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You could send it to Sally to investigate further
Bought in the boom!
I believe that RB was ‘hoovering‘ MC & trying to maintain his connection with a potentially useful future contact. In the same way he stayed in touch with Cousin Michel & family for decades until he finally scammed Michel’s widow Charlotte.
www.australianbookreview.com.au
There are databases you can access if you pay and have security clearance, electoral rolls give street numbers if you visit the office.
I pronounce it Blumhole because that's what he is.
Yes, there are aspects of these stories that don't completely make sense. I strongly doubt IK's move to AU was to get away from RB (primarily b/c they had just married days before and his traveling to another country, separate from his partner, to start a new life, is hardly unusual). Reports that he stayed with IK in Belgium in 1971, before being arrested, I found particularly interesting. I don't think he would have stayed with her if she had already found another partner. I suspect that in 1971, IK knew nothing of DDH existence, and she returned to Belgium expecting to continue her life with RB & the baby. RB could easily maintain two relationships at once as he seems to come and go all the time. Perhaps IK wised up after his arrest, but DDH remained loyal.
So WOW! Just WOW! ABC Four Corners “Tainted Gold”…Explosive report and so revealing. Perth Mint’s past failure to comply with money laundering laws and dodgy screening of EuroPacific Bank accounts employing techniques such as Omnibus accounts (as I understood it…whereby individual account names are lumped together thus potentially preventing screening of individuals with criminal, organised crime connections and/ or under sanctions). I don’t know…IMO if I were looking for missing money and money laundering through gold, I would be checking this out. Just sayin‘
Agree. I wish there had been more concrete evidence from MC and less being proud she hadn't fallen prey to him. In the end, AKA has made MC's ex-husband's life very unpleasant by sullying his name internationally! The name Remakel will forever be tied to Marion and AKA. You would think MC and the real FR would want justice in that regard. Unless they prefer not to be 100% forthcoming for their own reasons.
exactly
no, IK stayed with him in France NOT Belgium.
This account was from ER and IK aunt - it was in one of the newspapers.
".....when it comes to the relationship between her mother, Ilona Reid, and Mr Blum, she knows only what she has been told by family members.
Those stories are as astonishing as almost everything else that has been revealed about her father.
Ms Reid’s mother was from Hungary and migrated with her family to Belgium, where she formed a relationship with Mr Blum.
According to an aunt, her mother was wildly in love with Mr Blum, but a private investigator hired by her suspicious family “found out that he had other wives and other children”.
Ms Reid’s mother ignored her family’s warnings about Mr Blum, only to later discover for herself “how horrible he was”, the aunt said.
“The story … is that she fled Belgium to get away from him,” Ms Reid said.
“The story (the aunt) told me was of this crazy man in a Porsche on the Euro freeway where you can drive a million miles an hour, with a gun, trying to get to the boat before it sails off – and that that was him.
Not long after her mother arrived in Australia, so did Mr Blum. Her mother had met someone else on the ship....."
".......When Mr Blum first met IK he falsely represented being unmarried without children. She ( IK mother) got a private detective and she found out he had a wife and two kids...."
"........Ilona had married AKA in Belgium just days prior to leaving for a new life in Australia. IK actually requested to leave for Australia later because she was marrying AKA, so she postponed her trip ...."
".... IK then reunited with WW in LILLE in France and lived with him WITH THE BABY UNTIL just before HE WAS ARRESTED. (ONCE HE HAD RETURNED FROM AUSTRALIA AFTER HIS CRUISE ON THE CHUSAN WITH DIANE– 1971 )
(AKA arrived in Amsterdam about 14th May, 1971 and within five weeks, he was arrested in France)
This is the time IK reunites with him then leaves him again = then sometime between June 1971 and her arrival back into Aust she marries MJR in Budapest. ( WHATEVER THAT REASON IS we may never know) I would say to escape from the Monster and change her name to head back in Aust where she felt safest and had family here to support her.
BUT HE STILL MANAGED TO FIND HER= IMO
ER was born January 1970.
IK = I have a family of Reid coming out on a ship to Aust 1973
IK = working at Beales by 1974
I will say that it would be VERY easy to falsify information on a death cert if you had all the "correct documentation".....
