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Eritrean Embassy offering advice how to make illegal money transfers – Jerusalem Post

By BEN HARTMAN Migrants make claims day after brawl involving dozens of Eritrean regime opponents and supporters at Kibbutz Kinneret. The Eritrean Embassy in Israel is advising migrants in Israel how to transfer money back to Eritrea through

By BEN HARTMAN

Migrants make claims day after brawl involving dozens of Eritrean regime opponents and supporters at Kibbutz Kinneret.

The Eritrean Embassy in Israel is advising migrants in Israel how to transfer money back to Eritrea through a bank account in Germany, contrary to Israeli law, which forbids such transfers, a group of Eritrean migrants said at a press conference in Tel Aviv on Sunday.

The migrants called the press conference the morning after a brawl involving dozens of regime opponents and supporters at an event organized by the embassy at Kibbutz Kinneret on Saturday, in which over a dozen people were wounded and around 15 arrested. They said that the embassy gave instructions to migrants about how to transfer money and also advertised real estate in Eritrea, telling them that it was a good opportunity for them to build a house back in their home country.

A law passed earlier this year makes it illegal for African migrants to transfer money out of Israel to their home country, and assigns stiff penalties to people found breaking this law, or Israelis found helping Africans wire money home.

The law stipulates that the transfer must be less than the minimum wage in Israel divided by the number of months the person has been in the country.

There were several hundred migrants taking part in the press conference on Saturday, activists in Tel Aviv said Sunday. They said a group of around 60 regime opponents arrived and were accused of being “Ethiopian instigators” by ambassador Tesfemariam Tekeste, at which time the say they were attacked.

The regime supporters and the ambassador said they were peacefully holding the meeting when they were set upon by Eritrean men wielding sticks and throwing rocks, with some wielding knives and screwdrivers.

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At the press conference in an events hall near the Tel Aviv central bus station, regime opponents showed a pamphlet they say was being handed out by regime supporters at the event the previous day, which showed details of a bank called “Commerzbank” in Frankfurt. The pamphlet included a Swift code and details for transferring money through the German bank to the Housing and Commerce Bank of Eritrea, where they were told to specify that the money was meant for the “Urban Development Eritrea – Housing Project 2013.”

For unclear reasons, the pamphlets were in English, not Tigrinye.

The Eritrean government requires citizens in the diaspora to pay a monthly tax in order to retain their passport and that tax as well as money sent home by citizens outside the country are major sources of revenue for the Eritrean government.

Attempts to reach the Eritrean embassy in Israel on Sunday were unsuccessful.

In May, a brawl broke out at a concert organized by the Eritrean embassy in Ramat Gan. The embassy invited four singers to give a concert for Eritrean Independence Day, with dozens of regime supporters and opponents brawling until the fights were broken up by police.

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15 COMMENTS
  • ER ITRAWIT December 23, 2013

    Nhna Nsu Nsu Nhna ylekmekum da, any way nay af hagez eu natkum neger.

  • Awet December 23, 2013

    It’s beyond me. How can someone invest in a country ran by a regime that doesn’t respect the RULE of law? The regime supporters are empty barrels. Go head turn your money in to a regime that is desperate for hard currency.

    Heck I am keeping my money.

    • Rusom Tesfay December 24, 2013

      Awet,

      Please do not try to make sense out of these air heads. There is one undeniably GOOD character of Isaias the mad man. He is equal opportunity “OPPRESSOR”. Let them hand their money and he will slap and humiliate them.

      -Remember naizghi kiflu the one who use to be his best buddy? He did not even allow him
      to be buried at home.

      – Remember Woldeab Isaac the man who spent more time with the mad man than at the
      university? He was humiliated and left the country.

      – And many more. ….. And this bozos who are handing their money will be seen as
      strongest enemies of the mad man … of course after they lost their money.

  • abdu December 23, 2013

    A dog is Sniffing as hard as he could to get a hard currency beneath of the ground; while he forgot to pay back the previous public money and properties; you can fool me once shame on me; you can fool me twice shame on me. But you can’t fool me three times shame on you. I am not sure if HGDEFAWIAN have a sense of shame even in their vocabulary. Because they have got crocodile skin not a feeling not at all.
    Where is their money for the people who bought a bond; when are the people who pays cash for the land to build a house that you promise them; where is the hard currency you took to buy a material for the houses such cement; nails and so on.So over all how do you think people can invest in a country where they can’t even provide a clean water to drink to their people; how do you think people will invest in a country where they don’t even generate enough electric power to their city let alone to the country side; based on what rule & law do you really people can invest;do you really;really think people are that fool; no people aren’t; if think that you are mistaken; enough is enough. Even before don’t think people they don’t know you; that you guys are mafia; but people they just let it go because people think the are dealing with sons; finally they found out we are dealing with devil.

  • abdu December 23, 2013

    I can’t wait to see how many out of 500 hundred Nusu ewur; Nehna ewurat will risk their money ? i beat you none.

  • aus 17 December 23, 2013

    If one is zombie for so many years, the regime has a logic, regardless the motivations given, there are still brain washed mammals with them. Therefore, It doesn’t surprise me the zombie will follow their embasy’s advice.
    If the regime says to them that there are stairs towards the sky, definitely would have believed them.They understand not UNrealistic hope, fantasy, halluciations, illusions= these are very real terms to them.
    They believe, they would build a vila in Asmara in their life time! when they awake up;
    They will only have their middle finger, back turned into their…..
    Merry x-mass

  • Rahwa December 23, 2013

    Did you know my fellow Eritreans, the problem is that those who are in power never thought that they are running a state and a government. What is in their mind is contraband and illegal business. Can I say that they are addicted to that.

  • Kereny December 23, 2013

    How could they trust the regime after they passed through sinai; they are the vicitims of the regime and they want to invest their money. They need to know what happened to them.

  • Berhe December 23, 2013

    Dear Rahwa,
    You said addicted to contraband and illegal business. You are right, but also addicted to drinking alcohol, sex (zmut), torture, killing, …..etc. against a normal person can do. we are unfortunate these guys to lead our beloved nation. But one day they will try to hide themselves like their boss Qaddafi under…. It is a process.. that should happen

  • aus 17 December 23, 2013

    Isayas and Kisha are so clever in sniffling hard currency.What do you think Abdu putting these two guys at Asmara airport to snifle like dogs do in normal airports to check or find out goods with hard currency?
    Just disguise them with gog skin!!

  • Be honest December 23, 2013

    Any way they( Supporters and Against of HGDF) are building houses in Eritrea in different methods or systems ( either through HGFD or indirect. These house are found From Senafe to tesenay.

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