ADDITIONAL BOUNTY OF 17 MILLION DOLLARS OFFERED
Capital. de reports: .
http://www.capital.de/themen/wir-brauchen-einen-zweiten-snowden-3073.html
Translation
Two months ago, the German private investigator Josef Resch offered a bounty of $ 30 million for information leading to the backers of [the downing of MH17].
His client remains anonymous. In an interview with Capital, he explains the status of his investigation and why his client has raised the reward with an additional 17 million dollars.
Capital:
Mr. Resch, two months ago you have started their investigation into the crash of the MH 17. The media response was enormous. Your bounty hunting has been reported worldwide.
And then all became very quickly very silent.
Resch: What did you expect? That we'd present the offender after two days?
Not after two days, but after two months, the question must be permitted: Do you have a hot lead?
We have progressed a long way. We are now in a phase in which we are holding talks. Face to face. Such a conversation is preceded by weeks of initiation in advance.
Mostly through middlemen. We must be very careful.
How many clues did you get?
One has to distinguish. In total, there were over 1000 mails, hundreds of calls and dozens of letters with documents.
I believe every conspiracy theorist on this earth has contacted me. And every amateur detective.
There are also those who are keen on the money and prepare mediocre professional documents.
How do you filter these out?
Well, 99 percent of the tips you can toss immediately. A lot of busybodies. The remaining ones are worth a closer look. I call this plausibility checks.
About ten informants were initially found to be interesting. Five have remained.
With a clear result?
No. This is now our job to figure out what is real and what is fake.
Most clues are not going to be in German. Can you read Russian?
No. And my English is rather modest. But I do not work alone.
How big is your team?
I do not have permanent employees. I am involved in my network, the people I need at the right moment, that I know and whom I trust. We have interpreters among them, IT specialists and analysts.
They will never make a public appearance. For security and tactical reasons. As I have already said, we have just arrived at the stage of face to face meetings.
The other day we talked informants from Hungary. Meeting place was a hotel. Supposedly, the two spoke no German. I posted an employee only hours before the meeting in the lobby. And he heard how the lady ordered a coffee in nearly flawless German. Funny, is not it?
What does that tell you?
That not cards are laid on the table. In addition, the information was quite poor. It was probably more about getting to know me.
Do you have already received the documents that you consider to be controversial?
Yes. We have received many documents. Correspondences between authorities. A lot of lines of evidence. Perhaps even with the all-important evidence among them.
Only: We can not recognize it as such, not establish that it is genuine. One thing is certain, we have received very good fakes.
One time the Ukrainians, the other time Russians and even some times the separatists were responsible for firing.
So there is a great interest to sell us expensive fakes as genuine.
How can you ensure the safety of informants?
There is not one way. I am often asked this question by alledged informers, but they probably only want to find out how we work. We'll find a way, believe me. But that way is certainly not straight.
And there is no blueprint for it. That would be too simple. We trample on the feet of the powers that be. Therefore, it is clear that we need to be careful. Whoever covers the act must fear that he is betrayed. And so my assessment of the situation is, that in the case a lot is being covered up.
Have you actually been threatened in your investigation?
Of course I get threatening phone calls and and emails. There are attacks on my server. Last week, a DDoS attack was launched on it. It was offline for some hours. But if I would take all this to heart, I'd be in the wrong job. It's not about my safety, but that of the informants. Some promising informants, by the way, have suddenly jumped. All this shows that we have to be really careful.
More concretely: Who do you believe is responsible?
Faith belongs in the church. Yet we can not really rule out anything. But we have serious doubts about the current theory.
You mean that the pro-Russian separatists MH-17 shot down with a rocket-BUK, as the head of the Federal Intelligence Service Gerhard Schindler has stated before the members of the Parliamentary Control Panel in early October?
The point is the weirdest of all till now. The BND claims he would have gotten clear satellite images from the United States. I wonder about two things: firstly, why has the international investigation commission under the auspices of The Netherlands not received these images ? At any rate, their chief investigator Fred Westerbeke said in an interview not to know of substantiating satellite imagery.
He also said that he could not rule out any scenario.
Secondly: So the BND apparently receives top-secret information exclusively. And what does the BND-Chief do with that? He places himself in front of an assembly of politicians and tells them all about it, although everyone knows that often information from the control committee is leaked to the public. What a rubbish. This was planned to be leaked deliberately.
According to your findings, it was not the separatists then?
I did not say that. I just do not believe in the evidence. Here the game is being played wrong. The absolute, ultimate limit of disaster would be if it came out that it was the Ukraine. No intention, but an oversight. But it was covered up. Would the full support of the West for the government in Kiev be still acceptable? Probably not. And the other way around. What if a direct participation of the Russians could be detected? At a time when the West is pressing for de-escalation. And if it were the separatists? Then there is an ominous group without a state apparatus that could be held liable. That would be the easiest solution for all parties.
Back to your findings. What do you have you as concrete facts instead of theories?
We certainly have a lot of indications that the BND theory stinks.
Or evidence?
I deliberately say indications. They come from different countries. You will understand that I can not be specific. We would like to but. That is why my client ...
... Who still wants to remain anonymous?
Yes! And before you ask, well I still do not know him.
But you would like to know him?
Of course. But that's not my job. Anyway, via the middle man he has increased the reward. Precisely because of the BND history. It is still true: there is $ 30 million for evidence on those behind the act.
And another 17 million dollars for clues as to how the clarification is being covered up or prevented in some countries.
Are you looking for a mole in the secret services?
The middle man put it this way: We are looking for a second Edward Snowden. We are now searching in a wide area. For this the 17 million dollars have destined. 17 because of the flight number, MH 17th
And you think intelligence services will let themselves be corrupted?
I would not say it like that. We are looking for the perpetrators, who are responsible for the deaths of 298 innocent people. If a state covers this fact, I do not think it is reprehensible to disclose that. But it's not just about intelligence. For example, shortly after the crash appeared to Twitter messages from a certain Carlos ...
... who allegedly worked for the air traffic control in Kiev. Similarly, there were recordings of alleged telephone calls by the separatists, who celebrated the launch. Red herrings?
That's what we want to find out. So back to Carlos. He tweeted that Ukraine was responsible for the shooting that Ukrainian military suddenly appeared in the tower. The next day the Twitter account was deleted. An account that has been active for a long time. This can be noted in the online archives. Ukraine said a Carlos had never worked in the tower. So was it all just a fake? Or did Carlos really exist? The $ 17 million - or part thereof - are to be used for indications that bring light into this darkness. If anyone can prove that there was this Carlos that he has been working in air traffic control, what happened to him, this is a valuable information for us that we reward them for.
This means you are at the very beginning?
Definitely not! A direction thickens. But it would be wrong to talk about it now. Let's wait for the next weeks. We need time. The first few days after the publication of the reward were pure chaos. There were dozens of interview requests from TV stations, more of print media. Camera crews were suddenly in front of my house. Photographers lounged in the neighborhood.
That should be fine by you ....
No. Of course, it is important that the media talk about my work, make it public. Otherwise we receive no information. Anything else would be foolish to assume. But do I have to tell the same thing a thousand times over? Certainly not. I was very surprised. Some assumed that I was press hungry, others complained that I would not talk to them. Then I was quoted with sentences that I never said. Like that I was once CID officer. This is total nonsense. For these games, I have no time.
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