Legal documents, company presentations, government and offshore banking records, flight logs, years of audio, emails and photographs show that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) “Epstein Files” participant, ex-Goldman Sachs NYC investment banker cum privately financed counter-trafficking and counter-intelligence research professional Luke David Thorburn-Calcino, has been the lead financier to the Astarte Capital Partners-backed (GP, AstarteCP.com) and multi award-winning “SilviPar” (SilviPar.com) sustainable forestry and carbon project in Paraguay for over half a decade.
Limited Partners (LPs) who invested into the Astarte-SilviPar single asset Cayman-domiciled fund via Thorburn-Calcino and Astarte include Swiss commodity trading behemoth “Trafigura,” Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) “Temasek,” the Danish government’s “Impact Fund Denmark” (IFU), the Dutch government’s “FMO”, the World Bank-linked “CAF — Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean,” the “Australian Catholic Superannuation Fund,” Apple-Goldman Sachs’ “Restore Fund,” global insurance major “Zurich Insurance,” Japan’s “Sumitomo Mitsui Trust,” Paraguayan and Uruguayan major port-shipping operators the Dos Santos (Terport/Navemar) and Schandy (Grupo Nodus) Family Offices, the Swedish H&M founders’ Family Office, UK Environment Agency’s Employees’ Pension Fund, the Trump-linked and Puerto Busch (Bolivia)-owning Disque Deane Family Office, the Finnish government, etc.
The Astarte-SilviPar fund was also seeded by Swedish multi-Family Office “Girindus,” which has invested alongside King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in frontier forestry projects in the past (Laos’ ‘Burapha’ — which also, interestingly, includes controversial Australian “Trucking Magnate” Lindsay Fox as an investor).
King Carl’s daughter-in-law Princess Sofia is mentioned several times in the DOJ’s “Epstein Files.”
Astarte-SilviPar’s Thorburn-Calcino (who also goes by his native Thorbjorn-Calcino), who apparently holds London white shoe law firm ‘Carey Olsen’ as Counsel and has been represented by Texas’ Tony “The Shark” Buzbee’s ‘Buzbee Law Firm’ in his suit against Goldman Sachs in NYC, has a public and checkered past, which includes a New York Times exposé naming him as the first and only donor (2015) at the time to then Presidential-hopeful Donald J. Trump:
More recently, this includes his monitoring and labeling as a U.S. “Security Intelligence Concern” in 2022 related to his counter-trafficking and privately-funded “hands-on” Epstein research:
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00174423.pdf
Detailed audio recordings on the internet show Mayfair-based Astarte Capital Partners’ Managing Principal and award-winning environmental capitalist, Dr. Stavros Siokos, Thorburn-Calcino’s business partner, stating “They have said to me that as they cannot get to you (Luke), they are coming after me and my Family…they have come to my home…to my office. They want to kill you.”
Thorburn-Calcino was previously a contracted “Senior Advisor” to long-time U.S. Government proxy “The Moonies,” and Moon’s Atenil SA (Uruguay) and La Victoria Paraguay fronts. Moon has been a mega-donor to the U.S. Republican Party, including to President’s Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Trump, for decades.
“The Moonies” own a little known but sprawling 600,000-hectare (size of a small country) narco estate in the uber-remote Paraguayan Chaco region.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/moonies-accused-of-involvement-in-drugs-1.1161827
“The Moonies,” one of the larger U.S. Republican Party (GOP) and Trump donors, including to Trump personally, has partnered with corruption-plagued and South America-focused Belgian billionaire “logistician” Mr. Fernand Huts in what is an arcane and narco-dominated zone in-around Puerto Casado, Alto Paraguay department (state).
Additional recordings and written text messages from former Citigroup C-Suite Executive and Citi’s Head of Global Alternatives Dr. Stavros Siokos include Siokos’ candid assessment that his own partners in “SilviPar” were involved in Paraguay and the Southern Cone region’s illicit narcotics ecosystem; Siokos’ personal (audio) belief that he was being “surveilled” by U.S. intelligence figures; and that Siokos had been advised by his Counsel at Berkemeyer LLP in Asuncion not to visit Paraguay lest he be arrested for his connectivity and allegedly legitimate, above-board professional business dealings with Thorburn-Calcino.
Little known and relative backwater Paraguay is, rather bizarrely, “home to the world’s second largest U.S. Embassy”, according to local CIA operative Mark Francis Shakespeare (lesser known son of the late operative Frank Shakespeare).
Paraguay has been described by that country’s leading corporate lawyer and New York State bar member (Columbia Law School) Rodolfo Guillermo Vouga-Zuccolillo, Esq. (Vouga Abogados: vouga.com.py) as a (U.S.) “Managed Narco State.”
And perhaps Vouga-Zuccolillo should know — he has a penchant for showing photos of his family’s one-time former “neighbor” in San Bernadino township (Paraguay), the infamous Nazi “Angel of Death,” Dr. Joseph Mengele.
More to follow.
