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Guttenberg and the subservient mentality

Lutz Kinkel



One not too distant future scientists scandal Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg will investigate false doctorate. And they will find many typical ingredients. For example, like piling up a subject very quickly became the media tsunami. Or how the accused reacted. Only deny everything ("The allegations are absurd"), then add piece by the Irrefutable ("I have made mistakes," "I've made serious mistakes"). The reactions of the environment are out of a textbook. Chancellor Angela Merkel's attempt to draw between himself and the problem is a firewall, classified by the plagiarism scandal as irrelevant to the work of government. Or the trivialization, which was operated from the Union at all costs ("Do we have to do anything more important?"). Classic is the compression of the scandal to a head on which a victim must be brought, in which case the return and withdrawing fraudulently doctorate. New

however, the audacity of the accused tried to reinterpret the affair as a continuation of their own heroic story. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, it contrived to present themselves in the Bundestag as a model. His claim: would handle all the scientists so self-critical of himself as he did, the academic world would be better. It says the man, his university, glued his supervisor and science has no such leaders before. He has stolen from vanity and careerism other authors. The issue a special permit had to write a PhD at the earliest possible date in the letter head can and then fraudulently award was for many years. That is breathtaking.

Westerwelle would be gone
One was in the corridors of the Reichstag on Wednesday disputed question: What would have happened if not for Karl-Theodor Guttenberg, but Guido Westerwelle stole his doctoral work together would have? No doubt: The tsunami had rolled over him, he would have had to resign. This thought experiment has on two findings of this scandal out. First, it does not matter what wrongdoing is present, but who committed them. Secondly popularity protects consequences. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg meets in the population, as formulated by Hans Leyendecker of the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", a positive bias, an almost religious mercy that forgives everything. When Guido Westerwelle situation is sometimes reversed. Even the smallest gesture can encourage people in their feeling that ministers would be better not Westerwelle.

know Chancellor Merkel to the popularity of Guttenberg, and they also know that they risk their own popularity set, if it had Guttenberg had forced to resign. So she let him give. The damage that it will grow from medium to long term is to not judge, but its outlines are already visible. If a fraud is allowed to stay Ministers can with conservative values such as honor, honesty and decency no longer promote credible. And if a fraud is allowed to stay ministers will also ask other a soft sentence, if they have a scandal at his heels. For those of Merkel often touted educational Republic is the case Guttenberg a catastrophe and every pirate product in China will be laughing up his sleeve. And not to forget: If Guttenberg to such actions such as cobbling together a thesis is capable of what he has hired - and what will he do? Merkel has embarked on a player.

The elites of the country
Guttenberg himself may have won the game with the population. In the political space he has lost it. Each sentence in which he, the words "test", "sources" or "inquiry" used, called in parliament on Wednesday produced only laughter. As the troops will respond if Guttenberg future again jagged fired a subordinate? The fact that the students giggle at the Bundeswehr University in Munich and Hamburg, where ministers copy and paste occurs there, is easy to imagine. Security Authority and to develop a PhD is a long, painstaking process. Lost is all 'fast. The return of the title is not enough to make good the damage. Had he not been on the track - Guttenberg would still call doctor.

The social morality, a urkonservatives theme has something to do with it, behave like the elites of the country. Whether they evade taxes such as the former Deutsche Post CEO Klaus Zumwinkel, if they stir up resentment as the former SPD-Senator Thilo Sarrazin, whether they can gild its mandate by the industry as the former CDU general secretary Laurenz Meyer. Or whether they reveal values for her career as the acting Minister of Defence, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, CSU.

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In his statement, Mr. Guttenberg himself that he had stated on Friday that he would temporarily take the new song. On Friday he wants to do without, however, had declared that he temporarily flying on the track until the few errors were then cleared with the University of Bayreuth and then he would take the title again.

In the video from the election campaign in Kelkheim he also states that there were serious mistakes, and he in the seven years of work on the thesis track of the sources have lost. But that's his opinion, all no plagiarism. The truth about his work can be found in the interim report of his plagiarism on GuttenPlag Wiki of 21 February 30th by 17 clock But even this level at which at 271 pages, which were equivalent to 68.96 percent of its work, plagiarism found. But even this figure is already outdated and looks at present like this:

pages where plagiarism were found (black). The Table of Contents (pages 1-14) and Annexes, page 408 (blue) were not included in calculating the percentage. Pages with imitations of various sources are shown in red

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Who speaks for so many plagiarism locations of errors are lying. These are not errors but deliberate acts. The type of plagiarism in other shows to many observers that it is not plagiarism by him is himself, but that the totality of the work rather comes from a ghostwriter. But the time spent talking to the need for such work would be:


The Law and Economics Faculty of the University of Bayreuth had the work in 2006 as the dissertation. At that time, Guttenberg was not ministers, but in the Bundestag, already chairman of the CDU / CSU Group in the Foreign Affairs Committee, and for that he was amongst a number of honorary posts more than half a dozen other leading features in his party and in national and international political bodies. You have almost the 25th Hour of the day believe if you look at the stress of the KTG students will paint so well.


This is supported but also that Guttenberg is of the otherwise so self-centered man in his work and in his first public evaluation of his work so strange about talking stilted to the person of the authors:


Unlike books or speeches by top executives , top politicians and other celebrities are on this lower level of academic nevertheless sought orders allowed, no ghostwriter. And here is exactly the case Guttenberg might really explosive.

So far so do not understand why an intelligent, confident man like Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg should have refrained deliberately, about an honorable columnist of the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung", or a renowned professor with a text review of the FAZ is not named and quote reference? Especially in the last and most usually considered a foreword of such a study. As with dozens of other places where KTG apparently used since as foreign sales and springs, the would-be doctor no teeth had fallen out of the crown, if he had correctly quoted and therefore unassailable.

But why are these hardly understandable omission happened? His possible "errors" Guttenberg says something nebulous. "There was, however, disappointed at no time aware of or the authority of others made do not identify" the one who usually only too happy to say "I", the process moves at once to the level of "It". Strange, that has already alarmed Chancellor of such information satisfactory and even "offensive" called.

For who is this "it"?

time you'll get the affair Guttenberg no quotes affair, to which it or its (less expectant) defender want to minimize the matter. Even in the digital age Guttenberg disappear for long quotations is no coincidence both punctuation (arrival and transfers) and also to the normal scientific or journalistic and documentary work attached Directory. It is because the sequential numbering of footnotes adapt differently to the old typewriter days when someone calls, can, they should not demonstrate in later, spontaneous, last minute inserted text parts are lost.

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The amount and type of "error", the small but apparently deliberate changes of details in the non-designated foreign texts and the stylistic Fractures of the whole would be better explained, if written down here, for example, parts of speeches and lectures, the assistants, lecturers and temporary workers for the busy politician or zusammengeklaubt simplicity of foreign texts have input would have found in the dissertation. This much may yet explain the unexplained or make it understandable that a go-getting Turbo politician on the academic side show might lose track of "his" material - and also pushed in a mixture of ignorance of the power and intoxicating, ambitious demands on himself.


is now the Baron a PhD going on. What remains of the fraud is to admit he does not want. But that's not all. It is also the abuse of a research department of the Bundestag. Previously known only that he has asked Councilor Ulrich Tammler him a paper on "The question of a reference to God in the U.S. Constitution and the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court for the separation of church and state" to deliver. Now the focus has established the Guttenberg has used another work that William Weege by the Scientific Service of the Bundestag is entitled "The U.S. role in the European integration process by the end of the East-West conflict" written. Guttenberg has modified the work is minimal and not the source reported. This is theft of property of the Bundestag.

But not only has the federal claims against him and many others are affected, and David Klein asks the right questions:


Actually, I will lose no word on the matter because the facts (and now also the minister himself) speak for themselves and also gives the only bad karma for my work. But you ask yourself, what would happen if suddenly all the "forgotten" authors assert their claim for injunctive relief - § § 12, 13, 63 Copyright Act can be read even once. Or what happens to § 132a of the Criminal Code, if the awarding of doctorates was unlawful and § 48 of the Administrative Procedure Act comes into play.


Oh yes. Our judicial system and a Baron, who is also a big shot in politics, multi-millionaire friend of the Springer press, and federal ministers. No, because there is no hope. Each display is set against him mercilessly. Hunted in Germany by the judiciary only the weak. It's just a class justice. Guttenberg feels confident and wants to hide himself in front of the Bundestag again cowardly:


Berlin (dts News Agency) - According to CSU Group CEO Stefan Müller issues would be expected to answer "by the present parliamentary secretaries. Guttenberg, but would likely participate in the parliamentary debate on the allegations against him.


But since there is already a change. For the Baron run slowly but surely it's supporters. While CDU Secretary-General Hermann Gröhe and the Union Group Chairman Volker Kauder the affair Guttenberg with the excuses and lies in Kelkheim want to quit, wants to bring Bundestag President Norbert Lammert, the matter before the Elders of the Bundestag and is already talking of "sloppiness".

course, Angela Merkel, the Springer press and the Colourful still stand behind Guttenberg, but the other hope for the future of the CDU, Ursula von der Leyen begins already with its cautious disengagement:


Labour Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) sees her Cabinet colleague, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (CSU) in view of the discussion on his doctoral work in a "difficult situation".

Berlin (dts News Agency) - A final assessment did not give von der Leyen. "As he makes the allegations and makes a clean sweep, will decide on which picture do the people of him as a politician."


How does he do to show the video at the top. He tries to durchzulügen. As Federal Minister of Economics has Guttenberg is work out the "Act to Amend the Banking Law" by the British law firm Linklaters completely . Let When Kundusaffäre he lied to Parliament and the public and released at the end of the Inspector General Wolfgang Schneiderhan and the Secretary of State Peter Wichert as pawns in order to protect his own person.

lousy still was his behavior towards Brigadier General Henning Hars, who had asked the minister of war in a letter to the reasons for the dismissal of Hans Schneider and was treated for it in retirement. The troops should not just ask or think, but die for the glory of the Baron without complaint and make a nice stage for his performances.

calls even in the FAZ Berthold Köhler already managed to withdraw Guttenberg:


Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, is of two letters apart, back to his usual: the forward defense. After a week in the storm of criticism as the "Franconian Weather fir," as he calls himself, seen as it was spring, and teetering in the woods, most recently in the forest of Kelkheim. To forestall the threat of withdrawing his Ph.D., he has, which asked for a Baron d'etat, the University of Bayreuth, him to recognize the title.

was in this affair - a dissertation is to be made without outside help - no other accused available to the poor preliminary work, in retirement could be sent or suspended. To save his office has Guttenberg This time his own doctor dismissed.

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The Chancellor wants to go away for obvious reasons, the latter, at least outwardly. The damage within the universe of civic values, drawn by the operation to rescue the gestural stumbled standard bearer for themselves, but also Mrs Merkel miss them.

The action, it is possible for and everything is on the light, late consequences. Guttenberg had themselves the values that he cherishes, and also, the union proved a better service if he is not only the University of Bayreuth had written a letter, but also the Chancellor.


Yes, he would have even have to write this letter when he decency, dignity or even have morals. But it lacks not just in these traits, he lacks the courage above all. He cowardly tries to dodge any responsibility, while at the same time like other takes the responsibility. This must not let him pass, even if he is a beacon of hope or perhaps even the only hope of the Union.

Baron Guttenberg will always make mistakes, then the other must be straight. Eventually, such a mistake will mean many deaths. For his mistakes are not a defect, disability. He could not write doctoral work, he did not make key laws to be drawn up in his house, rather than give in a lobbying firm in order and also to pay more. He could not work up until the Kundusaffäre but had to immediately and completely false tear open the door because he was not interested in the facts. Short and bad. The Guttenberg can not.

The seven-league boots with which he is gehoppelt With strong American support of the German policy are up to him just too big and to avert further damage to Germany and other nations, it is now time to resign. Since he can not him, someone will have to resign. Ms Merkel and Mr Seehofer are required. It might work an!

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Singapore: Good Life under a dictator

Singapore has achieved the American dream, but not in the American way. It is a prosperous, clean city, with imposing skyscrapers and glittering shopping centers. The multinational corporations of the world are welcome here; you can buy any brand name you've ever heard of. The highways are lined with tropical flowers and crowded with BMWs. And at the head of this thriving free-market state is a clever, socialist dictator.
Just forty years ago Singapore was a war-battered British port on an island off the southern tip of Malaysia. It had a rapidly growing, poor, uneducated population living mostly in slums and houseboats. Singapore struggled along until 1965, when it became an independent nation with Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew in firm control.
In the next twenty years Singapore's economy grew eightfold. Average income per capita rose more than fourfold. The percentage of families living in poverty dropped to 0.3% (in the U.S. it is near 20%). Singaporeans' average life expectancy is now 71 years. No one is homeless. Population has stabilized. Virtually everyone has a job. The place runs like a Swiss watch.
Lee Kuan Yew would appreciate that analogy. Switzerland is his model. Singapore Airlines aims to outdo Swissair. Singapore likes to list its statistics alongside Switzerland's (its divorce rate is one-third that of Switzerland, its per capita calorie supply is equal, its movie attendance rate is six times higher). Lee's chief economic goal is to reach the per capita GNP of Switzerland, which will happen in one more economic doubling -- about 10 years, if past growth rates continue.
To produce his economic miracle, Lee Kuan Yew has interfered with every aspect of Singaporean life. To control population growth he set up free family planning clinics. Then he mounted education campaigns ("Plan your family small") and decreed that women having third-or-more babies would get shorter maternity leave, higher hospital charges, and less income tax relief. There is a $5000 reward for mothers who agree to be sterilized after their second child. Sterilized parents get top priority for public housing, and their children get into desirable schools.
Singaporeans now accept that two is the right number of children. When I asked one woman how she felt about that, she told me she'd like to have three or four. "But," she said brightly, "I understand why I shouldn't have that many. We are a small, crowded island." In fact the birth rate has fallen so low among highly-educated women, that Lee now offers incentives to "educated mothers" to have three children or more.
Singapore requires all workers to save 25% of their salaries. Their employers match that amount (after the recession of 1985, the employers' share was cut to 10%). The workers can claim the money only after the age of 55. This enormous forced savings rate is one of the secrets of Singapore's incredible economic growth. The money goes into a Central Provident Fund, with which the government builds roads, schools, hospitals, and especially housing.
All over the city identical 16-story housing blocks rise, each with its recreation center, swimming pool, shopping center, community center, and school. The apartments are well-built and spacious. Now that there are enough of them, the government lets people tap their savings before age 55 to buy their own flats. At present 74% of families own their homes; the goal is 100%.
Anti-social behavior is not permitted in Singapore. The fine for littering is $250. Jaywalking, spitting, and smoking in government offices are also fined $250. Gambling, except for the state lottery, is illegal. The punishment for drug trafficking is death.
Recently Lee Kuan Yew declared war on smoking. During a recent Smoke-Free Week there were signs everywhere, "Stub it Out, Singapore!" In the shopping centers electronic billboards grimly toted up the city's smoking deaths, about 10 per day. Smiling teenagers roamed the streets with baskets of apples and collared anyone with a cigarette, offering to trade an apple for a pack. The percentage of smokers in the population has gone down from 23% to 13%.
I tried to find Singaporeans who are unhappy with their paternalistic government. In a week of searching, I found none. People think the regulations make sense. No one seems to fear the government; most feel they can bring complaints to it. One economics professor thought the 25% forced savings policy was too high. I asked him if he intended to write the newspapers or make a speech about it. He was shocked. He would never disrupt the social harmony, he said. He was assembling the facts he needed; then he would go make a reasoned argument directly to the ministry.
Singapore just doesn't fit the world's categories. It's a dictatorship with free speech, no fear, and no corruption. It's an economy that uses capitalist means to attain socialist ends. Singapore University scholars call it a "meritocratic, elitist, Confucianist, bureaucratic state".
Whatever you call it, by all appearances and measures it works astoundingly well -- so far, anyway. Everyone wonders, of course, what will happen after Lee Kuan Yew. Some Singaporeans are nervous about their dependence on the rest of the world for water, food, and energy. Perhaps a greater worry, though no one in Singapore seems to be thinking about it, is what will motivate the nation, what kinds of goal will there be, what challenges will Singapore put its well-organized energy to, after everyone becomes as rich as the Swiss.

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The Bavarian state bank's corruption scandal

The Bavarian state bank’s corruption scandal

26 January 2011
The scandal involving Gerhard Gribkowsky, former head of risk management at the Munich-based Bavarian State Bank (BayernLB), has deepened and is engulfing a wider layer of top managers and politicians. The state parliament’s committee of inquiry and investigating prosecutor—whose mandate was to examine the murky events leading up to BayernLB’s takeover of the Hypo Group Alpe Adria (HGAA)—had previously signalled they were wrapping up their inquiries.

Several weeks ago, Gribkowsky was arrested for concealing the receipt of $50 million, which was deposited in Austrian bank accounts in 2006 and 2007, allegedly en route to a private foundation. The facts revealed so far suggest the money was a payoff for BayernLB’s Formula 1 racing car deal, which Gribkowsky had intricate knowledge of as manager of the state-owned bank. He is now under investigation for allegations related not only to tax evasion, but embezzlement and bribery.

In 2001, the BayernLB, along with Lehman Brothers and JP Morgan Chase, loaned media magnate Leo Kirch $1.6 billion (€1.2 billion) to help buy a controlling interest of SLEC, the media business that held the rights for the popular Formula 1 car racing series. Following Kirch’s bankruptcy, Gribkowsky was assigned the task of finding a buyer for Formula 1—and he eventually sold the shares to the British investment firm, Corporate Venture Capital (CVC). The public prosecutor’s office has charged that no estimate was made of the value of the shares before they were sold off at bargain basement prices. Meanwhile, Gribkowsky was rewarded with a princely commission.

New documents have come to light about a company network overseen by Gribowsky that was responsible for all kinds of shady transactions. As Stern magazine reported, Gribkowsky was extended far-reaching powers by Formula 1 boss, Bernie Ecclestone, after the sale of the BayernLB shares went through, enabling Gribkowsky to channel money through a complex network of companies and into his own pocket.

According to the Stern report, Gribkowsky’s own GG Consulting appeared on the Austrian trade register the same day BayernLB sold its shares to CVC. The first instalment of the alleged commission money landed in the account of GG Consulting nine months later. Exactly $21,196,000, arriving in five separate transfers, was deposited. The money was transferred from a company named First Bridge Holding Ltd, which was headquartered off the southeast African island nation of Mauritius.

On May 3, 2007, Gribkowsky set up a private foundation, named “Sunshine”, in Austria. The second tranche of the $50- million commission later appeared on the account of a subsidiary of Sunshine. This time the money was transferred from a firm in the British Virgin Islands.

Criminal investigators have been looking into these events since 2008. It is suspected the bank intentionally and systematically violated its internal guidelines for risk management in relation to securities transactions from 2005 to 2007. With respect to civil law, the BayernLB’s executive board has waived any claim against the former overseer of its administrative council.

Gribkowsky’s operation was not exposed by the public prosecutor, but through the efforts of journalists from the Süddeutsche Zeitung. According to the newspaper, after its journalists had confronted him with evidence of dubious transactions, Gribkowsky approached the Munich prosecutor himself, claiming he was being persecuted by the journalists.

Gribkowsky is facing five to ten years in prison. State investigators say events surrounding Gribkowsky could produce the biggest corruption case in the history of the Federal Republic.

The affair casts light on BayernLB’s management, which continued to back Gribkowsky despite his dubious past, including involvement in business failures at the Carinthia (Austria) Hypo Group Alpe Adria (HGAA), which left the bank with billions in losses, and the former BAWAG trade union bank in Vienna.

Gribkowsky’s actions were not simply those of an individual. They were an integral part of the state bank’s risky transactions, which yielded huge sums for big investors and politicians. Banks and financial companies throughout Europe and the US took similar risks. Since the 2008 crash their gambling losses have all but been covered by state treasuries.

The Bavarian parliamentary committee of inquiry has suspended interrogation of witnesses in relation to the HGAA deal. More than 60 witnesses have testified so far, including former directors of BayernLB and leading Christian Social Union (CSU) party members such as the former Bavarian prime ministers Edmund Stoiber and Günther Beckstein, ex-finance minister Kurt Faltlhauser and former CSU party leader Erwin Huber.

HGAA was involved in dubious and highly risky business operations in the Balkans and in eastern Europe. It has long been known that BayernLB’s purchase of HGAA was legally dubious. A private group of investors around the former CEO of HGAA, Tilo Berlin, has made €140 million in profits through the purchase of the ailing bank.

In order to rise to the level of global players in the financial world as quickly as possible—a policy called for by Stoiber—BayernLB also invested heavily in junk securities from the US housing market. This led to BayernLB to the brink of collapse after the bursting of the housing bubble in the US in 2007-08. The losses of the bank were absorbed by the state of Bavaria, which extended €7 billion in equity.

During testimony to the inquiry commission, CSU members on the bank’s administrative council sought to conceal their complicity. Beckstein, Huber and others tried arguing that the Austrian executives, who sold HGAA, had misled the bank’s executive board and administrative council. They also claimed executive board withheld relevant information from the administrative council.

However, several reports from expert witnesses, including from the accounting firm Flick, Gocke and Schaumburg, showed both the executive board and administrative council were informed of the risks and decided to take them nevertheless. Executive board members, one report said, acted “far beyond the limits of commercial discretion in the context of investment decisions concerning the US portfolios” compiled and maintained by the BayernLB’s overseas headquarters in New York.

It continued, “In doing so, they have grossly and culpably violated their obligation to make business decisions only after careful investigation of the grounds for their decisions…There is good reason to believe the proceedings of the members of the administrative council were grossly negligent. ...Further major financial devastation will certainly eventuate.”

Gerd Häusler, current head of the BayernLB, has announced the bank will not seek damages from Beckstein and other administrative council members. This is because their conduct was only “negligent” and not “grossly negligent”, he said, adding that they were also only “common” members of the administrative board. Following the disclosures about Gribkowsky, it is possible charges will be levied against the chairman of the administrative board and his deputy, the former finance minister Faltlhauser, as well as former bank president, Siegfried Nasser.

The state government will ensure that the losses incurred by the BayernLB will be borne solely by the general population as opposed to the major financial investors, who have earned a fortune from the transactions.

Following years of drastic austerity measures, social spending in the state is again being ruthlessly cut. Finance Minister Fahrenschon has slashed 1,800 teaching posts, even though there is already a severe shortage of teachers in Bavaria. Public servants have had to accept a pay freeze, and the ministries of education, culture and social services have seen a significant reduction in their budgets.

Prime Minister Horst Seehofer called the planned cuts of €1.8 billion a “breakthrough”. He leaves no doubt that, should the fiscal situation continue to deteriorate—for example, owing to further funding requirements of BayernLB—his government will introduce even more brutal austerity measures.

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German Telecom, exporting corruption

German Telecom Europe’s biggest phone company, said Chief Executive Officer Rene Obermann is a suspect in a corruption probe led by Bonn prosecutors.

Obermann, 47, is one of eight suspects in the investigation that centers on alleged bribery payments at central and eastern European units, Mark Nierwetberg, a Deutsche Telekom spokesman, said in an e-mailed statement yesterday. The allegations against Obermann are false, Nierwetberg said.

The case, which is also being investigated by U.S. securities regulators, concerns Deutsche Telekom units in Hungary and Macedonia. The prosecutors are investigating whether Obermann in 2005 said he would only approve dividend payments at the Makedonski Telekom unit if Macedonia didn’t open the telecommunication market to competition.

“Prosecutors link this to alleged bribery payments made by third persons,” Nierwetberg said. “The chief executive rejects the allegations of criminal wrongdoing made against him as false.”

Bonn prosecutors opened their own bribery probe after they were asked by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for assistance. The German magazine Wirtschaftswoche said yesterday that Obermann’s home was searched Aug. 31.

SEC Probe

Obermann testified as a witness in the U.S. investigation at the end of 2009 and has never been a suspect in the U.S. probe, Nierwetberg said. Deutsche Telekom has always fully cooperated with U.S. authorities, he said.

Some of the suspects aren’t company employees, Nierwetberg said. Prosecutors raided private homes of people at Bonn-based Deutsche Telekom as well as offices of other companies in late August as part of the probe.

Deutsche Telekom said in a Feb. 25 SEC filing that an independent investigation initiated by the Hungarian unit, Magyar Telekom’s, audit committee revealed sham contracts, worth about 31 million euros ($40.4 million), may have been used by Montenegrin and Macedonian units in 2005.

Some payments were authorized by former Magyar Telekom executives and Deutsche Telekom employees previously assigned to the units. They were made “through over 20 suspect consultancy, lobbying, and other contracts.” No legitimate purpose for the contracts could be established, the company said in the filing.

Macedonian Charges

Macedonian authorities filed charges against four individuals in 2008, including one Deutsche Telekom employee, the company said in the filing. Hungarian authorities are also investigating.

Since taking over Deutsche Telekom in 2006 Obermann has tried to revive the company’s U.S. and U.K. units, both of which have lagged behind market leaders. In March, the company won European Union approval to combine its U.K. operations with France Telecom SA’s Orange U.K., creating the largest British mobile operator. The companies estimated the deal would save more than 4 billion euros.

In the U.S., Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA began rolling out a third-generation mobile network that dwarfed those of larger rivals AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless in some regions. Still, the German company’s U.S. unit, which accounts for a quarter of revenue, lost 93,000 customers in the second quarter of this year and posted an 11 percent decline in operating income.

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Deutsche Telekom shares have climbed 1.75 percent this year, even as second quarter net income fell due to costs associated with the U.K. merger. They fell 3 cents to 10.47 euros in Frankfurt yesterday.

Obermann joined Deutsche Telekom in 1998 and became a board member in 2002. His telecom career began when he co-founded ABC Telekom, a retailer of answering and fax machines, as a 23-year- old student at the University of Muenster.

Deutsche Telekom was also investigated from 2008 through 2010 over allegations that its managers attained phone records of journalists and supervisory board members to search for the sources of news leaks. A former security manager is currently on trial in Bonn in that case.

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German corruption

Greece's rampant corruption is one of the reasons why the country's economy is in such a mess. German companies have taken advantage of the system for years in order to secure lucrative deals.

Miza and fakelaki are the lubrication that keeps the Greek economy running smoothly. Fakelaki -- literally "small envelope" -- is a payment used when Greeks need to be treated by a doctor or are having trouble with a tax auditor.


Miza, on the other hand, is the money that doesn't fit into a small envelope and requires something bigger, like a suitcase, or when the cash needs to be squirreled away in an account in one of the world's many tax havens. Without miza -- i.e., bribes -- virtually no foreign company could do business in Greece. Large government contracts are particularly prone to miza.

These deals often allow millions to flow via shell corporations around the world and back into the pockets of industrialists, civil servants, the military and politicians. Meanwhile, the payments are usually declared on the company's books as commissions for negotiating contracts. And German industry is one of the major players in the game of miza Monopoly.

Highly Lucrative Deals

Germany is one of Greece's leading trading partners. Last year, Germany exported goods worth €6.7 billion ($8.5 billion) to Greece -- compared to a volume of imports of only €1.9 billion. But what methods are used to achieve this enormous surplus?

According to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, for example, German carmaker Daimler has paid miza in past years to pave the way for vehicle deliveries to Greece. And even Germany's national railway operator Deutsche Bahn apparently resorted to bribes to win an underground railway contract in the run-up to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. To clinch the deal, a six-digit sum was reportedly given to a Greek decision-maker via an adviser. Transparency International rates Greece as the one of the most corrupt countries in Europe.

Such business deals are highly lucrative -- even with miza. "Anyone who pays bribes to get a government contract can pad his margin with a few extra million," says one investigator. "The excessive prices are of course shouldered by taxpayers."

This man must know what he is talking about -- he's been investigating for years the Siemens corruption scandal, in which a double-digit million euro amount was allegedly siphoned off for kickbacks in Greece. The Siemens branch in Athens reportedly relied on such sums to fuel the company's business deals in Greece until the year 2006. This included contracts with the former state-owned telecommunications company OTE, surveillance and security technology in connection with the 2004 Olympic Games, and underground railways.

Massive Slush Fund

Investigators into the Siemens scandal have found that the company's Greek branch needed an annual slush fund of some €15 million. To secure the €500 million OTE contract alone, the firm allegedly paid €35 million in miza in the late 1990s. At Siemens headquarters in Munich, they spoke with great admiration of their branch in Athens for years -- hardly any other national subsidiary had delivered such impressive results.

Even politicians in Athens have allegedly benefited from the deal. According to statements made by company executives involved in the payoffs, up to 2 percent of the revenues from the Siemens Hellas telecommunications division were paid to the two main political parties, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, better known as PASOK, and the conservative New Democracy. In Athens one never knows which government will remain in office -- or for how long. Both parties have denied accepting any payments.

The German defense industry has also apparently been just as active as Siemens in Greece. Athens spends between €3 billion and €4 billion on arms imports each year, according to estimates -- an absurd amount for such a small country. German arms manufacturers have reaped the greatest benefits from these sales. Between 2004 and 2008 alone, they delivered roughly a third of Greece's defense imports.

Munich's state prosecutor is currently investigating whether everything was done by the book during the sale of four submarines. The order amounted to nearly €3 billion, and €2 billion had to be paid in advance -- which is unusual for such deals.

Dubious Payments


Investigators became suspicious when they discovered a questionable payment to a supposed consultant for the deal. A few years ago, a Greek man reportedly contacted the Essen-based conglomerate Ferrostaal and demanded a double-digit million euro amount in connection with the submarine transaction. At the time, Ferrostaal had formed a consortium with ThyssenKrupp subsidiary HDW. When company executives in Essen refused to pay, the man threatened them with a lawsuit.

They eventually agreed to an out-of-court settlement brokered by a Zurich lawyer in 2006. Shortly thereafter, Ferrostaal transferred €11 million. What was the payment for? That is precisely what the Munich state prosecutor who is investigating the company's top executives would now like to know. Ferrostaal CEO Matthias Mitscherlich, who was recently forced to leave the firm and is one of the defendants in the case, allegedly knew about the dubious payment.

Greek authorities have now also taken a keen interest in the submarine deal. Investigators in Athens are looking into suspicious payments that were reportedly made via Austria, the Caribbean, Liberia and Cyprus. The beneficiaries have yet to be identified.

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Putin's Russian Mafia State Buys World Cup By Bribing Corrupt FIFA Officials?

Wikileaks recent U.S. Embassy cable release risks a diplomatic incidence between Russia and the USA as Russia was accused of being a defacto Mafia State that has ceased to be a democracy and is run by the secret services on behalf of an Oligarchy. Much of which comes as nothing new to either the Russian people, business men or foreign investors who know that whilst doing business with Russia can prove highly profitable, however investors and business people have to be nimble footed by being prepared to pull their funds out at short notice.


T he wikileaks US cables had already revealed that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev “plays Robin” to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s “Batman”. The embassy documents also called Medvedev “pale and hesitant” in comparison to the “alpha-dog” Putin.
The Russian a Mafia State
US Embassy cable refers to Russia as a virtual mafia state -
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4. (C//NF) Grinda stated that he considers Belarus, Chechnya and Russia to be virtual "mafia states" and said that Ukraine is going to be one. For each of those countries, he alleged, one cannot differentiate between the activities of the government and OC groups.
//Identifying The Scope of The Threat the Russian Mafia Poses//
5. (C) Grinda suggested that there are two reasons to worry about the Russian mafia. First, it exercises "tremendous control" over certain strategic sectors of the global economy, such as aluminum. He made a passing remark that the USG has a strategic problem in that the Russian mafia is suspected of having a sizable investment in XXXXXXXXXXXX 6. (S//NF) The second reason is the unanswered question regarding the extent to which Russian PM Putin is implicated in the Russian mafia and whether he controls the mafia's actions. Grinda cited a "thesis" by Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian intelligence official who worked on OC issues before he died in late 2006 in London from poisoning under mysterious circumstances, that the Russian intelligence and security services - Grinda cited the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), and military intelligence (GRU) - control OC in Russia. Grinda stated that he believes this thesis is accurate. (COMMENT: See Ref B on a reported meeting between Litvinenko and the English security services shortly before his death.) Grinda said that he believes the FSB is "absorbing" the Russian mafia but they can also "eliminate" them in two ways: by killing OC leaders who do not do what the security services want them to do or by putting them behind bars to eliminate them as a competitor for influence. The crime lords can also be put in jail for their own protection.
7. (S//NF) Grinda said that according to information he has received from intelligence services, witnesses and phone taps, certain political parties in Russia operate "hand in hand" with OC. For example, he argued that the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was created by the KGB and its successor, the SVR, and is home to many serious criminals. Grinda further alleged that there are proven ties between the Russian political parties, organized crime and arms trafficking. Without elaborating, he cited the strange case of the "Arctic Sea" ship in mid-2009 as "a clear example" of arms trafficking.
//The English Strategy to Combat the Russian Mafia: Follow the Money//
9. (C) Grinda traced the history of the Russian mafia in Spain to the mid-1990s, when several vory v zakone began to enter Spain. He said that since 2004 English prosecutors have created a formal strategy to "behead" the Russian mafia in Spain. He explained that this has been a top-down strategy done through extensive investigations of criminal actions by these vory v zakone living in Spain. These individuals have no known jobs and unknown sources of income, yet they live in large mansions. English prosecutors have concluded that money-laundering is likely involved and the challenge has been how to prove this. Grinda says that Spain's longtime experience in fighting drug traffickers' use of money laundering has proven valuable in this regard.
10. (C) Grinda says the money-laundering investigations have a two-fold objective: to prevent the targets from profiting from the original crime and to prevent the targets from gaining enough clout to enjoy economic influence, which Grinda suggested sooner or later always reaches political power. This is why Spain's Attorney General has grouped together the prosecutors' office for anti-corruption and organized crime. As part of this strategy to prevent mafiosos from enjoying economic influence, Spain's strategy includes the seizure of businesses, companies, furniture and other assets.
11. (C) Grinda also addressed the challenges of combating OC when it enjoys political, economic, social and - especially - legal protection. Grinda applauded a document provided by the U.S. delegation which addressed the important role the media can play in warning the public of OC's activities and the threat that OC poses. The media can create an environment in which politicians would be reluctant to be friends with and do favors for mafia leaders, whom Grinda argued need to be seen as shady figures to be feared. Regarding legal protection, Grinda stated that a key factor in a government's ability to combat OC depends on the extent to which the country's best attorneys and law firms represent the mafia. In this regard, he asked rhetorically, "Why is Cuatrecases constantly defending Russian mafia members?" (COMMENT: Cuatrecases is one of Spain's leading law firms. Its website, available in English, is www.cuatrecasas.com.)
12. (C) Grinda stated that OC begins to accumulate both economic and political power when it begins to bid for contract tenders on civil works and infrastructure projects.

Is Russia a Mafia state with its security services working on the behalf Oligarchs such as Putin ?
Britain got a taste of the Russian Mafia state in action in October 2006, when the Russian state perpetuated what amounted to a nuclear terrorist dirty bomb attack on London that spread the highly radioactive polonium-210 across central London so as to kill a former KGB agent turned critic of the regime, Alexander Litvinenko, unfortunately for the Russian regime, Litvinenko managed to cling on to life long enough to point the finger at Putin's Kremlin in a statement delivered in hospital two days before he died.
"I would like to thank many people. My doctors, nurses and hospital staff who are doing all they can for me, the British police who are pursuing my case with vigour and professionalism and are watching over me and my family.
I would like to thank the British government for taking me under their care. I am honoured to be a British citizen.
I would like to thank the British public for their messages of support and for the interest they have shown in my plight.
I thank my wife Marina, who has stood by me. My love for her and our son knows no bounds.
But as I lie here I can distinctly hear the beating of wings of the angel of death.
I may be able to give him the slip but I have to say my legs do not run as fast as I would like.
I think, therefore, that this may be the time to say one or two things to the person responsible for my present condition.
You may succeed in silencing me but that silence comes at a price. You have shown yourself to be as barbaric and ruthless as your most hostile critics have claimed.
You have shown yourself to have no respect for life, liberty or any civilised value.
You have shown yourself to be unworthy of your office, to be unworthy of the trust of civilised men and women.
You may succeed in silencing one man but the howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life.
May God forgive you for what you have done, not only to me but to beloved Russia and its people. "

Alexander Litvinenko
21 November 2006
Litvinenko had written two books in the UK criticising the regime in Russian Regime - books, Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within and Lubyanka Criminal Group, where he accused Russian secret services of staging the Russian apartment bombings and other terrorism acts in an effort to bring Vladimir Putin to power. He also accused Putin of ordering the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Corrupt FIFA Officials Award World Cup to Russian Mafia State?
The BBC Panorama programme investigated allegations against FIFA officials, exposing new evidence of bribery and accuses FIFA executives of taking kickbacks for world cup bid votes. The programme also uncovers the secret agreements that guarantee FIFA a financial bonanza.

In late October, the UK newspaper The Sunday Times published a video of two FIFA Executive Committee members, Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii, offering the newspaper’s undercover journalists, posing as lobbyists for the USA bid, their votes in exchange for cash.
Put the Russian mafia state with corrupt FIFA officials together and It does not take a genius to conclude as to why corrupt FIFA members have awarded the world cup to a corrupt Russian mafia state. The only question mark is how much did the Russian state bribe FIFA officials with, which will perhaps be revealed in a future wikileaks type revelation.
Prime Minister Putin stayed away from the bid results for the simple reason that he knew Russia had won because they had already allegedly bribed enough of the officials to do so.
Russia is Dieing
Russia has everything going for it in terms of resources and educated worker pool, but unfortunately due to being a perpetual totalitarian mafia state, the country is literally dieing where it population has shrunk by 10% over the past 20 years to 142 million and continues to target a reduction of a further 15 million over the next 20 years to just 127million. Therefore Russia's huge economic potential is being more than lost by the impact if a falling population, all without the consequences of a demographic time bomb that Japan is experiencing as Russia is losing its brightest and best to the west, as they seek freedom and safety over the risks of having to work within a mafia state.
On the bright side for investors is that Russia at $16,000 per capita is starting from a low base, therefore in per capita terms Russia can continue to grow strongly, but in relative terms Russia will continue to shrink in terms of share of global GDP, as countries such as China, India and even Brazil literally roar ahead, already there is speculation that Russia should be dropped from BRIC status.
However all is not lost for Russia, for if it has the will to reduce the level of corruption and eradicate the mafia that controls the government, which means ejecting Czar Putin and his sidekick Medvedev, then Russia can achieve the same level of growth as China for the citizens of China themselves also do not live in a democratic free state, it is just that the criminals in charge of China are marginally less corrupt than those in charge of Russia.
Whilst today's focus is on the Russian mafia state, however there exist to various extent a number of mafia states around the world such as one of the European Unions biggest member states, Italy, where there is a great deal of overlap between where the state ends and the Mafia begins that acts as a noose around the Italian economy by preventing major regions in especially the south of Italy from developing and remaining poor regardless of how many billions the European Union plows into these areas which in significant part end up in the back pockets of Mafia families.

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¿Existe fascismo en España?

¿Existe fascismo en España?

A raíz de las right-wing party wins in several EU countries, there has been a debate in Spain focusing on the dangers posed by the resurgence of fascism in Europe through games like Heider in Austria (who has praised the Nazi regime) The Fini in Italy (which has condemned the Italian fascist regime) and that of Le Pen (who also condemned the collaborationist Vichy regime), among others.
In an attempt to reassure the supposedly democratic consciousness in our country, various media have noted with some pride, the absence of a fascist movement or party in Spain that has an important follow-up among our population. It missing from this statement that fascism exists in Spain and has high visibility. Let me explain. I write these lines from a hotel in Santa Cruz de Tenerife is located in the city's main avenue, called Rambla del General Franco. I know that there have been several attempts to change the name as a result of requests made by democratic forces attempts failed due to resistance to this change by Conservative local authorities, who argue that the Franco regime was not a fascist regime, a view widespread in Spain. It is important to note, however, that such distinction is made only in our country. In most democratic countries the 1936 military coup and dictatorship that set will be called fascists. Only two recent examples. The New York Times, in a recent review, introduced Mr. Fraga Iribarne as' minister of the fascist regime led by General Franco. " And when the largest television network in the USA (ABC) presented to Mr. Samaranch, introduced him as "a prominent figure in the Fascist regime of General Franco."
The same is true in most European countries, where it is called Hitlerism the German Nazi regime, nor mussolinismo the Italian fascist regime, or English fascist Franco regime. Moreover, the United Nations defined in day the regime established by the fascist Franco in Spain.
In Spain, however, there has been a successful project by the English conservative forces to redefine that regime, and although some of these forces are prepared to acknowledge that such fascist regime itself was initially added, however, that orientation was varied and not anymore later, showing as proof of his argument, the gradual loss of influence of the fascist party, the Falange. This assertion ignores several key facts. One is that the Falange was replaced by the National Movement, which incorporated many components of the Falange, from language to the symbols of the fascist movement. In fact, well into the decade of the seventies, the entrances to all English towns were marked by the fascist symbol and state officials (from carriers to professors) had to sign loyalty to the National Movement (requirement that Some of us refuse, forcing us to live in exile for many years). Such a regime was not only authoritarian but also highly totalitarian, that is, tried to affect a totalizing ideology (which included an exacerbated nationalism proud of its imperialist past and an anti-liberalism, racism, antilaicisismo, anti-leftist and religious fundamentalism which featured a leader endowed with superhuman abilities, appointed by God) to all dimensions of human beings, from sexuality to language and identity, such as a document in my article 'Franco and Fascism', in Keys, 115. Moreover, because of the power of the English Church in the English State (whose bishops were appointed by the dictator, whose priests were paid by the state), it was, ideologically, highly intrusive (even more so what was the State of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy) and tried to set the values of society. Needless to say that this regime was losing its ideological intensity, but included key elements of its ideology till his last day. Interestingly, the same voices who question the fascist nature of the regime led by General Franco (while recognizing that if it were the beginning of its existence) do not hesitate to call existing communist regime in the Soviet Union from its inception to its collapse even when the ideological distance between Stalin and Gorbachev is much greater than that between the Franco 1939 and 1975. In fact, the supposed ideological vacuum of English dictatorship was based, as also occurred in the Soviet Union in networks of interpersonal and institutional complicity motivated by mere survival in power. And in both cases, the nomenclature that held that state came to occupy key locations in the economic structure and policy regime thereafter. This ideological shell was supported by a brutal repression that continued until the last day of that regime (for each political assassination that made the Italian fascist regime, the English fascist state during the period 1939-1975 made 10,000). This explains why the vast majority of democratic governments and parliaments in Europe have condemned that regime with Nazi and Fascist Italy. Even today we see, for example, that the European right like Chirac want the support of the far right as Le Pen. Not so in Spain, where the ruling party and its conservative allies have condemned English English fascist regime (the most fascist symbols displayed on the territories ruled by those political parties), and that as a result of their desire not to antagonize important sectors fascists (Franco) who will vote and represent a significant percentage of their votes. No such parties accuse conservatives of being fascists, but lack sensitivity for not condemning democratic fascism (Franco), which remains visible and alive in many parts of Spain. Moreover, this refusal to condemn fascism la enormous violencia terrorista llevada a cabo por aquel Estado hare perder poder moral a su condena de otros partidos que estan rest stroke la violencia y el terror

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Wikileaks Russia
The "mafia state" of Vladimir Putin
The U.S. spends as Moscow's ally, but published by Wikileaks dispatches paint a different picture. "Brutal and corrupt" is Russia, the Kremlin appears to be the center of the swamp of corruption. Premier Putin should have known of a spectacular murder.
A harmonious partnership with Russia is one of the foreign policy goals of President Barack Obama. On the surface, saw the recent efforts also quite promising. What do American diplomats actually from the Russian government to show secret message dispatches, published by the unveiling platform Wikileaks. Their content is for the Russians not flattering.
a Mafia-like government in whose management they could put little hope - which is summarized the verdict of the American ambassador in Moscow over the alleged partners in Russia. Moscow is in despatches from the U.S. Embassy, which quoted from several sources, as a city in the hands of the "kleptocracy" (a rule by thieves) described.
The police, security forces and the authorities allegedly pocketed bribes to be gaining momentum served would - in some cases up to the Kremlin. The assessment comes from a time when even the now ousted and controversial mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, the city ruled
The Kremlin is in the U.S. dispatches charaktisiert as "the center of a constellation of official and quasi official trickery," reports the New York Times. Russia was "highly centralized, sometimes brutally and irrevocably cynical and corrupt."
criminals were in Russia de facto under the protection of the police, intelligence agencies and the prosecutor, the London Guardian quoted from the Wikileaks documents.
From a dispatch, it is clear according to the British newspaper that is in view of the English public prosecutor Jose Gonzalez worked in Russia, "quasi" handle a "mafia state", the politicians' hand in hand "with organized crime. The document stipulates access
Russian authorities back to the Mafia to carry out certain actions that Russia "does not correctly as a government" could perform. Russian spies are committed, therefore, the Mafia, for example, to supply weapons to Kurdish fighters to destabilize Turkey.
the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a telegram to Moscow, U.S. Ambassador John Beyrle has held up signs that he is often angry at his work load and leave the daily operations his deputy prime minister Igor Shuvalov. Putin is in the opinion of a well-informed source, whose name in the Wikileaks document is anonymous, "concentration weak" and "disinterested." Even the prime minister often work from home. In other dispatches Putin and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with the cartoon characters Batman and Robin were compared.
more likely to annoy Putin but the dispatches about his involvement in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. The poison murder of former Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko is the view of U.S. diplomats have been organized only with the knowledge of then-Kremlin bosses.
According to a further telegram from the Guardian quoted, did Putin also plans to murder the Russian former spy Alexander Litvinenko, who died in 2006 in London from poisoning.
According to a report in the Guardian said a senior U.S. diplomat shortly after Litvinenko's poisoning with the radioactive substance polonium 210, Putin must have been aware of the plans. Who Putin's "attention to detail" know, the it is clear that such an operation in London was never able to run past him.
protestations of innocence from the Kremlin
The ex-agent Alexander Litvinenko was living in London. In November 2006 he met with Andrei Lugovoi, the former intelligence official and businessman Dmitry Kovtun at a London hotel. There he is to the radiation poison polonium-210 administered in tea have been. He died shortly after. On his deathbed he had said the former intelligence chief, Putin had poisoned him. Russia denied ever having been involved in the crime.
The paper also quotes from a few documents of the U.S. Consulate in Hamburg, according to which Russia is said to have blocked the investigation after the murder. Kovtun had before his meeting with Litvinenko made an intermediate stop in Hamburg, where traces of polonium 210 were also found. The Hamburg prosecutor had closed the investigation against the businessman in November 2009 for lack of evidence.
reports from the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok set according to a report by Spiegel Online suggests that the mafia-like structures deep in Russia's provinces rich and leave the port city on the Pacific seem to be a haven for crooks. "The fishery is regarded as the most criminal industry in the Russian Far East," it said in a dispatch from Vladivostok.
devastating is therefore also a dossier of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow over the Russian republic of Chechnya: The style of the local president Ramzan Kadyrov is based on the "Organization of corruption." Kadyrov care for the "elimination of potential rivals and is so" clearly the strongest piece in the Caucasus "has become. Kadyrov also enjoy the support of the Kremlin.
"Corruption is the system"
The Russian press responded to the revelations very cautious, especially the pro-government newspapers such as Gazeta and Komsomolskaya Pravda Rossiskaja.
different course with the anti-government newspapers and the opposition: "Russia - a corrupt mafia state that is nothing new," says opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, the government-critical Internet newspaper Gazeta.ru: "Corruption is no longer a 'problem' more - it is the system that underpins the whole regime of Putin's thugs. "
General remains the newspaper Kommersant, in its assessment of the first dispatches: "The American authorities still a deep mistrust of the Russian Government." The business daily Vedomosti
spreads on their Website assessing the Russian government has made in detail, but has been largely a review. The more revealing of this are the comments of the users. Under the headline "Russia, a virtual mafia state" Vanyusha writes: "Well, we would have guessed even without Wikileaks." User Ragnar Danneskjold points to the economic interests of Western states: ". The Western companies have understood the local rules of the game very quickly and adopted, if Russia is a mafia state, then American companies are also players in this game."