In lieu of the above limitation, we requested that the PCA award be granted as a precedent that could be used for all other accounts. Because 117 countries belong to The Hague Convention, this ruling should be recognized by most of the jurisdictions in the world.

It is difficult to say at this time. We have gotten further than anyone ever imagined with the assistance of amazing talent and generosity. However, the next steps are actually the hard part. Getting bankers and politicians to part with what they perceive as their cash.  Additional legal assistance is needed to research the location of Respondent assets and file international liens. Additional funds will also be needed to pay increased administrative and travel costs.

The Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) was chosen because their rulings and awards are recognized in 117 countries. The PCA team sees several potential scenarios.

The first and preferable is for the Respondents to work with the PCA and the Claimant Representative to commence the payment process started in 2007, whether with the old architecture or using a new structure.

The second will be for the advisors to the PCA team to file a new action using the PCA award precedent in either the PCA or another court. These advisors, also SI investors, are in possession of ALL of the evidence presented to the PCA. With both the PCA award and the detailed evidence, they should be able to convince a court to designate the case a class action thereby forcing the Respondents to pay ALL remaining accounts.

The last and least preferable option is for each SI investor or a small group of investors to file claims in their local or country jurisdictions using the PCA award and evidence to enable them to receive a favorable ruling.

We believe the Respondents want to avoid the last two options as much as the investors. First, both would guarantee a worldwide international scandal, and secondly it would ensure the scandal remained media fodder for decades, whenever it was a slow news day.

Directly, the answer is No.

Indirectly the world is a lot more nuanced. The number of players involved are multinational, and aplenty, with differing agendas and preoccupations. So Brexit will undoubtedly give some a new excuse for bad behavior and to continue to ignore us. However, the day is fast approaching when a ruling from The Hague will be issued. At that point, no one will be able to hide.

As for all of the honest, hardworking people who voted to ‘Leave’ with promises of better, they will be sadly disappointed. The only thing Brexit (or any chaos for that matter) allows is for the few in power to renegotiate new agreements for the benefit of themselves at the cost of the many. Every agreement; personal, corporate or governmental is now open for renegotiation and there are no referendums on the fine print.

The perfect example being our ‘Agreement to Facilitate Payments’ buried as an addendum to the 2,000 page German EU Bailout agreement supposedly to ensure our funds be paid to its rightful owners. What it really did was guarantee the funds could be used for the benefit of others, indefinitely.

Thank you again for the amazing support so many have given on this adventure. At this point, one of the most important things everyone can do is find ways to spread the word of our case. Send all available information to your up and downlines, contact any media outlets, splash it on your Facebook pages, websites and Tweet, Tweet, Tweet.

 July 6, 2016

The funds were first deposited with HSBC. After HSBC refused to continue payments, the funds were transferred to Barclays. Along with RBS and Lloyds, Barclays paid approximately $20T in over 100,000 transaction. After some discrepancies were discovered, the funds were transferred to Dexia. Dexia commenced limited payments before ceasing all processing in 2011.We have been informed that our escrow funds are currently split into 5 accounts held in Handelsbanken Austria. Mr. Church is the only person who can access the accounts.

This is a very difficult question to answer.  There are many factors to be considered. Though all of the respondents defaulted, the PCA must still perform its own investigation into the evidence presented by the claimants. This probably included assisting the three person tribunal in a thorough understanding of the international banking system, obtaining detailed transaction information from the Bank of International Settlement, and verifying the IP address of the computer monitoring station currently located at the Frankfurt am Main OLG.

Once the investigation was completed and with the approval of the other two jurists, the chief jurist will draft the award document. This draft will then be reviewed, edited, finalized and finally signed by all three jurists. Next month will mark one year since our official filing. We can only hope that we can measure what has already been an unnecessary and difficult wait in weeks and not months.

It took only four days after the official announcement of our website shortfingereddonald.com, to reach over 1,000 visitors. The countries represented included Austria, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the US. Not quite as many countries as the Olympics but a wonderful representation. Keep spreading the word.

January 13, 2017

An instruction manual. Like a cheap wine, the invoice has to age a little before we can take further action to pursue payment. In the meantime, the PCA team thought it was high time to teach a few things to the powers that be.

Firstly, that the current administrator is not the only person with sufficient information to restart the payment process. To illustrate this fact, we sent a well-developed implementation plan to all of the usual suspects. This document also had the secondary purpose of debunking any excuses related to lack of ability to execute.

Secondly, the German government may not be able to find a way to make contact with us, but we found a way to make contact with them. On February 8, 2017 the claimant representative and her legal counsel met with the US Honorary Consul for the Federal Republic of Germany. The meeting was very constructive.  We quickly agreed on several points including:

1.  That the German government should have made contact with us a long time ago.

2.  The process of restarting the payments appears straightforward given that the whereabouts of the database and funds is known, the infrastructure is already in place, and that trillions of dollars in payments have already been made.

3.  Given the imminent public release of The Hague Award, and the recent claims made against the 2012 “Agreement to Facilitate Payments,” communication should continue in an attempt to resolve this matter as quickly as possible.

It was then agreed that the details and documents presented at the meeting should be sent up the official diplomatic chain of command. While the Consul moved the details of the meeting up the official chain, we shared them up the unofficial, more direct back channel.

In the last few weeks, in order to allow a quick, discrete resolution to this matter we have made an official claim for our funds, given the German government a complete implementation plan, and an official conduit for communication with the PCA team.

All details of both the implementation plan and the meeting with the US Honorary Consul for the Federal Republic of Germany will be forwarded to The Hague in the next couple of days.

April 25, 2017