Xaraf LLC, a $100mn fund part of Paloma partners, offered me a position as a quantitative analyst in their Greenwich, CT offices. I was required to attend an interview in the USA in May 2003 for 9 days after having had 6 months of phone and email interviews.
A man called Babar Ahmad is arrested by the Police and beaten in his home in Tooting. 2 December 2003: Ahmad is arrested at his home in Tooting, south London, on suspicion of terrorism-related offences. He is allegedly beaten, choked and subjected to religious verbal abuse. He is released six days later.
A letter confirming my successful VISA application is received. The top immigration attorney in NYC has prepared and shepherded the application for me, as per her contract from Paloma.
A letter addressed to a person called Suree Shiruti is received by Eric Masaba at his Liverpool home address.
Fearing he would be permanently barred, Eric Masaba took to inventing things with his longtime friend and schoolmate, Vincent “Vinny” Yip - a Scouser of Chinese ethnicity. Vincent was the co-founder of Texxi and has tens of thousands of share options still in the endeavour. Smelling a rat after the curious "mistake" of a wrong VISA, Eric Masaba immediately notified about 20+ people (on a round-robin email he knew that the intelligence agency the NSA monitored) that he knew no such person and if such a person was later held to be a terror suspect, it was all on the US Embassy's head.
On 11th March 2004, the Madrid train bombings took place killing over 200 people.
The key suspect immediately announced was a Suresh, his brother Vinay and his accomplice - a shadowy figure known only as the Chinaman.
Suresh Kumar (Suree Shiruti), Vinay Kohli (Vinny Yip) and someone called "The Chinaman" are all implicated (though much later cleared) in the Madrid Bombings
It is not the first and will not be the last time in a 10yr period when people that could be linked to me have appeared as suspects in a major terror investigation.
Links to other European "Terror" incidents. I had never even heard of, let alone met any of the below people, but I began to notice an alarming similarity with my own profile, namely that of Aeronautical Engineer or Medic, elite schools or Universities and foregin travel. There were often links to Liverpool and /or Brisbane and some further connection with taxis and foreign exchange.
Matthew Burden was bankrupted, Texxi was liquidated by HMRC, Crane Dragon was liquidated by HMRC, Eric Masaba was unable to even use a PAYG credit card (even on someone else's account) and HSBC closed all our accounts in 2008. This was a pattern (only visible in hindsight) to degrade and destroy the company and staff in a ruse to take control of a valuable patent.
Read moreMatthew Burden, COO of Texxi Ltd: In happier times at Grant Herbert's house in Brisbane
He would be later bankrupted by HMRC in 2010 and driven to madness in 2011.
Jan 24An alarming number of international terror plots involving content lifted directly from the emails, SMS and itineraries of Eric Masaba appeared from 2007 - 2012. It is very possible that several innocent men have been framed to keep the ruse going.
An alarming number of international terror plots involving content lifted directly from the emails of Eric Masaba appeared from 2007 - 2012. It is very possible that several innocent men have been framed to keep the ruse going.
2009 The alleged Denver-Queens Bomb Plot. This one was a goodie. Eric Masaba, the entrepreneur with the TRILLION dollar invention is talking to 2 friends in May 2009 about Texxi Airport mode for Denver. Friend 1 lives in Downtown Denver and Friend 2 lives in Queens, NYC. Imagine my shock when the next month, “intelligence chatter” reveals a plot to bomb the Queens NYC subway by a Denver airport shuttle driver.
2010 The Printer Cartridge Bomb Plot Owing to a distinct lack of income since 2004, Eric Masaba has had to economise on printer ink. He befriends a chap at Penny Lane Signs (his local store) and is emailing the chap asking about printer cartridges. Imagine his shock, when 2 weeks later a plot to bomb a Synagogue in Chicago using a bomb disguised as a printer cartridge sent from Yemen is “uncovered”.
Read more Feb 14I had a background related to piloting, foreign exchange (FX) and taxi firms (to do with my invention Texxi). I am from Liverpool. In 2011 I was in my 30s.
Jason Osu had precisely the same profile as me and lived in the same postcode area in the same city, in fact being less than 0.7 miles from my domicile. He was murdered in cold blood at his home in Wavertree by two assassins who lay in wait for him for hours, spraying his car with bullets. They were taxi drivers.
Jason Osu MurderI am very certain ASIO had surveillance on Grant Herbert of Brisbane (a Queenslander of the fundament, a Caucasian man in his 50s who looks like Tom Selleck & acts like Crocodile Dundee), my host, who himself was later on May 3rd 2012 detained for 36 hours, had his house smashed up, was forced to pay several thousand dollars to get his computers back and was evicted from his accommodation as a result of this. The week of the strange HMRC liquidation of Texxi Ltd, Australian Tom Selleck lookalike,Grant Herbert was held for 36 hours under a terrorism arrest and detention warrant in Brisbane.
In any crime there are always three components: means, motive and opportunity.