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Cubanos opositores se presentan en el juicio contra el régimen de Cuba en Londres (Videos)

“Cubanos desplegaron un cartel con la realidad de lo que ocurre actualmente en Cuba, con imágenes de los responsables de toda esta debacle” Un grupo de cubanos opositores al régimen de Cuba se presentaron este lunes en el juicio que comienza en Londres donde se sienta en el banquillo de los acusados a la dictadura cubana por el impago de sus deudas. Un grupo de cubanos residentes en varios países…

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Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England

Her childhood was spent in the centre of the Spanish reconquest and was dominated by her military hero of a father (St Ferdinand) and her prodigiously clever brother (King Alfonso X the Learned).

Married at the age of twelve and a mother at thirteen, she gave birth to at least sixteen children, most of whom died young.

She was a prisoner for a year amid a civil war in which her husband’s life was in acute danger. Devoted to Edward, she accompanied him everywhere.

Eleanor was a highly dynamic, forceful personality who acted as part of Edward’s innermost circle of advisers, and successfully accumulated a vast property empire for the English Crown.

In cultural terms her influence in architecture and design – and even gardening – can be discerned to this day.

The Eleanor crosses were a series of twelve tall and lavishly decorated stone monuments topped with crosses erected in a line down part of the east of England. King Edward I had them built between 1291 and about 1295 in memory of his beloved wife. 

Eleanor the queen was, therefore, not merely an intelligent and able woman, but a woman of many interests, which she pursued with considerable enthusiasm and determination. Her extensive reading ensured that she had much to contribute to discussions in many directions – be the conversation literary, historical, military or theological – and her sense of humour seems to have ensured that she wore her considerable scholarship lightly. She presents herself to us as a woman with a vibrant zest for life. Her vitality is reflected in her passion for hunting and even more so in her obviously notorious fondness for delicious food, which even had local poor women bringing fine items (or on one occasion ‘a large loaf’) for the queen’s enjoyment. This last vignette also echoes the earlier evidence of her wardrobe accounts. Eleanor might have had a terrible temper when roused, but she seems to have exercised it on those who were in positions of power. To those who occupied a more humble position, she was a kindly and approachable queen; a real woman, not a figure of unimaginable glamour.

Sara Cockerill, Eleanor Of Castile: The Shadow Queen

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Liste de lecture de Mars

T.F. Tout, Edward the first, 1893, reprint 2016.

Sara Cockerill, Eleanor of Castile : The shadow queen, 2014.

Vincent Lemire, Histoire de Jérusalem, 2023.

Paul C. Doherty, les Enquêtes de Sir Hugh Corbett, les 17 tomes, 1986-2010.

Justine Breton, The Witcher, un monde de légendes, 2023.

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¿Victoria o derrota para Cuba ante el juicio en Londres?

¿Victoria o derrota para Cuba ante el juicio en Londres?...

Una vez conocido el fallo de la magistrada de la sala Comercial del Tribunal Superior de Londres Sara Cockerill quien emitió como válida la demanda de CRF contra el Banco Nacional de Cuba (BNC) para la recuperación de esa deuda, pero no contra el Estado cubano, el presidente cubano Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez celebró el fallo. Díaz-Canel compartió la noticia en su cuenta de Twitter, “(La)…

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Maduro sufre un nuevo revés en la pugna por el oro en los tribunales británicos

Maduro sufre un nuevo revés en la pugna por el oro en los tribunales británicos

|El gobierno de Nicolás Maduro sufrió un nuevo revés judicial este viernes que lo aleja de su objetivo de hacerse con las reservas de oro de Venezuela depositadas en el Banco de Inglaterra, tras una decisión favorable al líder opositor Juan Guaidó.  La jueza Sara Cockerill, de la división comercial de la Alta Corte de Londres, falló a favor de Guaidó, que está reconocido por el Reino Unido como…

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Maduro sufre un nuevo revés en la pugna por el oro en los tribunales británicos

Maduro sufre un nuevo revés en la pugna por el oro en los tribunales británicos

El gobierno de Nicolás Maduro sufrió un nuevo revés judicial este viernes que lo aleja de su objetivo de hacerse con las reservas de oro de Venezuela depositadas en el Banco de Inglaterra, tras una decisión favorable al líder opositor Juan Guaidó. (Lea también: Canciller designado por Petro y Venezuela acuerdan normalizar relaciones) La jueza Sara Cockerill, de la división comercial de la Alta…

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#Repost @laprensalara La jueza Sara Cockerill del Tribunal Superior de Londres falló este viernes a favor de la junta del Banco Central de Venezuela designada por el opositor Juan Guaidó en el caso del oro de Venezuela depositado en el Banco de Inglaterra. Tras un juicio de cuatro días que acabó el 18 de julio, Cockerill, de la división Comercial, ha considerado que no puede dar por buenas las sentencias del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia que anularon los nombramientos de Guaidó a esa junta, al no haber «base legal» en el Reino Unido para hacerlo. La jueza no ha autorizado sin embargo al equipo opositor acceder a las reservas -debe determinarse en otra audiencia-, a pesar de que la junta sí se considera válida y Guaidó es reconocido por el gobierno británico como el único presidente legítimo, de forma interina, del país latinoamericano. La junta del BCV designada por Nicolás Maduro ha indicado a Efe que se plantea recurrir el dictamen, que se produce después de que en 2021 el Tribunal Supremo británico ya decidiera sobre varias cuestiones preliminares. Así, la máxima instancia judicial del Reino Unido estableció que el Ejecutivo de Londres solo reconoce a Guaidó, y no a Maduro, al frente de Venezuela, y que, por tanto, los actos y decisiones del opositor deben considerarse soberanos, en base a la doctrina legal inglesa de Una Sola Voz, que obliga a los estamentos del Estado a proceder unificados en política exterior. Para ampliar esta y otras informaciones visita www.laprensalara.com.ve o ingresa por nuestra Bio. ⠀ #LaPrensaLara #LaPrensa #Información #News #29Jul #Lara #Politica #JuanGuaido https://www.instagram.com/p/CgmL-P5OMNi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The British Justice ruled in favor of Juan Guaidó for the gold from Venezuela deposited in England

The British Justice ruled in favor of Juan Guaidó for the gold from Venezuela deposited in England

Judge Sara Cockerill of the High Court of London ruled this Friday in favor of the board of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) pointed by the opposition Juan Guaidó in The case of Venezuelan gold deposited in the Bank of England. After a four-day trial that ended on July 18, Cockerill considered that cannot take for good the judgments of the Venezuelan Supreme Court that they annulled Guaidó’s…

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Justicia Británica sostiene que el equipo de Guaidó debe pagar $529.000 al BCV. Caracas.- La justicia británica envió al equipo legal de Juan Guaidó, presidente de la Asamblea Nacional, una advertencia en caso de no acatar la orden de pago impuesta a propósito del litigio por el oro guardado en el Banco de Inglaterra. Información suministrada por el bufete londinense que representa al Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV) gestionado por la administración de Nicolás Maduro, Zaiwalla & Co, el aviso lo emitió la jueza del tribunal comercial Sara Cockerill durante una audiencia administrativa online para discutir las próximas etapas del caso. Por su parte, los abogados representantes de la junta “ad hoc” del BCV designada por Guaidó alegaron que se les imposibilita realizar el pago de 529.000 dólares al ente emisor por los costos del juicio de apelación que perdieron en octubre pasado, debido a las sanciones financieras y económicas impuestas por el Tesoro de Estados Unidos contra el gobierno de Maduro. En contraposición, los representantes del BCV alegaron que se acudió el tema de las sanciones algunas semanas después del 20 de octubre pasado, plazo fijado para realizar el depósito. La jueza británica advirtió a los representantes de Guaidó que para la próxima audiencia, fijada para dentro de tres semanas, deberán presentar “una excusa mejor”, en caso contrario deberían enfrentarse a “problemas muy serios”. Sarosh Zaiwalla, abogado principal de la firma defensora del BCV, aseveró que “si la junta de Guaidó desea litigar en los tribunales británicos está obligado a cumplir con sus leyes y veredictos, porque ignorar una decisión simplemente porque va en tu contra, y sin hacer el menor esfuerzo por acatarla, no puede ser tolerado en un sistema judicial libre e igualitario”. Siguenos en Telegram, Instagram, Facebook y Twitter para recibir en directo todas nuestras actualizaciones https://www.instagram.com/p/CH4X1ZlA-nY/?igshid=1mbbpy6phyij7

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The Female Rulers of Medieval France

Sara Cockerill

But for one turning point, Ermengarde, Viscountesse of Narbonne, might be as well known as Eleanor of Aquitaine.

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FM Capital Partners wins Libyan SWF fraud case against former CEO

LONDON (Reuters) – FM Capital Partners (FMCP), which manages money for sovereign wealth fund the Libya Africa Investment Portfolio (LAP), has won a London court case against its former chief executive officer (CEO) over allegations of fraud and corruption.

As a result, FMCP may be able to recover about $20-$25 million, according to a statement issued by an FMCP spokesperson on Wednesday.

LAP is a subsidiary of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), which has some $67 billion in assets and has brought several court cases against former investment managers. LAP was established in February 2006 and has about $5 billion under management with holdings in a number of African companies.

FMCP is a London-based alternative asset manager, which invested and managed some $550 million on behalf of LAP.

In the case, heard in London’s Commercial Court in March 2018, FMCP alleged that between 2009 and 2014, its former CEO Frederic Marino and former Julius Baer banker Yoshiki Ohmura – a counterparty – funneled money away from FMCP and LAP through private offshore companies to fund lavish lifestyles.

In 2014, after Marino was suspended, FMCP’s board of directors began an investigation and reported the matter to the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Financial Conduct Authority, the statement said.

Marino was subsequently dismissed on grounds of gross misconduct, and FMCP issued legal proceedings against him. Around the same time, the NCA began a criminal investigation into Marino and Ohmura’s conduct, which is still ongoing, the statement said.

The judgment, handed down on Wednesday by Mrs Justice Sara Cockerill and seen by Reuters, found that during the period 2009-2014, Marino and Ohmura dishonestly funneled money away from FMCP and LAP.

“As a matter of English law: Mr Marino is liable in breach of fiduciary duty, dishonest assistance and bribery in respect of all the heads advanced against him,” Judge Cockerill said.

She also found Ohmura liable in dishonest assistance and bribery in English law, stating that she was unable to accept “significant portions” of his evidence.

A lawyer for Marino said the former FMCP CEO was “extremely disappointed” by the outcome, and was “considering with his legal team the steps he should now take to vindicate his position”.

Lawyers for Ohmura did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The court will meet again in late July to decide how much FMCP can recover from the defendants, according to FMCP’s spokesperson.

The case is the latest in a string of litigation involving Libyan sovereign funds. In 2016 the LIA lost its legal battle against Goldman Sachs after a seven-week trial relating to nine equity derivatives trades.

But in May 2017 Societe Generale agreed to pay the LIA nearly 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) to settle a long-running dispute.

Reporting by Claire Milhench; Editing by Adrian Croft

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Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England

The records show us that Eleanor was plainly very much alive to the needs and wishes of the people who surrounded her. They repeatedly show small acts of kindness – paying for medical expenses, making provision for people’s children, lending her valuable books to members of her household, giving her ladies leave to visit their families even when she herself was unwell, going out of her way to visit a friend who was sick, putting aside her own illness to honour a humble wedding among her servants. She was kind and considerate to those around her and those with whom she had direct contact, and that consideration was not limited to the more distinguished members of her acquaintance: servants and tradesmen could be assured of considerate treatment from her. What she was not was overtly or indiscriminately charming.

Eleanor was a very considerable religious and charitable patron. Of course charitable giving was absolutely expected of a queen, but there is evidence that Eleanor’s contributions were over and above expectation. Thus, there was a set amount allowed in the king’s accounts for almsgiving by the queen – 2s daily for distribution while travelling and 7s for oblations at religious shrines – but Eleanor’s donations exceeded this and are recorded in her own Liber Garderobe. There are also a number of records in the king’s expenses of his making extra donations at Eleanor’s instance. So in winter of 1283–4, Eleanor asked Edward to feed extra poor men and women over the coldest weeks of the year and she asked for extra donations to be made on certain saints’ days. No definitive reckoning can be made from the sources owing to their incompleteness, but Parsons has calculated that between April 1289 and November 1290 (the period of the surviving Liber Garderobe) Eleanor provided meals for 9,306 paupers at a cost of 1½d per meal. In other words, she was feeding about fifteen poor people a day. Overall, it would seem that Eleanor exceeded by a considerable factor the expected level of donation; for example, Eleanor de Montfort has been calculated to give 4d per day to Eleanor’s approximate 60d (ignoring her donations while travelling).

Sara Cockerill, Eleanor Of Castile: The Shadow Queen

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FM Capital Partners wins Libyan SWF fraud case against former CEO

LONDON (Reuters) – FM Capital Partners (FMCP), which manages money for sovereign wealth fund the Libya Africa Investment Portfolio (LAP), has won a London court case against its former chief executive officer (CEO) over allegations of fraud and corruption.

As a result, FMCP may be able to recover about $20-$25 million, according to a statement issued by an FMCP spokesperson on Wednesday.

LAP is a subsidiary of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), which has some $67 billion in assets and has brought several court cases against former investment managers. LAP was established in February 2006 and has about $5 billion under management with holdings in a number of African companies.

FMCP is a London-based alternative asset manager, which invested and managed some $550 million on behalf of LAP.

In the case, heard in London’s Commercial Court in March 2018, FMCP alleged that between 2009 and 2014, its former CEO Frederic Marino and former Julius Baer banker Yoshiki Ohmura – a counterparty – funneled money away from FMCP and LAP through private offshore companies to fund lavish lifestyles.

In 2014, after Marino was suspended, FMCP’s board of directors began an investigation and reported the matter to the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Financial Conduct Authority, the statement said.

Marino was subsequently dismissed on grounds of gross misconduct, and FMCP issued legal proceedings against him. Around the same time, the NCA began a criminal investigation into Marino and Ohmura’s conduct, which is still ongoing, the statement said.

The judgment, handed down on Wednesday by Mrs Justice Sara Cockerill and seen by Reuters, found that during the period 2009-2014, Marino and Ohmura dishonestly funneled money away from FMCP and LAP.

“As a matter of English law: Mr Marino is liable in breach of fiduciary duty, dishonest assistance and bribery in respect of all the heads advanced against him,” Judge Cockerill said.

She also found Ohmura liable in dishonest assistance and bribery in English law, stating that she was unable to accept “significant portions” of his evidence.

A lawyer for Marino said the former FMCP CEO was “extremely disappointed” by the outcome, and was “considering with his legal team the steps he should now take to vindicate his position”.

Lawyers for Ohmura did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The court will meet again in late July to decide how much FMCP can recover from the defendants, according to FMCP’s spokesperson.

The case is the latest in a string of litigation involving Libyan sovereign funds. In 2016 the LIA lost its legal battle against Goldman Sachs after a seven-week trial relating to nine equity derivatives trades.

But in May 2017 Societe Generale agreed to pay the LIA nearly 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) to settle a long-running dispute.

Reporting by Claire Milhench; Editing by Adrian Croft

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FM Capital Partners wins Libyan SWF fraud case against former CEO

LONDON (Reuters) – FM Capital Partners (FMCP), which manages money for sovereign wealth fund the Libya Africa Investment Portfolio (LAP), has won a London court case against its former chief executive officer (CEO) over allegations of fraud and corruption.

As a result, FMCP may be able to recover about $20-$25 million, according to a statement issued by an FMCP spokesperson on Wednesday.

LAP is a subsidiary of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), which has some $67 billion in assets and has brought several court cases against former investment managers. LAP was established in February 2006 and has about $5 billion under management with holdings in a number of African companies.

FMCP is a London-based alternative asset manager, which invested and managed some $550 million on behalf of LAP.

In the case, heard in London’s Commercial Court in March 2018, FMCP alleged that between 2009 and 2014, its former CEO Frederic Marino and former Julius Baer banker Yoshiki Ohmura – a counterparty – funneled money away from FMCP and LAP through private offshore companies to fund lavish lifestyles.

In 2014, after Marino was suspended, FMCP’s board of directors began an investigation and reported the matter to the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Financial Conduct Authority, the statement said.

Marino was subsequently dismissed on grounds of gross misconduct, and FMCP issued legal proceedings against him. Around the same time, the NCA began a criminal investigation into Marino and Ohmura’s conduct, which is still ongoing, the statement said.

The judgment, handed down on Wednesday by Mrs Justice Sara Cockerill and seen by Reuters, found that during the period 2009-2014, Marino and Ohmura dishonestly funneled money away from FMCP and LAP.

“As a matter of English law: Mr Marino is liable in breach of fiduciary duty, dishonest assistance and bribery in respect of all the heads advanced against him,” Judge Cockerill said.

She also found Ohmura liable in dishonest assistance and bribery in English law, stating that she was unable to accept “significant portions” of his evidence.

A lawyer for Marino said the former FMCP CEO was “extremely disappointed” by the outcome, and was “considering with his legal team the steps he should now take to vindicate his position”.

Lawyers for Ohmura did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The court will meet again in late July to decide how much FMCP can recover from the defendants, according to FMCP’s spokesperson.

The case is the latest in a string of litigation involving Libyan sovereign funds. In 2016 the LIA lost its legal battle against Goldman Sachs after a seven-week trial relating to nine equity derivatives trades.

But in May 2017 Societe Generale agreed to pay the LIA nearly 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) to settle a long-running dispute.

Reporting by Claire Milhench; Editing by Adrian Croft

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FM Capital Partners wins Libyan SWF fraud case against former CEO

LONDON (Reuters) – FM Capital Partners (FMCP), which manages money for sovereign wealth fund the Libya Africa Investment Portfolio (LAP), has won a London court case against its former chief executive officer (CEO) over allegations of fraud and corruption.

As a result, FMCP may be able to recover about $20-$25 million, according to a statement issued by an FMCP spokesperson on Wednesday.

LAP is a subsidiary of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), which has some $67 billion in assets and has brought several court cases against former investment managers. LAP was established in February 2006 and has about $5 billion under management with holdings in a number of African companies.

FMCP is a London-based alternative asset manager, which invested and managed some $550 million on behalf of LAP.

In the case, heard in London’s Commercial Court in March 2018, FMCP alleged that between 2009 and 2014, its former CEO Frederic Marino and former Julius Baer banker Yoshiki Ohmura – a counterparty – funneled money away from FMCP and LAP through private offshore companies to fund lavish lifestyles.

In 2014, after Marino was suspended, FMCP’s board of directors began an investigation and reported the matter to the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Financial Conduct Authority, the statement said.

Marino was subsequently dismissed on grounds of gross misconduct, and FMCP issued legal proceedings against him. Around the same time, the NCA began a criminal investigation into Marino and Ohmura’s conduct, which is still ongoing, the statement said.

The judgment, handed down on Wednesday by Mrs Justice Sara Cockerill and seen by Reuters, found that during the period 2009-2014, Marino and Ohmura dishonestly funneled money away from FMCP and LAP.

“As a matter of English law: Mr Marino is liable in breach of fiduciary duty, dishonest assistance and bribery in respect of all the heads advanced against him,” Judge Cockerill said.

She also found Ohmura liable in dishonest assistance and bribery in English law, stating that she was unable to accept “significant portions” of his evidence.

A lawyer for Marino said the former FMCP CEO was “extremely disappointed” by the outcome, and was “considering with his legal team the steps he should now take to vindicate his position”.

Lawyers for Ohmura did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The court will meet again in late July to decide how much FMCP can recover from the defendants, according to FMCP’s spokesperson.

The case is the latest in a string of litigation involving Libyan sovereign funds. In 2016 the LIA lost its legal battle against Goldman Sachs after a seven-week trial relating to nine equity derivatives trades.

But in May 2017 Societe Generale agreed to pay the LIA nearly 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) to settle a long-running dispute.

Reporting by Claire Milhench; Editing by Adrian Croft

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