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A brave Eritrean national, who sued in a court of law the Eritrean regime and its agent in Toronto, Canada, for illegal 2% “tax” and other fraudulent means of extracting money from citizens, has won the case and is now legally entitled to receive all money taken from him in addition to 6% annual interest of the illegally extracted money. The accuser is now legally entitled for refunding and compensation of well over $60,000.
Nharnet Stringer in Canada reported that the case was decided on 16 September 2007 by a Toronto court in favour of the claimant, Mr. Tewelde Yohannes, who fought the case in court for over a year demanding the following amounts from the Eritrean government and its money transfer agent of Beilul: 1. 2% illegal tax of his and his wife’s salaries for several years; 2. $18,000 taken from him with the excuse of selling to him a state-owned land; 3. Money extorted from him in the form of “a dollar a day” contributions for war-related activities; 4. $1000 taken the purchase of Eritrean government bonds; 5. $1000 taken for opening a bank account for him in Asmara. According to the court decision, the PFDJ regime in Asmara and its agent, Beilul, shall be obliged to pay Mr. Tewelde Yohannes the sum of $52,132 plus an annual 6% of this money and the accuser’s petty expenses of $1,320. On top of that, the defendants will pay all expenses incurred by the accuser for his attorney at court. It is to be recalled that the Eritrean rogue regime’s cover agency for money transfers (read: illegal extraction and money laundering), that used to be known as Himbol Agency for money transfers, was closed in the United States for illegal activities. During the years, a certain Assefaw Sengal was the representatives of the Himbol Agency within the Eritrean Consulate in Ottawa. In Toronto, this same Assefaw Sengal has been running the Beilul Agency for money transfers together with a certain Estefanos Neguse; they were rendering this and other illicit services for the PFDJ office in Toronto. Mr. Assefaw Sengal pretended to be a “private businessman” with no relation with the PFDJ regime but to no success. The Canadian justice has finally established that all the charges tabled by Mr. Tewelde Yohannes and his legal representatives were justified by documented evidences. The plaintiff and his lawyer lost only the claim for $1000 that was taken to open a bank account in Asmara. This was because the Canadian law does not accept claims for things that took place over six years ago. Claunabts documents at court showed that the $1,000 for opening a bank account was an event that took place in July 1996. |
