Name: Belt & Road Billionaire in Massive Bribery Scandal
Uploaded: 2021-05-21T12:44:39.000Z
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Dr. Patrick Ho: Former Hong Kong Secretary for Home Affairs.

Supposedly, they're holding their hands up in a universal sign

of peace, love, and international understanding.

Or, maybe they were planning on making a sequel

But Dr. Ho left Hong Kong politics in 2007.

He eventually became a global pitchman for a

Chinese Communist Party's Belt and Road Initiative.

the Party's scheme for global domination.

Dr. Ho got another chance to put his hands in the air

when New York police arrested him on charges of

The 69-year-old dealmaker is accused of using a

the United Nations to funnel 2.9 million dollars

worth of bribes to senior officials in Africa.

But if these “donations” were in fact bribes

violate the American Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,

because his think tank is registered in the US.

acting Manhattan US Attorney Joon Kim said

Patrick Ho and Cheikh Gadio allegedly conspired

on behalf of a Chinese energy conglomerate.”

Cheikh Gadio is the former foreign minister of Senegal.

He's was allegedly Dr. Ho's co-conspirator.

I say “was”, because he's made a deal with prosecutors,

and is testifying against Dr. Ho in exchange for

getting the charges against himself dropped.

I mean, is there no honor among thieves anymore?

The Chinese Communist Party even has a new term

for betraying your partners out of self-interest.

for up to 20 years if the jury finds him guilty.

without bail and his trial begins this week.

Prosecutors say Dr. Ho used a US-based think tank

to funnel 2 million dollars to the president of Chad.

Prosecutors also say he gave half a million dollars

Both of the, um “charitable contributions”,

were in exchange for “valuable oil rights” for CEFC.

led by a guy with ties to the People's Liberation Army

Belt and Road Initiative projects, largely to acquire oil.

The Belt and Road is China's trillion-dollar plan

to build trade corridors across the world.

secretly has ties to military intelligence

and carries out operations around the world.

But instead of using duct tape and a Swiss Army Knife

to solve problems for the Phoenix Foundation,

But regardless of whether the jury finds Dr. Ho guilty,

this whole affair is reflecting really, really badly

The Communist Party says the Belt and Road

is all about helping the developing world.

They've been using it to position China as globalization's BFF.

Dr. Ho has been one of its biggest promoters.

“China Story” forums at the United Nations.

Last year, he coined the concept of Belt and Road

a buzzword quickly adopted by Chinese state-run media

Globalization 1.0 was the colonization and multi-nationalization

But version 2.0, led by the world's biggest authoritarian regime,

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