Though the Kurdistan Victims Fund case before the United States court is what in the

U S A is called a civil case, it has historical and legal significance.  For the first time, alleged widespread crimes of the Barzani Criminal Enterprise, including documented alleged crimes by their Washington representatives and lawyers, are being uncovered and presented to the United States courts, and to criminal justice agencies of the United States Government and the United Nations and the International Court of Justice and other foreign governments, all of which have responsibility for future criminal prosecution and massive asset seizures.  Countless are the extraordinary number of documented violations of internationally protected civil and human rights, and violations of United States Constitutional rights. 

Many of the alleged crimes of the Barzani Criminal Enterprise being presented to the United States court are what are what international agencies call “crimes against humanity”, and consist of such horrific and horrible crimes as murder, extermination, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, persecution, enforced disappearances, and genocide, among others.

           In this edition of Court Reports, we answer two questions many have asked about what is a “criminal enterprise” and what is the “Barzani Continuing Criminal Enterprise.” 

As a senior United States federal court has declared, “The business of a criminal

enterprise is crime.”

In this case, it is presented to the United States court how Masoud Barzani, Masrour Barzani, Waysi Barzani, and Barzani family members and their agents and representatives are deriving extraordinary illicit financial benefit from their wide-reaching criminal and unlawful activities, predominantly unreported, concealed, and secreted from public or taxing authority exposure.

         By United States and international law, a criminal enterprise is a group of people whose leadership, members, and associates engage together in criminal conduct with a criminal purpose beyond just individual crimes.  They are similar to drug cartels, the Russian mafia, and the Saddam Hussein regime.

The Barzani Continuing Criminal Enterprise is by Unites States and international law a criminal organization, and is in alleged violation of hundreds of U S and international laws and many international treaties including the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. 

Lawyers for the Kurdistan Victims Fund this week further reported to the United States court, and to key members of the United States Congress and the White House, that the Kurdistan Regional Government and its officers and officials, agents, and representatives are an integral, principal, and predominant part of the Barzani Criminal Enterprise.  By some estimates the Barzani Criminal Enterprise is one of the largest organized crime organizations in the world.

           The apparent purpose of the enterprise is all about power and money and control, and preserving, protecting, promoting, and enhancing the power, reputation, and money of the Barzani family through theft, violence, use of firearms, threats of violence, coercion, and verbal, emotional, physical and financial torture.  It is also about protecting the Barzani Criminal Enterprise and its members and associates from detection and prosecution by law enforcement authorities through acts of intimidation manipulation, bribery, and threats of retaliation against individuals who witnessed the crimes committed by members and associates of the Enterprise, and even unknowing people.  Specific examples were presented to the United States court.

           This court case has broadly presented to the United States court how Masoud Barzani, Masrour Barzani, Waysi Barzani, Barzani family members, and their agents and representatives have wielded their amassed power to intimidate, threaten, terrorize, kidnap, torture, inflict physical and emotional abuse, and murder their opponents, threatened careers and livelihoods of innocent victims, withheld jobs and financial payments when due, and even illegally track the whereabouts of their perceived political opponents.  All of this is against Iraq and international law.

          Masrour Barzani is a United States person.  As such, Masrour Barzani is especially accountable because United States persons make a sworn statement to honor all United States laws. This sworn statement is a declaration made according to law before an officer of the United States Government to tell the truth.  To do so dishonestly is a federal crime.  Evidence to be presented at trial will verify Masrour Barzani did so fraudulently and which has been presented to the court.  Penalty can be criminal prosecution and revocation of green card.

           Lawyers this week also presented to the United States court how the Kurdistan Regional Government, under the repressive ruling leadership of Masoud Barzani and Masrour Barzani, and its agents, Washington representatives and even their lawyers, have submitted many astoundingly inconsistent and conflicting declarations, frequently under oath, to the United States Government, including to the American President.  It is unknown if these inconsistent declarations are intentional to deceive and defraud the United States of America, but they are very consistent with the Barzani’s long, persistent, orchestrated, and on-going pattern and practice of misrepresentation and falsification. Specific examples were presented to the United States court, to Congress, and to the White House.  Many of these conflicting declarations are in violation of United States law, though until this court case these many alleged Barzani crimes have never before been brought before a United States court or exposed to the United States Congress or the White House.

So what are the crimes of the Barzani Criminal Enterprise alleged before the United States court in this massive legal action?  The number of United States and international laws they are alleged to have violated number in the hundreds, and the instances of violations which will be presented at trial number in the tens of thousands, many concerning individual rights and liberties.  Lawyers for the Kurdistan Victim Funds have assembled a massive list of witnesses who will give testimony, including numerous United States government officials and military officers, bankers, former employees, and many who are now identified only as confidential human sources who are insiders within the Barzani organization.  They fear to disclose their identity at this time as they are afraid it would probably get them killed.

           In our next Court Report, we will list all the various alleged crimes of the Barzani Criminal Enterprise.  The documented list is enormous and too massive for this report.

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