On 14 April 2011, the Belgian Parliament voted a law that amended the Code of Criminal Procedure. According to the law, it became possible as from 16 May 2011 to enter into transactions with the Public Prosecutor to terminate the public prosecution of offences at all the stages of a criminal procedure. Two months later,… Continue reading
Kazakhgate is the name of a widespread story in the Belgian media, according to which a change in the Belgian Code of Criminal Procedure happened because of some negotiations between the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his counterpart in Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev. More specifically, Nazarbayev agreed to buy some 40 helicopters from France only… Continue reading
On 14 April 2011, the Belgian Parliament voted a law that amended the Code of Criminal Procedure. According to the law, it became possible as from 16 May 2011 to enter into transactions with the Public Prosecutor to terminate the public prosecution of offences at all the stages of a criminal procedure. The project of… Continue reading
On 14 April 2011, the Belgian Parliament voted a law that amended the Code of Criminal Procedure. According to the law, it became possible as from 16 May 2011 to enter into transactions with the Public Prosecutor to terminate the public prosecution of offences at all the stages of a criminal procedure. The amendment came… Continue reading
Belgian authorities allowed various oligarchs and their families to live and do business in Belgium. They saw no problem with that. Some of them – Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov, for instance – even obtained Belgian citizenship. Now, the same authorities blame the oligarchs for being Belgian citizens, and play the card of moral outrage…. Continue reading
On 10 June 2011, Société Générale entered a transaction with the Public Prosecutors in Anvers, Belgium. The French giant agreed to pay 40 million euros; in exchange, the Public Prosecutors dropped all charges against the bank, who thus kept its record clean. OSI proved in a previous piece that this was the first such transaction… Continue reading
According to Air Serbia financial report for 2014, the company ended the fiscal year with a minus of 67 million Euros. In 2013, Etihad Airways signed a strategic partnership deal with the Serbian Government that led to the launch of Air Serbia. As a result, the Serbian national airline JAT Airways ceased to exist. Aleksandar… Continue reading
SNS and the Serbian Government didn’t hire Bell Pottinger by accident. The lobbying contract was part of a wider Vučić-UAE arrangement. Bell Pottinger founder lord Bell has been advising UAE leaders for more than 30 years. In 2013, the UAE sent its lobbyists to support Vučić and SNS. UAE pumped billions of dollars in Serbia… Continue reading
The Belgian media claims that Patokh Chodiev, a London-based Uzbek oligarch with Belgian citizenship, is the one who changed the Belgian criminal law because he was the first to benefit from the changes. OSI is now in a position to prove that, in fact, the first beneficiary of the change was the French colossus Société… Continue reading
OSI has documentary evidence that Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić has paid William Montgomery 7,500 euros per hour. Montgomery is a former US Ambassador to Serbia. Nikolić’s rhetoric about the US is hypocritical. We can also exclusively reveal that from 2010 to 2012 Nikolić gave Montgomery tens of thousands of euros to have “sporadic conversations”. … Continue reading
