The Kurdish Victims Fund recognizes that justice is more powerful than greed.  The Barzani Continuing Criminal Enterprise does not.

In this report, we bring you up to date on the lawsuit in the United States District Court of Washington DC – with its startling new evidence –  of the Kurdish Victims Fund against the Kurdistan Regional Government, Masoud Barzani, Masrour Barzani, WaysiBarzani, and others, and cover just part of the worldwide money laundering of stolen riches of the Barzani Continuing Criminal Enterprise.

Kurdistan executives Sarwar Pedawi and his brother Laween Pedawi, both of whom are well-documented money laundering agents for Masrour Barzani and Barzani family members, and their office manager Shimal JawharSalih, are each named in the lawsuit as conspirators in a global criminal conspiracy.

Evidence in the hands of the Kurdish Victims Fund being presented to the U.S. court alleges Sarwar Pedawi, Laween Pedawi, and Shimal Hawhar Salih oversee a large network illegally smuggling oil from Kurdistan to Turkey, operating major counterfeiting of U.S. brand cigarettes and U.S. brand whiskey, and then the first stop for laundering the dirty money is Dubai, where the Pedawi brothers use UAE passport access to maintain lavish residences.  These illegal activities are related to oil smuggling to Turkey and Iran with the help from Turkish companies and local international oil traders in Dubai and Turkey.  Evidence in the hands of the Kurdish Victims Fund lawyers shows they use Dubai as a hub to clean the money from illegal trading with the some facilitators at banks in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.  According to the information,ShimalJawhar is a mastermind of counterfeiting different type of products in Iraq and cleans the money in Dubai, partnering with Saad Doski and his brother. Saad Dosky and his brothers also have an Eastern European country passport and maintain double residency in the UAE.  Evidence in the possession of KVF will be provided to US and UAE authorities.

Other evidence held by the Kurdish Victims Fund identifies as criminal conspirators Erbilbusinessmen Baz Karim Al-Barzanji and his brother Mahmoud Karim Al-Barzanji, who are the owners of record and operate the KAR Group Refinery in Kurdistan.  The case informs the court that they report to Masrour Barzani and Sarwar Pedawi, and alleges they are in partnership with the Barzani Continuing Criminal Enterprise to conduct illegal oil trading, mostly in the north of Iraq, and facilitate money laundering of the Barzani Continuing Criminal Enterprise –all in violation of international sanctions and Iraq law.  Evidence also shows that Saad Al-Dosky, operator of Duty-Free Shops in Erbil, manages and partners in the counterfeiting of U.S. cigarettes and alcohol products, and he too reports to Masrour Barzani and Sarwar Pedawi.  All of this criminal conduct is a major violation of United States law.

This extraordinary level of corruption causes immense harm to the economy of Iraqi Kurdistan. As part of the criminal conspiracy, records obtained by the Kurdish Victims Fund verify Masrour Barzani, along with Masoud Barzani and Waysi Barzani and Barzani family members, are paid hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars per month by Baz Al-Barzani, Mahmoud Karim Al-Barzanji, Sarwar Pedawi, Laween Pedawi, and other co-conspirators.  This too has been reported to the U.S. court, and which U.S. authorities are now watching.

Insider sources tell the Kurdish Victims Fund that Sarwar Pedawi is the so-called “black box” of information as to where all the stolen money has been hidden, because he hid it, and that Masrour Barzani is desperate to silence him.  Records in possession of the Kurdish Victims Fund, being called the Pedawi Papers by the Washington DC media, are a gigantic treasure trove of details about Barzani crimes of counterfeiting, smuggling, drug trafficking, and money laundering, and include details of dozens of bank accounts, trusts, and properties funded by criminal moneyin the United States, Dubai, London, British Virgin Islands, and elsewhere.

Because of the two years of in-depth research and investigation and the legal action brought against the Barzani Continuing Criminal Enterprise by the Kurdish Victims Fund, this evidence will now be fully known to the United States Government and shared with international criminal investigation agencies and governments of involved nations including United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom.  The public will receive detailed accurate information also.

Evidence collected by the Kurdistan Victims Fund and its expanding team of attorneys, and which is being presented to the United States District Court, documents a history of intimidation, coercion, and retribution by the Barzani Continuing Criminal Enterprise.  Confidential inside sources and rumors in Erbil are telling the Kurdish Victims Fund that there have already been threats of harm and violence against potential witnesses in the United States court, especially Sarwar Pedawi, who secret inside KRG sources fear will be killed by the Barzani regime to silence him.  Fortunately for the court, the KVF has secured the thousands of pages of Pedawi Papers in a guarded vault location.