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I’ve found a strange story that appears to originate from the notoriously Fake – YourNewsWire.
It’s an August 2016 story based on a Wikileaks cable: https://conspiracydailyupdate.com/2016/0...news-wire/

Here´s a Reddit thread on this story: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comm...lar_money/


The interesting thing is that it is based on a “real” Wikileaks cable that is completely fake!
Just look at the following excerpts. No goverment official would write something like this in an official cable.

The widely held belief is that the goal is to help Karim Wade and his associates gain control of the shares as a massive money-laundering scheme.
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2. (S) On May 2, Sogue Diarisso (strictly protect), a senior official at the Ministry of Finance and a close confidante to Finance Minister Abdoulaye Diop, presented Econ Counselor with the outline of a secret and corrupt plan for the sale of the GOS's approximately 28 percent stake in Sonatel, Senegal's largest telecommunications company (now majority owned by France Telecom/Orange). Much of what Diarisso reported was confirmed in EconCouns's subsequent meeting with IMF Resident Representative Alex Segura (also strictly protect).
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5. (S) According to Diarisso, with the DGMP's waiver, the government can now conclude an exclusive deal with the investment bank Rothschild (which was also noted in the press articles) to act as the advisor and sole agent for the sale, including "deciding" who gets the opportunity to buy the shares. The widely held belief in Dakar is that the main beneficiary will be President Wade's son (and Special Economic Advisor) Karim who, along with his cronies (close business partners in Kuwait) and whatever shell companies they may have now or will establish, would be granted an insider opportunity to buy the shares.
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As Diarisso noted, "the country can accept Karim's frequent efforts to launder CFA one billion or 5 billion (USD 2-10 million), but this is beyond acceptable."
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7. (SBU) Adding to the fiscal irresponsibility of this scheme, the arrangement with Rothschild's reportedly includes paying the bank a 1.5 percent commission on the value of the shares, for a cool and corrupt USD 15 million.

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08DAKAR588_a.html#
(archived here: http://archive.is/3xOGH)