GADAFI TREASURY HUNTER IN TUNIS - 31.1.2015

In South Africa, it has long responded to the nickname of Erik "Niemand". "Niemand" which means "nobody" in Afrikaner. An alias which has accommodated this man of Tunisian-Swedish business wise and discreet look. Erik Iskander Goaied, whose real name, it even took pleasure. "It was necessary to carry out my mission and my safety," he says in a seaside hotel in Tunis where he is visiting. For nearly two years, "Mr. Nobody" is dedicated to tracking down "hidden assets" of Muammar Gaddafi in South Africa. We guess his grin that he, for this mission, plunged into a dark world populated by arms dealers, politicians, spies, mercenaries and especially many crooks.

A paranoid and manic strand, he insists on showing his credentials Libyan government, those time Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, who was dismissed March 11, 2014, and those of his successor Abdullah al-Thani, head of a government "in exile "in eastern Libya since the Islamist military victory in Tripoli last summer.

"This is the greatest treasure hunt in history, 'says coldly" Mr. Nobody ". Installed today in Washington, says Goaied about to pass the US authorities evidence implicating the highest levels of the South African government, the presidential palace in certain caciques of the African National Congress (ANC), the historic party of Nelson Mandela to lead the country for more than twenty years. He is convinced he got hold of the "treasure" and exhumed the mysterious "hidden funds" personal Muammar Gaddafi.

The close links between South African and Libyan authorities date back to the mid 1990 Nelson Mandela did not hide his affection for the "brother Gaddafi," which had financially and militarily supported the struggle against apartheid. Among the heirs of the ANC, several businessmen were later exploited this close relationship between the two countries to encourage the self-proclaimed "king of kings of Africa" to invest and store the skirt of his colossal fortune. Thus transforming South Africa into a giant washing dirty money for Gaddafi, who was paying a portion of the liquid oil. In any case the claims of this strange Erik Goaied by subscribing another coffee at the bar of the hotel in Tunis. Billions of petrodollars in cash, gold and diamonds in particular have been transferred by air cargo and stored in Johannesburg and Pretoria between 2000 and 2011. "The South Africans must and will make this treasure to Libya, he said. There are 400 billion. "

Bashir Saleh close friends say with smile “an astronomical amount”.  Gaddafi's former chief of staff covered by Interpol Red Notice. As Chairman of Africa Organization his own office window was 9 metres opposite Emaco Libya meeting room window. After a brief stint in France, Pretoria was offered a comfortable refuge or decades until 2011, when Bashir Saleh was still at the heart of relations between Libya and Africa, South Africa included. He was also the leading manager also of SWFs, Libyan Investment Authority and Libyan African Portfolio, whose investments are traceable despite the hundreds of subsidiaries and bank accounts. Jacob Zuma, the current South African president and former head of the ANC intelligence, he remained loyal and grateful.
"The leaders of the old regime (Libya) will block this process as they will not have the assurance that this money will not end up in the hands of Islamists"

"All this means nothing and falls delirium. There would be no more than 1.5 billion dollars in Libyan investments in South Africa, "sweeps near Bashir Saleh. It is also estimated firm of former South African Minister of Finance, Pravin Ghordan, which expects a billion. Or that investigators Command Global Service Company (SGC), formed between other former US intelligence agents. "There is a lot of money in South Africa and elsewhere we can no longer track and that are lost," says on the terrace of a Parisian hotel investigator CGS Haig Melkessetian, which discouraged since then. He added: "To date, Libya has not recovered moneyfrom South Africa. The former managers  of  Libya old regime will block this process as they will not have the assurance that these amounts will not end up in the hands of the Islamists. "So many dispute the figures put forward by Erik Goaied: "These stories of billions of dollars in cash, it's bogus! This is a crook and more crook is a South African diplomat.

Who is he, "Mr. Nobody", to dare contradict, acknowledge and challenge some of the highest leaders of South Africa? An atypical trader 48 years old having acquired a good knowledge of public administrations works, both in Libya and South Africa. Having been a consultant for Elf Aquitaine (Togo, Nigeria, etc.) in the 1990s, it interfered in trade relations between Pretoria and Tripoli with a miracle product, "Burnshield" the name of this compresses allowing relieve burns. Not without a certain audacity, he became in 1996 the exclusive seller in North Africa this product manufactured in South Africa. Libya was under international embargo, considered "terrorist country". After many adventures, he will end up being briefly arrested in Tunis when Gaddafi relative, Ali Farkash, imposed his commission.

Ruined, he approached in 2008 another VIP in the burned Gadafi universe, Mohamed Tag, an influential boss in Wershefana khabila. This high-ranking Libyan army officer allows Erik Goaied recover hundreds thousands LYD and to regain a foothold in the business in Tripoli. This time it is no longer drugs but weapons and military equipment he sells, as a representative of the state-owned South African Denel. "When the revolution broke out in 2011, emissaries from both sides requested me in Tunis arms and advice, he said. I refuse, for weapons because it was illegal. But I gave advice to revolutionaries and I helped to transfer injured in Tunisia. "

In 2013, Erik Goaied is back in action for Libya in South Africa with his sidekick Mohamed Tag. He was asked by a Libyan army derelict as arms dealer. An order of five million dollars allows him to get an appointment with Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. The defense minister is wary of these intermediaries acting on a Libya that is sinking into chaos. She's right. For Goaied and Tag and their intention to take advantage of the opportunity to interfere in sensitive issue such as Gaddafi's assets. Moreover, to adjust the control, they offer to pay with the Libyan US$ allegedly concealed in South Africa. Except that there will be no contract or restitution fund. Maybe because at the same time, other teams claim to the Libyan government to recover the funds of which, Serj Sam, was, in early 2014, about to sign a final settlement of $ 12.5 billion .

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