The leading American think-tank Atlantic Council has terminated its relationship with the the Indian-American businessman and a major donor, Gaurav Srivastava, after he was exposed as involved in several fraudulent activities. <\/p>\n
The Atlantic Council in a statement said it has decided to terminate its ties with Gaurav Srivastava, his wife Sharon and their fake charitable organisation The Gaurav & Sharon Srivastava Family Foundation after the think tank couldn\u2019t confirm important details of their background in its donor vetting process.<\/p>\n
Srivastava and his wife Sharon donated at least $1 million to the think tank for its Global Food Security Forum in Bali in November 2022.
\n\u201cAll funds received by the Atlantic Council from Mr. Srivastava for the Global Food Security Forum were dedicated to and used for the event,\u201d a spokesperson for the Atlantic Council said. \u201cWe did, however, return funding received from Mr. Srivastava in 2023 for future collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe made the decision to terminate our relationship with Mr. Srivastava upon learning new information because of our donor review process. For example, we learned that The Gaurav & Sharon Srivastava Family Foundation was not an established 501(c)(3) [non-profit organization] in April of 2023, despite Mr. Srivastava\u2019s representation to the Council that this was a registered foundation,\u201d the spokesperson said.
\nIn an attempt to distance Srivastava from these allegations of misrepresentation, the businessman\u2019s lawyer claimed the termination was \u201crelated to a gift in respect of a subsequent project, as to which the parties disagreed on the manner of its implementation whereupon $500,000 given in advance was returned.\u201d
\nThe Atlantic Council was facing questions and mounting criticism after the discovery that one of its major donors, Gaurav Kumar Srivastava, was involved in large scale scams, some of which include using the name of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to make money fraudulently.
\nGaurav Srivastava, an Indian businessman living in America, is accused of orchestrating international scams in which he claimed to be an undercover CIA operative to defraud international businessmen.
\nThe Atlantic Council hosted its 2022 Global Food Security Forum in Bali, sponsored with more than $1 million by the Gaurav & Sharon Srivastava Foundation, an alleged non-profit NGO run by Srivastava with his wife Sharon Srivastava (n\u00e9e Johnson) where Srivastava paid a panel of experts to discuss global food security.
\nThe think-tank had come under pressure after respected journalists Bradley Hope and Soobin Kim, found that Srivastava pretended to be a CIA spy in order to fraudulently take over assets of a Dutch trader after assuring him of help using his alleged \u201cCIA\u201d links. He told the trader that he was a \u201cnon-official cover\u201d or NOC (pronounced \u201cknock\u201d) for the CIA and operated at the senior level amongst a total of 30 NOCs around the world. Srivastava put forth a dubious proposition: if the trader could make Srivastava a partner in the business, by moving 50% of the shares of his company to a Delaware-incorporated company controlled by Srivastava, and domicile the structure in the US, the trader would quietly be excused from future sanctions on Russia because he would be given a special licence to continue trading in accordance with the US Treasury\u2019s desire to keep oil flowing.
\nWhile the Foundation is said to have been established in 2015, a company named The Gaurav & Sharon Srivastava Family Foundation was registered in the secretive state of Delaware (USA) on 12 October 2022. However, foundations are typically not registered as corporations, and the earliest archives on the foundation\u2019s website only date back to November 2022.
\nThese factors raised doubts about its establishment date and credibility. We have also identified the Foundation applied for its trademark on 23 February 2023, assisted by US attorney Jonathan Berger. The trademark application affirmed that the legal entity type of the Foundation is a \u2018Corporation\u2019 \u2013 not a charitable organisation.
\nThe Foundation is not registered in the US federal tax authority IRS as a charitable organization or private foundation. Neither does the fake foundation comply with the regulation to file Form 990.
\nAfter the Project Brazen exposed Mr Srivastava and his foundation, Mr Srivasatava lodged false claims with Google and Tumblr to remove the main article exposing his deceit. The journalists protested with Google and Tumblr for falling in Mr Srivastava\u2019s trap.
\nImmediately after that Tumblr confirmed that it had removed several accounts and posts from its platform after its site was abused by Gaurav Srivastava. The Indian businessman used Tumblr\u2019s backdating function to create posts that appeared to be from an earlier date, then used these posts as the basis for copyright claim to manipulate Google results for his name in order to remove the Project Brazen fraud expos\u00e9 of Srivastava.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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