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Subject: On FBI's "Most Wanted" List -- AND Forbes' "Richest
Israelis" List
Why was
Kobi Alexander
Allowed to Flee?
The Israeli Fugitive, Odigo, and the Forewarning of 9/11
by Christopher Bollyn
24 August 2006
http://www.iamthewitness.com/Bollyn-Kobi-Alexander.html
Jacob "Kobi" Alexander, an Israeli military officer connected to
the Odigo instant messaging company whose employees and users
received an early warning of the 9/11 attacks, has recently become
a fugitive from U.S. justice and taken refuge in Israel along with
other prime suspects of the terror attacks.
The case of the Israeli criminal Kobi Alexander is like the
proverbial "tip of the iceberg." While Alexander's crimes, through
which he became immensely wealthy, are now evident, they are but a
very small piece of a much larger Zionist criminal network –
connected to the 9/11 terror attacks – which remains hidden beneath
the surface.
Alexander, former head of the Israel-based Comverse Technology,
was, until his crimes were discovered, one of the highest paid
executives in the United States.
In the year 2000, for example, he reportedly earned some $102.5
million, with $93 million coming from the "exercise of options."
We now know that most of Alexander's money was made through the
fraudulent "exercise of options."
Comverse Technology, the U.S.-based "parent company" of an older
and much bigger Israel-based company with the same name, is the
owner of the Verint, Ulticom, Starhome, Mercom and Startel
companies. The key positions in these companies are all held by
Israeli nationals.
Alexander, was recently allowed to flee the United States after he
and two other former Comverse executives were charged with
securities, mail and wire fraud by U.S. prosecutors in Brooklyn,
New York. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
While a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern
District of New York told AFP on August 15 that he "expected" that
Alexander would turn himself in, The New York Times was rather less
optimistic. "It will be a long time – if ever – before Alexander
explains himself in a courtroom," the Times wrote on August 21.
Alexander's lawyer, Robert Morvillo, said he "believed" that
Alexander and his family were on vacation in Israel. Alexander, an
Israeli citizen and a former military officer, wired $57 million to
an account in Israel at the end of July and was evidently allowed
to flee the United States.
"Given Alexander's stature and military service," the Times
reported, quoting unnamed law professors, "Israel might be
reluctant to readily hand him over." One might reasonably ask,
"What does the 54-year old Alexander's "military service" have to
do with Israel refusing to extradite him for crimes committed in
the United States?"
While Alexander is obviously connected with Israel's military
intelligence apparatus and George Soros through the mutually owned
investment fund ComSor, what is not widely reported is his
company's close links with Odigo, the Israeli-run instant messaging
company that received – and conveyed – urgent warning messages
about the imminent terror attacks on the World Trade Center,
several hours before the first plane hit.
The New York Times certainly must be well aware of the personal and
business connection between Alexander and Odigo since they did an
extensive interview with Avner and Maskit Ronen, the founders of
Odigo, for their Sunday magazine in September 2000.
The magazine article about the Ronen's, titled "Immigrants with an
I.P.O." could have been titled "Immigrants on a Mission." The
Ronens, both with military backgrounds in computer science, "put
down few roots," during their first years in New York City, the
Times reported.
"They made no friends outside the office and had no taste at all
for networking at Silicon Alley parties," the NYT Magazine wrote.
"They sought neither driver's licenses nor a local physician." The
bizarre photograph in the article showed two silhouetted figures
hidden in the dark. These were the Ronens, Israeli military
officers on a mission in New York.
ODIGO INSTANT MESSAGES
There is ample evidence that many Israelis were forewarned of the
attacks through an Israeli instant messaging service called Odigo.
This story, which presents the clearest evidence of Israeli prior
knowledge of the attacks, was reported only very briefly in the
U.S. media – and then completely forgotten and deleted.
According to the news reports, at least two Israel-based employees
of Odigo reported having received warnings of an imminent attack in
New York City hours before the first plane hit the WTC.
Odigo, an Israeli-owned company had its U.S. headquarters only two
blocks from the World Trade Center, yet Odigo failed to pass the
warning it had received on to the authorities in New York, a move
that would have saved thousands of lives.
Two weeks after 9-11, Alex Diamandis, Odigo's vice president, said,
"The messages said something big was going to happen in a certain
amount of time, and it did – almost to the minute."
"It was possible that the attack warning was broadcast to other
Odigo members, but the company has not received reports of other
recipients of the message," Diamandis said.
Based on the Israeli government figure that some 4,000 Israelis
were expected to be in the World Trade Center at the time of the
attacks, it seems evident that many Israeli Odigo users got the
message.
Odigo, which offers real-time messaging, has a feature called
"People Finder" which allows a user to send an instant message to a
large group based on a common characteristic, such as Israeli
nationality. "People Finder" allows Odigo users to search for
online "buddies," with filters like Israeli nationality, while
maintaining user privacy at all times.
The Internet address of the sender of the warning was reportedly
given to the FBI. Two months later it was reported that the FBI
was still investigating the matter. Since then there have been no
further media reports about the Odigo warning of 9/11.
As AFP has previously reported, Odigo, like Comverse and other
Israel-based software companies, is really headquartered in
Herzliya, Israel, the suburb of Tel Aviv where Israeli military
intelligence headquarters are located.
Typically, with these Israeli-intelligence linked outfits, the
company's research and development, and any manufacturing, such as
the "black box" computer surveillance equipment produced by
Comverse, is all done in Israel. The U.S. offices merely function
as distribution, marketing, and financial centers.
In the case of Comverse, for example, the real parent company was
Alexander's Tel Aviv-based Efrat Future Technology Ltd., which
carried out "all research, development, and manufacturing," for
Comverse, according to a 1992 article in The Jerusalem Post.
Shortly after 9-11, Odigo was completely taken over by Comverse
Technology, which had been part owner of Odigo since early 2000, if
not earlier. Shortly after 9/11, five executives from Comverse were
reported to have profited by more than $267 million from "insider
trading."
Avner Ronen, the "founder" of Odigo, was Vice President of Business
Development of Comverse Technology in October 2005. This indicates
that Ronen and Alexander, both Israeli military officers with
computer backgrounds, have been close business partners since early
2000.
"Comverse and Odigo have had a long-standing partnership and
together have developed instant communications products and
services that we have recently begun to offer to operators around
the world," Zeev Bregman, CEO of the Israel-based Comverse Ltd.,
told The Jerusalem Post in May 2002.
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On July 31, 2006, Kobi Alexander, who holds Israeli citizenship,
was charged by United States Department of Justice authorities with
multiple charges of conspiracy to commit various types of fraud
(including securities fraud, wire fraud and mail fraud), as well as
with related offences, all relating to the timing of Comverse's
stock option grants. Adjudicating stock option backdating cases
will be subject to a broad array of legal and ethical opinions held
among academic, business and legal scholars as to whether or not
regulations have been violated or shareholders equity affected.
According to an academic study by Randall A. Heron and Erik Lie
options backdating has been widespread among U.S. companies. Their
analysis is that more than 29% of firms manipulated grants to top
executives at some point between 1996 and 2005.[3] [4] Having left
the United States on June 21 2006 on a pre-planned annual vacation
in Israel[5], Alexander's lawyers arranged with American
authorities that he would return to face indictment on July 30,
2006; however, he instead traveled to Germany. On July 31st he was
added to the FBI's Most Wanted List[6].
On August 9, 2006 the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission filed a civil injunctive action in the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of New York against
Alexander[7], along with alleged co-conspirators William F. Sorin,
Comverse’s former Senior General Counsel, and David Kreinberg,
Comverse’s former Chief Financial Officer. The complaint makes nine
claims of violation of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act,
including fraud (First and Second Claims), and falsification of
books, records or accounts (Fourth Claim).[8] Through this action,
the Commission is seeking permanent injunctive relief, disgorgement
of ill-gotten gains, civil damages, and a prohibition against any
of the defendants becoming officers of a securties-issuing entity
under SEC jurisdiction.[9]
Alexander transferred over 40 million dollars from his personal
U.S. bank account to his personal bank account in Israel. He was
arrested by Interpol in Windhoek, Namibia on September 27, 2006. He
was released on bail on October 3, 2006.[10][11][12][13]. Acording
to a Reuters report of April 23, 2007, the Namibian government
described Alexander as “very passionate" about the country and its
people.
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