By: Staff Writer
April 22, 2022
A Grenadian diplomat of Russian origin is suing a US Senate candidate for defamation court documents state.
H.E. Oleg Firer, Grenada’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Grenada to the Russian Federation, as plaintiff in recently obtained court documents by Caribbean Magazine Plus is suing Republican US Senate candidate, Everett Stern and Stern’s company, Tactical Rabbit, as defendants on allegations that Firer is a spy for the Russian government hiding in in the Caribbean.
The court documents, filed in the Florida 11th circuit Federal Court on April 1, state that Firer, who is also a United States citizen who had emigrated from the Ukraine at the age of 12, finds the US as a “beacon of freedom” around the world.
The documents also state that Stern, through Tactical Rabbit, who Firer brands as “conspiracy theorists,” have embarked on a smear campaign against him and intended to “defame” his name and “destroy” his personal and professional life by labelling him as a Russian spy.
H.E. Firer also says that Stern has directed several internet postings towards him in an effort to boost Stern’s flagging Senate campaign. Mr Stern has made allegations that this magazine understands to be false and what Mr Firer categorically denies, particularly that Mr Firer is the Russian ambassador to Grenada when Mr Firer is actually the Grenadian ambassador to Russia.
Mr Firer is a Grenadian citizen and has been serving as its ambassador to the Russian Federation since 2017, his Linkedin profile states.
Mr Firer has also been appointed Grenadian ambassador to Serbia and Kazakhstan as well as ambassador designate to Bulgaria, Albania and two others. He also claims in his court documents to have participated in negotiations and treaty signings with the Ukrainian government in July, 2020.
Mr Firer has been linked to several scandals in the recent past, first one regarding a housing scandal that saw the former owners and Miami fraudsters Victor and Natalia Wolf, “disappear,” after he bought their home. He has also been accused of trying to corner the Grenadian nutmeg market by being involved in a company that sought to corner the nutmeg trade in the country.
Mr Firer as an ambassador was not supposed to be involved in his private business dealings while serving as an ambassador for Grenada.
Mr Stern and Tactical Rabbit have been contacted for a response to the suit, but they have not returned Caribbean Magazine Plus’s calls up to publishing.
Of course the heat surrounding H.E. Firer involves the current Russian/Ukrainian war and other allegations that Russia has been meddling in U.S. political and social affairs. Stern, who is running as a Republican for the U.S. Senate seat for Pennsylvania, is trying to portray himself as tough on crime and strong on national defence.
Tactical Rabbit, says on its website that it is a Private Intelligence Agency (PIA) not a Private Investigator or Detective Service and they launch intelligence operations and not investigations.
Mr Stern himself had been reportedly turned down for a position with the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Directorate of Operations prior to graduating from Florida Atlantic University in 2008.
Mr Stern has been a successful whistle-blower at least, having been responsible for releasing documents on his then employer, multinational banking giant HSBC, where A July 2012 congressional report found that from 2001 through 2010, HSBC had ‘exposed the U.S. financial system to a wide array of money laundering, drug trafficking, and terrorist financing risks due to poor anti-money laundering controls.’”
Firer is a scum bag and a money launderer !!