Qatargate has become a big political crisis due to recent arrests in the European Parliament. But, who really pulled the strings? The question about the source, who actually might have brought the issue to investigators, has been circling around.
According to popular Italian news site, Dagospia, there could probably be the “little hand”, or rather big hand, of the United Arab Emirates, historical rivals of Qatar in the Persian Gulf.
According to Dagospia, it is Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, de facto head of the Abu Dhabi secret services, who spilled everything to Belgium, triggering the avalanche that is engulfing the European Parliament. Sheikh Tahnoon, known as TbZ, has been leading agents of Abu Dhabi globally for long, of course, in compliance with his brother, UAE’s third President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. While TbZ is a taskmaster, Mohammed bin Zayed, or MbZ, has been the primary decision-maker for everything fair or shady when it comes to Abu Dhabi. https://m.dagospia.com/la-strategia-degli-emiri-per-il-qatargate-negare-tutto-e-urlare-al-complotto-336537
The reporting makes sense because the news media has multiple times published on how Abu Dhabi has been leading various operations against the State of Qatar. It includes the Emirati lobbying attempts at DC (including RussiaGate, which was probed by Special counsel Robert Mueller, who reportedly zeroed in on the secret meeting to set up a covert line of communication between Trump and Putin), or the targeted media offensive on 2022 FIFA World Cup.
MbZ has an astonishing number of useful American contacts, which he and his agents have built over the years. Among them are influential personalities identified by the US intelligence; Lebanese-American businessman and MbZ’s adviser, George Nader; and Trump inauguration committee head Tom Barrack, whose real estate business has profited handsomely from the Emirate deals, to name a few.
Agents of Abu Dhabi include senior retired US intel veterans like Richard Clarke, who lead 9/11 investigations at the time to lawmakers and even professors and lobbyists like Jassem Mohamad of ECCI Germany. Investigative journalism has exposed the hefty sums Abu Dhabi has been littering globally to gain political advantage.
The recent EuroParl scandal charges on Qatar appears orchestrated as the EuroParl has been noticing multiple activities of the UAE, which are aimed for its own benefit and are not concerned about the EU.
This year in May, following revelations of how criminals, sanctioned Russian oligarchs, and corrupt officials are big property investors in the UAE, the European Parliament members suggested that the UAE should be blacklisted in the same manner as North Korea, Burkina Faso and Iran.
The ‘Dubai Uncovered’ investigation, based on a 2020 leak by the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS) into the Emirate’s housing market, has drawn calls from the EU politicians for tougher anti-money laundering measures to be taken by the UAE, lest the elective monarchy face sanctions on par with countries like North Korea.
Amongst the Dubai Uncovered revelations were luxury villas and apartments in Dubai owned by suspected drug smugglers and corrupt officials.
Mr. Ferber, who is deputy chair of the parliamentary subcommittee on tax affairs and has led a long career in Germany’s Christian Democratic Union party, says, Europe’s own defense against money laundering is only as strong as the weakest link in the chain, and that is why the EU needs to sharpen Europe’s tools for defense against money laundering.
Green Party member Kira M. Petter-Hansen from Denmark stated that it’s clear that the United Arab Emirates facilitates money laundering at a grand scale. This is highly damaging to the EU and cannot be tolerated.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-uae-renew-business-ties-gloss-over-arms-exports-yemen-war/a-49168392
In the upcoming days, the investigative media and lawmakers in Europe might be unraveling more on how a small Gulf state like the UAE, on orders of MbZ and TbZ, might have been influencing and exerting dominance at the European Union by paid network of its influential and sponsored agents.
