Monako-Primk-Sochi

The blue sky of the principality of the principality of Monaco pulled out with a slight cloudy: Prince Albert II is accused of receiving bribes. And this despite the fact that among the crowned "Forbes" he takes ninth place with his state of dollars, and from European monarchs is inferior only by Prince Liechtenstein Hansa-Adam II.

But the chicken bites the grain. The President of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge sent a request to establish an investigation of facts indicating that the prince as a member of the IOC violated the Ethics Code , which forces the Committee to accept offerings and services.

According to the author of the Epistle, the Russian government bribed Albert II in order to enlist his support at the IOC session in Guatemala, where the issue of the place of 2014 winter games was resolved. Voting took place in an extremely tense environment. Sochi's application won in the second round at Pyeongchang 51 votes against 47.

It was in July 2007. And in April 2006, the prince led the expedition on the dog sled to the North Pole. The teams went from the Russian Arctic station " Borneo ", and Russian aircraft and a helicopter were used to deliver the expedition and cargo members and the cargo.

After this heroic accomplishment, Putin accepted Albert in the Kremlin (that the very violation of the ethical code, which says that the hospitality in relation to the IOC members "should not go beyond the standard conditions prevailing in the host country") and told him that he " was not in vain at eating a stew " on the north pole.

At the beginning of 2007, the construction of the Dachi began in the private estate of Prince Rock-Azhel with three bedrooms, which was funded from Russian sources and was carried out by Russian workers. It is worth noting that the Rock -Alel residence, located in French territory, behind the Mount Ishel, is a secluded place and, apparently, is a regime, even its modern photographs are difficult to find on the Internet.

And after the Guatemal voting, in August 2007, Putin invited Alber to fishing in Tuva, famous for the fact that the Russian president was then exposed to the waist . In general, many then drew attention to the sincere friendship of the native of St. Petersburg slums with the offspring of one of the oldest European dynasties.

It turns out, as the author of the message to the IOC claims, the Olympic bribe is just the tip of the iceberg. Monaco has long turned into the largest laundry room for laundering of Russian organized crime revenues, Russian oligarchs successfully hide their oil profits from taxes there, and the Kremlin banker Sergey Pugachev has already acquired Monaki citizenship.

It is time to name the name of the formidable convict. The paper was signed by the lawyer Briggs Ricks, speaking on behalf of Robert Eringer. This is a rather strange and even mysterious person. He is either an American or an Englishman. Lives not in London, or in Alaska, or in California. Rumors about him are the most bizarre, especially among conspiracy therapists. Many are convinced that he worked for the CIA and Mossad, that he is a professional provocateur, and associate him with almost all the real or imaginary conspiracies of the last two decades. In Monaco, some say, he established an “esoteric connection” with Alber, then still a crown prince. The heir often visited Eringer's office in Monte Carlo, along the walls of which the symbols of Masons, Illuminati and the Almighty American Secret Society "Skull and Bones" were hung. Well, some are sure that Robert Eringer does not exist at all: this is, they say, such a project, behind which it is not known who.

Nevertheless, five novels and three documentary consolation opus were faced with this signature. Eringer has his own personal site and a blog where he publishes his exposure, and until March last year he was a columnist of a local newspaper in Santa Barbara. Eringer calls himself the former "intelligence chief" of Monaco. I suppose in the principality no one heard the institution about such an institution. At the same time, the court press service confirmed that Eringer, although he did not hold any official position, was Albert’s private consultant on security issues.

Albert hired him in 2002 to help the principality get rid of international organized crime, and for the time being listened to his recommendations. In 2005, Albert ascended the throne, and his attitude to the problem of organized crime changed; The prince, according to Eringer, no longer wanted him to be documented by stories about different mafiosi. He stopped dating his consultant and did not answer his calls, and in 2007 he stopped sending him checks.

Eringer did not like it. This summer, he acquired a lawsuit in the California court, demanding payment for the last month of work and a weekend.

As long as the court is preparing for the consideration of the case, Eringer brought down a hail of revelations on the head of Prince. He and Viktor Buta connected with Monaco . What, however, is nothing incredible.

An interesting reaction of the interested parties to the appeal of Eringer in the IOC. The princely palace, of course, “categorically denies false accusations,” and the prince’s American lawyer calls Eringer's actions “insolent extortion”.

Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Eringer was lying, it is not clear for what ”, that his insinuations have no“ no reason ”and that the“ old friendly relations ”of Vladimir and Albert are based on the common interests in the plan of environmental activities, geographical activity, and so on.”

But the IOC answered more interestingly: its representative Mark Adams said that since the court of law is underway between the author of the statement and the accused, the committee will refrain from comments until its end. Although formally one has nothing to do with the other.

Naturally, the prince is offended: he was friends with Volodya on the basis of a common love for nature and geography, and then some vile extortionist stained a bright feeling. It’s my fault: I paid from his bounties - and would continue to be selflessly friends.