To the attention of :
His Excellency Koen Lenaerts
President
Court of Justice of the European Union
Palais de la Cour de Justice
Boulevard Konrad Adenauer
Kirchberg
L-2925 Luxembourg
Silent Hostility Against ArcelorMittal
On 30 November 2010, I attended at the Brussels Chamber of Commerce (BECI) a road show in which a delegation of Moroccan company leaders came to visit Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. This event is covered in an analysis which I addressed to His Excellency André Azoulay, when I was still believing in him.
At this event, I was representing United Chambers, the Aurum Helix Multicultural Chamber of Commerce and I have made the observation that the all the movements and the conversations of Moroccan company leaders were closely watched by Mr Lucien Leuwenkroon, millimeter by millimeter, to know about their next move,
as if they were his prisoners
There were 2 Moroccan companies which deal in civil engineering. I didn’t receive the business card, I only took the e-mail of ACOMAG which is one of the companies coming from a list which I found on the AWEX web pages concerning the related Halal Forum event. They said that they didn’t know any producer of stainless sheet in the belgo-luxembourg territory.
With “they”, they mean the Belgium Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce in Morocco (CCBLM). In other words, they were slowly killing the ArcelorMittal steel producer who has plants in Belgium and Luxembourg. Someone want to keep ArcelorMittal out of Morocco.
I Was Invited to the ArcelorMittal Foundation on 14 June 2007
It was not the first time that they tried to kill the ArcelorMittal company. I have also been observing a possible hostility against this prestigious Indian-led steel manufacturer in Belgium, of whom I visited the foundation on 14 June 2007, for realizing the Center for Excellence in Diversity Competence and Globalization, our multicultural innovation center or diversity incubator. Someone was highly disturbed by this project.
The Aurum Helix model of an innovation center provides direct international exposure in two ways : locally through ethnic diversity and internationally through travel and exports, like with Halal Village.
I am against the waste of space, so I decided to make something better for the Muslim entrepreneurs who were excluded from the job market. In my model the school is incorporated in the enterprise and in the market.
The enterprise laboratory that I designed is the shortcut to working and learning a profession which is aligned with the innovation.
This is why unless it is part of an industrial research center, I don’t think an innovation center should be attached to the universities at all, but directly to the markets.
I have been highly very protective of my own solution even with copyrights, to advance the Muslims, to the point that only one company so far has ever received some detailed descriptions with drawings of the laboratory; which is the Kingdom Foundation.
I also thought of how to make the innovation center profitable, so not to end up in financial trouble like in the Belgian model. With me, there is no question of engaging a investor in paying for the real-estate without a profitable plan. I would have someone else absorb the real-estate cost. This way, I would keep the cost for the start-ups cheap or for free in certain cases, depending on the capacity of the start-up to create revenues.
That is how I thought of a shopping mall. This too will help in keeping the knowledge and the experience in one place. It allows starting entrepreneurs to witness business in action. That will definitely bring them close to the real world, which is the market where they can directly test their ideas of products and services, to understand the functioning and the demands of the customers. That will be secret of our success. This is what AWEX doesn’t know. Their model is classic because they still try to do business from a campus (like in their partnership with Texas A&M in an attempt to copycat my model). They will eventually lose money and we will win and make money.
I requested funds for the innovation center to the ArcelorMittal Foundation in Luxembourg, in 2007. I wrote a letter to His Excellency Mr. Lakshmi Mittal himself, shortly after his arrival in Europe from India, that year. He loved the plan. That letter was enough to receive an invitation to go to the foundation and to request the funds I needed.
I Didn’t Know the Plan Was Vetoed by an Uninvited Intruder
The funds never came. I inquired in 2010, I learned that a Belgian managing director of Sidmar, of the ArcelorMittal group, didn’t like the privileged treatment I received and that he vetoed the project.
His name is Paul Verstraeten and he was with us at the presentation in 2007. He was not invited or contacted by me, but my e-mails were monitored by a mafia in Belgium, who wanted to know more about everything that the project involved.
The mafia sent Mr Verstraeten. I didn’t like it when I heard that he was coming too, but I didn’t show it. Instead, I asked him to pick me up. He did that. I learned more about him driving all the way to Luxembourg,
On the way to Luxembourg he told me about his trips to Turkey and about a female Turkish student that his family was hosting during one year. She came through an exchange program.
I would not have found out about that, if I were treating him in a hateful way like he was treating me. However, I knew that I was dealing with a traitor and the best is to let him finish his mission upon which he will get himself caught. He also told me that he has projects which the ArcelorMittal foundation was financing. His project was about the re-integration of the ex-convicts in the Belgian society. It may have served the radicalization purposes
He also told me that the Turkish student was from a very rich Turkish family and I think that is all what interests this man, I believe, given his obvious connection with the mafia. After keeping me out of ArcelorMittal, he was granted another job in the Belgian diplomacy. If I see what he does to me and his boss, I wonder what he is doing with the foreign Heads of State. I think that it didn’t go down very well with him that he has to work for an Indian family.
2 to 3 Weeks After My Visit the ArcelorMittal Export Office in Liège Was to Ashes
As our project involves engaging ethnic diversity in the international trade for any company, the ArcelorMittal export department in Belgium got burnt down to ashes just a couple of weeks after my visit to the foundation, in June 2007. This is in addition to the blow to deny access to Morocco of the the ArcelorMittal products.
My feeling was that the fire was set on purposely to slow down the creation of a Center for Excellence in Diversity Competence and Globalization for the outsourcing of export jobs to the ethnic minorities as an additional global distribution channel for any company.
Was the Fire Also Due to CCBLM ?
It is dangerous to relate the fire to the presentation which was held on 14 June 2007, and to Mr Lucien Leuwenkroon, all the more that it was not specified if the fire was intentional or an accident. Yet, this was not a plant with ovens inside and where fires are inevitable. This was an office without any sources of heat which would make the building susceptible to catching fire.
The other explanation for the fire is that we have found a chamber of commerce which has an issue with Morocco, with all the ethnic minorities and with the ArcelorMittal company since that it goes telling the world that there is no steel company in Belgium and in the Luxembourg region.
Thus, I am not worried about this region being impacted by the tariffs on steel and aluminum which you have decided recently by your administration, but China will, the business sources say. Belgium Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce in Morocco said that there are no steel and aluminium producers in Belgium and Luxembourg, so I don’t understand the response from the European Commission with their list of American products which they want to tax.
Did Someone Think I wanted to steal their jobs ?
It could be the same man who vetoed the project, who hated that the Indians and the Turkish were richer than him, and that a Moroccan is trying to bypass him with new plans.
The project which I proposed in 2007 has become Halal Village today. The Halal Village is a hard project (the innovation center) into a soft project (tourism and hospitality). The Halal Village hospitality doesn’t involve just the flying over of Islamic money but it also involves the flying over tourists, trainees for my innovation center, and even entire shops and business people who are interested in investments and takeovers to develop their domestic economies. The Halal Village involves also knowledge, fun and well-being.
The same like happened to the ArcelorMittal export division would have happened with our innovation center anyway. They would set fire to Halal Village, and this is why it will be constructed somewhere else. This also means that the Islamic investment potential, which Belgium needs right away, will be taken to somewhere else.
After that defeat with the ArcelorMittal Foundation, I carried out my plan B, which was to contact the Kingdom Foundation. At that time, the plan was to prepare the innovation center infrastructure to enable multicultural recruitment, training and brainstorming, to build a network for a fast access to multicultural and multilingual resources in order to process concrete and profitable projects in the future, like Halal Village.
Unfortunately, a female boss who is working with the Prince took the final decision and rejected the proposal as a whole, but she suggested to forward it to other investors, in less than one day after I had sent it. As she mentioned OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs), I immediately knew she understood nothing of the strategy (I am sorry to say this), and I refused.
You will find the full story in the letter to His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman to bail out His Royal Highness Prince Alwaleed when he was detained in the Carlton Hotel in Riyadh, last winter
I have dedicated my life to a solution for something that everyone is also looking for. Imagine a person like the female boss of Kingdom Foundation would offer the solution for free to the United Nations. This woman functions in favor of the system that I have uncovered in this paper. Why do the Arab countries disclose their projects to these organizations while nobody in the West does that ? Why would we give our solutions to them ?
This is the mistake that all the Arabs are making. For any single thing they want to do, they go to organizations like UNRWA, UNDP, the World Bank, IMF, the European Union, or to Western Foundations. I am not suggesting to break all the contracts, but to work with your own agenda.
Sincerely Yours,
Naima Mouali
President of United Chambers and Innovation Consultant
Founder of Anaccell Corporation
e-mail : unitedchambers@firemail.de
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