23.000 votos para Miguel Durán
- 15.000 de los Guardias Civiles
- 4 de la familia
- 3 del trio de la bencina
- 1 de algún despistado y
- 1 de un incontrolado
7.991 TOTAL SINDICALISTAS Y "ALLEGADOS"
¡Que desperdicio! ¿No se podría haber creado con todo esto otra empresa en Gibraltar para implantar rifas de convenios?.
Ah, por cierto, ¿alguién sabe que es la PNL? Es que yo con tantas siglas me pierdo. Jua, jua, jua
Supongo que Duran no nos lee, pero si algun allegado o incluso algun amigo suyo de la Benemérita lo hace le puede comentar sin acritud que para la próxima vez que quiera defender alguna causa se ponga en contacto con las víctimas no con los "presuntos".
Supongo que para defender a los 15.000 tricornios se puso en contacto con ellos y sus representantes sindicales, supongo que entiende que si se hubiera puesto en contacto con la Dirección Gral. los resultados hubieran sido muy diferentes.
Pues imaginese lo que se ha perdido por ponerse del lado de cuatro caraduras en lugar de camelarse a los 350.000 afectados.
Respecto al PNL a mi lo que me suena es la Programación Neurolingüística.
Pero no creo que sea eso a lo que te refieres estos pecan más de subconsciente traicionero, JaJa.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programaci%C3%B3n_neuroling%C3%BC%C3%ADstica
Ummmmmmmmm!!, aunque ahora que lo dices había uno de los directivos, perdón ex-directivos de Afinsa, un tal José Luis Coca que escribia unos articulos muy raros sobre filatelia y redes neuronales, no, no, no os riais que es cierto, no me lo he inventado, he aquí las evidencias.
http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=2707431
Sea lo que sea, a esa gente les falla algo en las redes neuronales, igual lo que les falla son las mismísimas neuronas, JeJe.
Sl2.
Des actualités, des articles et de l'humour sur la philatélie et la Poste.
30 août 2007
L'affaire des blocs-feuillets de Monaco
C'était l'une des occasions qu'à eu la presse grand public de parler de philatélie : une affaire d'escroquerie sur des placements philatéliques à base de blocs-feuillet de Monaco.
Les blocs-feuillet "spéciaux" de Monaco sont des blocs-feuillets, regroupant des timbres émis normalement mais sous forme de feuillet. Ils n'ont jamais été vendus dans un bureau de poste. Il s'agit d'une présentation commandée par le palais de Monaco, imprimée à des tirages relativement réduits (des milliers d'exemplaires tout de même), et distribuée on ne sait pas trop comment (vendus plus ou moins directement à l'entreprise de placements philatéliques en question pour une partie tout au moins).
Ces émissions abusives sont condamnables d'un point de vue philatélique.
C'est comme si la poste française faisait des tirages à 5000 exemplaires de feuillets français, qu'elle vendrait avec un surcoût très important sur la valeur faciale, et qu'en plus elle ne vendrait qu'à quelques intermédiaires s'empressant de les vendre avec une marge confortable. C'est un type de pratique détestable, qui nuit grandement à la philatélie mais qui arrive parfois...
En France, il a aussi existé aussi des blocs-feuillet spéciaux (gommés dentelés) mais avec des tirages très faibles et qui ont été offerts à des personnalités.
L'institution judiciaire a mené une enquête sur des placements financiers basés sur ces blocs : elle s'est traduite par un non-lieu en 2005, dont je n'avais pas entendu parler alors que le début de la procédure avait bénéficié d'une large couverture.
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His Highness's serenity disturbed by stamp fraud
John Lichfield - Paris
Thursday, 30 January 1997
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NormalLargeExtra LargeFrench magistrates wish to interview Prince Rainier of Monaco as part of a two-year investigation into a suspected pounds 25m fraud, in France, involving special issues of postage stamps by the tiny principality.
The investigation is aimed at unscrupulous stamp dealers in France, not at the prince, who would be, in any case, outside the reach of French law. The examining magistrates are said to want to ask, among other things, why cheques signed by one of the suspects were allegedly made out to "His Serene Highness, the Prince of Monaco".
The investigation began with complaints from French pensioners, who said that they had been persuaded to invest in entire sheets of special issues of Monegasque stamps at Ff1,000 (pounds 110) a time. The buyers were told that the sheets were limited in number and would grow in value. In fact, so many thousands had been printed by the Monaco authorities that they were philatelically and commercially valueless.
One unfortunate buyer is believed to have spent nearly pounds 1m on the sheets. He was not among those who complained to the police - suggesting to the investigators that he was, himself, trying to launder money or hide earnings from the French tax authorities.
There is no suggestion, at this stage, that anyone within Monaco was aware of the fraud. But the sheer scale of the trade - and the large profits to the principality - have startled the investigators, both gendarmes and examining magistrates, in the Cote d'Azur region, which surrounds Monaco.
According to information leaked to Le Parisien newspaper, the Monaco authorities paid five francs for each sheet of stamps, produced for them by the French national printing press. The sheets were sold by the principality to a French dealer of Iranian extraction at Ff200 a time - a profit of 4,000 per cent (the payments apparently going directly to the prince). The sheets were then sold on to another dealer at Ff400 each and, finally, to collectors for Ff1,000.
The magistrates' request for an interview with Rainier must first be approved by the French foreign ministry - which in effect runs the civil service of the principality.
The final decision on whether to allow the investigators access to Monaco will rest with the prince himself, who is celebrating his family's 700th year on the throne.
Stamp scandal may involve Prince Rainier of Monaco
By Glen Stephens
A scandal in France may connect Prince Rainier of Monaco with a fortune in dubious stamp issues, according to reports in European newspapers.
The tiny principality of Monaco, area only 481 acres and population 27,000, has long been a favorite with stamp collectors worldwide.
A proof for Monaco's 1981 Princess Charlotte stamp signed by engraver Czeslaw Slania. Similar, but unsigned, proofs have been the subject of an investigation in France.
The British newspaper The Express reported in a feature article Nov. 14 that French police were investigating what the newspaper called a "royal stamp swindle" worth an estimated £45 million (approximately $75 million).
The stamps involved are said to be the imperforate and nondenominated modern issues of Monaco that are widely sold to collectors as so-called printers proofs or similar deluxe proofs.
Some 1,221 residents in southern France alone were sold these stamps at up to approximately $165 a set.
The Express article, which was bylined from Jack Chee in Paris, contended that Sako Khatchikian, a French businessman living in Switzerland, may have reaped a fortune from the sale of such special stamp issues.
Selling stamps at a profit is of course an honorable profession, but the stamps involved in these circumstances supposedly are ones normally only issued to Monaco's Royal family to hand out as gifts to guests and dignitaries and to commemorate special events.
However, instead of receiving only a small number of these imperforate items, the Monaco government reportedly asked for tens of thousands of sets of each issue.
The reports also claim that the publishers of specialist catalogs of French-area material were induced to promote and list these imperforate proofs as collectible items.
French police investigating the matter found two check payments from Khatchikian totalling more than $276,000 said to be made out to "His Most Serene Highness, Prince of Monaco," the official title of Prince Rainier.
There is no suggestion in The Express article that the prince was aware of what was going on behind the scenes with these proofs.
French police issued a summons Nov. 13 to the 74-year-old Prince Rainier following the discovery of these large-denominated checks, according to the newspaper report.
Prince Rainier on a stamp issued by Monaco in 1996.
However, a spokeswoman for the press center of the Principality of Monaco told Linn's that while a general investigation is going on, the prince has not been specifically connected with it.
The Express quoted a member of Monaco's public prosecutor's office as saying: "Our police will certainly pass on the French summons to the prince. But there is not an earthly chance that he will respond."
The French police claim that Khatchikian may have collected more than $1 million for his role in enlisting the supposed cooperation of Prince Rainier.
Khatchikian told the French police that he worked with Gerard Lheritier, a French Riviera stamp dealer, to carry out the plan.
Lheritier is stated to have made £45 million ($75 million) from the sale of these imperforate Monaco issues. How this figure is arrived at is not stated, nor is the number of sets of proof stamps sold, nor the period of time or number of sets they covered.
According to the Express article, a Monaco palace spokesman said, "You can be certain that the prince is not involved in any sort of fraud."
The article also noted that the prince recently has been under fire for allowing dubious financiers to set up banks in Monte Carlo and for failing to prevent Mafia bosses and drug dealers from stashing their ill-gotten gains in secret accounts in the Monaco tax haven.
Monaco has been issuing stamps since 1885, but its stamps entered the albums of most American collectors in 1956. The Royal Wedding issue of that year featuring the dashing prince and American film actress and stage darling Grace Kelly mesmerized the world.
The 1-franc value of that set (Scott 366) was seemingly produced in the tens of millions and was used as a premium or bonus item by approvals companies for years. It was so widely available that to this day, 42 years later, it still rates only the lowest price quoted (15¢) for any single item in the Scott stamp catalogs.
Both Prince Rainier and Princess Grace have appeared on many other stamps from Monaco. For example, the United States and Monaco both showed the princess on a 1993 joint issue (U.S. 2749, Monaco 1851).
The 20-franc Prince Rainier stamp illustrated nearby was released March 11, 1996 (1996). The stamp bears an inscription honoring Monaco's stamp and currency museum.
The proof of the 1981 5-franc Princess Charlotte stamp (1303) shown nearby is from the prince's collection, which is housed in the museum. This proof is signed by the engraver, Czeslaw Slania.
A proof is a trial impression from a die or printing plate made before actual stamp production. Proofs are made to examine a die or plate for defects and to compare the results of different inks.
The illustrated Princess Charlotte proof probably was used in the production of that stamp, as opposed to the many so-called deluxe proofs that were sold to collectors.
Glen Stephens is a dealer and philatelic journalist based in Sydney, Australia.
This is an edited version of a Linn's article that appeared in the December 7, 1998, issue of Linn's Stamp News. For the complete story, subscribe to Linn's Stamp News.
All content Copyright 2000 Linn's Stamp News, of Sidney, Ohio, USA and by the author Glen Stephens.
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"NOME": ¡Quien me mandaría a mi no saber ingles (ni muchas otras cosas) a mi edad...
¡Que perversa es la ignorancia!...
No obstante, saludos "NOME".
La inversion en sellos postales siempre fue una estafa,sea donde sea,al final
los inversionistas siempre terminan perdiendo todo su dinero.
Es muy triste pero es la unica realidad.
Saludos.
Hola,
No se si lo dices con sorna, pero por si acaso te lo contesto en algún sitio vi estas siglas pero no recuerdo donde y se referian a Proposición No de Ley, no se si en tu contexto podría ser este el significado.
Saludos
