Richard Masters, 52, was arrested on Friday on charges of violating US sanctions laws
A British citizen has been arrested in on US criminal charges alleging that he helped a billionaire Russian oligarch evade sanctions relating to his $90 million megayacht.
Richard Masters, 52, was arrested on Friday by the Spanish Guardia Civil and faces extradition to the US on charges that he tried to hide , the Tango, from authorities.
An unsealed indictment accuses Masters, who runs a yacht management company, of concocting a phony name, ‘the Fanta,’ for the Tango in order to hide the yacht’s connection to Vekselberg from financial institutions.
Despite the alleged scheme, the Tango was seized by the last April in Palma de Mallorca, the capital of Spain’s Balearic Islands and a playground and tax haven for the ultra-rich.
Masters faces extradition to the US on charges that he tried to hide sanctioned oligarch Viktor Vekselberg’s 255-foot luxury yacht, the Tango (above), from authorities
Vekselberg (right) is a billionaire and close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin who heads the Moscow-based Renova Group
Also charged in connection with the alleged plot was Vladislav Osipov, 51, a Russian national with dual Swiss citizenship, who remains at large.
Masters and Osipov are both charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States and to commit offenses against the United States, violating sanctions laws, and money laundering.
Vekselberg is a billionaire and close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin who heads the Moscow-based Renova Group, a conglomerate encompassing metals, EVdeN Eve naKLiYat mining, tech and other assets.
Since 2018, Vekselberg’s assets in the US have been frozen, evDen eVE nAKLiyat and US companies are forbidden from doing business with him and his entities, but fresh sanctions targeting his yacht were enacted following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year.
Masters is the founder and director of Master Yachts, a yacht management company in Palma de Mallorca.
The company’s website boasts that it is ‘renowned for its highly ethical, no-nonsense and pragmatic approach’ and committed to ‘transparency and integrity’.
Masters is the founder of Master Yachts, a yacht management company in Palma de Mallorca that claims to be ‘renowned for its highly ethical, no-nonsense and pragmatic approach’
A Civil Guard stands by the yacht called Tango in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Monday April 4, 2022 as FBI agents search and seize the vessel
A U.S.federal agent and two Civil Guards board the yacht called Tango in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on April 4, 2022
However, US prosecutors allege that after Vekselberg was sanctioned in April 2018, Masters’s company took over the management of Tango and conspired to evade US sanctions.
According to the indictment, Masters cooked up the fake yacht name ‘the Fanta’
According to the indictment, Masters cooked up the fake name ‘the Fanta’ and used various workarounds to avoid sanctions, such as payments in other currencies and through third parties.
As a result, the trappings of Tango, including its satellite television, luxury goods, and teleconferencing software, were all US-origin products and services supplied by US companies, in violation of sanctions laws, prosecutors say.
‘Facilitators of sanctions evasion enable the oligarchs supporting Vladimir Putin’s regime to flout US law,’ said United States Attorney Matthew M.Graves.
‘The United States will not allow its financial institutions and persons to be manipulated or defrauded for the purposes of benefitting those supporting an illegal war,’ he added.
In investigation was coordinated through a Justice Department task force known as KleptoCapture, aimed at enforcing sweeping sanctions against Russia’s oligarchs following the invasion of Ukraine.
‘These men made their decisions, and now face the consequences of a failed attempt to profit through, rather than standing against, EvDeN eve NakLiyAT a sophisticated, transnational criminal enterprise,’ said KleptoCapture Director EVdEn eVe NakLiYAt Andrew Adams. In case you have just about any concerns regarding wherever and also the best way to employ eVden eVE nAKLiyAT, it is possible to e-mail us at the page.
The US is seeking Masters’ extradition from Spain. It was unclear whether he had an attorney to speak on his behalf. An arrest warrant against Osipov is outstanding.
Evelyn ‘Ebere’ Agbasonu allegedly asked for payment of £1,500 to help secure the £80,000 private kidney transplant for the alleged recipient Sonia Ekweremadu, 25, at the Royal Free Hospital in north London in February 2022.
Jurors at the Old Bailey heard of Ms Agbasonu’s role during the trial of Ike Ekweremadu, 60, who is alleged to have conspired with family members and others to exploit the 21-year-old street trader from Lagos in harvesting his kidney.
The then-deputy president of the Nigerian is on trial alongside his wife Beatrice Ekweremadu, 56, their daughter Sonia and medical ‘middleman’ Dr Obinna Obeta.They all deny conspiracy to arrange the travel of another person with a view to exploitation.
Sonia had a ‘significant and deteriorating’ kidney condition which could be managed through dialysis but cured with a transplant.
Ike Ekweremadu, 60, is on trial alongside his wife Beatrice Ekweremadu, 56, their daughter Sonia, 25.All three deny conspiracy to arrange the travel of another person with a view to exploitation
The prosecution claims the procedure was not legal as the potential organ donor was a street trader from Lagos who had no altruistic motive or family connection with the recipient.
The Old Bailey has been told it was a ‘transactional’ deal, EvdEn eVe naKliyAT with the man to be paid up to 3.5m Naira, the equivalent of £7,000,for the harvesting of his body part and the promise of opportunities in the UK.
He was tested in Nigeria and found to be a match for Sonia before being brought to the UK.
The jury heard that Ms Agbasonu, evDEN evE NaKliyAt who worked as a medical secretary at the clinic and spoke Igbo, stepped in to interpret during an initial meeting on February 24 between Dr Peter Dupont and the donor from Nigeria.
The consultant had concluded the man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, EVdEN eVE nAKLiYat was not an appropriate candidate and appeared relived that the transplant would not take place.
However, according to messages from others, Ms Agbasonu appeared to agree to manipulate a second meeting to the advantage of the Ekweremadu family.
Mr Ekweremadu’s brother Diwe, who had medical training, allegedly sent Sonia Ekweremadu advice from the interpreter to show a clear family connection with the donor.
Ike, a former barrister, is a member of the centre-right Peoples Democratic Party and was the Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate for three consecutive terms
Beatrice (pictured) said the donor had been found via a third party. If you enjoyed this article and you would certainly such as to obtain even more facts relating to EVdeN evE nakLiyAt kindly browse through our own webpage. She stated that she was ‘devastated’ when further tests after his arrival in the UK found he was not a match
He allegedly said: ‘Ebere said it would be easier to establish that his mum and your mum are sisters.If we stretch it to the grandmum and grandmum the relationship will be too distant.’
Ms Ekweremadu allegedly replied with: ‘Ok, that’s fine.’
Diwe then allegedly laid out a financial agreement with her father, saying: ‘I’ve met the Igbo interpreter.She agreed to work with us. She will be involved in coaching the boy, and during his consultation and interviews she will be providing the relevant interpretation.
‘She insisted that I give her £1,500. I think the just position themselves to exploit people.’
It is claimed the potential donor was told to pretend to be Sonia’s cousin.
Diwe is also alleged to have said: ‘We had a meeting today with her so I’ve introduced her to Chinoso (Sonia) and (the donor).She advised that (the donor) comes to the hospital on Tuesday and Thursday while Chinoso (Sonia) is having her dialysis.
‘Psychologically everyone in the team will have to accept that he’s really committed to his cousin’s health and it usually makes it easier to accept the person for the procedure.’
Prosecutor Hugh Davies KC suggested to the court the messages demonstrated the opposite of an altruistic organ donation.
Ike has denied all the allegations and said he had not arranged the travel of anyone to the UK
Beatrice Ekweremadu (fron) and Sonia Ekweremadu (behind) at the Old Bailey
The court heard that the potential donor and interpreter attended a meeting with a surgeon at the hospital on March 11.
After the meeting, Diwe allegedly messaged Ms Ekweremadu’s father, saying: ‘I have spoken with (the interpreter).She said the boy did better today but he’s still showing so much timidity.
‘She covered up for him and added the words as much as possible. The surgeon will discuss with Dr Dupont and they will communicate us. They will continue to work on the boy’s confidence.Ebere and Obinna.’
But, the surgeon agreed with the initial assessment made by Dr Dupont that the donor was unsuitable. Ms Ekweremadu was informed of the decision on March 29.
Mr Davies told the court the interpreter was also involved in Dr Obeta’s own transplant.
The jury heard that Dr Obeta, also on trial with the family, had secured a kidney transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in 2021, with a donor purporting to be his cousin.
Mr Davies told jurors an affidavit was the only evidence of a relation between the two men.
‘Whatever the truth of any of that, the basis of his transplant process provided a clear model for what Sonia needed in her moment of crisis,’ he told the court.
Jurors heard that Dr Obeta had trained at medical school with Diwe, who remains in Nigeria and is not on trial.
Medical ‘middleman’ Dr Obinna Obeta (pictured) is also on trial with the family at the Old Bailey
Ike Ekweremadu (left) and wife Beatrice Ekweremadu (right) are on trial at the Old Bailey
Maria Butina, the pro-Putin MP elected to Russia’s Duma after serving a US prison sentence for acting as an unregistered foreign agent, led the charge in taunting the US over Thursday’s exchange.
‘The fact that Russia pushed through the exchange of Bout, whom America fundamentally did not want to give away for many years, right now means that, like in The Godfather, we “made them an offer that cannot be refused,”‘ Butina boasted in Russian on her Telegram channel.
‘This is a position of strength, comrades,’ added Butina, who was deported back to Russia in 2019 after serving an 18-month sentence in the US.
On Thursday, the US and Russia announced that Griner, who was sentenced to nine years of hard prison time on cannabis-related charges, had been exchanged for Bout.
Maria Butina (left), the pro-Putin MP in Russia’s Duma, led the charge in taunting the US for Evden eVE nAKliYAt releasing Viktor Bout (right on Thursday) in exchange for WBNA star Brittney Griner
Butina, who was deported back to Russia in 2019 after serving an 18-month sentence in the US, boasted on her Telegram channel about the trade
The controversial swap took place in Abu Dhabi, and Russian TV showed Bout in a private jet on the flight to Russia, getting his blood pressure checked, speaking with his family by phone and saying, evDen EvE nAKliyaT ‘I love you very much.’
Bout’s mother, Raisa, thanked President Vladimir Putin and the Foreign Ministry for freeing her son, Tass reported.It added that he would be invited to speak to lawmakers on the Duma’s International Affairs committee.
On Channel One Russia, the state-run news outlet widely watched in Russia, an announcer hailed Bout as a ‘legendary figure’ who had suffered ‘persecution’ and ‘illegal extradition to the United States’.
Online comments from Russian-speakers also tended to celebrate Bout’s release, with some hailing him as a ‘hero’.
‘Finally. He’s been sitting in jail for years. Freedom,’ wrote one commenter on YouTube.
‘Finally the family will be reunited.Congratulations for the return of Viktor. I wrote him a letter in America with words of support. I’m very glad this part of history is over,’ another wrote.
Griner is seen on her way to being swapped in the prisoner trade in Abu Dhabi
‘Finally.He’s been sitting in jail for years. Freedom,’ wrote one commenter on YouTube
‘This is such a big win for America, but at the same time a huge fail.Trading a figure like Bout for a basketball player…’ read a comment on a sports news site
‘Finally the family will be reunited.Congratulations for the return of Viktor. I wrote him a letter in America with words of support. I’m very glad this part of history is over. Here’s more information about EVdeN EVE NAKliYAt check out our page. ‘
‘He is a Russian hero’ one comment read.
‘This is such a big win for America, but at the same time a huge fail.Trading a figure like Bout for a basketball player…’ read a comment on a sports news site.
Other Russian-language comments were skeptical of the deal, and slammed Russia for imprisoning Griner.
‘What shame and embarrassment!They took an innocent person hostage, blamed her for something, eVdeN evE NAKLiYaT the devils, just to trade in for a criminal!’ one read on YouTube.
‘Happy for Griner. But this creates an unpleasant precedent in the sense that it is already dangerous for any US citizen to visit Russia.They can make up any nonsense to keep them there,’ another person wrote.
Bout is widely known abroad as the ‘Merchant of Death’ international arms dealer who fueled some of the world’s worst conflicts.
The 2005 Nicolas Cage movie ‘Lord of War’ was loosely based on Bout, a former Soviet air force officer who gained fame supposedly by supplying weapons for civil wars in South America, the Middle East and Africa.
His clients were said to include Liberia’s Charles Taylor, longtime Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and both sides in Angola’s civil war.
In Russia, Bout is seen as a swashbuckling businessman who was unjustly imprisoned after an overly aggressive US sting operation
Russian TV showed Bout in a private jet on the flight to Russia, getting his blood pressure checked, speaking with his family by phone and saying, ‘I love you very much.’
‘What shame and embarrassment!They took an innocent person hostage, blamed her for something, the devils, just to trade in for a criminal!’ one read on YouTube
‘Happy for Griner.But this creates an unpleasant precedent in the sense that it is already dangerous for any US citizen to visit Russia. They can make up any nonsense to keep them there,’ another person wrote
In Russia, however, he’s seen as a swashbuckling businessman who was unjustly imprisoned after an overly aggressive US sting operation.
Russia had pressed for Bout´s release for years and as speculation grew about such a deal, the upper house of parliament opened a display of paintings he made in prison – whose subjects ranged from Soviet dictator Josef Stalin to a kitten.
The show of his art underlined Bout’s complexities.Though in a bloody business, the 55-year-old was a vegetarian and classical music fan who is said to speak six languages.
Even the former federal judge who sentenced him in 2011 thought his 11 years behind bars was adequate punishment.
‘He´s done enough time for evdeN EvE NakliYaT what he did in this case,’ Shira A.Scheindlin told The Associated Press in July as prospects for his release appeared to rise.
Griner, who was arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport in February after vape canisters containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage, was sentenced in August to nine years in prison.
Washington protested her sentence as disproportionate, and some observers suggested that trading an arms merchant for someone jailed for a small amount of drugs would be a poor deal.
Bout was convicted in 2011 on terrorism charges.Prosecutors said he was ready to sell up to $20 million in weapons, including surface-to-air missiles to shoot down U.S. helicopters. When they made the claim at his 2012 sentencing, Bout shouted: ‘It’s a lie!’
Alleged Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout looks out from inside the detention center while waiting for a hearing on extradition at criminal court on May 19, 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand
Bout has steadfastly proclaimed his innocence, describing himself as a legitimate businessman who didn´t sell weapons.
Bout’s case fit well into Moscow’s narrative that Washington sought to trap and oppress innocent Russians on flimsy grounds.
‘From the resonant Bout case, a real `hunt´ by Americans for Russian citizens around the world has unfolded,’ the government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta wrote last year.
Increasingly, Russia cited his case as a human rights issue.His wife and lawyer claimed his health deteriorated in the harsh prison environment where foreigners are not always eligible for breaks that Americans might receive.
Bout had not been scheduled to be released until 2029. He was held in a medium-security facility in Marion, Illinois.
‘He got a hard deal,’ said Scheindlin, the retired judge, noting the U.S.sting operatives ‘put words in his mouth’ so he’d say he was aware Americans could die from weapons he sold in order to require a terrorism enhancement that would force a long prison sentence, if not a life term.
Scheindlin gave Bout the mandatory minimum 25-year sentence but said she did so only because it was required.
Viktor Bout is escorted by members of a special police unit after a hearing at a criminal court in Bangkok October 5, 2010
At the time, his defense lawyer claimed the U.S.targeted Bout vindictively because it was embarrassed that his companies helped deliver goods to American military contractors involved in the war in Iraq.
The deliveries occurred despite United Nations sanctions imposed against Bout since 2001 because of his reputation as a notorious illegal arms dealer.
Prosecutors had urged Scheindlin to impose a life sentence, saying that if Bout was right to call himself nothing more than a businessman, ‘he was a businessman of the most dangerous order.’
Bout was estimated to be worth about $6 billion in March 2008 when he was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
U.S. authorities tricked him into leaving Russia for what he thought was a meeting over a business deal to ship what prosecutors described as ‘a breathtaking arsenal of weapons – including hundreds of surface-to-air missiles, machine guns and sniper rifles – 10 million rounds of ammunition and five tons of plastic explosives.’
He was taken into custody at a Bangkok luxury hotel after conversations with the Drug Enforcement Administration sting operation´s informants who posed as officials of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, also known as the FARC.The group had been classified by Washington as a narco-terrorist group.
He was brought to the U.S. in November 2010.
The ‘Merchant of Death’ moniker was attached to Bout by a high-ranking minister of Britain´s Foreign Office.The nickname was included in the U.S. government´s indictment of Bout.
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William Carrier, Chandler Stephenson and Phil Kessel each had a goal and assist and the visiting Vegas Golden Knights held the Nashville Predators to a season-low 17 shots on goal en route to a 5-1 victory on Tuesday night.
Michael Amadio also scored and evDen Eve nAKLiyAT Alex Pietrangelo added an empty-netter as Vegas returned from the All-Star break to snap an 0-2-2 skid.
Adin Hill didn’t work too hard in stopping 16 shots to record his career-high 11th win. The Predators’ 17 shots were the fewest yielded by the Golden Knights this season.
Meanwhile, it was the third time this season that Nashville failed to record at least 20 shots.Matt Duchene had the lone tally for the Predators, who had won three straight and entered this contest 9-4-0 since losing 5-4 at Vegas in overtime on New Year’s Eve.
Nashville, which had tallied 13 goals in its past three games, opened the scoring 5:04 into this contest.Roman Josi found himself alone in the slot, EvdEn Eve nAKliyat then sent the puck to Duchene, who flipped the puck from the side of the net over Hill’s pad. In the event you liked this short article in addition to you want to be given more info about EVdEn Eve NAkliYat generously pay a visit to our page. It was Duchene’s fourth goal in four games.
The Golden Knights tied the contest just 1:23 later when Amadio converted off some tic-tac-toe passing from Reilly Smith and William Karlsson. Then 27 seconds after that, Carrier broke free and beat Nashville netminder Juuse Saros (25 saves), to extend his career-high goal total to 13 and give Vegas a 2-1 edge.
Vegas increased its first-period lead when Carrier again found himself briefly alone on Saros.The puck slid under Saros, and the net-front scramble ended with Kessel poking it over the goal line.
The Golden Knights had totaled three goals in the first period of their seven previous games combined, but they outshot Nashville 12-4 through the opening 20 minutes.
Stephenson, who assisted on Kessel’s goal, EVdEN eVE NaKLiyAt put the Golden Knights ahead 4-1 just 2:58 into the second period.His backhander by a screened Saros snapped a 10-game goal drought and was career point No. 200.
–Field Level Media
]]>A hail of mega corporate updates distracted stock markets from a confusing macro picture – but offers little more clarity with scattergun fortunes and ambiguous readouts for the wider economy.
Shares in Walt Disney surged 6% ahead of Thursday’s open after the firm announced a sweeping restructuring under reinstated CEO Bob Iger and cut 7,000 jobs – 3.6% of its workforce – in an effort to save $5.5 billion and make its streaming business profitable.
Disney’s job shedding is yet another sign that January’s red-hot U. If you loved this article and you would like to receive more info with regards to EVDEn evE nAKLiyAT kindly pay a visit to the web-page. S.employment reading may not be the full picture as company apes many big tech and digital firms in downsizing its staff this year.
The share price reaction, however, was in contrast to the bizarre Alphabet swoon on Wednesday.
Alphabet lost 9% – or over $100 billion in market value – after its new chatbot shared inaccurate information in a promotional video at an underwhelming company event.The flub fed worries that the Google parent is losing ground to rival Microsoft in the renewed craze around artificial intelligence.
Fears over ailing Swiss bank Credit Suisse dominated in Europe. Its shares dropped 5% after it reported its worst annual loss since the 2008 global financial crisis and warned of a further “substantial” loss this year.The mood didn’t improve even as it marked out another step towards creating a standalone investment bank by buying Michael Klein’s advisory boutique for $175 million.
For inflation worriers, consumer goods firms bear close watching.Unilever said on Thursday it would continue to raise prices for its detergents, soaps and packaged food to offset rising input costs but the pace of price rises was slowing and would ease up more in the second half of 2023.
Price increases would continue in the second half “but it will be a lower rates of increases…we are probably past peak inflation, but not yet past peak pricing,” finance chief Graeme Pitkethly said.
That disinflation drum continued to beat in Germany, where consumer prices inflation fell more than anticipated last month, easing back below the 10% expected to 9.2% on the year.
Sweden’s central bank emphasised that rising global interest rates were still some way from their peaks as it raised its key rate by half a percentage point to 3.0%, forecasting more to come.
Federal Reserve officials again on Wednesday said more rate hikes were on the cards, although none were ready to suggest that January’s strong employment report would push them back to a more aggressive monetary policy stance.
Moving to a funds rate of between 5.00% and 5.25% “seems a very reasonable view,” said New York Fed chief John Williams.
More generally, U.S.stock futures were higher on Thursday, with Treasury yields and the dollar falling back. European shares touched a fresh nine-month high on Thursday as Germany’s Siemens and UK’s AstraZeneca boosted earnings euphoria, while Britain’s bank, commodity and pharma heavy FTSE100 hit another record high.
The share in troubled Indian giant Adani took another negative twist.Financial index provider MSCI said some Adani securities should no longer be designated as free float, after market participants raised concerns about the eligibility of the Indian conglomerate’s companies for some of its indexes.
Norway’s $1.35 trillion sovereign wealth fund said it had recently divested virtually all its remaining shares in the Adani group.
Key developments that may provide direction to U.S. markets later on Thursday: eVDEn EVE NaKLiyaT * U.S. weekly jobless claims * Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, European Central Bank board member Luis de Guindos speak * European Union summit * U.S. Treasury auctions 30-year bond * U.S.
corp earnings: AbbVie, PepsiCo, S&P Global, PayPal, Apollo, Hilton, Expedia, News Corp, Ralph Lauren, Lyft, Kellogg, Motorola Solutions, Mohawk Industries, Philip Morris, evDEn evE NaKliyaT Huntington Ingalls, Duke Energy, Wills Towers Watson
(By Mike Dolan; mike.dolan@thomsonreuters.com.Twitter: @reutersMikeD)
]]>The 42-year-old mum-of-four made her feelings known when she shared the photo wearing Adidas’ competition, alongside her son Saint, on the same day her baby daddy’s agreement with the athleticwear juggernaut was torn up due to his anti-Semitic comments.
The rapper’s $220million annual deal with the German sports brand, which is worth $1.5billion in total, EvDEN EVe NAkliYat was terminated as a result of his controversial behaviour.
Kanye Wests’ ex-wife Kim Kardashian was spotted wearing a pair of classic Vans shoes (pictured) on Tuesday – the same day his lucrative contract with Adidas was terminated
The rapper’s $220million annual deal with the German sports brand, which is worth $1.5billion in total, was terminated as a result of his controversial behaviour (Kim pictured in another pair of Vans)
At his concert at the Kia Forum in California on Monday night Harry Styles was also spotted in a pair of Vans, replacing his usual Adidas x Gucci Gazelles.
Styles, 28, has worn the Adidas shoes for every show on his world tour since June because he wears primarily Gucci clothing on stage but fans noticed when he stepped out in Vans the day before Ye’s Adidas contract ended.
Adidas announced that they would be terminating their partnership in a statement, with the sportswear maker having put it’s deal with Ye under review.
They claim that they made repeated efforts earlier this month ‘to privately resolve the situation’.
At his concert at the Kia Forum in California on Monday night Harry Styles was also spotted in a pair of Vans, replacing his usual Adidas x Gucci Gazelles
Adidas announced that they would be terminating their partnership in a statement, with the sportswear maker having put it’s deal with Ye under review (pictured with his ex-wife Kim Kardashian)
German sporting goods behemoth Adidas has terminated its partnership with Kanye West amid controversial behavior from the American rapper and designer. A statement posted in the media section of its website called his comments ‘unacceptable, hateful and dangerous’
German sporting goods behemoth Adidas has ended its partnership with Kanye West amid controversial behavior from the American rapper and designer
It comes days after Kanye claimed on a podcast that the sneaker giant ‘cant drop him’, despite saying ‘anti-Semitic things’.
Adidas’ share price dropped more than 50 percent over the past six months, and EvDEN eve naKLiYat is expected to plunge even further in the wake of the announcement.
Kanye’s Twitter and Instagram accounts were restricted, with the social media platforms saying they removed his posts that online users condemned as anti-Semitic.
In a statement Adidas said: eVDEn eVE naKliYat ‘Adidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech.
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Kenneth DeLand, 22, was supposed to fly home for the holidays this week but his family hasn’t heard from him for more than two weeks.
In a heartbreaking interview to beg for help finding their son, Ken’s parents describe the loss of contact as out of character and urge him: ‘Just pick up the phone.’
Ken had been staying with a host family while studying at the University of Grenoble Alpes. His family’s last contact was a WhatsApp message on November 27 telling them he was taking a train to Valence in southeastern France.
Ken, 22, was last seen at a sporting goods store in the south of France nine days ago
Surveillance footage shows the college student (pictured entering the store in a red jacket) in his last known appearance. DeLand’s family has launched a website to track him down
His phone was believed to have ‘pinged’ last on November 30.
On December 3, he was spotted on surveillance cameras at a sporting goods store in Alpine resort Montelimar. Bank records show he made a purchase of $8.40 at 9am.
That is the final known sighting of Ken. His family was informed their son was missing by a college liaison worker who contacted them after he failed to report to class and didn’t return to his host family.
Ken’s mom, evdeN eVe NaKLiYAT Carol Laws, said the college filed a missing persons report because they hadn’t seen him for 24 hours.
‘I’m not there I’m here, thousands of miles away,’ Laws said.
His father, Kenneth DeLand Sr, said: ‘It’s not characteristic of Kenny to not reach out to us and let us know what’s going on.’
His mom said she messages her son every day: ‘I say Kenny, Kenny just call me. Just pick up the phone, you can talk to me about anything. That’s what I text him, call me, text me, eVdEn eve naKLiyaT anything.’
Ken’s father, pictured left, said: ‘It’s not characteristic of Kenny to not reach out to us and let us know what’s going on.’
Dad Ken Sr (second from right), his wife Carol (right) and Ken’s younger brother Zacary (left) pose for a family photo with Ken (second from left)
Ken Sr says the family are ‘extremely concerned’ for the wellbeing of their son
He has been reported missing but French police have apparently been unable to share some information due to privacy laws, because Ken is an adult
Despite the family’s desperation, police in France have reportedly been unable to release all the available information because of privacy laws, as Ken is an adult.
His mom told Good Morning America: ‘If anybody has a way to help us and find him, help us. If you have any issues pertaining to where and how to use evDen eve NaKliYAT, you can speak to us at our web page. With the officials, please help us.’
She said she still messages her son every day: ‘I say Kenny, Kenny just call me. Just pick up the phone, you can talk to me about anything. That’s what I text him, call me, text me, anything.’
Ken’s father said his son was enjoying his time in France, adding: ‘He loves to travel so this trip has been something that he’s really looked forward to.’
Brad Farrett, a former FBI special agent, said: ‘I’ve helped in cases where loved ones have had a missing person overseas and, if they had means, I’ve told them to fly there and to basically work with the police eyeball to eyeball.
The senior at St John Fisher University in Rochester, New York has spent the past few months studying at the University of Grenoble Alpes
His family’s last contact was a WhatsApp message on November 27 telling them he was taking a train to Valence in southeastern France
‘At the very least, you have to keep your voice in front of these investigators if not every day, at least every week.’
The senior at St John Fisher University in Rochester, New York has spent the past few months studying at the University of Grenoble Alpes.
The family have now launched a website to raise awareness about his missing status.
They wrote: ‘We are extremely worried and want him to return home safe.
‘We fear the worst and want him to be located.’
He has been listed on the French missing persons list.
The student was last seen wearing a red jacket, EvDen eVe naKLiyAt scarf, a gray beanie, blue pants, a black backpack and sneakers.
He is about six feet tall and 190 pounds.
Study abroad organizers the American Institute for Foreign Study said that it ‘joins others concerned for eVdeN EvE NAKliyaT his safety and we are working with local law enforcement who have begun a search.
‘We have been in contact with Kenneth’s family and university and we are hoping for his swift and safe return.’
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