Martin Armstrong

“To be thrown in civil contempt, you are supposed to have a clearly defined order — do this and you get out. Even the court records show no such order ever existed. I was just arbitrarily thrown into prison without a trial because it was "civil" not "criminal," allowing judges to do as they like without any trial and removing all your lawyers. They claimed it was to turnover missing $1.3 million assets to dazzle the press, but they were never defined what they were. I had friends willing to put up the whole $1.3 million in cash for bail, which the judge denied. I was eventually released and owed nothing in restitution because the bank stole $1 billion to cover their own losses that were massive in Russia and had to make all my clients whole. This was all because Edmond Safra (1932-1999) of Republic National Bank, bought by HSBC, ordered the taking of $1 billion from my accounts, and then tried to claim that the bank had no idea where the money was! The bank lied to the government for they knew they were my accounts. Their internal memos stated: "These are definitely proprietary assets of the customer." They were not managed accounts with limited power of attorney. I was buying their portfolios — not managing their money. Edmond had lost nearly 50% of his entire net worth in Russia. Not one member of the press who was allowed to write about me asked how can $1 billion vanish from a bank without a trace? That was impossible for there had to be a wire transfer or some record of withdraw, but there was none. Not one mainstream press journalist asked that question, which was shocking to me.”
― Martin Armstrong, The Plot to Seize Russia: The Untold History