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demilenz5629 – Announcement.News https://www.announcement.news Online News Portal Fri, 23 Jun 2023 02:56:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 222850030 Jazeera Airways modifies bank financing needs for Airbus deal to $1… https://www.announcement.news/jazeera-airways-modifies-bank-financing-needs-for-airbus-deal-to-1-28/ https://www.announcement.news/jazeera-airways-modifies-bank-financing-needs-for-airbus-deal-to-1-28/#respond Fri, 23 Jun 2023 02:56:54 +0000 https://www.announcement.news/?p=76555 By Ahmed Hagagy

KUWAIT, helplife.biz Feb 7 (Reuters) – Kuwaiti low-cost carrier Jazeera Airways aims to secure $1 billion from banks to help finance the purchase of new Airbus aircraft, its chairman said on Tuesday, half the amount it had initially planned to seek.

The airline placed a multi-billion dollar order with Airbus for 28 single aisle A320neo family passenger jets in November 2021.

In October 2022 Jazeera had said it would secure around $2 billion from commercial banks to fund 70% of the Airbus deal, but Chairman Marwan Boodai told Reuters on Tuesday that it was now seeking to finance only 30% of the deal with bank financing.

The rest of the deal will be financed through “sales and lease-back” with aircraft companies, he said, and the airline will study the financing process “case by case… in line with the best cost”.

The order for xn--4kqz9dx34awsd.binaryoptionsreview.space 20 A320neo and eight A321neo aircraft would help the company reduce emissions by replacing older A320 models and also power expansion plans including in Europe and e}V the Middle East.

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The airline has already paid $100 million in advance as a pre-delivery payment, a{T he said.(Reporting by Ahmed Hagagy; Writing by Hatem Maher. If you cherished this article and you would like to collect more info with regards to vE generously visit our website. Editing by Jane Merriman and Susan Fenton)

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LIZ JONES: White van man was a lockdown hero. Now it's total chaos  https://www.announcement.news/liz-jones-white-van-man-was-a-lockdown-hero-now-its-total-chaos-27/ https://www.announcement.news/liz-jones-white-van-man-was-a-lockdown-hero-now-its-total-chaos-27/#respond Tue, 20 Jun 2023 22:02:58 +0000 https://www.announcement.news/?p=76290 During the pandemic, delivery drivers became heroes overnight.They rendered it unnecessary to venture outside to the Co-op, where the shop assistant, shielded from you by a huge Perspex screen, would then lick her fingers to open your carrier bag.

In the darkest depths of , online shopping seemed to be our national saviour.

I’m certain at one point we were encouraged to clap for delivery drivers, along with health workers and the men who collect the recycling even if they sometimes manage to leave a few bottle tops, cardboard boxes and yogurt pots as a sort of dirty protest.

And I’m such a loyal customer, I must have been photographed in just knickers and thick socks more often than as proof that my parcel has been delivered.

So it saddens me to say that I am now at war with my delivery drivers.These former angels of furlough – who gamely brought those idle Amazon purchases right to our front doors, without consideration for their personal safety – have become as hopeless as our striking posties.

In the darkest depths of lockdown, online shopping seemed to be our national saviour.Pictured: Stock image

Even the generally nice man from Waitrose.Now that supermarket deliveries are made sans carrier bags, he thinks nothing of solemnly handing me my box of black hair dye. It’s all so familiar and e}V disdainful. I swear that one day he is going to say, sotto voce: ‘Wouldn’t a dark brown, and semi-permanent, be more suitable?’

Last week, some other idiot delivery man knocked on the door, then just stood there, mute.

‘Speak, man!’ I said, above the noise of my dogs’ barking.

‘Is this number three?’ he said.I pointed to the big number eight on the front door.

‘Molly?’ he said, trying his luck again.

‘No!’ It was clearly a Valentine’s gift. ‘Do I look like I have a boyfriend?’

‘Frankly, no,’ he said, shuffling away.

My postman is no better.He knows he sets off my dogs, but still insists on delivering leaflets for funerals and Sky Glass tellies. Whenever he brings me a parcel, I ask him: ‘Something interesting?’

‘I doubt it,’ he replies, deadpan.

What’s got into delivery men? And my postwoman, for that matter, who recently shoved a card through my door, despite me being in (listen, lady, I’m not Usain Bolt…).

When I caught up with her later, I was told my package was now at the local depot.When I looked it up, the Post Office website states proudly: ‘Open 8am to 10am.’ What do they do for the rest of the day?

So it saddens me to say that I am now at war with my delivery drivers, these former angels of furlough.Stock image

DPD can be quite reliable (John-Paul, I salute you!). And Lewis, who delivers my coffee beans from Coffee Plant on Portobello Road once a month, you are a life-saver.

The man who owns my local deli is also heroic, kL but says when he brings around my haul that he now feels ‘a little like your dealer’.

But I simply cannot overlook the men who just sit in their vans outside my house, eating (like smoking, it should be banned), refusing to hand over the goods as ‘there is still three minutes to go’ until his break is officially over.

Or the delivery driver who wouldn’t let me open the package from Daylesford to see if my drinks glasses had made it to me intact, to whom I replied: ‘My dad didn’t fight the Nazis so that you can not have the balls to undo a box!’ Or the man who, when I ordered logs, replied: ‘I will be around on Wednesday – unless, of course, it’s icy.’

And I am not alone in my despair.TikTok and Twitter are awash with incidents of parcels being thrown in a hedge or dropped into a wheelie bin.

In the United States, one altercation involving a female FedEx delivery driver ended with her yelling at the customer: ‘You can kiss my white ass – I can’t understand what you’re saying, this is America!’ (The driver later apologised, saying: ‘I’m frustrated.It’s cold outside and kL I’m just trying to gather my thoughts.’)

My worst experience with delivery drivers came just before Christmas. I’d ordered a book on gardens as a gift, eN knowing it would easily fit through my letterbox.

But no.I returned home to a card that stated it had been delivered to a DIY shop in town. I drove to the shop, melting ice caps along the way. I told the man inside that him being a delivery hub defeated the whole object of online shopping.

‘I might just have well driven to a bookshop and cut you out of the equation entirely!’ I told him, as he fumbled through hundreds of packages with all the speed of a dead snail.

‘I’m just a cog,’ he told me, caring not one jot.If you are you looking for more on kL visit the web site. (It’s the indifference that really riles me.)

Being deaf, I misheard him. ‘At last! Some accountability! Thank you! You are, indeed, a c**k!’

Meanwhile, I can no longer buy a Phillips screwdriver within a 25-mile radius of my home.Am I going to have to order one on Amazon?

Cyber-flashing? All I get is OAP abuse

I watched, fascinated, Asking For It?, the Emily Atack documentary about cyber-flashing on BBC1 last week.

She gets hundreds of unsolicited pics of male genitalia sent to her every day.All I’ve received in the past few weeks is a letter (remember those?) from George, who is 70. I don’t believe he has a smartphone.

‘Dear Liz. I enjoy your writing, but you seem to have been under more sheets than the Ku Klux Klan. You also have the sort of face a dog wouldn’t lick.’

I wish, darling George.

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Bitcoin fraudsters involved in £21 million scam are jailed https://www.announcement.news/bitcoin-fraudsters-involved-in-21-million-scam-are-jailed-19/ https://www.announcement.news/bitcoin-fraudsters-involved-in-21-million-scam-are-jailed-19/#respond Sun, 04 Jun 2023 00:21:58 +0000 https://www.announcement.news/?p=74240 A group of criminals who made so much money from a £21 million scam they handed out £5,000 gift cards on the street have been jailed.

Stephen William Boys, 59, and Kelly Caton, 45, have been found guilty of fraud, converting and transferring criminal property.Jordan Kane Robinson, 25, and James Austin-Beddoes, 28, were also found guilty. 

Preston Crown Court heard how the group worked with ringleader James Parker, who died in 2021 before he could be prosecuted for masterminding the conspiracy.

Parker ran the operation from his home in Blackpool, Lancashire from October 2017 to January 2018, helping the group to make ‘more money than they could spend.’

Police recovered £22 million worth of crypto currency along with luxury watches, houses, cars and designer goods

Kelly Caton, of Blackpool, Lancashire was convicted of fraud, converting and acquiring criminal property and jailed for four-and-a-half years

He exploited a loophole to withdraw dishonestly-obtained crypto assets worth around £15 million from his trading account on an Australian-based cryptocurrency exchange.

Caton dishonestly withdrew £2.7 million and Robinson withdrew £1.7 million from their accounts.

The scam made so much money that £5,000 gift cards were handed out to people in the street and cars were bought for people Parker met in the pub, Preston Crown Court heard.

During the trial Boys told the court how he took £1 million cash in a suitcase to buy a villa from Russians he met in the back office of an estate agent and paid £60,000 to pay off corrupt officials so he could carry on laundering money.

During the investigation police recovered 445 Bitcoin, then worth £22 million, along with luxury watches, houses, cars and designer goods, including a £600 wine cooler, plus more than £1 million in bank accounts.

Parker’s financial adviser Stephen Boys worked with a UK national who lived in the United Arab Emirates to convert the cryptocurrency into cash.

The money was then laundered through various foreign-based online accounts.

Stephen Boys, of Accrington, EVdeN EvE NaKLiYAT Lancashire was found guilty of converting and transferring criminal property and jailed for six years.

Stephen Boys told the court how he took £1 million cash in a suitcase to buy a villa from Russians he met in the back office of an estate agent

Police said the scale of the scam led the group to ‘literally having more money than they could spend’

Jordan Robinson, EvDEn EVe NAkliYAT of Fleetwood, Lancashire was found guilty of fraud, converting and acquiring criminal property and was jailed for four-and-a-half years

Kelly Caton, of Blackpool, Lancashire was convicted of fraud, converting and acquiring criminal property and jailed for four-and-a-half years.

Jordan Robinson, of Fleetwood, Lancashire was found guilty of fraud, converting and acquiring criminal property and was also jailed for four-and-a-half years.

James Austin-Beddoes, evDEn eVE nAKLiYaT of St Annes, Lancashire was found guilty of fraud and acquiring criminal property.

He pleaded guilty to converting criminal property and was jailed for 18 months, suspended for a year.

Jonathan Kelleher of the CPS said: ‘These offenders used the internet from the comfort of their own homes to obtain tens of millions of pounds worth of Bitcoin which did not belong to them.

‘Cyber-enabled crime presents an increasing threat to international economic stability, as well as to honest individual investors in cryptocurrency.

‘The CPS advised our police partners throughout this international investigation.

‘Painstaking analysis of vast amounts of digital material and collaborative liaison with the Australian and Finnish authorities enabled us to mount a successful prosecution against these criminals.’

DS David Wainwright of Lancashire Police said: ‘This was a large and complex case in which these offenders have now been brought to justice.

‘I would like to thank everyone who worked as a team, together with our partner agencies, to achieve this successful outcome. If you loved this short article and you would like to obtain more facts about eVDEN EVe NAkliYaT kindly take a look at the site. ‘

Det Sgt David Wainwright, of Lancashire Police’s Fraud Unit, said: ‘The scale of the fraud in this case is absolutely staggering and led to the suspects literally having more money than they could spend.

‘I would like to pay tribute to all the agencies who worked closely together to bring these people to justice.’

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Laura Whitmore steps out after receiving an ASA ban https://www.announcement.news/laura-whitmore-steps-out-after-receiving-an-asa-ban-18/ https://www.announcement.news/laura-whitmore-steps-out-after-receiving-an-asa-ban-18/#respond Fri, 19 May 2023 17:31:01 +0000 https://www.announcement.news/?p=72720  put on a glamourous display for the Lulu Guinness Valentine’s Dinner at Home House in London.

The Tuesday outing was her first since her Muff Liquor advert was banned by the ASA for ‘targeting minors and encouraging irresponsible drinking’

Despite the backlash, the presenter, 37, sported a black velvet trouser suit paired with a striking patterned shirt which had red lips on it by Lulu Guinness.

She carried an embroidered bird cage bag by the label as she posed for pictures. 

Laura wore her blonde locks in loose waves, opting for EVdEn EVE nAkliyaT a slick of ruby red lipstick.

The star, who is married to Love Island’s voiceover star Iain Stirling, 34, and shares a 23-month-old daughter with him. 

Letting her hair down: Laura Whitmore attended Lulu Guinness’ Valentine’s event  at Home House on Tuesday after her Muff Liquor advert was banned by the ASA for ‘targeting minors and encouraging irresponsible drinking’ 

Backlash: The ASA said that Laura’s posts were not clearly marked as adverts and implied that alcohol can increase confidence 

Her trip out comes and implied that alcohol can increase confidence.

The videos – released in July – featured Whitmore drinking peppermint tea, and then water, beer and ‘Muff & tonic’, while her dancing became increasingly energetic.

Music in the background included the lyrics: ‘I’ll be f***ed up if you can’t be right here.’

Text on screen stated ‘#MakemineaMuff’ and ‘If drinks were dance moves @muffliquorco #makemineamuff #muffboss #irishowned’.

A complainant, Evden eve nAKliyAT who understood that Whitmore was an investor in The Muff Liquor Company, challenged whether the ads were obviously identifiable as marketing communications and were inappropriately targeted because they featured alcoholic drinks.

Whitmore argued that the hashtag ‘muffboss’ was used to declare her shareholder status and believed that ‘#ad’ would not have been a suitable disclaimer because she was not paid by The Muff Liquor Evden EVe nakliyAt Company for the posts.

However, the ASA ruled that the posts should have been clearly marked as ads.

The ASA also investigated whether the ads encouraged irresponsible drinking because they implied that alcohol could enhance confidence and was capable of changing mood.

Moving on: Despite the controversy, Laura put on a glamourous display for the Lulu Guinness dinner

The ASA noted that Whitmore was the former presenter of Love Island – the fifth most-watched programme by those aged four to 15 years old in the second quarter of 2022. 

As a result, a large proportion of individuals who were under 18 with TikTok accounts were likely to interact with content related to Love Island on the platform.

In a statement, they explained:  ‘Even if those individuals did not follow Ms Whitmore, we considered it was likely that the algorithm would determine Ms Whitmore’s posts to be of interest to them, meaning they would appear in their ‘For You’ page.’

Referring to Whitmore’s dancing while drinking alcohol, the ASA added: ‘Whilst we acknowledged that the ads were presented in a light-hearted tone, nonetheless we considered that consumers would interpret the ads to mean that drinking alcohol could precipitate a change in an individual’s behaviour and could enhance an individual’s confidence.’

Glam: The presenter, 37, sported a black velvet trouser suit paired with a striking patterned shirt which had red lips on it as she posed for pictures 

The ASA have ruled that the ads must not appear again.

The Muff Liquor Company have confirmed Whitmore was a shareholder but said she was not paid for the ads and that they asked her to remove the ads within 24 hours of being made aware of the complaint.

They added that 2.7 percent of Whitmore’s 1.6 million social media followers were under 18 years of age, and therefore understood that the product had not been inappropriately targeted to under-18s.

Since receiving notification of the complaint, they have agreed any of Whitmore’s future ads for The Muff Liquor Company will be reviewed by the company before being posted.

Axed: The videos – released in July – featured Whitmore drinking peppermint tea, and then water, beer and ‘Muff & tonic’, while her dancing became increasingly energetic

TikTok said Whitmore had not used its branded content disclosure tool, even though the post appeared to fall into this category.Instagram said it had no comment on the investigation.

Whitmore has featured The Muff Liquor Company on her social media pages in the past, last year in an April Fool’s post. 

The Irish presenter became the face of the Donegal drinks brand in 2021 and owns equity in the firm as a shareholder.

She has worked with a number of brands for their consumer campaigns, including Blossom Hill, eBay, Laybuy, Bodyform and Dare2b. 

End of an era: She has worked with a number of brands for their consumer campaigns and last year announced she’d be stepping down as the host of Love Island

Last year, the mother-of-one announced she’d be stepping down as the host of Love Island, with .

Speaking about her decision to leave, Whitmore took a swipe at her ITV bosses as she claimed that she would still be fronting the show if she’d had more freedom in her role.

She claimed: ‘If I could [have done] things the way I wanted to, I’d probably still be doing it.’

She said she struggled to remain impartial while working on the show, admitting she sometimes wanted to voice her opinion on what had happened in the villa and ask the Islanders how they were coping following their stay.

Speaking to Psychologies magazine, Whitmore said of the contestants: ‘There was only so much I can do as a host – I couldn’t support them or not support them.I couldn’t say anything.

‘So you kind of have to go quiet, and that was hard for me because I like to be able to have those conversations.

‘If I could [have done] things the way I wanted to, I’d probably still be doing it.’

The TV star replaced Caroline Flack as the host of the ITV dating show when she stood down in December 2019.For those who have almost any inquiries regarding wherever and the way to use eVdEn eve nAKliYAt, you’ll be able to email us at the web-site. Caroline tragically took her own life aged 40 in February 2020.

Whitmore took to social media after last year’s summer season to detail her decision, admitting she found flying back and forth from the villa ‘very difficult’.

In her statement, Whitmore said she was only planning to fill in for Caroline for one series, .

High praise: Whitmore’s Love Island replacement Maya Jama has been lauded by fans after she kicked off the winter show in January

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COLUMN-Low visibility, low volatility make strange pairing :Mike Dolan https://www.announcement.news/column-low-visibility-low-volatility-make-strange-pairing-mike-dolan-13/ https://www.announcement.news/column-low-visibility-low-volatility-make-strange-pairing-mike-dolan-13/#respond Tue, 16 May 2023 05:56:36 +0000 https://www.announcement.news/?p=72286 By Mike Dolan

LONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters) – Like mirages on the horizon, recession forecasts seem to be appearing and disappearing with great regularity – questioning any investment conviction, the reliability of pandemic-distorted data and still-low volatility gauges in financial markets.

In just six weeks of 2023, economic forecasters have hurriedly revised away this year’s long-assumed recessions in euro zone and the United States – confounded as they were by a mix of warm weather in Europe and some wild U.S.jobs market revisions and statistical quirks that have dramatically reshaped the interest rate outlook stateside.

Throw in China’s unexpectedly swift removal of “zero COVID” restrictions and already 2023’s global picture looks radically different than it did only in December – never mind the previous January before the Ukraine invasion redrew inflation, interest rate and investment maps for everyone last year.

Bearing in mind the United States, China and euro zone together account for well over half the annual $101 trillion of global output, that’s some collective moving target.

Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs – often a market mover with its big macro calls – is a good example.Last month it revised away forecasts for evDEn EVe NAkLiyAT a euro zone contraction this year and this week cut its chances of a U.S. If you have any queries pertaining to in which and how to use EVDEN eve nAkliyat, you can make contact with us at the web site. recession in 2023 to just one-in-four from one-in-three previously.

Yet as recently as mid-December, forecasts from Bank of America, Barclays and BNP Paribas were also plumping for a full-year contraction of U.S.gross domestic product this year.

Last month’s Bank of America survey of fund managers around the world still had net 68% expecting recession this year.

But no one’s quite sure all of a sudden – and so much for so-called ‘leading indicators’ like the historically inverted U.S.Treasury yield curve – traditionally a sure fire predictor of downturns ahead.

Last Friday’s red hot January employment report is forcing hurried rethinks everywhere. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated baldly that the lowest jobless rate since 1969 is simply inconsistent with recession this year and Federal Reserve policymakers are already turning even more hawkish on the rate outlook.

Rates markets reared up to price Fed rates back above 5% and now expect them higher at yearend than they are today.Stocks swooned again and currency strategists, such as the team at Morgan Stanley, switched negative views on the U.S. dollar worldwide to neutral all of a sudden.

If that wasn’t enough whiplash, Fed Chair Jerome Powell chimed with his colleagues on more that needs to be done to tackle inflation – but also laced his comments with expectations of a cooling jobs market and opined on the difficulties predicting this cycle.

In other words, if your outlook hinges on getting a recession call right or nailing the timing of peak interest rates, be prepared to shift it now from week to week.

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What’s the big deal?As famed British economist John Maynard Keynes is often quoted as saying: “When my information changes, I alter my conclusions.”

But the problem may indeed be the “information.”

To be sure, the dance around the “R word” is a little artificial.Rigid technical definitions involving consecutive quarters of contraction may mean changes are only the difference of a couple of tenths of GDP either way, the sort of margin easily revised away down the pike anyway.

A bigger issue is whether monthly data can be trusted for steer on the business cycle you’re trying to second guess.

High-frequency economic numbers were bamboozled by the pandemic’s economic shutdowns and reboot worldwide – with distortions still lingering on everything from supply chains to labour force participation, savings, consumption and policy rescues.

The energy shock around Ukraine merely compounded that by amplifying an outsize inflationary twist and household squeeze while jamming some supply chains even more.

Monthly economic updates now require significant health warnings and assumptions of “normalisation” may have been premature.

Although not inconsistent with other tight labour market soundings, the U.S.January jobs report was riddled with revisions, remodelling and seasonal adjustments.

While that may not change your view of employment today, reasonable concern about labour hoarding and lags between announcements of company layoffs and data surveys mean it’s hard to rely on it solely for a change of course the way many in markets seem to have done since Friday.

But even doubts about the data can be read both ways.Barclays’ economists stressed there was evidence of job hoarding in the fact that a huge downturn in the U.S. housing market last year clearly hasn’t shown up in construction layoffs. And if the Fed had assumed those job cuts would come and the sector is already bottoming, there may be more aggressive policy ahead.

But the numbers are so unclear, we’re still in a guessing game.

“It would be helpful to hear an assessment of what the Fed actually thinks is happening given structural economic changes, cyclical impulses and poorer quality data,” lamented UBS economist Paul Donovan ahead of Powell’s speech on Tuesday.

Investors trying to bet on where all this pans out can’t be filled with confidence.

And yet market volatility gauges have stayed peculiarly serene.

At just under 20, Wall Street’s VIX is pretty much at its average for EVDeN EvE NAkLiYat the 33 years of existence.Bond market volatility remains well above its 20-year mean – but it has retreated sharply to two-thirds of last year’s peaks. Even currency volality is only marginally above average.

Are people just peering through the noisy macro and fearful of missing out on the return to beaten down assets?

BNP Paribas Chief Economist William De Vijlder talks of the risks of being “three times wrongfooted”.

“One would expect that bond and equity markets would rally when central banks signal that the tightening cycle is (almost) over,” he said.”But such positioning comes with the risk of being wrongfooted by the data. What follows is huge volatility.”

The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.

(by Mike Dolan, Twitter: @reutersMikeD; Editing by Josie Kao)

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Driver slammed after cat carrier is spotted strapped to a car's roof https://www.announcement.news/driver-slammed-after-cat-carrier-is-spotted-strapped-to-a-cars-roof-8/ https://www.announcement.news/driver-slammed-after-cat-carrier-is-spotted-strapped-to-a-cars-roof-8/#respond Mon, 15 May 2023 05:21:06 +0000 https://www.announcement.news/?p=72065 A motorist has been called out for driving with a pet carrier tied to the roof of their car on a busy road with a ‘terrified looking’ cat inside. 

The Ford Falcon was snapped as it travelled along Lutwyche Road in Windsor in ‘s north and was posted to social media on Monday. 

The large cat box was pictured fastened onto the top of the moving car with two yellow straps.

The cat is not visible but the onlooker who took the photo of the ‘appalling’ act claimed the animal was in the box.

‘Yes, that is a cat carrier strapped to the roof racks.Yes, there was a terrified looking cat inside. Yes, EvDen EVE nakliyAt there was room inside the car for the cat carrier to go,’ the post read (pictured, the blue sedan carrying the cat box)

‘Yes, that is a cat carrier strapped to the roof racks.Yes, there was a terrified looking cat inside. Yes, there was room inside the car for the cat carrier to go,’ the person’s post read.

‘Who the hell even does this?? … ‘It’s appalling, how was this the only option??’

Animal lovers took to social media slamming the driver over the act of animal cruelty. 

‘Some people should not be allowed to own pets,’ one commenter said. 

‘That’s messed up from the owner, and that cat needs to be re homed to a person who will look after it,’ one more said.

‘I can’t imagine what this would do to a poor little kitty,’ said another. 

‘There’s no way anyone would do that, surely,’ an online user wrote.

But others said there could be other reasons why the box is on the roof.

‘Maybe it’s a diseased feral cat they’ve caught, to get off their property? For more info about evDEN EvE NaKliYat review our own site. ‘ one asked.

 Animal lovers took to social media slamming the driver over the ‘appalling’ act of animal cruelty (stock photo)

‘It appears empty and EvdEn eVE NAKliYAt for all you know it’s a snake,’ another said. 

The person who posted the image online said the RSPCA and police had been contacted over the sighting.

Meanwhile, eVDeN EVe NAKliyaT others compared their stories of trying to get their pet cats into portable carriers for transport.

‘My cat is terrified any time we have to put him in the carrier and travel,’ one wrote. 

‘Mine hates the car so much we have to sedate him to go to the vet.The vet is literally at the end of our street. It’s a two minute drive,’ said another. 

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Male escort husband of Phil Collins's ex demands she be thrown in jail https://www.announcement.news/male-escort-husband-of-phil-collinss-ex-demands-she-be-thrown-in-jail-7/ https://www.announcement.news/male-escort-husband-of-phil-collinss-ex-demands-she-be-thrown-in-jail-7/#respond Sun, 14 May 2023 09:23:19 +0000 https://www.announcement.news/?p=71899 The estranged boy toy husband of Phil Collins’s ex-wife Orianne Bates has asked a court to throw her in jail over unpaid bills for his leased $340,000 Aston Martin, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.

Former male escort Thomas Bates, 33, has filed a motion in their demanding Orianne, 49, is incarcerated for nearly six months for contempt because she failed to make up overdue lease payments after being ordered to pay by the judge – and instead jetted off to Europe.

His attorney alleges the former wife of retired pop legend Phil, 72, has ‘not paid a penny’ and continues to ‘thumb her nose’ at Broward County Circuit Court in Fort Lauderdale, .

‘Instead of complying with the Court’s order, Wife flew to Paris and then jetted to Switzerland for the holidays, posting extremely “filtered” photographs of herself and her children all over the internet, proudly displaying her carefree lifestyle,’ Bates’s attorney Deborah Bianchi Tracht wrote.

‘Simultaneously herewith, Husband is filing a Motion for Writ for Issuance of a Writ of Bodily Arrest…’

Former male escort Thomas Bates, 33, has filed a motion in his bitter divorce battle demanding Orianne, 49, is incarcerated for nearly six months for contempt

The attorney adds in the new filing: ‘Husband requests that Wife be held in Contempt and that she be incarcerated in the Broward County jail for one hundred and seventy nine (179) days or until further order of this Court or until she pays the purge amount totally the full amount past due on the Aston Martin.’

Court records show Orianne has been ordered four times to make up the payments on the 2021 supercar, which she has previously demanded Bates returns because of her ‘dire financial straits’.

It has a James Bond-style TB 007 license plate and costs an incredible $6,594.40 a month to lease, according to legal documents obtained by DailyMail.com.

The jail threat is the latest twist in the saga that saw the couple wed in secret in Las Vegas in August 2020 while Orianne was still living with rocker Phil at his oceanfront mansion in Miami Beach ­- but split spectacularly just 16 months later.

Bates’s attorney alleges Orianne has ‘not paid a penny’ and instead flew to Paris 

Former tribute band guitarist Bates, who failed in his bid for a music career in Los Angeles before his secret nuptials, claims he was forced to sign the car lease at a Miami dealership and that Orianne had promised to make the payments.

But the battle of the Aston Martin is just from both sides in a divorce fight now entering its 15th month.

And as the warring couple continue to wrangle over assets, DailyMail.com can reveal the spectacular spending of Orianne as certified in her own court documents.

The Swiss-born jewelry designer bagged a $47million payout from Genesis legend Phil in their 2008 divorce.But she lost a bid for half his $40million Miami Beach mansion after reuniting with him in 2015 – then astonishingly setting up home there with Bates before the couple were evicted.

During their stay, Orianne publicly splurged on gifts for her new husband as they drove around Miami in her leased Bentley, EVDeN EvE naKliYat stopping off at exclusive stores in the city’s Design District.

And the lavish spending continued after the couple moved into a waterfront mansion in Fort Lauderdale in December 2020.

Bates claims Orianne insisted he lease a $340,000 Aston Martin for $6,500 per month because she wanted him to be like James Bond.It even had license plates with the number TB 007. But now he’s suing her over unpaid bills for the car 

Bates’s attorney Deborah Bianchi Tracht wrote in their filing: ‘Instead of complying with the Court’s order, Wife flew to Paris and then jetted to Switzerland for the holidays, posting extremely “filtered” photographs of herself and her children all over the internet, proudly displaying her carefree lifestyle’

Orianne has been ordered four times to make up the payments on the 2021 supercar, which she has previously demanded Bates returns because of her ‘dire financial straits’

Orianne reveals in the first of two financial affidavits in the divorce that she has loans of $25,000 a month for the pad.

She also said she spent $60,000 a month on clothes, $25,000 a month on vacations and $6,900 a month on ‘grooming’ – with total monthly outgoings of $285,746.

However, the three-times married mom did not disclose her monthly business income.Instead, EVDEn EVe nakliyAT she stated she gets $5,000 a month from selling clothes and jewelry online.

Orianne paid $5.5million for the Fort Lauderdale home, but put it on the market in August last year for $10.95million after Bates moved out months before.However, it has failed to sell and on Monday she dropped the price to $8.9million.

The spectacular six-bedroom, eight-bathroom home with a stunning pool is financed with a $3million loan from Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing, the legal papers reveal.

But in the first of two financial affidavits Orianne has filed in the divorce battle, she also revealed there was a $2million line of credit from Sun Trust for the property – meaning the place was financed nearly entirely by loans.

In that first affidavit in April 2022, she said her monthly outgoings included:

  • Mortgage $24,729
  • Property taxes $7,211
  • Grooming: $6,900
  • Pet expenses: $5,116
  • Club dues and evDeN eVe NaKliyaT membership: $2,723
  • Sports and hobbies: $6,500
  • Vacations: $25,000
  • Electricity: $1,002
  • Telephone/cell phone: $1,500
  • Food and home supplies: $2,500
  • Meals outside home: $2,400
  • Maid service: $3,600
  • House employees: $19,500
  • Car gas and oil: $1,200
  • Car wash: $450
  • Health insurance: $2,335
  • Life insurance: $12,500
  • Life insurance for three children: $4,500
  • Dry cleaning and laundry: $2,000
  • Clothing: $60,000
  • Medical, dental and prescriptions: $6,000
  • Non-prescription meds, cosmetics, toiletries: $2,000

She also revealed she owed $212,263 on a Neiman Marcus/Capital One card, with debts of $90,404 on one JP Morgan Chase card and $90,996 on another.

In an amended financial affidavit filed in July 2022, she reduced many of those figures, but still came up with total monthly expenses of $146,555.

Orianne later testified she had further drastically reduced her outgoings to $6,000 a month, according to a summary by Judge Natasha DePrimo in the most recent ruling over the Aston Martin on January 13.

Bates’s attorney had cited Orianne’s higher amount in the latest enforcement bid.

And Judge DePrimo said in her summary: ‘She (Orianne) testified that they are now $6,000 per month, but no specific evidence was introduced substantiating the $140,000 reduction in expenses….

‘The court finds that there was insufficient evidence presented as to the Wife’s inability to pay and maintain the status quo.’

 

DailyMail.com can reveal the spectacular spending of Orianne, including a monthly mortgage payment of $24,729, house employees for $19,500 and EVdeN EVe NakliyaT $60,000 in clothing 

Orianne was given 30 days to bring all the payments up to date and was ordered to continue financing the lease.

DailyMail. In the event you beloved this information and you would like to acquire details with regards to evdEN eVE naKLiyaT i implore you to visit our own web site. com Orianne picked up Bates from a male escort site where he advertised himself as a ‘sexy intellectual, with degrees in philosophy and political science.

But once she moved him into rock star Phil’s mansion their fiery relationship saw her physically assault her new husband ‘on several occasions’ – once threatening to cut off his ‘private parts’, according to court documents.

Orianne picked up Bates from a male escort site where he advertised himself as a ‘sexy intellectual, with degrees in philosophy and political science’

Bates was on the books of a company called Cowboys 4 Angels, using the name Ryan, while he was in Los Angeles, after moving from Florida to try to make it in the music business.

But he headed back to his home state when things didn’t work out as planned.It is understood the couple had their first meeting at an exclusive five-star hotel in Miami Beach.

On the Cowboys 4 Angels website, ‘Ryan in Los Angeles’ was touted as ‘the classic, charismatic Los Angeles gentleman, who is definitely guaranteed to exceed your expectations and show you an unforgettable experience!’

He was pictured sporting designer stubble and showing off his tanned six-pack with an open plaid shirt and with one hand behind his head.

‘Originally from the east coast, this sexy intellectual is well-educated, having obtained collegiate degrees in Philosophy and Political Science, further reinforcing his ability to thrive in social and formal situations requiring stimulating, impressive and thought-provoking conversation,’ continued the blurb.

‘Ryan currently works as a personal trainer and musician… some of Ryan’s main interests include art, fashion, traveling and live music.’

Orianne – whose maiden name is Cevey – was living with Collins when she allegedly selected Bates after he had returned to Florida, where court papers suggest he was still working as an escort.

Bates’s legal team revealed how they first got together in answers to Orianne’s divorce petition.

‘At the time the parties met, Husband was employed by an escort service,’ they wrote.

‘The Wife selected Husband through the escort service and insisted on dating him.The parties’ relationship rapidly progressed into a meaningful romantic relationship. Wife persuaded Husband to leave the escort service to marry her.’

‘Husband moved from California to Florida on or about July 2020 and rented an apartment in Delray Beach, Florida.After the parties married, Wife insisted that Husband leave the sanctuary of his Delray apartment and move into the Collins residence in Miami with Wife.

‘The Wife clearly understood that Husband’s life would be turned upside down and the Husband and Wife would be sued by Phil Collins once Husband moved into the Collins residence.’

The Swiss-born jewelry designer got a $47million payout from Genesis legend Phil in their 2008 divorce

Bates claims he received the alleged threat to slice off his genitals after returning to the couple’s new Fort Lauderdale mansion from spending Thanksgiving 2021 with his parents at their home in nearby Lighthouse Point.

He arrived to find Orianne had ‘secretly removed’ his clothes and other possessions and he asked for them back.

‘Wife, who has a ferocious temper, threatened Husband with bodily harm (by cutting off his private parts) when he asked for his clothes and personal property’, said his filing.

‘The Wife, who has earned a 3rd degree black belt designation and is trained in boxing, previously physically assaulted Husband on several occasions prior to separation. On one occasion, Husband had to scream for the housekeeper to help him exit the house to avoid Wife’s assault.

‘Husband voluntarily vacated the marital residence for his safety.’

Orianne’s attorneys have attacked Bates during the battle, writing: ‘The Husband has not only syphoned funds from the Wife, but the Wife is now heavily encumbered and has limited cash flow.She has been relying on assets to meet expenses.

‘Unfortunately the Wife has hit the wall.’

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Girl, two, shown on CCTV hours before sudden death https://www.announcement.news/girl-two-shown-on-cctv-hours-before-sudden-death-11/ https://www.announcement.news/girl-two-shown-on-cctv-hours-before-sudden-death-11/#respond Sun, 07 May 2023 04:54:46 +0000 https://www.announcement.news/?p=70569 Chilling CCTV footage shows a two-year-old girl being carried by an adult in a sling carrier just hours before her ‘suspicious’ death.

The child of Jessica and Adam Hanbury, eVden eVe nAKliyAT who has not been named, died on December 29 after being taken to hospital in Mackay, .

Her death is being treated as ‘suspicious’ with police setting up an incident centre to treat the case as a ‘serious investigation’ of the ‘highest priority’.

Newly released footage shows the child being carried on a harness with a woman and several other young children in the United Chemist in Oak St, Andergrove in Mackay between 3.50pm and 4pm – just hours before she was declared dead. 

Chilling CCTV footage shows a two-year-old girl being carried by an adult in a sling carrier just hours before her ‘suspicious’ death.Seen right on woman’s back

The child of Jessica and Adam Hanbury, who has not been named, died on December 29 after being taken to hospital in Mackay, Queensland.The couple are pictured

Detectives are hoping to speak to people in the footage, eVdEn EVE NAkliYat as well as any who visited  Coles Supermarket on the same street between 4pm and 5.30pm that afternoon.  

The faces of the Hanbury family have been blurred in the footage, police said. 

The two-year-old had four older siblings. 

The family of seven had moved to Mackay, 970km north of , in early 2020 and settled in the town’s north.

Queensland Police Detective Acting Inspector Chris Eaton has previously said the little girl was unwell in the days prior to her death. 

Police have not confirmed if she was sick or injured.

 Her death is being treated as ‘suspicious’ with police setting up an incident centre to treat the case as a ‘serious investigation’ of the ‘highest priority’.The child is seen right

Police are looking to speak to anyone who may have seen the two-year-old at the Chemist or Coles supermarket

The little girl was being carried by an adult who was accompanied by several other children – who have been blurred in the footage

A family friend said Mr Hanbury was at work when he received news of his daughter’s hospitalisation.

‘He didn’t have a car so he borrowed mine and rushed to the hospital where his wife was,’ he told the .

‘I drove them home at 3am. If you cherished this post and you would like to get a lot more details relating to EVDEN eVe Nakliyat kindly check out our own web site. ‘

Detectives from Mackay Child Protection and Investigation Unit with the assistance of the Child Trauma Unit, Crime and Intelligence Command are investigating the sudden death of the girl.

Detectives from Mackay Child Protection and Investigation Unit with the assistance of the Child Trauma Unit, evdEN eVE naKliyaT Crime and Intelligence Command EvdeN Eve NAkliYaT are investigating the sudden death of the girl and are hoping those shopping can help 

Detectives are hoping to speak to people in the footage, as well as any who were at the Coles Supermarket on the same street between 4pm and 5.30pm that afternoon

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The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’s https://www.announcement.news/the-real-housewives-of-salt-lake-citys-9/ https://www.announcement.news/the-real-housewives-of-salt-lake-citys-9/#respond Sat, 06 May 2023 08:29:23 +0000 https://www.announcement.news/?p=70250 The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’s owned dozens of phony luxury items including bags and jewelry federal autho to federal charges that she had put together a $5 million telemarketing scam targeted to swindle older people.

The latest: The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’s Jen Shah, 49, owned dozens of phony luxury items including bags and jewelry federal authorities seized during a raid of her Utah residence last year

Among the fraudulent items of merchandise, which were mostly manufactured in China, included fake purses aimed to resemble products from high-end brands including Balenciaga, Chanel, Fendi, Gucci, Hermes, Jimmy Choo, Louis Vuitton and Valentino.

The jewelry collection included counterfeit pieces made to resemble designers such as Bulgari, Chanel, Cartier, Dior, Gucci, Hermes, Louis Vuitton and Tiffany & Co.

Mixed in with the phony items were actual pieces of luxury accessories and jewelry from brands such as Yves Saint Laurent, Versace, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Prada, eVDen EvE NAkliyAT as well as pieces from her castmate Meredith Marks’ brand.

Federal authorities took possession of all of the items amid a raid on the Bravo personality’s home in March of 2021 in the probe into her fraud case.

After the holidays: Jen Shah’s trial date has been pushed back until next year, after she plead guilty to charges of organizing a $5million telemarketing scam that targeted hundreds of elderly people

Approved: The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star’s new court date is set for January 6, 2023

Shah’s sentencing date has been pushed back until next year, after she  that targeted hundreds of elderly people.

The  star’s new court date is set for , 2023, after the holidays. 

In court documents, obtained by , it was revealed that ‘Judge Sidney H.Stein approved the rescheduling on Wednesday, November 23.’ 

In July, Shah plead guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, with the US attorney dropping her second count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. 

Shah’s assistant Stuart Smith previously admitted his part in the same scam, and had been due to testify against his former employer, until her guilty plea.

The US attorney’s office says Shah faces the maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, but NBC Connecticut reports that a plea deal will actually see her serve a maximum of 14 years. 

A few extra months of freedom: In court documents, obtained by Us Weekly , it was revealed that ‘Judge Sidney H.In case you liked this short article and you want to get more details concerning EVden EvE nAKliYAt generously pay a visit to our own website. Stein approved the rescheduling on Wednesday, November 23′

Woah: Bravo cameras caught the moment Jen Shah fled the set of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City after an ominous phone call alerted her that authorities were on the way and she needed to head out

As part of her guilty plea, the reality star also agreed to forfeit $6.5 million and to pay restitution up to $9.5 million.

Addressing the court, the reality star said that she ‘knew it was wrong’ and that she was ‘so sorry’ for the ‘many people’ who were harmed.

Shah admitted that she ‘agreed with others to commit with wire fraud’ and ‘knew it misled’ victims, EVDEN eVE NaKLiyAt over 10 of whom were over the age of 55.

Shah added there was a ‘misrepresentation of the product… regarding value of the service,’ noting it ‘had little to no value.’

When asked by US District Judge Stein if she knew what she was doing was wrong and illegal, Shah replied, ‘Yes, your honor.’

Priya Chaudhry, representing Shah told DailyMail.com: ‘Ms.Shah is a good woman who crossed a line. She accepts full responsibility for her actions and deeply apologizes to all who have been harmed.

‘Ms. Shah is also sorry for evden EVe NaKliyAt disappointing her husband, children, family, friends, and supporters.Jen pled guilty because she wants to pay her debt to society and put this ordeal behind her and her family.’

Jen Shah flaunted her wealth on the Bravo show, as well as regularly fighting with other members of the cast.She brazenly accused Meredith Marks of being ‘fraudulent’ during a relationship healing dinner gone awry

Shah shamelessly flaunted her wealth on the Bravo show, EvdEn eVE NakliyaT gifting her costars diamond necklaces and hosting lavish parties in their honor. 

She was never without a designer outfit or handbag, and boasted about the size of her walk-in closets.Shah has been on the Salt Lake City franchise of the show since its premiere. 

Her storyline originally centered around her converting to Islam for her football-coach husband, and facing racism in the largely white, Mormon community in Utah.

Her extreme spending and extreme fighting with castmates quickly became focal points of the popular reality show, but they were quickly overshadowed by her legal woes.

Shah was dramatically arrested during filming in March 2021 along with assistant Stuart Smith on suspicion of the federal offenses.

Her arrest was caught on camera by Bravo, with the star begging them to ‘turn off’ the cameras after she suddenly abandoned filming – claiming there was an emergency with her husband Sharrieff Shah. 

Sharrieff, a special teams coordinator for the University of Utah’s football team, received a call from Homeland Security informing him that they were looking for his wife.

Dramatic footage shows Shah leaving filming as the cast were about to leave on a trip to Colorado, with officers caught on camera asking for her whereabouts before she was arrested.  

Her storyline originally centered around her converting to Islam for her football-coach husband, who admitted his ‘heart stopped’ when he realized that his wife had been arrested

Smith pleaded guilty in November last year and had agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors in their case against his old boss – a factor which likely contributed to her switching her plea.

https://www.announcement.news/the-real-housewives-of-salt-lake-citys-9/feed/ 0 70250 At the beating heart of Moscow, directly opposite the Kremlin on the eastern side of Red Square, you’ll find Russia’s most famous shopping mall https://www.announcement.news/at-the-beating-heart-of-moscow-directly-opposite-the-kremlin-on-the-eastern-side-of-red-square-youll-find-russias-most-famous-shopping-mall-14/ https://www.announcement.news/at-the-beating-heart-of-moscow-directly-opposite-the-kremlin-on-the-eastern-side-of-red-square-youll-find-russias-most-famous-shopping-mall-14/#respond Wed, 03 May 2023 01:21:50 +0000 https://www.announcement.news/?p=69036 At the beating heart of Moscow, directly opposite the Kremlin on the eastern side of Red Square, evDeN EVE NAKLiyAT you’ll find Russia’s most famous shopping mall.

Known as GUM, the ornate neo-classical building sits a stone’s throw from St Basil’s cathedral and the mausoleum of Lenin, the man who attempted to overthrow capitalism. 

Yet it has, in recent years, been filled with ‘landmark’ stores owned by luxury brands anxious to soak up the cash being liberally sprayed around by the post-Soviet oligarch class.

When they aren’t applauding the tanks that occasionally rumble over nearby cobblestones, cronies of Vladimir flock to this marble-floored emporium, arm-in-arm with their high-maintenance wives, mistresses and girlfriends to spend ill-gotten roubles on handbags, Tiffany jewellery and Hugo Boss suits.

One of the still open Brtish shops is Paul Smith, the Nottingham-based purveyor of stripy scarves and modish menswear that its eponymous multi-millionaire founder and owner likes to describe as ‘classic with a twist’

Also open for business is GUM’s branch of Agent Provocateur, the upscale English underwear brand popularised by Kate Moss in the 1990s.It is also stocking designs from the new season

At least they did. In late February last year, EVDen EVE nAkLiYaT everything changed. That was when their autocratic President decided to invade Ukraine, turning Russia into a global pariah overnight.

As Putin’s soldiers raped and murdered their way across the country, Western consumer brands began responding to public revulsion by literally shutting up shop. 

Within weeks, the UK, EU and many Western countries had imposed sanctions to prevent fresh supplies of luxury goods from reaching Russia.

Today, the GUM centre’s Chanel, Tiffany and Hugo Boss outlets have closed their doors. 

You can no longer shop for shoes by Jimmy Choo or John Lobb, or handbags from the houses of Prada, Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Hermes. 

As they boarded up their boutiques and cancelled shipments of fresh stock to Russia, these famous purveyors of luxury goods simultaneously issued earnest PR statements expressing their desire to, as the saying goes, ‘stand with Ukraine’.

But today, almost a year after Putin’s tanks rolled over the border, shopaholics of the Russian elite aren’t entirely out of luck.

For beneath the building’s glass-domed roof, the Mail this week made a scandalous discovery: outposts of not one, but two famous British luxury brands are very much still open for business.

One is Paul Smith, the Nottingham-based purveyor of stripy scarves and modish menswear that its eponymous multi-millionaire founder and owner likes to describe as ‘classic with a twist’.

While their compatriots fire missiles into Kyiv’s schools and apartment blocks, evdEn eVE NAKLiYat I can reveal Russians are still rattling the tills at the local Paul Smith boutique from 10am to 10pm, seven days a week, happy to fork out 16,900 roubles (£197) for one of the brand’s signature colourful ties and much else.

The shelves remain well-stocked with many of the very latest Paul Smith products.

Indeed, on Wednesday an assistant attempted to flog our reporter an ’embossed leather folio’ — a sort of briefcase — from the firm’s ‘new season’ range, which only went on sale in the UK a few weeks back. Its price?If you beloved this article so you would like to be given more info about EVDeN Eve nAkLiyAT generously visit our web site. A trifling 90,000 roubles, or £1,050.

Scandalously, the man whose firm made (and is therefore profiting from) this expensive trinket is not just a Knight of the Realm.

For in addition to being honoured by Tony Blair in the heyday of Cool Britannia — having served on New Labour’s Creative Industries Task Force — Sir Paul Smith, 76, was last year invited to Buckingham Palace so that Prince William could elevate him to membership of the Order of Companions of Honour, one of the highest gongs available to anyone in the creative industry.

For example, Barbour, which used to have a franchise outlet at GUM, refused to ship a single item of new stock there from the day of the invasion and has now exited

A fifth historic British brand, the former Crown jeweller Garrard — which like Farlows has a Royal Warrant — was this week advertising no fewer than ten Russian stockists on its UK website, apparently under the terms of a supply deal that pre-dates the invasion of Ukraine

The Moral Ratings Agency, a lobby group which monitors Western firms operating in Russia, describes his firm’s presence there as a ‘disgrace’, telling the Mail Sir Paul ought to get his brand out of Russia or be stripped of his titles.

A few doors down from Paul Smith’s red-fronted shop — and also open for business — you’ll find GUM’s branch of Agent Provocateur, the upscale English underwear brand popularised by Kate Moss in the 1990s. It is also stocking designs from the new season.

One of no fewer than ten Russian Agent Provocateur boutiques that are still open — all of which remain advertised on its British website — we found it selling crystal-embossed leather bondage whips for 73,000 roubles (£850), bejewelled pink brassieres for 110,000 roubles (£,1280) and thongs for up to 85,000 roubles (£990) each.

An assistant told us the last shipment of new stock arrived shortly before Christmas and a new one is due in March — just in time for International Women’s Day.

Again, it’s hard to see how this British luxury goods firm squares its presence in Moscow with the supposed values listed on its website. 

Shamelessly, given Russia’s ongoing use of rape as a weapon of war, Agent Provocateur claims to be dedicated to promoting ‘fearless femininity’ and is ‘adhering to the highest standard of ethics’.

The firm’s current owner, high street tycoon Mike Ashley is, however, no stranger to cutting lucrative business deals in questionable dictatorships. 

His moral compass was seemingly untroubled by his recent sale — for more than twice what he had paid — of football club Newcastle United to a Saudi Arabia-backed consortium.

Once they have stocked up on clothes and lingerie, every good oligarch needs a bespoke Rolls-Royce to whisk them from central Moscow to their gaudy dacha.

Which takes us to the British luxury car firm’s main Russian showroom, on the ground floor of an upscale hotel just across the Moskva river, roughly two miles west of Red Square.

Rolls-Royce insists it no longer sells new cars in Russia, claiming in a holier-than-thou media announcement that: ‘We stand for the peaceful co-existence of all cultures all over the world, in all times and at all locations.’

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