Abubakar Malami Elected Chair Of UNIDROIT With An Ethics Disciplinary Action

This is interesting.

Malami gets appointed as Chairman of UNIDROIT, private law for salvaging souls, while facing legal challenges for stealin'.

Very interesting...

Nigeria’s Justice Minister, Malami Becomes UNIDROIT Chairman

Abubakar Malami

The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) has a new Chairman. He is Nigeria’s Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami.

Malami was elected chairman of the 78th session of the General Assembly of the institute.

UNIDROIT is an international organization that seeks to harmonize international private laws across 63 member countries.

According to a statement issued by the Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations to the minister, Umar Gwandu, the election took place at the 78th General Assembly meeting held on Thursday, December 12 in Rome, Italy.

The statement added that Malami’s election to chair the Assembly followed the proposal by four counties; South Africa, Egypt, Australia and Spain.

Part of the statement read: “The nomination was unanimously supported by the General Assembly of member states including United State of America, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Canada.”

Addressing the Assembly as the newly elected Chair, Malami noted that Nigeria has been an active participant member of UNIDROIT since 1964.

The AGF recalled that a former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Michael Aondoaka (SAN) was elected for a five-year term (2008-2013) to the UNIDROIT Governing Council.

The minister said with the Nigeria’s advancement in areas such as telecommunication and e-commerce, the country has taken greater interest in the emerging global legal architecture being developed by UNIDROIT.

Malami further pledged his commitment to boosting the activities of UNIDROIT during his tenure as the chairman and work assiduously towards ensuring the “entry into force of the Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on matters specific to Mining, Agriculture and Construction of Equipment (MAC Protocol) the text of which was recently adopted at the diplomatic conference held in Pretoria, South Africa November, 2019”.

“Following extensive consultations with stakeholders on the future Legal Guide on Agricultural Land Investment Contracts”, the Chair said he hoped to see to the “finalization of the draft text for presentation to and adoption by the Governing Council in May, 2020”.

While maintaining his commitment to “entry into force the Luxembourg Rail Protocol, which currently requires only one more Contracting State to enter into force” he said with that Protocol’s entry into force, it could “begin facilitating cross-border and domestic financing of railway rolling stock, thereby generating economic growth, and provide further momentum in attracting more Contracting States to that Protocol”.

For the Institutional development, the chair said he will work vigorously to ensure the adoption and implementation of UNIDROIT’s Work Programme for the 2020-2022 triennium, which he said has great importance in guiding the use of UNIDROIT’s limited resources and determining its various projects and their respective priorities.

The UNIDROIT chairman expressed his determination to ensure full implementation of the recently adopted compensation and social security reforms, together with possible further improvements to the institute’s regulations and its overall administrational framework.

He called on all state parties to work hard in achieving their objectives “The unification of private law is a great task UNIDROIT is saddled with.

“It, therefore, behoves on this session for all hands to be on deck to ensure issues on the agenda are tackled expeditiously. I have no doubt in this endeavor, I can presume your cooperation and assistance throughout this session,” he said.

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 Alleged misconduct: I’ll appear before disciplinary panel Friday, says Malami

The immediate-past Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, says he will appear before the disciplinary panel of the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee on Friday  to face  the  petitioners seeking the stripping of his  Senior Advocate of Nigeria rank  for alleged  misconduct.

Malami, who confirmed this to The PUNCH on Monday,   said   apart from the petition filed against him by  some  family  members of the former National Security Adviser,  Sambo Dasuki, another one was filed against him by ‘Interstellar’.

He  told our correspondent that he had filed his defence.

“Very  well.  I will appear. I have filed my defence for the two matters in contention – Dasuki’s matter and one other relating to a judgment debt titled ‘Interstellar’,” he said while responding to our correspondent’s inquiry on Monday.

Giving an insight into what the second petition was about, Malami said the petitioner accused him of not doing enough to ensure the payment of its proceeds of a judgment  it   had  obtained.

Some  members of Dasuki’s family had petitioned the LPDC,  Nigerian Bar Association and other bodies, demanding a disciplinary action be taken against Malami for allegedly endorsing Dasuki’s continued detention.

The petition was sparked by Malami’s  comments in the media last year suggesting that Dasuki, despite meeting the latest bail granted him by the Federal High Court in Abuja on July 2, 2018, would not be released from the custody of the Department of State Services on the grounds of national security.

Copies of the petition were sent to the Chief Justice of Nigeria,  Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (the body that confers on, suspends and withdraws from lawyers, the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria) and the Legal Practitioners’ Disciplinary Committee (the body saddled with disciplining lawyers for misconduct).

The petitioners prayed that Malami be disciplined,  not just as a lawyer but also as a SAN.

The petition dated July 23, 2018 was signed by Dasuki’s son, Abubakar Dasuki,  his wife, Hajia Bintu Sambo-Dasuki, and his nephew, Senator Umaru Dahiru.

A copy of the petition read in part, “This petition has been written in order for you to also investigate the propriety of the inflammatory contemptuous and libellous statement made by Abubakar Malami, not only as a lawyer, but also as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Attorney General of the Federation.

“One begins to wonder whether Abubakar Malami (SAN) is fit to be a barrister and solicitor of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, let alone a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Attorney General of the Federation. While the whole world watches as  the  rule of law is being trodden upon, we are hopeful the imminent catastrophe can be avoided by your intervention.”

They  sought investigations into the statements attributed  to Malami.

Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court in Abuja in her  July 2, 2018 judgment granted the ex-NSA bail  in the sum of N200m with two sureties in like sum.

The judgment, which described Dasuki’s detention since December 29, 2015 as illegal, was specifically directed at the AGF,  DSS and its director-general, who were the defendants.

The LPDC panel has issued a hearing notice signed by the Secretary, the   committee, Patricia Orhomuru.

Vatican Raid Initiates Canon Defrocking Process

Tsk, tsk, tsk.

We have canon violations going on.....

"…[i]n the writings of Nicholas, the Roman pontiff, it is narrated that the same Constantine said: 'Truly if my own eyes had seen a priest of God or any of those who wrap themselves in the robes of the monastery sinning, my cloak would have been stretched out and would have covered him up, so that no other would see him."

John of Salisbury, c1129, Policraticus

#maytheheavensfall

After Vatican raid, 5 officials and employees suspended

Vatican Bank - IOR

Vatican City, Oct 2, 2019 / 12:43 pm (CNA).- An Italian news magazine has reported that five Vatican employees have been suspended following an Oct. 1 raid of offices within the Vatican’s Secretariat of State.

An Oct. 2 internal memo from the government of the Vatican City State conveyed that the five employees have been “suspended from service.” The memo was published by L’Espresso.

Among the apparently suspended employees is Msgr. Mauro Carlino, who oversees documentation at the Secretariat of State, along with layman Tomasso Di Ruzza, director of the Vatican’s Financial Intelligence Authority.

Two other men and one woman are also listed as suspended.

The suspensions follow an Oct. 1 raid authorized by prosecutors in the Vatican City court system.

Documents and devices were taken in connection to an investigation following complaints made last summer by the Institute for Religious Works - commonly called the Vatican Bank - and the Office of the Auditor General, concerning a series of financial transactions "carried out over time," an Oct. 1 Vatican statement said.

The Secretariat of State is the central governing office of the Catholic Church and the department of the Roman Curia which works most closely with the pope. It is also responsible for the governance of the Vatican City state.

The suspension memo says that Carlino will continue to live at the Domus Sanctae Martha, the residence at which Pope Francis also lives, and that the suspended employees can enter Vatican City State to access health services, or if a Vatican magistrate approves their admission.

The Vatican’s Financial Intelligence Authority oversees suspicious financial transactions, and is charged with ensuring that Vatican banking policies comply with international financial standards.

Pope Francis approved new governing documents for the Vatican Bank last summer, transitioning the bank from its practice of using internal auditors to the use of an external auditor to review the bank’s finances and transactions. The bank has a long history of complex financial transactions, has faced scandals, and been criticized for a lack of financial transparency.

The pope has made reforms at the Vatican Bank a priority of his pontificate.

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Vatican Police Raid Holy See Bank For Stealin' Children, Land & Votes

It seems the children's trusts have been found.

Praise the lord.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_the_Works_of_Religion
www.ior.va

https://www.ncronline.org/organization/institute-works-religion

https://www.ncronline.org/news/quick-reads/pope-approves-new-statutes-vatican-bank

Vatican police raid top offices in financial investigation

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Vatican police raided the offices of the Holy See's Secretariat of State and its Financial Information Authority, or AIF, on Tuesday and took away documents and electronic devices as part of an investigation of suspected financial irregularities, a Vatican statement said.

It was believed to be the first time the two departments were searched for evidence involving alleged financial crimes.

The Secretariat of State, the most powerful department in the Vatican, is the nerve centre of its bureaucracy and diplomacy and the administrative heart of the worldwide Catholic Church.

The AIF, headed by Swiss lawyer Rene Bruelhart, is the financial controller, with authority over all Vatican departments.

The Vatican statement gave no details except to say that the operation was a follow-up to complaints filed in the summer by the Vatican bank and the Office of the Auditor General and were related to "financial operations carried out over the course of time".

A senior Vatican source said he believed the operation, which the statement said had been authorised by Vatican prosecutors, had to do with real estate transactions.

Since the election of Pope Francis in 2013, the Vatican has made great strides in cleaning up its often murky financial reputation.

Last year, a former head of the Vatican bank and an Italian lawyer went on trial to face charges of money laundering and embezzlement through real estate deals. It is still in progress.

In May, the AIF said reports of suspicious financial activity in the Vatican reached a six-year low in 2018, continuing a trend officials said showed reforms were in place.

For decades, the bank, officially known as the Institute for Works of Religion, or IOR, was embroiled in numerous financial scandals as Italians with no right to have accounts opened them with the complicity of corrupt insiders.

Hundreds of accounts have been closed at the IOR, whose stated purpose is to manage funds for the Church, Vatican employees, religious institutes or Catholic charities.

In 2017, Italy put the Vatican on its "white list" of states with cooperative financial institutions, ending years of mistrust.

The same year, Moneyval, a monitoring body of the Council of Europe, gave Vatican financial reforms a mostly positive evaluation.

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BIDEN: Readout of Vice President Biden’s Meeting with President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine - March 31, 2016

The White House

Office of the Vice President

For Immediate Release

March 31, 2016

Readout of Vice President Biden’s Meeting with President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine

Vice President Biden met today with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.‎ President Poroshenko updated the Vice President on coalition negotiations to form a new Ukrainian government that is committed to a reform program, including IMF and EU requirements, and the full implementation of its Minsk commitments. President Poroshenko also noted his commitment to installing a new, credible Prosecutor General. The Vice President welcomed the efforts of President Poroshenko to form a stable, reform-oriented government, and stressed that this step, as well as the enactment of needed reforms, are critical to unlocking international economic assistance, including the third $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee. The Vice President also informed President Poroshenko that the United States is moving forward with an additional $335 million in security assistance, which will fund additional advisors, training, and non-lethal assistance. The leaders condemned the illegal imprisonment of pilot Nadia Savchenko, and called for her release and for immediate and unimpeded medical access. The Vice President reaffirmed U.S. commitment to Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, emphasizing that the U.S. continues to reject the occupation and attempted annexation of Crimea, and reiterated the importance of maintaining sanctions against Russia until Minsk is fully implemented.

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Build The Wall: Trafficking Of Souls Has Gone AI - Schengen Information System, European Union, Vatican, Bitcoin & Children's Trust Funds

Walls are no longer brick and mortar.

Walls are AI.

The U.S. has no AI border wall.

The U.S. likes to traffic tiny human and their souls over the border for lots and lots of money.

But do not just ask Chuck & Nancy because it is personal inurement of office and how politicians fund their campaigns, which would be an issue of self incrimination.

We would not want Chuck & Nancy to incriminate themselves but we could ask Betsy DeVos, a subject matter expert on trafficking the souls of tiny humans.

And that is why we are going to have a Constitutional Crisis because we would like to know who is in our country and the purveyors of tiny humans do not want to stop salvaging all the souls, which includes our intellectual property.

Trump is championing the end of stealin' the children, the land and the votes.

European–Vatican relations

QUESTION*: What does the Vatican and European Union have in common?

ANSWER: A Bitcoin Wall

According to Wikipedia:
Holy See–European Union relations is the relationship between the European Union (EU) and the Holy See (or Vatican City).   This is framed by the Holy See's geography (within an EU state capital) while being unable to join.

According to Wikipedia:

The Schengen Information System (SIS) is a governmental database maintained by the European Commission. The SIS is used by 31 European countries to find information about individuals and entities for the purposes of national security, border control and law enforcement. A second technical version of this system, SIS II, went live on 9 April 2013.^{Schengen Information System}

What is the Schengen Information System (SIS)?

The Schengen Information System (SIS) is the most widely used and largest information sharing system for security and border management in Europe. SIS enables competent national authorities, such as the police and border guards, to enter and consult alerts on persons or objects. An SIS alert does not only contain information about a particular person or object but also instructions for the authorities on what to do when the person or object has been found. Specialised national SIRENE Bureaux located in each Member State serve as single points of contact for the exchange of supplementary information and coordination of activities related to SIS alerts. At the end of 2017, SIS contained approximately 76.5 million records, it was accessed 5.2 billion times and secured 243 818 hits (when a search leads to an alert and the authorities confirm it).

What is the purpose of the SIS?

The main purpose of SIS is to make Europe safer. The system assists the competent authorities in Europe to preserve internal security in the absence of internal border checks. The scope of SIS is defined in three legal instruments:

1. Regulation (EC) No 1987/2006 (Border control cooperation):
   SIS enables border guards and visa issuing and migration authorities to enter and consult alerts on third-country nationals for the purpose of refusing their entry into or stay in the Schengen area.
2. Council Decision 2007/533/JHA (Law enforcement cooperation):
   SIS supports police and judicial cooperation by allowing competent authorities to create and consult alerts on missing persons and on persons or objects related to criminal offences.
3. Regulation (EC) No 1986/2006 (Cooperation on vehicle registration)
   Vehicle registration services may consult SIS in order to check the legal status of the vehicles presented to them for registration. They only have access to SIS alerts on vehicles, registration certificates and number plates.

How will SIS be in the future?

The changes proposed in 2016 by the European Commission will strengthen significantly the system.

In June 2018, the co-legislators reached political agreement on the new SIS package. The new functionalities in SIS will be implemented in different stages, with a requirement for the work to be completed by 2021.

The changes will entail enhancements in the following areas:

• Biometrics: SIS will contain palm prints, fingerprints, facial images and DNA concerning, for example, missing persons to confirm their identity.
• Counter-terrorism: More information will be shared on persons and objects involved in terrorism-related activities, allowing the authorities of the Member States to better pursue and prevent serious crimes and terrorism.
• Vulnerable persons: Competent authorities will have the possibility of entering preventive alerts in the system to protect certain categories of vulnerable persons (missing persons, children at risk of abduction or potential victims of trafficking in human beings or gender-based violence).
• Irregular migration: Return decisions and entry bans will be part of the information shared in the system to enhance their effective enforcement.
• Enhanced access for EU Agencies: Europol will now have access to all alert categories in the SIS while the European Border and Coast Guard Agency operational teams will be able to access SIS for the purpose of carrying out their tasks in the hotspots.

Moreover, the introduction since March 2018 of an AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Identification System) in SIS, and the resulting possibility of making searches using fingerprints, makes it even more difficult for criminals to move unnoticed across Europe.

In which countries is SIS in operation?

SIS is in operation in 30 European countries, including 26 EU Member States (only Ireland and Cyprus are not yet connected to SIS) and 4 Schengen Associated Countries (Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland).

EU Member States with special arrangements:

• Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia are not yet part of the area without internal border checks (the 'Schengen area'). However, since August 2018, Bulgaria and Romania started using fully SIS. A Council Decision is still required for the lifting of checks at the internal borders of these two Member States. In the case of Croatia, there are still some restrictions regarding its use of Schengen-wide SIS alerts for the purposes of refusing entry into or stay in the Schengen area. Those restrictions will be lifted as soon as Croatia has become a part of the area without internal border checks.
• The United Kingdom operates SIS but, as it has chosen not to join the Schengen area, it cannot issue or access Schengen-wide alerts for refusing entry and stay into the Schengen area.
• Ireland and Cyprus are not yet connected to SIS. Ireland is carrying out preparatory activities to connect to SIS, but, as is the case for the UK, it will not be able to issue or access Schengen-wide alerts for refusing entry or stay. Cyprus has a temporary derogation from joining the Schengen area and is not yet connected to SIS.

EU Votes to Create a Gigantic Biometrics Database

The European Union has moved forward with its plans to create a gigantic biometrics database, despite facing criticism for putting privacy rights at stake through it.

Last week, the European Parliament has adopted a legislation that will enable EU information systems to exchange records through the Common Identity Repository (CIR), which is set to gather data for over 150 million individuals. The move has been taken as a further attempt to simplify the jobs of EU border and law enforcement officers.

According to a press release by the European Parliament, the new system will facilitate the tasks of border guards, migration officers, police officers and judicial authorities by providing them with more systematic and faster access to various EU security and border-control information systems.

“The systems covered by the new rules would include the Schengen Information System, Eurodac,the Visa Information System (VIS) and three new systems: the European Criminal Records System for Third Country Nationals (ECRIS-TCN), the Entry/Exit System (EES) and the European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS),” the press release reads.

The EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos asserted that the Security Union is steadily taking shape with a whole range of tools, actions and rules being put in place to protect all EU citizens.

Whereas, the Commissioner for the Security Union Julian King said that the new adoptions mark another important milestone in the work of the EU towards an effective and genuine Security Union.

“Interoperability will help those working in the frontline to keep EU citizens safe – ensuring police and border guards have efficient access to the information they need, including to fight identity fraud, enables them to do their jobs properly,” he said a day after the Parliament had adopted the legislation.

EU Criticized for Putting Privacy Rights at Stake

Watchdog and non-profit organizations have long criticized the move for establishing such a system.

Non-profit organization Statewatch published a report last year titled “Interoperability morphs into the creation of a Big Brother centralized EU state database including all existing and future Justice and Home Affairs databases.”

According to the report the notion that these plans are simply bringing together existing data and biometrics, and so there is nothing to be afraid of, is untrue.

“If there has been one clear lesson since 11 September 2001 it is that function creep is the name of the game. From the late 1970s onwards each new stage of the technological revolution has been justified on the grounds that there is nothing new, it is just making life easier for law enforcement and border control agencies to get access to the information they need to do their job more efficiently. Whereas the reality is that at each stage databases become ever more intrusive as security demands cumulatively diminish freedoms and rights,” the report concludes among others.

*I had to spell out "QUESTION" because there are humans who like to worship a random letter of the alphabet.

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George Clinton encourages U.S. to follow E.U. example to protect artist copyrights and American jobs Press Release 9-14-2011

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