal with the issue of foreign investment in Seychelles.
PROTEZ NOU PATRI
MSR Manifesto Article 5 provides that Seychelles is the
patrimony of the Seychellois Rasin. SFP Manifesto uses the term found in the
Seychelles Constitution, that,” …..all bona fide Seychellois have a right to
participate in government and a duty to protect their patrimony. This language
is also found in the Preamble, which was a poem actually written by Mr. James
Mancham all by himself to add a little flair to the sometimes boring process of
writing a Constitution with F.A. Rene while James Michel peddled the Malo Arms
to Rwanda Hutus.
This means,
Seychelles belongs to us Seselwa Rasin. The benefits and burdens of our
patrimony rest with us “Seselwa Rasin”. Under James Michel, he says these
things, but in practice what do we see?
In practice
we see Shiekh Khalifa calling the shots. In practice we see 80 Gurhkas policing
our people even on traffic detail. They waive at us, pull us over, inspect our
cars, rough us up and treat us like foreigners in our own country. James
Michel, this type of bullying is not on man. Train Seychellois to do these
jobs, no matter how hard it is for you when they turn on you. Send these
Gurhkas home and restore dignity to the people of Seychelles. Consider going to
live with them in Nepal. Take your Rolls Royce with you.
You will
live a more dignified life and secure a more respectable place in history to be
ousted by your own people then to be protected by 80 Gurhkas and 10 Irish.
SFP will
send the Gurhkas home. You can trust SFP to do the job that James Michel cannot
do. The Irish will be replaced with more educated, more capable Seychellois
that speak proper English and do not need 83 Million rupees per year to do a
drug seizure program in an island with only 89,000 people.
EL MATERI FIASCO
The son in
law of ex President Ben Ali of TUNISIA has sought political asylum in
Seychelles. This chap has been convicted of a number of corruption related
charges in Abstentia and his luck is running on the low side of the fuel gauge
from what I have been advised by key sources. It is unfortunate for himself and
his family. However, we must be clear, Seychelles has no asylum legislation and
it had none when he entered the country numerous times. So it is clear, beyond
a doubt, that it is James Michel who is harboring and protecting this chap from
INTERPOL and the legitimate government of TUNISIA today.
Let us be
clear, we have no issue with El Materi. Tunisia has an issue with him.
Our issue is
with James Michel’s prolific practice of compromising Seychellois dignity and
our national citizenship and selling off our patrimony recklessly, under value.
This results in the displacement of our people in our own country.
Jules Egbert Savy Lesson No 1.
El Materi
needs to know something about PL: they promise to take care of you, until you
are out of money, and the government looking for you promises a grant or loan
which you cannot match. Then they put you on a Catamaran for Madagascar.
Finally they call South Africa, advice you are on the way and very dangerous and
you are collected in the middle of the ocean. Ask Jules Egbert Savy another
person, who recently went through what you are going through what happened to
him. Eventually all your assets that gave you a false sense of security are
divided by the thieves. Sometimes they have petty squabbles over who owns what.
But that is life with PL and that is how the JJ spirit economy works.
Sometimes
one would think our President from the Communist Party just looks at the
pictures in the Economist.
Seselwa Unite!
Sesel Pou Seselwa!
May God Bless All Freedom Loving
Seychellois!
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Seychelles 2.5 billion Still Unaccounted For While 23 Million Is Revealed. SFP Investigates Further.
From Link: http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/economy/38745.html
$1.6 billion were invested in Armenia in 2012
$1.59 billion were invested in Armenia in 2012, a drop by 8.6%, compared with 2011. 49.82% were direct investments (and 37.6% foreign investments) were spent on TV communications, the National Statistical Service reports.
France increased investments 2.3-fold to $230 million, with 90% of them in Orange Armenia.
Russia reduced investments 3.2-fold to $123 million, a third of which was spent on communications. Russia invested $25 million in Armenian energy, $7.2 million in non-ferrous metals, $25 million in retail sales and $14.5 million in transportation.
Germany invested $48 million in mining, Switzerland $43 million in mining, Seychelles $23 million in TV communications.
A little bird alleges that Mukesh Valbjhi Is Written all over this one with the aid of Albert Rene.
With Ramadoss out of the Picture Mukesh can climb seat and see that Sarah Rene get it right.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Will the Fate Of Seychelles Oil Tankers End Up Same As Air Seychelles?
Cyprus Financial Crisis: Effect on Shipping Interests
Tax-News
Monday, April 01, 2013, 4:28 AM
Cypriot
Transport Minister, Tasos Mitsopoulos, states the nation's shipping
registry will not be affected by turmoil in banking sector.
The Minister downplayed the impact of Cyprus's banking crisis on the
local shipping industry, pointing out that none of the island's banks
are active in ship financing, reports Tax-News.
Despite Mitsopoulos's assurances, many shipping companies' bank
deposits in Cyprus are expected to be heavily impacted by the banking
sector developments, and could see losses topping 40% on amounts over
EUR100,000, alongside the imposition of capital controls, which may
restrict the companies' business activities.
Source: Tax-News
Note:Because of seypec's Financial Interest In Cyprus it stands to lose 40% as well.
Victoria Navigation (Cyprus) founded in 2008 to manage Seychelles tanker fleet.
More Communist Than communist Is Parti Lepep Of Seychelles!
PARTI LEPEP
POSITION PAPER ON:
POLITICAL PARTY REGISTRATION ACT
SUBJECT: POLITICAL
PARTY ACT
PRINCIPLES:
The
stance of Parti LEPEP (PL) on the Political Party Act is principled as it is in
keeping with the overarching objective of the whole electoral reform exercise
undertaken under the auspices of the Electoral Commission (EC), which is to
provide Seychelles with an equitable electoral system, and grounded in the
provisions of the Constitution of the Third Republic.
PL
is of the view that this objective can be attained if the Forum on Electoral
Reform (FER) embraces an evidenced-based and pragmatic approach meaning that it
asks itself what is not working with this piece of legislation and what the
evidences in support of this are. Through this approach aspects of the
Political Party Act which are problematic, meaning stand in the way of the
attainment of the wider objective of achieving an equitable electoral system,
will be detected.
PL’s
stance is to change what is not working (stand in the way of the objective of
making the electoral system equitable) but leave untouched what is working.
Subsequently,
PL’s stance on the propositions made by other parties to FER derives from this
pragmatic approach. Basically, for any proposition made by another Party, PL
would ask: In what ways are the provision of the Act being challenged,
problematic? And, what evidence do you have to show for it?
PROPOSITION:
Having
run through the Political Party Act and thoroughly analyzed each of its
provisions, PL has come to the conclusion that this piece of legislation, which
predates the present Constitution, has served the country and its democracy well
over the years.
Registration of Political Parties
1.2. (2.2MIN) Democracy is
defined by the adjective multi-party which insinuates that it draws its
vibrancy from the multitude of political parties existing legally. The law
should not be used to deny some political views the status of political party
nor force some political parties to go underground. Therefore, PL calls for
maintaining the status quo on this point as increasing the number of signatures
from its current level of 100 will defeat this underlying democratic principle.
Presentation of accounts
1.3 (2.3MIN) This is already been taken care of under Article 114 of
the Constitution which empowers the Registrar to submit a report on the
accounts of political parties to the National Assembly. Therefore, PL calls for
maintaining the status quo.
Funding of Political Parties from
State Funds
1.4 (2.4MIN) PL does not agree with the idea of having separate
headings as to how the money is to be used as it impinges on the independence
of political parties and besides the auditing of the accounts suffices to deter
any misuse of the funds coming from State coffers.
Auditing of Accounts
1.5 (2.5MIN) The auditing is done by the Registrar of Political Parties
who submits a report to the National Assembly where the Finance and Public
Accounts Committee scrutinizes the report. There is no need to duplicate the
auditing process by getting the Office of the Auditor General to do it over
again.
Formation of Political alliances
1.6 (2.6MIN) The Constitution makes no mention of political
alliances and speaks only of political parties yet this constitutional silence
has not hampered the formation of electoral/political alliances in the third
Republic. In such circumstances, there
no need for a separate piece of legislation to cater for the formation of
political alliances.
1.7 (2.7MIN) Maintain the status
quo.
1.8 (2.8MIN) There seems to be a contradiction between this
proposition to get small parties in the National Assembly and proposition 1.2(2.2)
which calls for increasing the number of signatures and proposal. The size of
political parties cannot be legally fine-tuned but should be politically
determined by the electorate.
Financing of political parties
1.9. (2.9MIN) PL calls for maintaining the status quo. Against the
idea of minimum requirement and (1.10) of using the 6.5 million rupees
benchmark as it ties the hands of the Government and does not take into
consideration the economic situation of the country and the availability of
financial resources.
Documents presented by political
parties
1.11 (2.11MIN) There is no need for public inspection as any member of
the public can lodge an objection under existing provisions of the laws.
1.12. (2.12MIN) This idea is antidemocratic and discriminatory (it favors’
independent candidates).
Membership Age
1.13. (2.13MIN) Maintain the status quo as Constitution does not allow
for lowering of minimum age for becoming member of a political Party.
1.14 (2.14MIN) It is for the Court to interpret the meaning of the
word “provocative” and political parties cannot deny them that freedom by
striking the word from the Act.
Appeal against a registration and
against striking off political party
1.15. (2.15MIN) The appeal to the Court of Appeal must be on a point of
law only.
Annual Accounts
1.16 (2.14MIN) There is no need for this as the accounts are audited
and submitted to the National Assembly.
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