Setting the scene:
UK Recession of 1991-92
28 November 2017 by Tejvan Pettinger
The UK recession of 1991 was primarily caused by high-interest rates, falling house prices and an overvalued exchange rate. Membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (1990-1992) was a key factor in keeping interest rates higher than desirable.
The recession also came after the late 1980s economic boom – a period of high economic growth and rising inflation.
https://www.economicshelp.org/macroeconomics/economic-growth/uk-recession-1991/
Anyone who had leveraged loans suffered as interest rates rose dramatically.
A BBC documentary made 3 years ago, House of Maxwell, describes how Robert Maxwell’s business empire was hit by increasing costs for his many business projects:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0b64j3y/house-of-maxwell
During the episodes it was revealed:
Jeffrey Epstein helped Ghislaine Maxwell’s father Robert hide his stolen Mirror pension millions to avoid tax, new BBC series says
A story about these revelations appeared in:
01 Apr 2022 By DANYAL HUSSAIN FOR MAILONLINE
And those pensioners who were robbed by Maxwell? Were they reimbursed? What do you think?
The theft was known about by lawyers but they did not let anyone know:
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-1558624/Lawyers-stood-by-as-Maxwell-stole.html
In Tom Bower’s book, Maxwell: the Final Verdict, he says:
Maxwell’s death shocked the world. Few will forget the moment that the news was first broadcast. I heard it in Moscow while speaking to the former head of the KGB’s Department S, a man responsible for sending ‘illegal’ agents into the West. During his last months, Maxwell had been a frequent visitor to the Kremlin. Bizarrely, it later transpired that he was negotiating to sell blood donated by Russians in the West – a market inspired by the new HIV crisis. Even thirty years later, the end of Captain Bob’s life remains astonishing, and provides a lesson which should never be forgotten.
Facts have emerged over time which contribute to the answer to “Where did Jeffrey Epstein get his money from?”
And Ghislaine Maxwell testified she met Jeffery Epstein after her father died in mysterious circumstances. She has always believed her father was murdered.
She may have met Epstein before her father died:
The claim that Robert Maxwell introduced his beloved daughter to Epstein comes from a convicted Ponzi schemer who had dealings with the men, according to Distractify. Other sources have Ghislaine Maxwell meeting Epstein through mutual friends around 1991, the year when Robert Maxwell died after suffering a heart attack and drowning.
Read More: https://www.grunge.com/656382/this-is-how-ghislaine-mawell-and-jeffrey-epstein-really-met/
And where did the money go after the death of Jeffery Epstein?
Epstein’s Estate: A $600M Web of Trusts, Islands & Questions
Two days before his death, Epstein executed a pour-over will that transferred his assets into a private trust known as “The 1953 Trust,” named after the ex financier’s birth date and established in the U.S. Virgin Islands to obscure legal transparency. Valued at roughly $578–$630 million,
Epstein’s estate included properties like his Manhattan mansion, Palm Beach home, and the infamous Little St. James—his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. His executors, longtime associates lawyer Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn, immediately began managing the estate. But because the trust structure lacked transparency, victims and regulators feared a cover-up—so they sued.
How did Robert Maxwell die? It seemed the autopsy revealed no water in his lungs. Maybe this book has the answer:
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Gideon’s Spies, Gordon ThomasIn London Robert Maxwell’s newspaper empire was in grave financial difficulties..
In the Bank of England and other financial institutions in the City, the word was that Maxwell was no longer a safe bet.Their information was partially based on confidential reports from Israel that Maxwell was being pressed by his original Israeli investors to repay them the money that had helped him to acquire the Mirror Group……..This is when Maxwell had come to Tel Aviv; he hoped to cajole them into granting another extension. ..
There was a further matter to be concerned over. He had stolen some of the very substantial profits from ORA that he had been entrusted to hide in Soviet Bloc banks. He had used the money to try to prop up the Mirror Group. Maxwell had already stolen all he could from the staff pension fund, and the ORA money would not stretch that far.
And, unlike the Israeli investors, once that theft was uncovered, he would find himself confronting some very hard men, among them Rafi Eitan. Maxwell knew enough about the former Mossad operative to realize that would not be a pleasant experience……..
The final option was for Mossad to break off all contact with Maxwell. There was a risk there. Maxwell, on the evidence of his present unpredictable state of mind, could well use his newspapers to actually attack Mossad. Given the access he had been given, that could have more serious consequences.
……preposterous plan finally convinced Mossad that Robert Maxwell had become a dangerous loose cannon.
On September 30, 1991, further evidence of Maxwell’s bizarre behaviour came when he telephoned Admoni….Maxwell then said that unless Mossad arranged to immediately return all the stolen Mirror pension fund money, he could not be sure if he would be able to keep secret Admoni’s meeting with Vladimir Kryuchkov, the former head of the KGB. Kryuchkov was now in a Moscow prison awaiting trial for his role in an abortive coup to oust Mikhail Gorbachev. A key element of the plot had been a meeting Kryuchkov had on Maxwell’s yacht in the Adriatic shortly before the coup was launched.
Mossad had promised that Israel would use its influence with the United States and key European countries to diplomatically recognize the new regime in Moscow. In return, Kryuchkov would arrange for all Soviet Jews to be released and sent to Israel. But revealing it could seriously harm Israel’s credibility with the existing Russian regime and with the United States.
That was the moment, Victor Ostrovsky would write, when “a small meeting of right wingers at Mossad headquarters resulted in a consensus to terminate Maxwell.”
On October 29, 1991…. Maxwell was told to fly to Gibraltar and board his yacht…and order his crew to set sail to the Canary Islands” and “wait for a message.”“His caller promised that things would be worked out so there was no need to panic.”
For other information about Kryuchkov, and that critical time in history:
It was Kryuchkov who, first as head of the KGB’s First Chief Directorate and then as chief of the spy agency, presided over the worst damage ever done to U.S. intelligence, inflicted by two super-moles, Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen. In large measure, Kryuchkov owed his job as KGB chairman to Ames, the CIA officer who was paid, or promised, $4.6 million for the secrets he sold to the Russians.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-02-op-wise2-story.html
1991 formation of the MEGA group:
Mega Group, Maxwells and Mossad: The Spy Story at the Heart of the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal
The picture painted by the evidence is not a direct Epstein tie to a single intelligence agency but a web linking key members of the Mega Group, politicians, and officials in both the U.S. and Israel, and an organized-crime network with deep business and intelligence ties in both nations.
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