Kemal Oksuz Top Gulen fugitive arrested in Armenia to be extradited back to the USA

This blog has discussed Kemal Oksuz several times, after the US house Ethics Committee investigation - Kemal Oksuz plead the 5th and fled the USA.   Refresh your memory Kemal had planned a trip to Azerbaijan with members of Congress.  Azerbaijan had paid for the trips via money
laundering via Kemal's 8 -9 non profits.
learn more here Kemal Oksuz CLICK  or more info here Kemal Oksuz CLICK HERE

Kemal Oksuz used a fake ID "Kevin Oksuz" and shed a few pounds (that is what stress from hiding your dark secrets will do)  shaved his head closely and grew facial hair.  It is reported that Kemal had been facilitated into Armenia via Iran or Republic of Georgia, with the CIA support it seems Republic of Georgia is more likely.

Kemal Oksuz holds the key to the Gulen Movement crime spree in the USA that he was most certainly one of the big wigs of, the Gulen Movement is divided into 5 regions - Kemal was one of the main regional imams in charge of swindling and bribing politicians.   Kemal Oksuz also opened a large number of non-profits - 501 c to money launder and conduct shady businesses, criss crossing the USA from Washington DC to Chicago to Texas.

The Armenian Police, in cooperation with Interpol, have detained Turkish national Kevin Oksuz wanted by the American law-enforcement bodies.

The man had established a company in Armenia to start business. On August 23, Kevin Oksuz was declared internationally wanted on charges of submitting false statements to the Ethics Committee of the House of Representatives.

Oksuz was the president of a nonprofit organization of Turkish Americans and Eurasians, which aimed at establishing close relations between Turks and Americans by organizing trips to Turkey and Azerbaijan.

In 2013 he invited several US Congressmen to Azerbaijan and Turkey for a private visit. He submitted false documents to the Ethics Committee, noting that the organization never received financing from any source either directly or indirectly.

However, it has now been revealed that the organization actually didn’t pay for all expenses and received additional financing, including from Socar Oil Company belonging to the Azerbaijani government.

It has also been revealed that 9 Members of Congress and 32 staff members received gifts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

http://www.armradio.am/en/2018/08/30/armenian-police-detain-turkish-citizen-wanted-by-us/

With former vice president Joe Biden

Kemal and Adil Oksuz both higher up Imams in Hizmet aka Gulen Movement both
wanted for questioning.  Oksuz family is from Ezerum same as Imam Fethullah Gulen
http://www.karar.com/guncel-haberler/adil-oksuzun-kardesi-kemal-oksuz-kimdir-fetocu-oksuzun-karanlik-iliskileri-955563

A key figure linked to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) has been caught in Armenia with a United States arrest warrant for submitting false documents and statements, Turkish officials said.

Kemal Öksüz, who changed his name to Kevin after receiving U.S. citizenship is the brother of another key FETÖ suspect sought by Turkey, Adil Öksüz. The Armenian press has reported that Öksüz was detained in Yerevan on Aug. 29 in a joint operation run by police and Interpol.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/key-feto-suspect-kemal-oksuz-caught-in-armenia-on-us-warrant-136322

emal Öksüz, a high ranking member of the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) dubbed as its "Houston imam," was arrested Wednesday in Armenia over a U.S. arrest warrant issued for breaching congress ethics and fraud.

Öksüz, who changed his name to Kevin after receiving U.S. citizenship, was being sought with a red notice by the Interpol, according Armenpress agency. Öksüz was running a business and an NGO in Armenia, according to the report.

Armenpress reported that Armenian police said Öksüz was being sought since the very first day of being declared wanted, and the Armenian police chief personally supervised the operations.

A spokesperson for U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday that ​Öksüz is "currently being held by Armenian authorities pursuant to an arrest warrant issued by the United States."

This file photo shows Kemal Öksüz shaking hands with former US Vice President Joe Biden.

A former businessman, Öksüz was the chairman of the Texas-based NGO Turquoise Council of Americans and Eurasians (TCAE), a Gülenist regional umbrella organization that controlled several other Gülenist non-profits.

As a common practice to promote their political agenda and business interests, which is mainly exploiting the U.S. charter school system with dozens of schools, Gülenists often organized paid-for trips to Turkey and its surrounding region for U.S. senators, congress members, state officials and local officials, in addition to dinners, award events and panels.

Öksüz and the TCAE came under federal scrutiny by the Congressional Ethics Committee for coordinating a trip in 2013 where dozens of U.S. Members of Congress traveled to Azerbaijan for a conference illegally sponsored by its state oil company, SOCAR. He previously pleaded the Fifth Amendment while politicians involved in the trip were fined by the ethics committee.

The report said that the U.S. declared Öksüz wanted on Aug. 23 on four counts of fraud, including submitting falsified documentation to the ethics committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Accordingly, Öksüz said that his NGO, which covered the funding for the trip, did not receive funds from any source but the trip was in fact funded by SOCAR.

A Washington Post article from 2015 reported that ten U.S. Congress members and 32 staff members who attended the trip also received valuable gifts worth thousands of dollars. Three former top aides to President Barack Obama appeared as speakers at the event. The funding of the trip raised eyebrows in Washington D.C. as the Post reported that the trip came at a time when SOCAR, which has joint projects with Russian and Iranian companies, was looking for exemptions from U.S. sanctions targeting Iran for the Southern Gas Corridor project involving British Petroleum (BP), Turkish Petroleum (TPAO), Turkish Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (BOTAŞ) and many others.

This undated file photo shows Barack Obama with Kemal Öksüz in an event.

It is not clear whether SOCAR's trip had an effect on the decision making of U.S. lawmakers and Obama since various U.S. oil giants like ExxonMobil and Chevron, in addition to U.K.'s BP and Norway's Statoil have stakes in Azeri oil and gas fields in the Caspian Sea, alongside Russian and Iranian companies. However, some of these lawmakers sponsored legislation promoting U.S. energy interests in the Caspian.

The case' ties with Armenia's arch enemy Azerbaijan's national oil company and an energy project bypassing Armenian territories might have impelled Armenian officials to promptly respond to the case.

Öksüz was also the owner of a company that served as a major vendor for Harmony Public Schools in Texas, which is the largest Gülenist school network in the U.S., according to the book "Empire of Deceit: An Investigation of the Gülen Charter School Network" published by attorney Robert Amsterdam and his law firm, which represent Turkey in lawsuits in the U.S. His company signed more than $50 million in contracts in a year, making Öksüz a millionaire in the process.

Harmony operates more than 50 schools in Texas and receives more than $250 million in public funding every year. It also serves as a regional oversight entity for all Gülen-linked school networks and organizations in several states included in the shadowy group's Greater Texas region.

Gülenist schools are being accused of exploiting and defrauding the charter school system by emigrating a large number of their sympathizers to the U.S. with H1-B visas and using affiliated vendors to funnel millions of U.S. public money into their own organization.

Öksüz and the TCAE are also known for hefty donations mainly aimed at the Democratic Party and its candidates on federal and state level. Turkish media reports after U.S. presidential elections in Nov. 2016 cited that Gülenists donated more than $2 million in Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign.

Öksüz was often spotted in events linked to top-ranking Democrats

https://www.dailysabah.com/war-on-terror/2018/08/30/high-ranking-gulenist-fugitive-kemal-oksuz-nabbed-in-armenia-on-us-arrest-warrant

MORE INFO ON KEMAL'S NON PROFIT HE SET UP IN ARMENIA 

https://eurasianet.org/s/armenian-police-arrest-turkish-american-lobbyist

5 facts showing Gulen's involvement in Turkey's failed coup involves the brother of Gulen US political criminal

Adil Oksuz in this video


The ring leader of Turkey's coup was Adil Oksuz

Kemal Oksuz was the ring leader of US Gulen operations, he started Niagara Foundation, Turquoise Council and AFAZ (American Friends of Azerbaijan) Kemal is known for being chummy with American politicians and arranging lobbying trips to Azerbaijan, Turkey and Central Asia for leaders of communities and members of Congress.
 Kemal Oksuz arranged the trip to Azerbaijan in 2013 that we discussed on this blog here http://gulenpoliticians.blogspot.com/2015/11/head-of-us-house-ethics-committee.html

The money paying for these members of congress came from SOCAR but it was filtered into countless Gulen American NGOs (Pacifica Institute, Turquoise Council, et al) Kemal was due to speak to the US House Ethics Committee but instead hired an attorney and plead 5th, Kemal and Adil Oksuz are both missing.

If you know the whereabouts of these two brothers please contact this blog.

 Here is some other references to Kemal Oksuz crimes in the USA https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/10-members-of-congress-took-trip-secretly-funded-by-foreign-government/2015/05/13/76b55332-f720-11e4-9030-b4732caefe81_story.html
utm_term=.f205ee9de810 http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/283682-lawmakers-turned-over-gifts-after-trip https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2015/05/lawmakers-who-traveled-to-azerbaijan-urged-action-benefiting-state-oil-company-that-funded-trip/

https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/In%20The%20Matter%20of%20Officially-Connected%20Travel%20by%20House%20Members%20to%20Azerbaijan%20in%202013.pdf

Who is Fethullah Gulen? Politcal? Educational? Civic Minded? Tolerance?

House Ethics Committee - Danny Davis Cleared but not so much the Gulenists

Azerbaijan is where the Gulenists started their first schools some 22 years ago
at the direction of the CIA to control natural resources.  today Gulenists control
SOCAR

From Tim Furman http://www.tbfurman.us/2015/08/danny-davis-cleared-gulenists-not-so.html

Danny Davis and others have been cleared of wrongdoing by the House Ethics Committee for the Gulen-arranged lobbying orgy that took place in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 2013.

WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee said Friday it found no evidence of wrongdoing by a bipartisan group of lawmakers who went on a 2013 trip to Azerbaijan paid for by that country’s government.

It seems like a legitimate ruling to me, at least on the superficial level. The lawmakers all cleared the trip through House ethics office; it wasn't until later that it became apparent that it was an illegal arrangement between the Azerbaijani government and the Gulen-linked individuals in Texas. The lawmakers probably should have known better, and they definitely broke some gift rules during the trip, but they aren't responsible for the trip's underlying illegality, which evidently got past the ethics office in the first place.

In fact, the only person in the entire 28-page report coming off as having something to hide is the former executive director of Chicago's Niagara Foundation, Kemal Oksuz, who set up a similar shop in Texas after leaving the Chicago-based organization.  He took his 5th Amendment right rather than testify:

Mr. Oksuz clammed up sometime after the the story leaked in the press, and the committee blasted the Post for it.

As such, the unauthorized disclosure of the material to The Washington Post impeded the Committee's ongoing investigation, and prevented itfrom gathering information critical to its investigation. 

I myself find that line of reasoning a bit suspicious; the Houston Chronicle broke the story almost a year earlier, and Mr. Oksuz surely reads the Texas papers. He was probably never going to comply with the subpoenas. Indeed, he had already started to clam up in 2014.

Via email, Oksuz answered a few basic questions, but then repeatedly delayed and canceled interviews requested by the Chronicle. He did not respond to requests to provide updated financial records that his nonprofit must disclose under state and federal laws.

The Committee's anger at The Post seems a little bit like an excuse to stop investigating, the more I think about it. Why?

Because the Ethics Committee also appears to have taken a dive on this question: what did Azerbaijan get for their efforts?

Here's what the committee says in the report:

But even as early as 2014, the Chronicle people were able to connect the dots between the illegal junket and an exemption for a huge Azerbaijani gas project from the Iran sanctions--- the sanctions currently in the news.

So, it's going to be a permanent mystery. The Azerbaijanis got their gas project exempted from the complex Iran sanctions; the Gulenists got some cash* and Azerbaijani street credfor setting the whole thing up, and Danny Davis got a rug. And everyone got to party in Baku, and many also in Turkey, and that's how American laws are written.

It's really sort of amazing that the Ethics Committee dodged the question of the sanctions exemption when it's so central to the story. It's as if nobody in Congress can actually say who wrote the exemption into the law; it just appeared one day! Very fishy. The black eye the Gulenists received in this report will eventually heal; the thing that matters (for them) is that the Azerbaijanis and the Gulenists were successful; they got what they wanted, and the Committee isn't even going to look at question of the Iran sanctions, the Azerbaijani exemption, and who's inserting whole clauses into US law.

Meanwhile, Azerbaijan is starting its show-trial of imprisoned journalist Khadija Ismayilova. It is a country where the government has no pretense of democratic values. And in the US, the Gulenists are the Azerbaijani's go-to guys for illegal lobbying, at least they were back in 2013. If it surprises you that an "interfaith" group could be involved with the illegal dealings of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship, then you haven't been paying attention.

Birds of a feather flock together, as they say.

The Gulenists, it seems to me, have dodged a bullet here. I don't see how a criminal prosecution moves forward after a report like this, although the door is open.

Despite these limitations, the Committee's investigation uncovered evidence of concerted, possibly criminal, efforts by various non-House individuals and entities to mislead the House travelers and the Committee about the Trips' true sponsors and the funding sources used to pay for Member and Houseemployee travel to Azerbaijan. 

 In Texas, Gulen-linked organizations run at least forty-five charter schools; they run four in Chicago. The schools are a huge part of the Gulen Movement's revenue stream. I point that out to remind people about the scale of the operation and that it's basically funded by U.S. taxpayers.

It isn't clear to me about Mr. Oksuz's current dealings in Illinois; he seems to have been focused in Texas and Louisiana** lately, after leaving Niagara. When you study the Movement, you see a lot of transferring around from one node to another. That they keep getting guests in the door at Niagara is in my mind a huge testament to the basic incuriousness of people; you don't have to dig very deep to see that what's going on underneath the interfaith veneer is part of a complex and sometimes ruthless influence agenda. People like to look the other way.

*Even the cash part is murky. If you read the report (p. 21), there's some highly strange discrepancies in the invoices. The only thing clear is that whatever ballet is going on with the numbers, Mr. Oksuz was the one doing the choreography.

Ethics probe halts congressional travel to Turkey and Azerbaijan, Gulen Lobbying chasing politicians away

Gulen Lobbying is over, there is no power in Tiurkey that is controlled by Gulenists. The trips are a waste of time for politicians and lawmakers.

Ethics probe halts congressional travel to Turkey; free trips overall have slowed

 by Will Tucker on June 9, 2016

 
 
 

Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., is chairman of the House Ethics Committee. He took a free trip to Turkey in 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House lawmakers and their staffers used to make about 150 stops there a year on their privately sponsored jaunts around the world. Then came a massive ethics investigation, and they all stopped taking those free trips to Turkey — cold.

Not a single House member or staffer has disclosed a privately sponsored trip to Turkey since the Office of Congressional Ethics in October 2015 released documents connected to the largest ethics investigation since the days of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. OpenSecrets Blog collected the data from the Clerk of the House, which keeps records on privately sponsored trips filed to the House Ethics Committee.

Last year, the OCE found that a network of Turkic-American nonprofit groups based in the U.S. lied about the true source of funding for a junket to Baku, Azerbaijan in 2013; the trip took 10 members of Congress to the small Eurasian city with money from Azerbaijan’s state oil company, where they attended a conference put on by the company to tout its natural gas interests. The lawmakers said they had no idea their trip to the ostentatious energy conference was paid for by a foreign government that employed lobbyists in Washington, D.C.

After investigating the Turkic non-profits further, the OCE called into question the true source of funding not just for the Azerbaijan junket but for more than 109 trips to Turkey in previous years. It appeared the groups, in some instances, simply didn’t have the money necessary to pay for the expensive trips they organized for members and staffers.

But when the probe was kicked over to the Ethics Committee — the panel of lawmakers who investigate their peers, and sometimes takes referrals from the OCE, which is a quasi-independent outfit — the committee dropped the matter, clearing the members involved of wrongdoing. While the panel sent some documents relating to the sponsoring organizations over to the Justice Department for possible further action, Justice has been silent about whether it is pursuing an investigation.

The chairman of the Ethics Committee, Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), had traveled on the Turkic groups’ dime himself, as had another member of the panel, Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.).

Before OCE’s investigation into the case of the Turkic non-profits, lawmakers were taking more and more trips paid for not by the U.S. or foreign governments, but by private organizations and nonprofits. Many of these trips were domestic — policy conferences are often cited as reasons for the travel — but many were international voyages during which members and staff stayed in luxurious hotels, saw famous sites and got cozy with nonprofits funded by special interests.

This year, privately sponsored travel for members of Congress has slowed down slightly overall, dropping almost to 2011 levels after having increased from that year through 2015.

The slowdown comes after a coalition of ethics watchdog groups in Washington, spurred by the OCE’s report, called for House Speaker Paul Ryan to place a moratorium on the practice.

“These trips have become a tool for special interests, foreign governments, and foreign business interests to try to gain access and influence to our elected leaders while obfuscating the source of funding for the trips,” a letter to Ryan signed by four groups in November reads.

Ryan didn’t respond, but some lawmakers and sponsors may have gotten the message.

“These trips to Turkey got terrible press and deservedly so,” said Meredith McGehee, policy director at the Campaign Legal Center, one of the groups that signed the letter. “Because the press coverage of the Turkey trips and the legitimate questions raised about the way they were funded, members are appropriately gun shy.”

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/06/ethics-probe-halts-congressional-travel-to-turkey-free-trips-overall-have-slowed/