Passionate Bats, Yes, they're missing Christmas, but people must be hungry and cold too?
Here is a link to the situation in Moldova as recounted in The Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21660165-banking-scandal-set-bankrupt-europes-poorest-country-gutted So our idea of crowdfunding was probably useless unless the funds can be sent to a bank in Romania, or...? Word from a friend came today regarding an analogous situation: J> We have a friend who just got back from a 2 year Peace Corps J> stint in Moldova. A group of “business people” <...> pretty J> much cleaned out all of their bank reserves, and foreign aid J> has been suspended because most of it is stolen. The whole J> finance sector there is under emergency decrees with most of J> the laws suspended. Ritlabs probably did not bribe the people J> who needed to be bribed. On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 10:19:44 AM you wrote: G> Maxim, >> Hi Maxim, >> Yes, we are passionate users. >> We're on board with whatever help we can do, but our congressmen >> here in NC are useless for this - they seem to be more interested >> in building walls, not helping others. But would outside pressure >> on Moldova (human rights comission) really do any good? You may >> have to physically move out of Moldova. Can you reincorporate >> somewhere else? Lichtenstein? EU? Isle of Man? Crowdfunding may >> help in the short term. G> It is true, international pressure might not help much. And if it did, in the long G> term, you still need to find a place to live where things like that are not done. G> Within the EU somewhere? G> And, if you don't have TB source code stored somewhere on the internet, like G> DropBox, you must get those hard drives back or it is all over. G> But, if you do have the source code safely stored, I would get out of there now G> and don't look back. That would be me. >> We were just talking the other day that TB! is one of only two >> programs we have that seems to be uncorrupted. Be strong! >> On Monday, December 28, 2015 at 4:15:50 PM you wrote: MM>>> Dear Passionate Supporters, MM>>> You've been with us since 1998 (and even before)! We need MM>>> you help to save our company from an abuse. This abuse can put an end to the company. MM>>> Since September 2015 our company, Ritlabs, SRL is being MM>>> abused by police and prosecutors. We have experienced similar MM>>> attempts before, but now they have taken an acute form. On MM>>> September 14, 2015 the Police performed search, authorized by MM>>> a judge, in our office, and seized hard disk drives from all MM>>> computers, and on December 4, upon authorization of the same MM>>> judge, they ordered to permanently block all our bank MM>>> accounts. The judge’s orders in both cases were issued in MM>>> closed hearing, where we could not present our arguments. MM>>> There is no such a law in Moldova to permit for a Moldovan MM>>> court to allow an ex parte suspension of a bank account. But MM>>> this law was violated in case of Ritlabs, SRL. We have filed MM>>> an appeal on December 8 and today we have prevailed. The MM>>> Appeals Chamber has quashed the court order that has blocked MM>>> our bank accounts. However, we still didn’t get a written MM>>> decision that we might have shown to the bank. So we still MM>>> cannot make payment. And the Police and the Prosecutors can MM>>> make new searches and seizures and block accounts again, for MM>>> them it is incredibly easy. Our company, Ritlabs, SRL, is not MM>>> a party of this criminal case. While our accounts are MM>>> blocked, the employees are not able to receive wages that we MM>>> transfer monthly to their bank accounts, and we are unable to MM>>> make any other payment, for example a payment to the hosting provider of our servers. MM>>> We think it is a deliberate attempt to destroy our company. MM>>> If our accounts are blocked for more than 30 days, we will be MM>>> forced to declare insolvency and liquidate and we will not be MM>>> able to develop or support The Bat! any further. MM>>> How can the users of The Bat! help save the company and the MM>>> product, and make it to be developed better and faster? MM>>> Please ask your local representative to send a diplomatic MM>>> letter to a Moldovan embassy in your country to ask to MM>>> recognize due process rights in any criminal proceeding MM>>> related to Ritlabs, SRL, its employees and its assets, its MM>>> bank accounts. Ask to recognize the legislation of Moldova MM>>> and the international conventions of Human Rights. MM>>> For example, if you are in the United States, please contact MM>>> your local US Senator, who is a ranking member on the MM>>> Commerce Committee or another committee and who has a good MM>>> relationship with you, and who is able to send a letter to MM>>> the Moldovan embassy in DC asking them to recognize due process rights. MM>>> If a Moldovan embassy will receive such a letter from an MM>>> official in your country and will forward it to Moldova, most MM>>> likely Ritlabs, SRL will survive and will develop The Bat! MM>>> and new products with much higher speed than before. >> -- Regards, Maggie ____________ Cannot open file "C:\Program Files\The Bat!\Cookies.txt" ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Running Windows XP, 5, and emailing with The Bat! 4.2.44.2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 6.6 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
