{"id":52508,"date":"2024-06-21T08:30:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T07:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/?p=52508"},"modified":"2024-06-22T09:40:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T08:40:26","slug":"coleg-soros-and-associates-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/coleg-soros-and-associates-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Coleg Soros And Associates Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I had considered doing this piece as an update to the one I put out on Tuesday, but there’s too much I want to say, so it has to be done as a second posting. And that wasn’t the only problem.<\/p>\n

For I’d also intended including a reminder about the generosity to Coleg Soros that I reported on in ‘Green Man, Red Herring<\/a>‘, in May 2022.<\/p>\n

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THE BENEFITRIX<\/p>\n

I’m referring now to Troed-yr-Harn, the farm that was bought for Coleg Soros back in January 2021. I couldn’t identify the buyer beyond her name, ‘Jenny Mathilde Daneels Watt’, and so I signed off with a request for information.<\/p>\n

Here’s a link to the Land Registry title document<\/a> (no plan, unfortunately), and here’s the link to the title document for a smaller purchase<\/a> on the same site (with plan).<\/p>\n

I’d assumed that Daneels was a Dutch name, and because Watt is usually Scottish, that she’d married a Scotsman.<\/p>\n

The Daneels name is in fact, Flemish, so I wasn’t far off. Though she is a French citizen with an English mother. (Here’s what Linkedin tells us<\/a>.) While her Scottish husband’s name is David Crichton-Watt.<\/p>\n

I now have more information on them and it’s fascinating. It takes us out East again to Hong Kong, then Kuala Lumpur, and various other locations.<\/p>\n

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HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES<\/p>\n

But let’s start in Herefordshire, with this article from Country Life<\/em><\/a>. It tells us:<\/p>\n

David, a successful hedge-fund manager based in Kuala Lumpur, his wife, Jenny . . . were living at the time in Malaysia and looking to buy a house in England.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which they did, and they seemed so happy at Newport House. Their fourth daughter was born there.<\/p>\n

Yet in 2018 David and Jenny Crichton-Watt moved to Switzerland and put the property on the market for \u00a310m.<\/p>\n

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Image, Knight Frank. Newport House. Click to open enlarged in separate tab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The money from selling Newport House could have covered the \u00a31m splashed out on Troed-yr-Harn. But I suspect that’s a drop in the ocean to a family like Crichton-Watt.<\/p>\n

The main vehicle for Crichton-Watt’s business activities might be Asian Investment Management Services<\/a> (AIMS) which he set up in 1982. But he seems to have fingers in a number of pies.<\/p>\n

Among them, Steppe Cement Ltd of Kazakhstan<\/a>. This piece from the Financial Times<\/em><\/a> in October 2022 tells us that the family had just increased its holding in the company.<\/p>\n

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You’ve probably seen their trucks delivering to builders in your area. Or maybe not.<\/p>\n

And as I say, Crichton-Watt has been involved in Hong Kong and China for a long time<\/a>. Which is where we find Andrew James Kadoorie McAulay of Rewilding Wealth Ltd<\/a> and who, as we read in the piece earlier this week, is also investing in Coleg Soros.<\/p>\n

Another pie in which Crichton-Watt has a finger in is Phoenix Gold Fund Ltd<\/a>.<\/p>\n

David Crichton-Watt is a busy man, on the global stage, and yet . . . I couldn’t find a photo of him. Even this piece<\/a> (scroll down) has pictures of most investors interviewed, but not him.<\/p>\n

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MONEY, MONEY, MONEY<\/p>\n

In the previous piece, when I looked at Kadoorie-McAulay and his company, Rewilding Wealth Ltd, I wrote.<\/p>\n

Like me when I first saw it, you\u2019re wondering about Rewilding Wealth Ltd. So here\u2019s what I found. It\u2019s\u00a0registered with Companies House as an Overseas Entity<\/a>. Located in that bastion of probity and openness, the British Virgin Islands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I re-visit this because BVI probably could be termed a ‘bastion of probity and openness’ when compared to Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n

For while Kazakhstan is, theoretically, independent of Russia, links are strong, not least because Kazakh President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, is kept in power by Putin.<\/p>\n

On top of which, 15% of the population is ethnic Russian, and concentrated in the north, close to the Russian border. If he so wished, I’m sure Vlad could engineer a Sudetenland situation.<\/p>\n

Kazakhstan acts as a Russian gateway and conduit to the rest of the world, and is something close to being a Russian satellite.<\/p>\n

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ALL PART OF A BIGGER PICTURE<\/p>\n

The so-called ‘Welsh Government’ has sold us and our country down the river to the Globalist climate scammers, and those who’ve been encouraged to use the scam to enrich themselves.<\/p>\n

Part of the acceptance, a show of commitment by politicians and others, sees Wales playing a disproportionate role in the farce. In practice, it means waging war on motorists, farmers, and just about anybody else the fanatics claim is part of the threat.<\/p>\n

Blind acceptance that results in Welsh politicians pimping Wales out to renewable energy companies. And obeying the diktats of the green-haired and the swivel-eyed in various pressure groups.<\/p>\n

As if that wasn’t bad enough . . . I’m told there are 873 environmental gangs operating in Wales, and there’ll be more by the time you read this. All demanding public funding . . . and privately-owned land.<\/p>\n

Also corporations, hedge funds, and other investors seeking to buy farms in order to plant trees and make huge profits from ‘carbon sequestration’. A scam within a scam. Or even, as now seems to be the case with Coleg Soros, for rewilding.<\/p>\n

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JUDGED BY THE COMPANY WE KEEP<\/p>\n

Let me make it clear that just because someone does business in exotic locales, where the application of rules may be ‘lax’, does not imply wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

That said, I did turn up something that might cause concern, when I ran across this document<\/a>, from which I’ve extracted the entry below. It links David Crichton-Watt, or his Asian Investment Management Services Ltd, with Lutea Trustees.<\/p>\n

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The document is produced by:<\/p>\n

‘The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is a private American corporation that acts as a self-regulatory organization that regulates member brokerage firms and exchange markets<\/em>‘, based in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

Naturally, I got to wondering about Lutea. So I did another search. And turned up this document from the Jersey Financial Services Commission<\/a> from 2022.<\/p>\n

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This is quite serious. ‘ML’ is money laundering, and ‘TF’ is terrorist financing.<\/p>\n

The finger is firmly pointed at Andrew Mark Hicks<\/a>. Who the Jersey Financial Services Commission has now barred from working in finance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For at the end of the day, and as the Lutea website<\/a> reminds us – ‘It’s all about trust<\/em>‘.<\/p>\n

I’m not for one minute suggesting that David Crichton-Watt and his wife are involved in money laundering or terrorist financing, but a connection with an outfit like Lutea doesn’t help anybody’s reputation.<\/p>\n

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QUESTIONS<\/p>\n

So, does Coleg Soros, or ‘Welsh Government’, Powys county council, or any other bugger, care where the money arriving in Talgarth originates? Or how it’s made?<\/p>\n

If not, then it’s up to the rest of us, who do care, to keep asking questions.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Royston Jones 2024<\/p>\n