was voted Time’s Man of the Year in 2006."
Umm, to be honest I was surprised you even referenced this in the article as I thought everybody already knew that year's award essentially results in everyone being able to claim they were 'awarded' the title.
1. Is it possible one of Jawad's family members has a spouse that is authorized to live in the barracks?
The whole family is listed on the voters roll as being registered to that address a few years back, that wouldn't be possible if it was simply the home of a spouse.
2. I can't seem to find the source for the frequently-cited "millions and millions of pounds" audio clip. It seems to be no longer available.
https://clyp.it/h1nan1uzIs there another source for it?
Either the link expired or it was taken down by Ish. You'd need to ask him to post it up again I think. A bunch of us in this thread listened to it, though, as you can see there are a number of posts made directly quoting from it. Jawad absolutely did exclaim in it "I have literally got millions of pounds, more money than I have ever had in my entire life!", referencing the funds received from the crowdsale.
Ok, I've gone through the whole recording and Jawad basically spends the entire time after instructing Ish to tell Nick from Vanbex to go fuck himself about his 3btc crowdsale investment, complaining about Ish having gone away for two weeks without telling him and repeatedly slagging Vanbex off for "fucking us over".
Ish, why does he feel Vanbex screwed him over?
Because I bet this article of theirs
http://www.econotimes.com/Razorminds-DeOS-Crowdsale-Raises-US-$19M-in-Bitcoin-241414 helped him collect a lot more than the six thousand dollars they were being paid.
This:
JAWAD 38:55 : "
I have literally got millions of pounds, more money than I have ever had in my entire life. [sound abruptly cuts at this point to Jawad then talking about how Ishmail wasn't around when he needed to get advice from him]"
Pretty much is what we suspected all along, that Jawad considers that 'crowdsale' (ICO) money as his.
Also, going back to the beginning of the call, at 4:50 Ish ask if Phil (Sturgeon) is going to be coming into the office and Jawad answers in a somewhat dismissive way, "Yes, he will, so will [Adams?] and all the others. . .just . . ." but then redirects the focus to something he's doing on his desktop, "Let me just check this thing, tokens are going out . . ."
It is almost as though he doesn't want the topic of the discussion to remain on the issue of Phil and others coming into 'the office'. Listen for yourself, you'll see what I mean.
To prospect for funds under a false premise
And then attempt to launder those proceeds
through cash are serious offences and as
it amounts to several million USD in value
It is likely to be dealt with by the Serious Fraud Office.
Correct, this bullshit 'it was a crowdsale not an ICO' excuse doesn't cover for the fact that people would have bought into this 'crowdsale' under the impression that Razormind was a substantial operation with hundreds of staff and offices all over the world and that DeOS was already a legitimate platform with 27,000 active users. As he intended through his intentionally fraudulent website and interviews.
That it netted him several million dollars in bitcoin elevates it to an SFO-level response at the very least.