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The conspiracy to defraud Spanish investors The
50th Anniversary of Europa scandal continues to make Click on the pictures for a larger image. Afghan update: the Swiss connection If the UPU says this...
...why is Groth AG selling these?
Go to the WNS site or the Afghan post office site mentioned in the UPU circular - you won't find any of these stamps featured there.
Groth
and Bolaffi, so-called reputable dealers and publishers, make millions
from the sale of this, and similar, worthless paper while the Afghan
government and people are being deprived of vast revenues On
his own website, Groth has the nerve to say that he won't
What's
the difference between the fakes he is selling and the fakes The innocent collectors are being cheated, as usual, and the WWF is brought into disrepute by their apparent sanction of these stamps, which carry their logo. Millions are made by people who should be ashamed of themselves and their actions. Once
again, we call on the authorities, and the philatelic business itself,
It's
no good the UPU issuing a circular if it doesn't How
many AFINSA/Forum-type scandals do there have to be,
Afghanistan suffers the actions of mercenary stamp bandits Afghanistan has suffered much in recent years and the situation is being made worse by the actions of Sorbourne Limited, trading as Filatelia International, the company belonging to George Katz. Katz
has been responsible for the production of countless
We have made enquiries of the Afghan government and been informed that the only legal stamps are those registered on the UPS WNS system (see emails 1 and 2). The WNS entries for 2004 can be seen here. Entries for 2005 can be seen here. Entries for 2006 here 1 and 2. As
usual the Michel catalogue colludes with the crooks
These stamps are part of the great Europa Anniversary scandal. They aren't registered on the WNS; they are illegal. Katz has issued 80,000 sets of the WWF stamps, 100,000 of the football sets and a staggering 500,000 of the Europa sets. As
British troops die attempting to bring democracy and stability It's
not just the government and people of Afghanistan who are cheated. As
always, philatelists around the world are led to believe that illegal
fakes are bona fide issues by the actions of the Michel catalogue, Bolaffi
of Italy with their involvement in the distribution of the Juventus
and A.C. Milan stamps and Hans Groth of Switzerland Bolaffi
and Groth should be forced to return any money they have The final, unanswered question is how long will it take Katz and his cronies to buy legitimacy for their crooked stamps? Who will be the first in the Afghan postal authority to be corrupted by the Katz dollar and let this crook get away with it again.
Has
Katz managed to corrupt someone in the Afghan
The latest from Spain on the Afinsa/Forum Filatelico fiasco
Judge
Garzón charges An article in BolsaCinco shows that the net is closing on the perpetrators of the Europa 50th Anniversary scandal. Pamela Randall of Premium Stamp Brokers in the UK has been charged in the Spanish courts by Judge Baltasar Garzón and it can only be a matter of time before the spotlight falls on the leading figures in this huge fraud, George Katz, Alex Jesus Sanchez, Etienne de Cherisey and all the other bandits. Justice
will be done at last in this worst of all Breaking news on our lead story BolsaCinco
(article
1/article
2) have confirmed that the Europa 50th Anniversary issue
was produced by Forum Filatelico and financed with the money of the
Spanish investors. The Spanish authorities are actively seeking to arrest
the fugitive, Carlos
Llorca and his agents in England. Links have been exposed
between one of the companies involved, Premium Stamp Brokers of 62 Priory
Road, Noak Hill, Romford, Essex RM3 9AP in the UK, whose offices are
More details soon.
Drª.
Maria Angelica Dimas The rampant corruption in the Mozambique Postal Authority, led by Drª. Maria Angelica Dimas has been a long-running saga, linked to much of the unmitigated chicanery current throughout the philatelic world. The story we have uncovered begins with the previous incumbent of the Director of Post Office, Dr Pedro Lopes Murima. He granted a contract to Marino Montero International philatelic agency to produce stamps on behalf of the Mozambique Post Office. The
contract was for the production of stamps on the In 2004, Sorbourne Limited, trading as Filatelia International, the company belonging to George Katz, approached Marino Montero International to allow them to produce a commemorative issue, under the terms of their contract, for the Europa 50th Anniversary. The contract stipulated that the total issue for each stamp would be 180,000 of which 108,000 would be released on the open market, and 5,000 souvenir sheets of which 4,000 would be released on the open market. Marino Montero International were paid €20,000 on this basis. By March 2006, it was common knowledge in the philatelic world that Sorbourne Limited, trading as Filatelia International, had printed 500,000 of each stamp and 500,000 of each souvenir sheet. This
criminal disregard for the terms of the contract was compounded by the
printing of an additional unauthorised 500,000 imperf of each stamp
and 500,000 imperf This
isn't the only example of contract abuse The sheer quantity of stamps produced beggars belief. Imperf versions of the stamps alone would account for 6,000,000 stamps. Those responsible for this travesty needed a way to make sure that no whiff of illegality surrounded these stamps. Enter our old friends at the Michel Catalogue. The
influence of Sako Khatchikian
with catalogue editor, Wolfgang
Maier - an influence probably increased by Khatchikian's
purchase of the majority of the 2006 catalogues - ensured that the stamps
appeared in the Sako
Khatchikian's influence also ensured the On the 9th of May 2006, ironically the very date of the Europa 50th Anniversary, news of the Forum Filatelico scandal broke in Spain. Marino Montero International, acting as a responsible member of the philatelic community, attempted to ascertain whether the Europa 50th Anniversary stamps had been supplied to Forum Filatelico. After all, where could this huge quantity of stamps have gone? There aren't enough collectors in the world to absorb that many stamps. George Katz responded by informing Marino Montero International that the stamps had been supplied to Jesus Sanchez, owner of Primadart S.A., in Switzerland, which did nothing to allay the fear that there was more involved than just printing a lot of stamps. It
was fast becoming apparent that the scale
of the In
June, the situation became more complicated. Satas, the man responsible for the production of illegal stamps bearing the names of over 90 different countries, has a long running vendetta against Marino Montero International, which might explain why the letter found its way rapidly from the hands of Armando Lapa to almost every stamp dealer in the world. At no time during this entire process had anyone made contact with Marino Montero International to explain the situation or give them a chance to challenge the actions of Drª. Maria Angelica Dimas. She has a track record for trying to use her position for her own benefit. When she took over the office of Director of Post Office, she demanded that Marino Montero International pay for a round trip for her to the United Kingdom. There was no reason for her to travel to the U.K. We suspect that once there, her business would have been conducted mainly in Harrods and Harvey Nichols. All
this
makes you wonder if someone didn't Later
in June the owner of Marino Montero International Meanwhile,
Satas was busy producing his usual bundles Where's the honour amongst thieves? As
a result of all this nefarious activity, Mr. Sanchez, Mr
Katz asked Marino Montero International for After
all, as explicitly stated in the contract, All
this made it too late to include the stamps in the What were Sanchez and his cohorts to do? The
Michel Catalogue published an article in the Did someone pay for this letter? So, to summarize, the stamps have gone from being legal in 2004-6, to illegal in 2006-7 to legal again for 2007-8. Where is the UPU? Where is ASCAT? We could ask the new president of ASCAT, Hans W. Hohenester, who has recently replaced Carlos de Figueiredo, currently embroiled in the investigation of the alleged embezzlement of the savings of 400,000 Spanish families through the AFINSA/Forum Filatelico organisations. Mr.
Hohenester should be able to offer a great deal We
at Stamp Scandal consider the behaviour As
for the UPU, once again corrupt African Post Office administrations
use them as a tool for making money The
corrupt administrations take money Then
they take some more money and declare The
UPU just sits by, wrings its hands and lets them Mozambique
has been cheated of millions of dollars of revenue by George Katz and
his cronies. Yet nobody does anything. We call on the President of Mozambique to follow the example of Montenegro and bring the full force of the law to bear on the miscreants in his Postal Administration. Show the world that there is one African country that will not put up with this corruption. Sack
them or imprison them, but make a stand
We
are currently investigating another example of
Watch this space! We
have received a letter from lawyers
representing We would like to offer an unconditional apology to Mr. Sanchez if he feels that we have confused him with the Alexandre Jesus Sanchez who controls the company Primadart S.A. and Hureges Holding Corporation. It is this Jesus Sanchez who we seek to expose in these pages. Unless any other of the many Jesus Sanchez are involved in a stamp scandal, they are not the subject of our interest. We would like to offer an apology to each and every one of the many thousands of Jesus Sanchez that exist in the world for any confusion that may have arisen, but they can rest assured it is only the Jesus Sanchez we have identified as the director of Primadart S.A. and Hureges Holding Corporation that we are referring to in these articles.
The
authorities in Montenegro are very keen to track See the original article in Republika on-line here.
More on Michel Catalogue abuses soon.
The
Unholy Trinity - His
lawyers have sent defamatory letters He
is Algirdas Satas and once again he Satas
and his company, Stamperija (successors of As
well as the usual breaches of They
should be ashamed of themselves for What
sort of people are these that knowingly
CATALOGO
"SELOS PALOP" de ANTONIO ROMAO Date:
Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:05:34 -0700 (PDT) Dear Sirs : How
do you do ? Sincerelly yours fa_de_bonanca@yahoo.com
Dear
Mr. Marino Montero : THE
COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ST.THOMAS & PRINCE EUROPA 50TH ANNIVERSARY
ISSUE : We
deliver the facts on how an original price of We
have seen an invoice to Filatelia International, With
the co-operation and collaboration of a catalogue A
mystical mathematical equation has been applied This fabulous equation is:- €18,955 origination price = €81,000,000 face value €81,000,000 face value = €160,000,000 catalogue value Now that is a return on investment! Not
a genuine return, not a legitimate return, but if And nobody in authority seems to be worried about it? WHY? MORE DETAILS VERY SOON. Print
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can see a fine example of their work here. The
postal authority of a recognised government is the So
why would the postal authority of Georgia Don't they know who prints their stamps? Why
didn't M. Logette check the details more These
questions becomes even more interesting when The
involvement of companies controlled by
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