Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Vanishes
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This has a similar vibe to me.
[1]: https://www.dw.com/en/finance-scandal-did-berlin-bank-use-en...
edit: see below, not suggesting foul play between the two
How so? I didn't get this interpretation at all, so I'm curious what you think.
I decided to look for more evidence, and found a previous article David wrote about Val for the NYT. [0] After reading it, my take is that the comments were hostile, but I don’t suspect any foul play between the two. Just two men who, despite not necessarily respecting the other, worked together to further their own agendas.
An excerpt:
“... the Broeksmit family have warned me that Mr. Broeksmit is not to be trusted, and, well, they might have a point. His drug use has sent him reeling between manias and stupors. He has a maddening habit of leaping to outrageous conclusions and then bending facts to fit far-fetched theories. He fantasizes about seeing his story told by Hollywood, and I sometimes wonder whether he’s manipulating me to achieve that ambition. He can be impatient, erratic and abusive. A few days ago, irate that he was not named in a blurb for my book on Amazon, among other perceived slights, he sent me a string of texts claiming that he’d taken out a brokerage account in my name and traded on secret information I’d supposedly fed him. (This is not true.) A little later, he left me a voice mail message saying it was all a joke.
Why do I put up with this? Because his trove of corporate emails, financial materials, boardroom presentations and legal reports is credible — even if he is not. “
Probably more relevant that his father was a Deutsch Bank exec who committed suicide, and he seemed to be shopping the leaks around for some time. Or that he was an apparent opioid user.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/business/val-broeksmit-de...
Sometimes, reality is stranger than fiction. It'd be interesting to know what the inner workings look like.
Of course, one can't rule out the mundane explanation, that he went missing with his car keys in the ignition because he decided to get out and vanish for no apparent reason, without informing his girlfriend, and without using any of his credit cards that would immediately lead authorities to his location.
Alternatively, the assassins/kidnappers are just people down on luck, in debt, addicted to drugs. They take care of the problem, then you take care of them... one way or another.
Furthermore, nobody in their right mind would try to use such a favor against their cartel bosses as leverage. The police would likely never touch the case or care about it at all and the cartel bosses are in any case usually well known in ways that make new accusations of murder irrelevant, and very easily capable of butchering whichever random hired killer did indeed try to threaten them somehow.
Bribes, intimidation and murder happened quite often (and still does), but it's hidden, few dare to do it out in the open, in broad daylight and/or with rifles/explosives.
Silver lining of the police being the biggest gang, heh.
It's basically all honeypots.
It doesn't make sense to generate a potential electronic trail when you can keep it all person to person, hard to prove and distant from yourself without needing to invoke the technical knowhow of not getting caught on the dark web.
I imagine that the only way that it works in practicality is through existing networks among extremely high net worth or government entities. I don't imagine it's easily possible to enter the network inorganically.
One wonders who the assassins for hire are.
With the exception of the utility the story might provide to finding this guy or his body, it's low value as a news item at the moment. It's fun to speculate, but ultimately pointless until there's more data.
I remember someone in some sort of law enforcement position in some other country. The security camera footage showed two assassins come in with AKs and mow everyone in the room. The security guard standing by the door tried to run out behind them, but he was shot too. One assassin accidentally shot the other, but not fatally. He limped out. The target's wife was with him, and they both died.
I think the novelty of it is that this sort of thing, to us, only happens in foreign countries, not the mighty united states. Articles such as this one cast doubt on that theory.
Bias? Whistleblower of a mafia goes missing and your first thought is that he commited suicide? Please, you lack intellectual honesty.
That goes against Occam's Razor.
Maybe someone assassinated him, maybe he had a heart attack. There are plenty of plausible scenarios.
I doubt multinational corporations are hiring assassins from the dark web.
I suspect if they are using assassins for hire it's most likely a person to person networking effort: They have a rich friend who has ties to shady ex-army guys etc.
No paper trail. No electronic receipts. Nearly no chance of anything legally provable. A minimum of 2+ degrees of separation etc.
I doubt it's Assassins As A Service: it's just knowing how to find a guy who for 100k doesn't ask questions and can't answer any if he's caught.
Tweet about it with the missing persons report: https://twitter.com/rocco_castoro/status/1383286000923729924...
It describes Broeksmit as "an unemployed rock musician with a history of opioid abuse and credit card theft," so his disappearance could have any number of explanations.
(also here: https://twitter.com/BikiniRobotArmy/status/12540069904407633...)
> Val Broeksmit @BikiniRobotArmy – a longtime source about Deutsche Bank – is missing.
> He was last seen on April 6 in Los Angeles, his girlfriend says. A missing persons report has been filed with @LAPDHQ.
> I am very worried about Val's safety. Please spread the word.
[0]: https://twitter.com/davidenrich/status/1383206855263019009
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From the image in the followup tweet:
"He was last seen driving a 2020 red Mini Cooper. The vehicle has been recovered but he has not been seen since ..."
That doesn't sound too good.
And now you use the shill hit piece as a source when the guy goes missing.
Russia. Russia is the connection. Organized crime at the political level.
Russia's not as bad as the media makes them out to be.
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But who knows anymore if a whistleblower disappearing is a horse or a zebra?