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FRONTIER SERVICES GROUP (FSG)
From @Wikipedia:
Frontier Services Group (FSG) is a Chinese Africa-focused security, aviation, and logistics company founded and led by Erik Prince, the former head of Blackwater Worldwide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Services_Group
From @Wikipedia:
Frontier Services Group (FSG) is a Chinese Africa-focused security, aviation, and logistics company founded and led by Erik Prince, the former head of Blackwater Worldwide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Services_Group
Prince has described FSG's main corporate mission as helping Chinese businesses to work safely in Africa. The company operates logistical projects for shipping routes in Africa, and also conducts high-risk evacuations from conflict zones.
FSG's area of service has since expanded to the Belt and Road areas of Africa, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. It also works with the Chinese paramilitary Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
According to FSG in September 2017, it does not provide services involving armed personnel or training armed personnel. In some cases, it provides personnel and training to help non-military personnel provide close protection security, without the use of arms.
However, critics have voiced concern that Prince's work as FSG chairman has included efforts to sell paramilitary programs and services. FSG ended contracts with two of Prince's closest associates within the company after becoming suspicious that they were assisting Prince in ...
... unauthorized paramilitary contracts. In addition, FSG oversees "anti-terrorist security" training programs in a school it partially owns, going so far to feature the newly-trained "specialists" in a promotional video.
In 2019, FSG signed contracts to support China's One Belt and One Road initiative, including building a series of bases in China's Xinjiang, where the internment camps of ethnic Uyghurs attracted widespread allegations of human rights abuse.
MYANMAR TIMES (18.03.19): "Ex-Blackwater boss moves into Myanmar security - Frontier Services Group (FSG), founded by former US military contractor Erik Prince, says it is moving into Myanmar to provide security services..." https://www.mmtimes.com/news/ex-blackwater-boss-moves-myanmar-security.html
Frontier Services Group is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (0500HK) with its headquarters in Hong Kong and Beijing, and offices in Shanghai, Dubai, Nairobi and Johannesburg, etc.
http://www.fsgroup.com/index.aspx
http://www.fsgroup.com/index.aspx
FSG is a leading provider of integrated security, logistics, insurance and infrastructure services for clients operating in frontier markets. Our teams are multinational, multilingual and highly experienced, which allows us to provide world-class service no matter the environment
ASIA TIMES (19.03.2019): "Controversial security firm moving into Myanmar - The Frontier Service Group (FSG), founded by former US military contractor Eric Prince, is moving into Myanmar to provide security services for Chinese and other foreign investors" https://asiatimes.com/2019/03/controversial-security-firm-moving-into-myanmar/
Globalwitness (29.03.2019): "A closer look at FSG’s partners in Myanmar suggests possible links to the country’s multi-billion dollar jade business, which fuels corruption, human rights abuses and environmental devastation." https://www.globalwitness.org/en/blog/erik-prince-in-myanmar-an-own-goal-in-the-making-for-chinas-belt-and-road-investments/
QZ (18.04.2017): "“A top priority for OBOR is to establish linkages to ports in Myanmar and Thailand that significantly cut costs of shipping goods to Europe and Africa,” https://qz.com/957704/the-american-mercenary-behind-blackwater-is-helping-china-establish-the-new-silk-road/
(21.03.2019) @FrontierMM: “[FSG] has established a joint-venture security company in Myanmar and obtained a security licence to provide international-standard security services to international investors in Myanmar..." https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/former-blackwater-contractor-in-myanmar-security-venture/
"Many large investment projects in Myanmar are in the restive borderlands where the military is waging war against various ethnic rebel armies. This includes Rakhine state where the military conducted a bloody crackdown against the Rohingya Muslim community in 2017..."
(21.03.2019) @France24_en: "Beijing is financing ports, dams, pipelines and mines across the country and yet more cash is expected to pour in under Beijing's massive "Belt and Road" global infrastructure project." https://www.france24.com/en/20190321-former-blackwater-contractor-myanmar-security-venture
"A subsidiary of Chinese state-owned CITIC Group, CITIC Group (Myanmar), is the main investor in Kyaukphyu deep port in Rakhine, a project signed off in November at a cost of $1.3 billion.
CITIC Group chairman Chang Zhenming is also board chairman for FSG."
CITIC Group chairman Chang Zhenming is also board chairman for FSG."
"But uncertainty over the future of Rohingya repatriation and fresh conflict with ethnic Rakhine rebels is standing in the way of any major transformation. The instability provides a landscape ripe for security companies, and rights groups are concerned what FSG's entry into the
market will mean.
In a country like Myanmar where rights abuses by security forces are all too common, Erik Prince and FSG will sadly fit right in," Phil Robertson from Human Rights Watch said, calling on the media and civil society to scrutinise the firm's activities."
In a country like Myanmar where rights abuses by security forces are all too common, Erik Prince and FSG will sadly fit right in," Phil Robertson from Human Rights Watch said, calling on the media and civil society to scrutinise the firm's activities."
(17.12.2018) "Mr. Chang Zhenming, Chairman of CITIC Group, Has Been Appointed as Chairman of the Board of FSG - The Board of Directors of Frontier Services Group Limited (FSG) is pleased to announce"
http://www.fsgroup.com/en/news/show-439.html#:~:text=Mr.,of%20the%20Board%20of%20FSG&text=The%20Board%20of%20Directors%20of,effect%20from%206%20December%202018.
http://www.fsgroup.com/en/news/show-439.html#:~:text=Mr.,of%20the%20Board%20of%20FSG&text=The%20Board%20of%20Directors%20of,effect%20from%206%20December%202018.
"To cope with the condition that countries and regions along the “Belt and Road” are all in high risks, FSG applies the world's most advanced security concepts, models, means, technologies, management and experience in its services."
"It also takes advantages of its own capabilities in risk assessment, security consulting and implementation, emergency rescue, logistics and insurance, training management, etc. By doing these, the Group manages to provide overseas projects and personnel with ...
... comprehensive package solutions involving security, logistics, insurance, infrastructure construction, etc., ranging from initiation phase to subsequent operations of the projects."
"CITIC Group Corporation Ltd., formerly the China International Trust Investment Corporation (CITIC), is a state-owned investment company of the People's Republic of China, established by Rong Yiren in 1979 with the approval of Deng Xiaoping." @Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CITIC_Group
ASEAN (30.11.2018): "China's top planning agency doubles down on Belt and Road collaboration (...) CITIC leads a consortium which was chosen by the government as the developer of a proposed deep-sea port in Kyaukphyu, central Rakhine."
http://asean.dla.go.th/public/news.do?cmd=news&category=1&nid=20151&lang=en&random=1590076056935
http://asean.dla.go.th/public/news.do?cmd=news&category=1&nid=20151&lang=en&random=1590076056935
"CCCC, a China state-owned company and was sanctioned by the World Bank for its fraud and corruption practices from January 2009 until January 2017, signed an agreement with a regional body to prepare a detailed infrastructure proposal for an ambitious new Yangon city project."
