22 minutes agoSerbia's government engages Tony Blair's wife company to protect her in court
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The Cherie Blair company “Omnia Strategy” has been employed by the Serbian government to protect it in the open trial by Dutch media company United Group BV, in international arbitration. Dutch media company United Group BV accuses the Serbian government of deliberately attacking the favouring of rival Telekom Srbija, a state company and [...]
Dutch media company United Group BV accuses the Serbian government of deliberately attacking the favouring of rival Telekom Srbija, a state-run telecommunications company.
They registered the issue at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes and called for the protection of independent media in Serbia against continued government attacks. They said government actions are simply to reinforce its control of “.
The group said they had documents showing that the government has planned “destruction” of the Dutch company.
The country's president, Aleksandar Vucic, is regularly accused of being an autism and <x0 strong populist man”, who attacks free media.
Serbia has fallen from 67th to 93th in the World Press Freedom Index drafted by Reporters Without Borders.
Vucic is president of Serbia since 2017. Earlier he was Minister of Information in Slobodan Milosevic's government.
Blair, which tap About 1,000 pounds per hour for her services, it was the fifth person of contact over disputes created between the government and the company.
Blair's husband, Tony Blair, has been advising Serbia for the past six years in a contract originally financed by the United Arab Emirates. He has denied his influence in selecting his wife's company to protect Serbia.
By 2015, the company “Omnia Strategy” was paid by the Albanian government for defence in international arbitration against Rapiscan Systems and S2 Albania.
It was initially employed at a price of nearly half a million euros. Then she was given 150,000 The extra property for advice on this matter. While, Tony Blair has been a Rama adviser for some time and when his government won the 2013 elections.
Questions have been raised about who is paying for Blair's expertise in Albania and whether there is an official contract between him and the Albanian government.
Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister criticized Hard on Iraq's Chiclot War Report. The report's findings suggested he had lied about the war and alleged threats to the United Kingdom and manipulated British intelligence institutions to justify Britain's entry into war. When asked about the report's findings, Blair said he would make the same choice again.
