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The Swedish Wallenberg Family – Most Organized and Criminal Gang in the World | Wallenbergfraud 2013-06-06 The Swedish Wallenberg family – Most organized and criminal gang in the world | wallenbergfraud 2013-06-06 wallenbergfraud Home Kjell Stigsson Bornerheim (police officer/UN-soldier) – Assassin for the Swedish government Lukas Lundin – Ian Lundin – Lundin Oil/Petroleum – Criminals connected to Wallenberg Mafia family Swedish Criminal Bernadotte family – Weapon & Opium Business – Connected to Wallenberg Criminals ← Polis Ingrid Michel vägrar att lämna ut allmänna Madeleine Jerand – Patrick Aschenbach – Carl Grevelius – Search handlingar (förhör med poliser) Tingsrättsdomare Nils Hedström – Dokusåpa → Recent Posts The Swedish Wallenberg family – Most organized and Säg hej till Lars-Jonney criminal gang in the world Jonsson/Trafikpolisen Östergötl and Posted on March 27, 2012 Lars-Jonney Jonsson – Trafikpolisen Östergötland Trafikpolisen i Östergötland är och köper korv Poliser Ingeborg Karlsson och Daniel Fernström i Karlstad har inga pungkulor att gripa heroin-baron Fredrik Reinfeldt Poliser Ingeborg Karlsson och Daniel Fernström i Karlstad har inga pungkulor att gripa heroin-baron Fredrik Reinfeldt Archives March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 September 2010 July 2008 Categories http://www.blogger.com/img/ The Swedish Wallenberg family has managed to fool the world to believe that Raoul blank.gif Wallenberg was saving lives during second world war. Raoul Wallenberg was only doing the Uncategorized http://wallenbergfraud.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/the-swedish-wallenberg-family-most-organized-and-criminal-gang-in-the-world/ 1 / 5 The Swedish Wallenberg family – Most organized and criminal gang in the world | wallenbergfraud 2013-06-06 same thing his brothers and sisters was and still are doing… killing and robbing poor people. Meta Register The Wallenberg´s are involved in weapon sales, Afghan heroin trade and many of the so Log in called help organisations like UNICEF, RED CROSS, SIDA, UNITED NATIONS etc etc. Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.com The Swedish king Carl XVI Gustaf Bernadotte and his nazi family are also working for the Wallenberg´s. It´s all about weapon sales, robbing Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan… and the narcotics trade. Not by coincidence, everything that Bildt and Reinfeldt have done in office has benefited Sweden’s Wallenberg family. Renowned bankers, industrialists, politicians, diplomats and philanthropists, Sweden’s Wallenbergs maintain a very low-key public profile. Still, a Swedish hedge fund manager was quoted as saying, “They are a bit like royalty.” The Wallenberg business empire is a large group of companies in which its investment company, INVESTOR AB, or Foundation Asset Management company, FAM, holds a controlling interest. By the late 1990s the Wallenbergs controlled some 40% of the value of companies listed on the Swedish stock exchange. In the twenty-first century, the fifth generation of Wallenbergs took over family operations: Marcus, Jacob, and Peter. A product of Philadelphia’s Wharton School, Jacob Wallenberg is Chairman of the Board of Investor, and Vice-Chairman of SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, founded by a Wallenberg ancestor). He also serves on the boards of Atlas Copco AB (Vice Chairman), SAS AB (Vice Chairman) and ABB. The largest single stake in ABB is held by Investor AB. Headquartered in Zurich, ABB is one of the largest conglomerates in the world, a global leader in power and automation technologies, and the world’s largest builder of electricity grids. NOTE – ABB also has a long laundry list of criminal prosecutions by the US Depart of Justice (DOJ) http://searchjustice.usdoj.gov/search? q=ABB&btnG.x=0&btnG.y=0&btnG=Search&sort=date:D:L:d1&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=iso- 8859-1&oe=UTF- 8&client=default_frontend&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&site=default_collection What is not widely understood, outside of Sweden, is that INVESTORS AB http://www.abb.com industrial sector is creating some of the world’s most deadly war machines, e.g., Saab’s Gripen NG fighter jet with AESA radar. The Gripen was the subject of leaked U.S. Embassy-Stockholm cables, which revealed that the U.S., while pretending to help Saab get AESA radar capabilities to sell Gripen fighter jets to Norway, was actually helping Boeing get the contracts. While costing the Wallenbergs’/Investor’s Saab a great deal of money, the U.S. did eventually facilitate General Electric and Honeywell entering into a partnership to equip the Gripen with AESA radar. In 2000, ABB signed a contract for the delivery of equipment and services for two North Korean nuclear power plants, to be supplied under an agreement with the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO). Donald Rumsfeld, a board member of ABB at the time, helped in the delivery of the nuclear power plants to North Korea (seehttp://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/10/rumsfeld-abb/ ) “Neutral” Sweden, on the other hand, made little attempt to hide its pro-fascist position during the War. The strong and profitable connections of Swedish business circles with the Nazis were well known to the Allies who were no doubt persuaded against taking punitive action by those same “certain interests” that Russell Nixon referred to. Among the Swedish companies that grew rich by aiding the Nazis was the Enskilda bank, owned by the Wallenberg family. The Safehaven documents reveal that the US government had been tracking the pro-Nazi activities of the Wallenberg brothers, Marcus and Jacob, for some time. http://wallenbergfraud.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/the-swedish-wallenberg-family-most-organized-and-criminal-gang-in-the-world/ 2 / 5 The Swedish Wallenberg family – Most organized and criminal gang in the world | wallenbergfraud 2013-06-06 In February of 1945, the Secretary of the US Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr., wrote to Secretary of State Edward Stettinius outlining the Wallenbergs’ activities. These included making “substantial” loans to German industry during the War without collateral and making covert investments for German capitalists in US industries. The Enskilda bank, Morgenthau reported, was “repeatedly connected with large black market operations”. Morgenthau identifies Jacob Wallenberg as “strongly pro-German” and rebuts the view, probably fostered by Wallenberg interests themselves, that Marcus was “pro-Allied”. Helping to finance Hitler’s war, the Wallenbergs seem to have been playing both ends against the middle, with considerable success. The family remains prominent in Swedish business circles to this day. Playing both ends against the middle seems to have been a Wallenberg specialty. While his family’s bank was funding Hitler and helping to hide Nazi investments, Marcus and Jacob’s nephew Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat in Budapest, was saving an estimated 20,000 Jews from deportation by SELLING them special Swedish passports. Just like the Wallenbergs, Victoria Bernadotte Sachse Coburg Gotha is in the opium and heroin business. Sachse Coburg Gotha in the opium business since 1830. The scumbag criminal Raoul Wallenberg worked in a bank in Israel when he heard (1944) that jews in Hungary payed to get out. He rushed to nazi Sweden and packed 20000 passports, opened a office in Budapest and sold passports to anybody that could pay. Raoul bribed gestapo officers so he was left to do his business. Ask your self, why didn´t Raoul help jews in 1939 or in 1940 or 1941? Raouls family worked close with Adolf Hitler, Raoul got his bank job from the same people that did business with nazi Germany. Raoul was a bankster… he loved money just like all the scumbag Wallenbergs. Wallenberg family owns the worlds biggest weapon industry http://wallenbergfraud.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/the-swedish-wallenberg-family-most-organized-and-criminal-gang-in-the-world/ 3 / 5 The Swedish Wallenberg family – Most organized and criminal gang in the world | wallenbergfraud 2013-06-06 Bofors. Is it because the Wallenbergs loves people and freedom or do they love money? http://corruptio.blog.com/2011/07/26/dr-steve- pieczenik-wallenberg-alex-jones-anders-behring- breivik/ http://wallenbergfraud.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/the-swedish-wallenberg-family-most-organized-and-criminal-gang-in-the-world/ 4 / 5 The Swedish Wallenberg family – Most organized and criminal gang in the world | wallenbergfraud 2013-06-06 About wallenbergfraud I´m a corrupt politician, mass murderer and involved in afghan-american heroin trade. I work for the criminal Swedish family Wallenberg. View all posts by wallenbergfraud → This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. ← Polis Ingrid Michel vägrar att lämna ut allmänna Madeleine Jerand – Patrick Aschenbach – Carl Grevelius – handlingar (förhör med poliser) Tingsrättsdomare Nils Hedström – Dokusåpa → One Response to The Swedish Wallenberg family – Most organized and criminal gang in the world socialdemokraternaa says: November 30, 2012 at 6:24 pm THE SWEDISH GOVERNMENT, WALLENBERG´s AND LUNDIN FAMILY ARE THE WORLDS BIGGEST CHILDREN KILLING ORGANISATION – SWEDISH GOVERNMENT IS TELLING WASHINGTON WHAT TO DO Reply Leave a Reply Enter your comment here... wallenbergfraud Theme: Twenty Ten Blog at WordPress.com. http://wallenbergfraud.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/the-swedish-wallenberg-family-most-organized-and-criminal-gang-in-the-world/ 5 / 5.
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