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Clashed with Security Forces after trying to block a road in baghdad medical Officials Say 3 protesters have been shot dead and at least 58. 00 wounded in the latest protest around to continue the protests until there is a complete overhaul of the political system. Pressure is growing on maltas Prime Minister after a prominent businessman was charged in the murder of a journalist fetich has been charged with complicity in the murder of death in a car unit in 2017 it pleaded not guilty to this and other charges related to the case its developed into a Major Political crisis for Prime Minister Joseph Muscat his chief of staff resigned this week amid reports he was being questioned by police. More information is emerged about the man who killed 2 people and a knife attack in london on friday its known khan had been released from prison after serving half of a sentence for his role in a failed bomb plot the circumstances around his Early Release are now being review. Hundreds of protesters have surrounded the Police Station in the indian city of had terrible bad were formin accused of raping and murdering a 27 year old woman are being held there demanding the police and the suspects over to them womans body was found on thursday morning under a bridge she had been doused in fuel and set on fire. A mob in the democratic republic of congo has killed 2 suspected rubbles in the town of benny in the northern keebler region crowd attacked a man and woman dressed in civilian clothes after guns and bullets were found in their bags they accused them of being members of the allied to mccraw to courses which is playing for killing more than 100 civilians in the past month the most recent attack on saturday claimed 14 lives catherine so as more of the latest attack and tama and says families there are afraid the rebel fighters might come back. Residents are now feeling that its safe to go and assess the situation were also hearing that some of the bodies are mutilated others have their heads cut off and this is a situation that people have been talking about for the past week or so people very upset with what is going on that. Are able to calm and carry out attacks yet we have thousands of soldiers in that area carrying out an offensive against a. D. F. We have u. N. Peacekeepers in that area as well yesterday evening the 28 people who were killed this week. Theyre still very much in shock feel afraid that these rebels might come back and weve been talking to the governor of north cuba where bennys a territory in north kivu province will be talking to the governor about just what is going on. He said that this seems to be a strategy being employed by the a. T. F. They want to cause maximum panic and fear they want to show that bennie is ungovernable the security situation is out of control and they know that people are angry Security Forces so theyre playing on that and they want to anger people even more so that we can see more protests going on. Amazing demick slipping through samoa has now killed 42 people more than 3000 cases have been registered since the outbreak began last month Officials Say most of the victims were children under the age of 4. Rates dropped in samoa in 2013 after 2 babies died because the back same is not administered properly. Italys coast guard has recovered bodies of 7 migrants who went missing after their boat capsized last week that raises the death toll 212149 migrants were poor from the water when their boat overturned off the coast of lampedusa hundreds of people have died in the mediterranean this year trying to reach europe from libya but for the headlines keep it here on aljazeera more news to aljazeera investigations is next. The goal. Here is Investigative Unit is in the caribbean to expose a corrupt trade out that funds elections. Dominic is Prime Minister has Just Announced the date of the next election. Through. Our investigation reveals how the sale of diplomatic passports helps keep politicians in our. Definition of. Prime minister acted as a broker in a secret deal. With. The current Prime Ministers of germany and grenada the said to have been paid by wealthy foreigners wanting to be diplomats something they strongly denied. Really hot. And. We also asked it is to the United Nations to meet the uns own standards on who should be a diplomat. And. Now serving 20 years in jail helped pay for an election in return for a title. Youre going to. July 29 t. Our Investigative Team is in panama. To meet all of the serafin. Hes a former Prime Minister of germany. France court of her desire the east just had meetings in dominique hoping to set up a secret deal the corrupt sale of a diplomatic passport he doesnt know our Undercover Team is filming. The real d story. Progression for him. Her. Confidence for this person for the. Serafin thinks our undercover reporter is a middle man or a wealthy european businessmen living in asia hes willing to pay to become dominique is ambassador to the philippines and intitled to a diplomatic passport. For the very trip took that course. All further and its. Only dominique is Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerritt could make that appointment after 15 years in power and 3 election wins hes now campaigning in a 4th election. Serafin says hes already heard from a contact the Prime Ministers skerritt would expect to be paid. To the pick the. One from the couple for insulting. Your wife was issued. Characters are being. Written from here for months and months or so. Was 3 months earlier wearing dominique half the carnival wait for the election could be cooled any time in the next year and the floats already echo any campaigning. One band stands out there. Is free booze on alpha and the only flight with a Police Escort thanks chris benz patron is Prime Minister scare its wife thank you know who looks like seeing progovernment several belt out a clip says its a direct attack on the Prime Minister. Was that you feel if you had. A was the lyrics refer to a scandal involving the Prime Minister a criminal on the run and a diplomatic passport. Aljazeera can now reveal the source story that shes never been told all the quietly joked about. A few thank. You. Thank you you. Gave. My dominique a trade house was adventurous started in 2014 not in domenica was cough a world away. It was set up in malaysia to promote links between the 2 countries the man behind my dominique a trade house. Was neither germany can normal asian but iranian alley raise amount for it. Ali is a very flamboyant person. Its like a magnet he has a way of pulling people to him to show him this is richness this is power decide how you can succeed. My knowledgeable r. And his wife karen have never spoken before about what they witnessed 1st hand belongs to malaysian businessmen recruited by only one fred to run my dominique a trade house in kuala lumpur he says they organized lavish promotions attended by senior dominique and politicians who expected gifts. Alice of modern parlance all of us led the way cartier watchers jewelry we had them bars of all autographed huge printed out with my dog treat all stamped on how much it was the value of each of those bones from 15000. After 6 months of hosting several domini can delegations one friend welcome dominique as Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerritt to malaysia he came with a present for fred. Received his diplomatic passport to the hands of the Prime Minister and he came down the hall and he had a big leverage potty. Mouths so i just got my passport promises given a passport. And iranian anyone for it was now domenico ambassador to malaysia. He was there hi i cloud like. He was taking his excellency call him excellency i can call while you. Know youre going to call me x. And see the rules of diplomatic relations were laid down by the United Nations in the Vienna Convention. Ambassadors can live tax free in the country theyre appointed to. Diplomatic bags cant be opened. Their homes in embassies combi searched. And ambassadors and. Ringback one fred quickly exploits that at the my domain he could trade house office in kuala lumpur a rowdy party leads to a police raid 20 cops came out of there went straight to the office locked himself in the office. All he did was sold his diplomatic passport and said im a diplomat thats when i can he says walk around. The block say they paid for the house which became on freds home and the domine can embassy we had to leave right behind his house on that 1500 bucks back out there and. Making a record when he was complaining. It is a prime prestigious estate. On friend throws a house party and quizzes other ambassadors on the perks of his new job. Ask him what immunity what protection what benefits can you carry cash with your back to be checked. Weve obtained a secretly recorded conversation from the party its between the then jordanian ambassador and ali mohmed fred. You are. Especially us. Our. Common one. I think it is completely wrong to have a conversation about the purpose of guaranteeing is that you can conduct your business on behalf of a nation state without being interfered with Mark Stephens is an expert on diplomatic law. Being an ambassador is somebody who represents a higher level and with the highest levels of privacy and integrity their country and their countrys interests invariably that person is a citizen of a bashful with Thomas Sowell of the country who appoints them. To our investigation as found dozens of examples of caribbean governments pointing foreign is as there diplomats around the world. We find these small countries often of the bribes. Well call high people with no connection no experience but international criminal. For some dubious reason the protection the sheer of diplomatic immunity and they buy it which is us and an International Scandal Geoffrey Robertson was involved when the abuse of different passports 1st became known. He acted for the wife of a wealthy saudi she sued her husband for a divorce settlement in the. British courts but while we do farley didnt want to pay so how do you get out of a law that everyone else but very simple. Sailed off to sent lucia and lo and behold. Him he was made the ambassador to the International Murder time over nice asian. And it never turned out for 2 years never. Again yet when his wife. Application for money. Claimed immunity diplomatic immunity is a shield now that was obviously on rangers a British Court eventually agreed with his former wife diplomatic immunity didnt apply in a civil divorce case. Criminal immunity only applies in the country an ambassador is appointed to. Iranian ali manfred didnt know that when he thought a diplomatic passport was the answer to all these problems. Those problems began on the Nation Island of level one in 201218 months before one fred set up my dominique trade house. My knowledge blahs family ran a shipping business in lahore on a limb on fred contacted him claiming to be an agent for the rainy and government wanting his help. In iran being a sanction they had problems in moving your. I specialize in a remote just ticks. My knowledge but as a solution to International Sanctions on selling iranian oil was to disguise where it came from. Ships will come in from iran loaded up with oil. We have n. P. Dentist office outside. The mothership come alongside our thanks there were discharged all onto our Storage Facilities will all be stored out in the sea for months at farms we wait saul winter to come to china to surprise goes up. The sister ship of our lost sight of our thanks as its a direct route straight charge we will be in china within 14 days. A week. After a year it became known china was buying uranium oil so they closed down the operation. Didnt know it was mon fred was skimming off the profits stealing from his own iranian government. By 2014 and they were after him as an iranian citizen he was vulnerable to arrest he needed another passport morn for it would not if socks was source and phone call would come he would jump in and knock of the door slowly through ice water the way he had to fire not a citizenship. As. Its called citizenship by investment and its a major source of income to the caribbean and european countries. Its legal the controversial. Wealthy families from asia or the middle east and russia investors around a quarter of a 1000000. 00 in luxury resorts or a government scheme in return they get citizenship and a new passport which allows visa free travel to many countries. On fred to acquire knowledge by law with him to germany to buy a passport through citizenship by investment to help on for its case well our primetime with other in. Yes mint ideas for the island officials was so impressed they suggested to me seeing Prime Minister skerritt. I would not for 2 days i was in a casual mode in my shorts and t. Shirt i had the or should that appearance from the front office get myself prepared since i was going to be the Prime Minister. Says he he did most of the talking and reasonable scary immediately made him an offer not the kind of possible given to Foreign Investors but an upgrade to a diplomatic passport conversation skerritt says he doesnt remember why dont you be our ambassador at large. State or if there is a formal ambassador scheffer you know if im better at large i think like i said above this is man up or to show off with another said to me said. Are you out of your mind and opportunity ideas if you decline to do it one for and say to you why he wanted to part of it but he said i get diplomatic immunity complete i dont have to worry about it here in your hands. Were investigating whether a fully domine can Prime Minister can broker a deal to make our candidate dominique his ambassador in the philippines and what it will cost well look in your ear for. Our society maybe. Getting a proxy for a little tour of the old circuit. On of the serafin confirms diplomatic passports can be bought even by criminals. Youre certainly going to need overcharging for. His. Integer his office mistakes. And so on plus theres. A. Fear of education over those 1st years probably be then. A lot here in st. Margaret is that there. Are. Those including up saying well a diplomat for dominique a bride to u. N. Officials now jailed in america. Entirely in Francesco Carollo gambling tycoon designated a u. N. Ambassador awaiting trial for fraud after being on interpols most wanted list. This is. Why there are now so. I think it can a. Mayor of those were clear for me and so it was all. So. Much for all to see just. That a perfect world. And it would be really millions to do this to put mary passports to. And have that money go to the right place here or. Only for you or i dont know what are we have fortunately or. Our investigation will say takes us to grenada. Prime minister keys mitchell has been in power for most of the last 25 years his diplomatic choices dont seem to conform to the spirit of the Vienna Convention that ambassadors should be nationals of the country and full time diplomats. Many of grenadas ambassadors all foreigners with business links to the island. Theres no suggestion these diplomats paid for their appointments. Oleg fire at runs of the Internet Firm in miami. Well grenadas ambassador to moscow. Alcoa heads a Global Company while a unesco ambassador into paris. The weariest designated grenade is ambassador to france but never accepted by the french. Swears he is one of egypts richest men he owns the luxury silver satins on grenade is pretty cheap. Hes now building phase 2 further along the bay. Locals being expansion into the joining cameron park the last strip of public land leading to the sea. Trend of the campaign in the south. The arcos all access made to the change. Come on is a part of me its a part of my life my child that early its one of our National Assets advantage so tap the spark. Worker i was situation has happened in many countries where all the lovely sites were taken up with commercial development. Residential become a 2nd class citizen and there is nowhere for them to really enjoy anymore. Their fears were reinforced in 2017 when a draft resolution to protect cameroon for redevelopment was rewritten by the government. Instead of having the part of the place for us to enjoy the fraternity they rewarded if this is true that all attempts have been made up to postulate that the investors expansion of this project so this is worrying where the government would go into that. Theres no evidence nikki where is paid Prime Minister mitchell for his title. By contrast an american conman says he did pay for his ambassadorship. Restaurant a is a serial folds who for a spell operated in the caribbean. David marshall runs the Financial Crime database offshore and that which investigated erik rest dyna. Why would he want the diplomatic post bought when you operate like rest on it as you even know youre under investigation or you know that you will be under investigation at any given time so it provid