This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence. The instructions to the BB Naft shareholders were dated and signed in Beirut, but the agreement for the guarantee was signed by lawyers and verified by the office of the BNP Paribas bank in Marrousi, Greece. The arrangement would also allow the cash-strapped Venezuelan state company to receive faster payment, sometimes avoiding the usual 30-to-90 day timeframe for completing oil transactions. By Irina Slav - Sep 20, 2021, 9:30 AM CDT. The branch he was managing, which was a subject for the report of the General Inspectorate of Finance, was dissolved. NAFT TRADING S.A. Those sanctioned include the oil trading firms Swissoil Trading and Malta-based Elemento Ltd., as well as Swissoil owner Philipp Paul Vartan Apikian, Spanish-Venezuelan citizen Francisco Javier D'Agostino Casado, and core facilitator and Italian citizen Alessandro Bazzoni. Few traders had room to receive physical barrels at Cushing. BB Energy places emphasis on environmental protection as well as health and safety, particularly regarding oil-related storage activities. John Hayes earns 50,000 per year as a strategic advisor for BB Energy, a major trader in crude oil and other petrochemical products. This was on top of his standard MP salary of nearly 82,000. Those front companies, the source added, also help Cuba carry out foreign trade transactions in U.S. dollars, forbidden by the embargo until President Barack Obama lifted the restriction earlier this year. Lebanese judicial sources told Daraj that the investigation will not be limited to the technical specifications of fuel, but will also include the commissions Sonatrach is making. As ordinary people lost their jobs and relied on furlough, many MPs increased their income from the start of the pandemic. Published by Larkham Printers & Publishers Ltd, Correspondence address: PO Box 74955, London E16 9EJ | company registered in England & Wales, number: 1335756, registered address: 71-75 Shelton Street London WC2H 9JQ. Then Paterson resigned, cancelling future parliamentary votes. In particular, the expensive refurbishment of the Downing Street flat. Reuters could not independently verify that Rosneft ever made the advance payment to PDVSA. Several shipments over at least the past three years were found to be non-compliant with quality standards. Tell Grant Shapps to stop giving away Emissions Trading Scheme permits, Former energy minister John Hayes, who has likened climate protesters to Radical Islam, has received a 50,000 salary from BB Energy since 2018. Procs du fuel dfectueux : 22 personnes sur le banc des accuss. Johnson even survived revelations that he would rather let the bodies pile high than push forward plans for a third lockdown. The news website Diario de Cuba has identified the director of foreign investments at the Foreign Trade Ministry, Dborah Rivas Saavedra, as another of the directors of Racuza, Miramar Investment Corporation Ltd and Caribbean Sugar Trader. Translation by Joelle El Khoury. The BVI company was dissolved in 2015. The efforts to hide the Cuban governments hand in the offshore companies means that its officials, lawyers and other employees used as stand-ins could eventually become the effective beneficiaries of the shares in those companies. ZR Group and Mr. Rahmeh were unlawfully indicted on a number of charges, of which all but one have been dropped. MPs should take all necessary steps to avoid the perception or reality they are using their public position for private gain.. We fully anticipate that the final charge will also be dismissed, he said. BB Energy (the Group) is pleased to announce the launch of its Improved Cookstove (ICS) Project in Rwanda. Reliance has said that in September 2012 it signed a 15-year deal to purchase up to 400,000 barrels a day of heavy crude from PDVSA. Russia has publicly said the U.S. sanctions are illegal and it would work with Venezuela to weather them. 310. The biggest donor is Aquind, . The London branch of the Algerian Sonatrach published a statement through the Algerian News Agency, saying that whoever was presented by the media as an employee of Sonatrach is not, in fact, an employee in the company, but an independent marine agent who monitors shipments in Lebanon for the benefit of the companys branch in London. The Algerian company tried to imply that the issue is limited to the technical specifications of the fuel. They usually resort to those intermediaries when entering new markets that are unfamiliar to them, in order to benefit from their status inside this market, which they have done in several Asian countries before building direct relationships with the clients. BB Energy Trading Ltd. BB House 12-14 Ansdell Street London W8 5BN United Kingdom T: +44 20 7938 0500 F: +44 20 7938 0501 www.bbenergy.com Page 1 of 2 ANTI-SLAVERY STATEMENT . It is also worth noting that Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour used to be the manager of a Sonatrach branch at the beginning of the millennium before he was imprisoned on account of leaking information classified as military secrets. Panamericanas former director, Jos L. Fernndez de Cosso Domnguez, is listed in the leaked documents as a director of Miramar Investment Corporation Ltd, Euro Foods Ltd, Racuza S.A, Caribbean Sugar Trader, Mercaria Trading S.A. and Sabradell S.A. Fernndez more recently served as Cubas ambassador to Japan and economic attach at the embassy in Paris. The procedures may take a long time, particularly because the number of defendants is high. A former Tory Party chairman told The Sunday Times, Once you pay your 3 million, you get your peerage.. The council set a target of reaching net zero carbon emissions for the borough by 2030. The Covid-19 public inquiry is a historic chance to find out what really happened. Overview of anti-corruption in the renewable energy sector The renewable energy sector is a rapidly growing market that is crucial to increasing access to energy and supporting climate change mitigation. The similar logo and name are explained through an agreement between the two firms that gave ZR Energy DMCC the right to use the brand and credit facility of ZR Group Holding SAL. The document showed that PDVSA and Reliance would pay Rosneft a marketing fee equivalent to around 3 percent of the sale price, split between them. Last month he and. The spoiled fuel scandal is a result of the commercial practices of the Sonatrach executives in collusion with Lebanese merchants, both of which were condoned by the relevant authorities in both Algeria and Lebanon. The government was forced to go back on itself and announced there would be a vote on Patersons suspension. By signing up, you agree to our Terms and conditions and privacy policy. The CEEC was set up after H&F Council declared a climate and ecological emergency in July 2019. The Swiss lawyer did not respond to El Nuevo Herald requests for comments on this story. The Panama Papers, documents leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and shared with the McClatchy Washington Bureau, Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, among others, contain hundreds of thousands of pages from the files of Mossack Fonseca, a Panama law firm with offices in 33 other countries. All rights reserved. Fresh scrutiny has been applied after it was revealed former Attorney General Sir Geoffrey Cox was being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds advising the British Virgin Islands' government in a corruption investigation. However, Reuters was unable to independently verify if the agreement was implemented and remains in force. Sonatrach has been involved in at least two major corruption cases in the past decade, both of which involved the payment of bribes to company employees and officials. By April 28, Mount Lebanon Public Prosecutor Ghada Aoun said 21 people had been arrested in the case, mostly employees of the Oil Installations. As Johnson announced Covid safety restrictions in March 2020, the government handed Randox a 133 million contract to manufacture Covid tests. In response to Reuters story, Rosneft has denied it has acted as an intermediary for payments to PDVSA. BBE Renewables was established to diversify from Oil & Gas by investing and financing renewable projects. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 3.1. The contract may be summarized as follows: Sonatrach will give its name to the shipments of Baha Bassatne, who buys fuel from the Swiss company Vitol, for 3.5 dollars per metric ton, while he makes 25 dollars as profit in his deals with the end customer in Lebanon. Every time something was purchased in dollars, it could not be done because the Cuban checks in dollars were automatically canceled because the dollars belong to the U.S. Federal Reserve, the source said. Boris Johnson initially backed Paterson. ZR Energy DMCC wrote on its website, ZR Energy DMCC and Mr. Zaouk are incidental victims of this sinister power struggle.. Socialist Worker (unless otherwise stated). Ltd., BB Energy (Gulf) DMCC and BB Holding S.A.L. All rights reserved. Corruption in the Energy Sector Corruption has been defined by Robert Klitgaard3 as "the abuse of office for personal gain". The PDVSA source said the agreement had received the consent of all three parties and was being executed. Instead, investigations have revealed that at least two companies owned by Lebanese businessmen, BB Energy and ZR Energy, were bringing in the fuel. A scandal over the import of sub-standard quality fuel into Lebanon has seen some two-dozen people arrested, two fuel tankers seized and the offices of two major fuel traders raided and sealed off amid ongoing investigations. The relationship between the BB Energy Group and Petroecuador appears to have lasted until recent days. Hayes recently opposed a plan to bring forward a ban on selling new petrol and diesel cars. Shuja Malik of BBC Urdu visited a village where women have been hired to work in the milk centre. However, he expressed regret that the court system had not dug deeper. This article was originally published in French. The offer letter, seen by Reuters with its date redacted, said that Rosneft had agreed with PDVSA to pay BB Energys $26 million debt to the Venezuelan state oil company and then to seek payment from BB Energy via a bank transfer or an equivalent oil cargo. The CEEC was made up of local residents who are . The subsidiary subcontracted the deal to two private companies BB Energy, owned by the Bassatne family, and, beginning in 2017, Dubai-based ZR Energy DMCC, owned by Ibrahim Zaouk. While former energy ministers who signed and renewed the contract have been questioned, they are not currently at the center of criminal investigations. Above all, the government remains ahead in the opinion polls even though it presides over one of the worst death rates in the world. He has also compared climate activists to radical Islam. We are committed to acting as a model corporate citizen at all times and benefitting the local communities in which we operate. The Cuban military is estimated to control at least 60 percent of the islands economy. According to an undated internal PDVSA document, Indias Reliance Industries Ltd - PDVSAs largest cash-paying client was also asked by PDVSA to pay Rosneft directly in April for oil sales under a long-term supply contract with the Venezuelan company. All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes. Starmer even chose last week to announce that Labour was no longer in favour of abolishing the House of Lords. Private landlords and housing associations may apply for a grant on behalf of tenants who meet the eligibility criteria. Our operations in these products are global and we use our storage and logistics for blending and optimising timely deliveries to fulfil customer requirements. BBE maintains . The practice has been banned since 2019, after a scientific report found it was not possible to accurately predict the probability of earthquakes linked to drilling. One lawyer for BB Naft, Noureddine Kabalan, asked Mossack Fonseca in April of 2008 to create a power of attorney so that the empowered person can be authorized to sign on behalf of the company in Syria and Iraq for specific transactions.. It held all the shares of Euro Foods Ltd., which was registered in the Bahamas and in turn represented ALIMPORT. Other leaked Mossack Fonseca documents show the interwoven complex of offshore companies created by the Cuban government to import and export goods and invest funds abroad with the assistance of the Panamanian law firm. All individuals involved in this initiative - including co-founders, advisory board members, and experts - are serving in their personal capacity. Ltd. and Singapore-registered PowerCo International Pte. Rosneft, which has heavily invested in Venezuela under President Vladimir Putin, did not respond to a request for a comment before Reuters published its story on Thursday. Fuel Oil BB Naft did business with Cuba between 1992 and 2001, trading oil for sugar for $300 million, with credit facilities at low interest rate, Coronado wrote. The testimonies suggest that this system has been in place for years, resulting in Lebanon purchasing tainted fuel under a contract signed in 2005 with a subsidiary of Algerias Sonatrach Petroleum Corporation. The deal between the Lebanese and Algerian governments was to provide the Lebanese market mainly with heavy fuel oil to meet the needs of power plants, a fuel that Algeria does not produce in sufficient quantities, as the Algerian oil Saharan Blend is known for being a light crude type. In an effort to save him even this punishment, Johnson instructed Tory MP Andrea Leadsom to put forward an amendment and set up a committee to prevent his suspension. Three of the four experts said the U.S. Treasury had the latitude to act against companies or governments it deemed to be providing material support to a sanctioned entity, like PDVSA. The response of Sonatrachs representative in Lebanon, Tarek Fawal, was quick, as he declared the companys willingness to cooperate with the Ministry of Energy to resolve the issues related to what he called the lack of conformity of the last shipment of fuel to the specifications, noting that this shipmentestimated at 38,000 tonswas examined by three different international offices who confirmed that it in fact met the specifications stipulated in the contract. Many of the Mossack Fonseca emails and documents show the relationship between BB Naft and the BB Energy group through the years. The Lincolnshire MP recently criticised the governments plan to bring forward a ban on selling new petrol and diesel cars, saying that a delay would allow fossil fuels to become even cleaner. This was in addition to his 49,140 directors salary. One knowledgeable source who asked to remains anonymous said the Cuban government also has registered companies, ships and airplanes in Panama and other countries to get around the embargo and avoid court-ordered seizures to settle its many debts abroad. Campuses would have to give up testing resources and send them to Randox, they continued. BBC World Service - The Fifth Floor, Lebanon: A web of corruption Lebanon: A web of corruption As Lebanon endures worsening blackouts and fuel shortages, BBC Arabic investigates the. 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The Mossack Fonseca documents nevertheless refer to Pescatlan as a Cuban company and do not identify the true owners of the company. I feel they are trying to bury this issue in the courts by stopping at mid-level employees, Yacoubian said. This is why parliament cannot be relied on for fundamental climate action. 11:07 AM | 31 Jan, 2023 . If youre rich and want a place of power in politics, donate 3 million to the Conservative Party and youre likely to gain a peerage. Since the Tories takeover of parliament in 2010, nine of the partys former treasurerswho donated huge amountswere given a position as a Lord. 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Fuel poverty and energy efficiency are inevitably linked, the less efficient a property is the costlier it is to heat. That the committee review and comment on proposed and ongoing work to reduce fuel poverty. Both Mr. Rahmeh and ZR Group have been subjected to a politically motivated witch-hunt underpinned by a campaign to distract from Lebanons political failings. Parliament is an unrepresentative, unaccountable front that covers for the real relations of power. After they didn't show up for questioning, reports suggested Hleiss and Rahme were being protected by Marada Movement leader Sleiman Frangieh. The Bassatne family incorporated BB Naft Trading S.A. in Panama, with Jrgen Mossack as a director. As Lebanon endures worsening blackouts and fuel shortages, BBC Arabic investigates the disastrous state of the country's electricity sector. Hes right, but the cruelty is the treatment of ordinary people and the contempt politicians have for the rest of us. The Cuban government also hid its control of offshore companies by creating still other limited liability companies whose sole objective was to appear in registries as owners of the offshore companies and disguise Cubas hand in them. Public debt could rise to 289% of GDP by the end of the century if climate change is left unchecked, it said. The family controls BB Energy, a conglomerate founded in Lebanon in 1937 that buys and sells 16 million metric tons of crude and derivatives each year. Tory MP Owen Paterson announced his resignation last week following revelations of his shameless lobbying for big businesses. This is an actual Pandoras box that goes far beyond the chapter currently in the hands of the judiciary, he said. Since 2018, John Hayes, who served as an energy minister in David Camerons government, has worked for BB Energy as a strategic adviser. Its official address is the same as that of BB Energy Trading: 140 Brompton Rd., London, SW3 1HY, United Kingdom. Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA has asked at least two of its clients to make payments for Venezuelan oil via Russian state energy giant Rosneft, as it comes under pressure from U.S. sanctions, according to a PDVSA source and documents reviewed by Reuters. Entity: B.B. The judiciarys opening of this file occured to the beat of a political debate that the judiciary does not seem to be far from, especially as opening such a file occurred according to a report presented by the leader in the the Aounist party, lawyer Wadih Akl, and investigations were conducted by Judge Ghada Aoun. Pakistan ranks 140th in Transparency International's Corruption Index 2022 . Subscribe or upgrade your current MEED.com package to support your strategic planning with the MENA region's best source of business information. One of the more intriguing schemes mentioned in the documents puts Cuba at the heart of a deal to sell Russian oil to Latin America through a company registered in Panama by the Bassatne family. Wars, natural disasters and economic downturns have historically exposed children to the danger of trafficking and illegal adoption. Please detail the London Energy Project's revenue received, costs incurred and breakdown for both (ie where money was received from and how it was spent) for financial years 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19 and budget for 2019/20. This comes on top of his standard MP salary of 81,932. The women pushing boundaries in Pakistans rural milk marketIn rural Pakistan women milk cows, but male relatives take the milk to male-run collection centres. Tory MP Bill Wiggin gained 25,000 in bonuses and fees from a tax dodging wealth management firm in Bermuda. Le Commerce du Levant / By Nada MAUCOURANT ATTALAH, Fouad Gemayel, 28 May 2021 19:51, Twenty-two defendants are set to appear before a criminal court on charges related to a tainted fuel case that dates back to March 2020. In view of the foregoing debate, were forced to return to the commercial relationship between Sonatrach and the Lebanese Ministry of Energy, and the pressure exercised by former Sonatrach CEO, Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour, to adopt ZR Energy trading company as a second intermediary besides Baha Bassatne, as a supplier in the Algerian companys name; the thing that occurred a year and a half before opening the file. Corruption takes many forms, ranging from grand corruption - the capture of high office of government by elites and the uses of these offices for private gain - to "petty" corruption - the use of bribes or other He boldly claimed a delay would allow fossil fuels to become even cleaner. BB Energy Group Holding Ltd. (DIFC) is managed by a Board of Directors comprising seven board members with five executive members and two non-executive members. This article was published in LOGI's May 2020 newsletter in partnership with Kulluna Irada. Oil accounts for more than 90 percent of exports from the OPEC nation and the lions share of government revenues. With its economy reeling from years of recession and a sharp decline in oil production, Venezuela was already struggling to finance imports and government spending before Washington imposed tough restrictions on PDVSA in January. 2. MP and former Tory energy minister John Hayes has been paid 150,000 by oil firm BB Energy over three years. Standards commissioner Kathryn Stone has carried out three investigations into Johnson in the past three years. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. 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