Updated on 14.05.12 – In addition to my previous post about chavista bullies who suddenly recognized the significance of online reputation management -likely in a post-Chávez era- I’ve been able to narrow down who might be behind the clumsy attempt to intimidate me: meet Majed Khalil Majzoud, a ‘smart’ chavista.
Mr. Khalil Majzoud, born on April 23, 1970, Venezuelan ID 13526338, has had quite an interesting life. Like other Boligarcas -shadowy figures who have enriched themselves immensely under Hugo Chávez’s socialist revolution- Majed Khalil Majzoud has gone from nothing -literally- to:
having stakes in Serfoca undefined, partnered with CVG of Venezuela, appointed to develop an “industrial project (Orinoco Paper Project) for comprehensive processing of [500,000 hectares of] Caribbean pine”;
majority shareholder of a television channel (Sun Channel TV);
executive director of a telecommunications group (Hardwell Technologies), which was contracted to provide radar equipment to Venezuela’s main airport (subcontracted by Raytheon); securing another 5 million dollars -which have seemingly vanished- to equip the Ministry of Defense of Venezuela with a technological platform;
holding a majority stake in Pacific Rim Energy, a company that the chavista regime -and Evo Morales– has granted millions for various energy projects;
owning a majority stake in Eveba, while highlighting that the influence of “mafias has indefinitely decreased” in Venezuela…
I’m sure there’s more. In any case, of all the individuals mentioned in articles concerning unidentified parties, Majed Khalil Majzoud is the only one whose information has been published on hundreds of websites recently. Check it, there are 475 results posted since someone, presumably on his behalf, demanded on February 8 that information about his shady past be erased. Although this effort may also be linked to his and his brother Khaled’s own issues with chavista justice (see here, here undefined, and here).
Furthermore, Majed Khalil -or someone in his name- has registered .com, .net undefined, .biz, .org undefined, and .me domains, and is loading those sites with completely unrelated content to Venezuela -even though some are in Spanish- to cover his tracks.
Silly, silly…
Update: a reliable reader informs us that Majed Khalil is the stock man for General Francisco Rangel Gómez, former president of the giant mining and aluminum corporation Corporación Venezolana de Guayana (CVG), and current governor of Bolívar state. Thus his dealings with CVG. Majed Khalil is also a partner -and godfather- of Lieutenant Antonio José Morales Rodríguez (alias “el catre”), godson and aide-de-camp of Hugo Chávez and one of his most trusted men. Morales has recently been pointed out by former Supreme Court judge Eladio Aponte as one of the individuals who ordered the release of an army drug dealer (Pedro Magino) caught with 2 tons of cocaine in Venezuela.