The initial reports at the very early stages when this story broke stated that Michael Dwyer had first travelled to the US before travelling on to Bolivia from there. No mention was made of this afterwards and the story switched to them travelling to Bolivia via Spain.Originally Posted by R2ITOS
Where is that from lostexpectation?
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It was said on Newstalk today that all three were still in Ireland and one is still employed by I-RMS.
There was an article in the examiner last week - doesn't seem to be on their website - which named the Solvak who is still working for I-RMS - Ivan something or other - and had a statement from I-RMS defending his contiuning employment
LICENSED TO KILL: Right wing zealots, Big Oil and the tattoo that hid an icon of hatred – Royal Dutch Shell plc .com
Link to the Mail on Sunday and Phoenix articles.
Ivan Pistovcák (Slovakian) is the persons name
From the Irish Times of 2 June:
'POLICE IN Bolivia want to interview three men living in Ireland about their movements in Bolivia with Michael Dwyer, the Irishman shot by police in a Santa Cruz hotel because he was part of an alleged terrorist cell.
The three men being sought for interview by the Bolivian authorities are foreign nationals who worked with Mr Dwyer in Ireland.
The men – two Hungarians and a Slovak – travelled to Bolivia with Mr Dwyer last November. One of the men is still working in the same security company in Ireland where he and Mr Dwyer met. The other two men worked for the same firm until recently and are still living in Ireland.'
From an earlier posting on Politics.ie:
'Revesz Tibor,(IRMS employee), Nagy Lajos Tamás (Hungary) (possibly an Irish licensed security guard) and Ivan Pistovcák (Slovak) (Irish Licensed security guard Location Tipperary) stayed with Eduardo Rózsa Flores in the Asturias hotel in Santa Cruz between December 10 and January 9, according to Congressman Peter Maldonado, National Unity, while Luis Alberto Hurtado Vaca paid for his lodging.'
To clarify, has IRMS ever issued a statement or press briefing concerning its employment of Revesz, and is Pistovcak still in the firm's employ?
From the link on my previous post -
Is it appropriate for I-RMS to use that name ?Since the Bolivian shoot-out in April, websites appear to have been falling like ninepins, not least that of IRMS itself.
For the past month, visitors to the firm’s website have been greeted with the following notice: “Our website is being updated at the moment. Please come back soon.” As Goldhawk revealed, web content removed for updating included an offer of “special services” involving “international armed and unarmed security”. There was also a link to something called the “Ranger Training Academy”, which appears to be IRMS’s training wing, as well as a section headed “International Security Services in Hostile Environments”, illustrated with a picture of an armed guard.
Meanwhile, a reference in Revesz’s online CV to his having worked for IRMS was deleted in the wake of Dwyer’s death, and the entire bio has now been removed. IRMS is still refusing to answer questions, but did previously issue a statement to the effect that Dwyer and Revesz left its employment last October.
As a result of the Dwyer affair, some light has been shone on the fact that there is now in Ireland a large number of private security operatives supplementing and, in cases such as the Shell operation in Mayo, working closely with the Gardai. Many of these security men are from eastern Europe and, worryingly, security checks on foreign security operators working in Ireland are lax to say the least. The Private Security Authority issues licenses to firms and individuals involved in security work, but a spokeswoman admitted last week that it merely seeks a criminal record certificate and does not follow this up with any background checks for up to one-third of the 22,000 security operatives it has licensed.
The PSA has confirmed that both Revesz and Dwyer had been issued with licenses, but Dwyer had an application in to upgrade his “door security” license to “static security” status, which is necessary for the kind of work being performed for Shell. According to politics..ie, another suspect named by Bolivian authorities also appears on the PSA’s list of license holders, although it is not clear if he ever worked for IRMS. It is thought that other Szekler Legion members have been or are still working as security men in Ireland, and not all may be licensed. Indeed, the PSA has admitted that it “does not currently license those working as bodyguards”, which certainly provides a loophole for those wishing to operate free of even the comparatively light official scrutiny now applying
Apparently during protests at Shells illegal Glengad beachhead this June bank holiday at least one of Shell security guards had fascist/nazi symbols tatooed on his arms!!
If several of the people involved in the Santa Cruz affair were employees of IRMS before and after travelling to Bolivia doesnt that imply they were also employees while they were there?
Im not suggesting an invovment in assasination but in training an illegal militia perhaps?
One of the latest people to run to the US in exile is Juan Carlos Velarde president of COTAS the phone cooperative. HE was formerly the manager of Fexpo etc. A big fish described in an El deber article I first looked at when they announced where the arms cache was located. Google Translate
A big thread elsewhere on this site concerning the Paul Williams/Gerry Gregg Corrib Gasfield documentary on TV3 last night. Given Gregg's past form in particular it was inevitable that the programme would be propagandist to the point of tedium. Certainly it is the objective journalist's duty to examine the backgrounds and possible paramilitary connections of some of those opposing Shell in Mayo. By the same token the nest of right-wing paramilitaries involved with Shell via IRMS, which we have been discussing here, should also have received due attention but this issue was predictably ignored.
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