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Reach Tentative $25 Million

The "richest man in the world" and his

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Time, once again, to catch up with the latest antics of our favorite con artists. Able to Sue Over Medical
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Earlier today, the following message popped into my old email address (which I A must-pass spending bill in
still look at from time to time)... Congress...

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Spread of Child Sex Abuse ...
Good day Sir,
The legislation, responding to an
Search inv...
I read your posts back in 2009 and I'm afraid I have friends that
Pentagon Restricts Training
joined the cult of Salvacion Legaspi and Mr Kempe. Check out for Saudi Military Students

Recent posts
Facebook and search for Maharlikan Tribe. The woman claims More than 800 students from
Saudi Ara...
to live in a castle and had the indigenous people sign papers
and claim her queen. She's now claiming to be the true queen
Biden should drop Judge Issues Nationwide
out NOW of the Philippines. Check Facebook and tell me what you think? Injunction Blocking Border
My guess is they might hypnotise people. Wall F...
A horrible day -- in A federal court ruled that
the US and the UK President ...
Very odd. How did this person access the old email address? At any rate, I don't do
Barr's plan to put Joe Britt McHenry Sues Fox News,
Biden in jail. Facebook. Saying Tyrus Sexually Harass...
The Fox Nation host accused her
History's biggest forme...
frame-up is in the "Queen" Legaspi is indeed a cult leader in the Philippines: She claims to be the
works. Messiah, or something similar. (Reports vary.) Her friends include Dr. Hans
Stop kidding Kempe, the man who single-handedly cured cancer. (Just ask him.)
yourselves. Plus: As I
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predicted, Another of her friends is everyone's favorite scammer, Wilfredo Saurin -- a.k.a.
Kolomoisky has Yohannes Riyadi, a.k.a. Bill Hayward, a.k.a. The Richest Man in the World, a.k.a
become a key player BBC News - Home
The Philippines Phantom.
General election 2019: Boris
Johnson thanks North for tru...
Saurin first came to our attention back in 2009, when the Italians arrested him as Boris Johnson visits Sedgefield
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he was carrying $134 billion in "Federal Reserve Bonds" into Switzerland. The in no...

Memeorandum right-wing conspiratorialists jumped all over this story. Bottom line: The "bonds"
were all fakes, printed on an inkjet printer and artificially aged. The same Election 2019: Sturgeon
D.U. Latest fraudulent instruments have been used in many previous scams (and have also gathers SNP MPs after victory
The first minister says most
Guardian been sold on Ebay as novelty items). I have reason to believe that Queen Legaspi people i...
originally created the worthless things.
General election 2019: Labour
Slate facing long haul, warns McD...
I never did figure out precisely how Saurin hoped to make money with these Shadow chancellor blames Brexit
Politico for t...
"bonds." In general, it is easier to scam rich people if you can convince them that
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Eve Browitt named as victim
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My original investigations into this story can be found here and here and here. White Isl...
Democracy Now Salon also did a piece on the Mystery Bonds; the writer was kind enough to cite
my work. Rod Stewart becomes oldest
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Bellingcat A few years later, Wilfredo -- now semi-permanently inhabiting his "Riyadi" The veteran singer beats Robbie
persona -- showed up again. This time, he had hornswoggled an actual British Lord Willi...
DC Blue (Lord James of Blackheath) into believing that he, Riyadi, was the richest man in Boy able to hug brother for

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the world, with over $15 trillion to his name. (Which he earned fair and square, by first time

working hard.) As I wrote on an earlier occasion: Five-year-old Jacob Scrimshaw

was bor...
Intelligencer
Emmerdale actress Sheila
Saurin/Riyadi, as head of something called Foundation X, Mercier dies aged 100
wanted to help the U.K. weather its current financial storm with The star, who played Annie
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a massive loan.
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He even produced a document confirming his wealth, "signed"
Charles Pierce by Alan Greenspan and Tim Geithner.
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Brad Blog Hero
Almost needless to say, many internet sensation-seekers have
Crooks and Liars accepted this claim at face value. After all, if a British Lord Justices made a momentous
decision to intervene in the Pr...
believes it, then it must be real. Right? Supreme Court will decide
Sky Dancing whether the...

The Confluence The conspiracy theorists insist that Lord Blackheath is telling
the truth, and that all doubt is slander. Why do they say this? The secret why Trump won't
Daniel Hopsicker release his taxes
Because -- to put the matter very succinctly -- Saurin has spun CNN's Chris Cillizza says
Unhack the Vote
a paranoia-filled yarn about the Federal Reserve. Conspiracy President D...
buffs of a certain stripe will believe anything you tell them, as Supreme Court to hear Trump
Critiques of long as you tell them something dark and ominous about the pleas to block subpoenas
Libertarianism Federal Reserve. The Supreme Court said Friday it
will...
Northwest Research
READ: Trump appeal to have
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Saurin/Riyadi/Hayward was able to prove that his wealth was real by displaying an House subpoenas blocked
ACTUAL DOCUMENT issued by none other than HSBC. Allegedly. You can see President Donald Trump asked
the Supr...
For the Record it here.
Trump's historical impact on
Dare I suggest that Queen Legaspi fired up the printer again...? America's courts
Tweets Vox's Ian Millhiser explains how
A more recent story about Saurin/Riyadi/Hayward, from February of this year, the ...

Asha Rangappa displays similar documentary "proof" from the Bank of Indonesia. Analysis: The courts could help
Trump fight impeachment
Marcy Wheeler President Donald Trump has
The $15 trillion apparently came from Riyadi’s stash of 750,000 made his c...
Natasha Bertrand tonnes of gold held in the US. This brings in an additional Opinion: The Supreme Court

David Corn consideration to the case: Nevermind money, just how much should do the right thing
On Monday, President Donald
gold is there in the world? Trump los...
Preet Bharara

Vicky Ward
According to the World Gold Council, Riyadi’s claims cannot be FeedWind

true, as only 165,000 tonnes of gold has been mined in all of

Sarah Kendzior history.
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Josh Marshall
Now, as it happens, there is one fabled horde that is said to contain so much gold
Christo Grozev that -- if it were made public -- experts would be forced to revise their estimates of
Bellingcat how much gold actually exists. I refer, of course, to the legendary treasure trove
called Yamashita's Gold, which is said to be secreted in various remote locations
Benjamin Wittes throughout the Philippines. (Some sources also mention Indonesia.) Author
Seth Abramson
Sterling Seagrave has argued that the horde is real, and that right-wingers have
used it to fund a series of covert operations which have slowly and subtly
Wendy Siegelman manipulated our political reality over the past three or four decades. It was widely
reported, back in the late 1980s, that none other than General John Singlaub (of
Eric Boehlert
Iran/contra fame) was hot on the trail of the gold.
David Farenthold
I seem to recall that one writer -- was it David Guyatt? -- once said that the money
Maggie Haberman
has been stashed in various secret bank accounts around the world. These accounts
Wendy Siegelman were in the names of various world leaders of the 1970s -- except the names were
always slightly misspelled. (A la "Richard Nixen.")
Carole Cadwalladr
Is there any truth to these claims? At this writing, I have no idea. I can say,
however, that the legend of Yamashita's Gold has come up in previous articles
about Saurin and Queen Legaspi.

Interestingly, a figure calling himself "Mr. Gold" has entered the scene, claiming
that he has found the treasure. He has told his story not to the New York Times or
the Wall Street Journal but to those bastions of journalistic excellence, The Barnes
Review and the American Free Press.

Check it out. It's a hoot.

Are "Mr. Gold" and wiley Wilfredo one and the same? Maybe; maybe not.

Do they know each other? Are they confederates? Well....let's just say that I would
not be even slightly surprised.

In our last look at Saurin, we learned that he has a couple of American buddies:
One calls himself Dr. Keith Francis Scott (!!) and the other is Alexander Mann.
(Get it? He's just A. Mann.) Apparently, these fellows are all somehow involved
with a Vietnamese "government in exile" located in Orange County, California.
These people were connected to a CIA counterfeiting operation in place during the
war: The idea was to devalue the North Vietnamese currency by airdropping
billions in counterfeit notes.

So what has this band of scalawags been up to lately? Well, someone went out of
his way to persuade me that Queen Legaspi has been practicing mass hypnosis in
the Philippines. I don't know if that is true, but the allegation is now on the record.

This conspiracy blog recounts some of Saurin's activities with a confederate

named Anthony Martin, which I suspect to be an alias of A. Mann. The story
connects Saurin to the P2 lodge (but of course!) and to something called The
Dragon Family.

This unusual blog (apparently the work of someone named Paul Collin) refers to
Saurin as The Philippines Phantom. It seems that the wiley one has recently been
using the monicker William V. Morales. Apparently, he had been trying to sell
funny money to a group in the Philippines called the Presidential Commission on
Good Government.

We found PCGG representative Gerry Ledonio [ TEL: (718)

358-8114 ] being "handled" by the law firm O'BUCKLEY ( New
York, USA ) that was arranging secret PCGG meetings with the
southern California Filipino man nicknamed "Cowboy" who was
also very much an international bank paper trader who held a
plethora of fraudulent international bank paper financial
instruments [ i.e. bank guarantees ( BG ), certificates of deposit
( CD ), stand-by letters of credit ( SBLC ), safe-keeping receipts
( SKR ), etc. ] accompanied by a whole host of support
documents, amongst many others, where the now-late former
Philippines President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos (aka)
Ferdinand E. Marcos was seen named within a Letter Of
Instruction naming his sidekick to be "William V. Morales," an
alias used by "Wilfredo S. Saurin" (aka) the "Philippines
Phantom."

It's a little hard to make out exactly what all of that is supposed to mean, but I
think that one key lesson is this: You can get important people to take you
seriously if you wear a nice suit and if you carry official-looking pieces of paper.

The site also provides a list of Saurin aliases:

Wilfred Saurin (aka)

Datu G.L. (aka)
Wilfredo S. Ramos (aka)
William Morales (aka)
William V. Morales (aka)
Joseph E.S. Daraman Jr. (aka)
Joseph Eutiquio Severino Daraman Jr. (aka)
Joseph Daraman (aka)
Joseph Teo Hui Kiat (aka)
Johannes Riyad (aka)
Yohannes Riyadi (aka)
Saroeun Soush (aka)
Wilfredo Serion (aka)
Dr. Saroeun (aka)
Soush Saroeun

If you google the name "Saroeun Soush," you'll discover all sorts of fun stuff.
Apparently, he was doing business in Cambodia...

A SHADOWY organisation that has been accused of fraud in

multiple countries is operating in Cambodia, raising concerns
about government oversight and the potential defrauding of
foreign investors.

Asia Real Property Co, Ltd – a firm with offices on Norodom

Boulevard – identifies itself in promotional material as a
subsidiary of an international real estate consultancy known as
“ARP-OITC Group Co Ltd (Cambodia)”.

OITC is short for the “Office of International Treasury Control”,

a group that has been implicated in a series of bizarre scandals
from Ecuador to Fiji while making grandiose claims about its
links to the United Nations and the United States government.

In addition to real estate consulting, ARP-OITC offers “bank

instruments”, including high-limit lines of credit, to foreign
partners, ARP-OITC executive managing director Soush
Saroeun said in an interview this month. He said the company
was working on three joint-ventures in Cambodia with
companies from Vietnam, Canada and France.

“Though not generally or publicly known, OITC is the largest

International Institution of its kind,” the organisation says in a
brochure. It claims to be “the largest single owner of gold and
platinum bullion in the World” and “the largest single owner of
Home Mortgage Securities in the World today”.

I also did a little research into the name "Joseph Daraman." This may actually be
the name of a confederate of Wilfredo Saurin. Or perhaps two men use the same
alias. Such things have happened before.

Joseph Teo Hui Kiat (another of Saurin's many personas) has produced an alleged
document -- signed by Ben Bernanke! -- "proving" that he has deposited one
billion dollars with the Federal Reserve. Hey, that's chump change for a guy who is
worth $15 trillion.

It's also worth noting that, in a document reproduced here, Yohannes Riyadi
expresses his anger with Wilfredo Saurin. Maybe they should duke it out, the way
Ed Norton and Brad Pitt did toward the end of Fight Club.

You must be wondering: How do these scamps stay out of jail? Surely, there must
be laws against printing up your own documentation allegedly issued by major
banking concerns. At this point I should note, en passant, that other high-level con
artists have been known to earn a "get out of jail free" card by doing the occasional
gig for the spooks. (That ploy has its limits, as Ozzie LeWinter discovered.)

If Saurin and his associates keep finding ways to avoid the pokey, I'll probably be
following their frantic antics for the rest of my life.

Added note: If you're a con artist, you may want to think twice before adopting
the persona of The Richest Man In The World. That scheme has one huge
drawback: Whenever you go out to lunch with a friend, you'll be expected to pick
up the check.
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