Who are the Prime Foresters?
The Mafia Connection So who are the people behind Prime Forestry? The board of directors of the parent company in Switzerland is no less interesting than the activities in Panama. President is one Kurt Emil Meier, who in the eighties operated a penny stock scam in Europe called “Chartwell Securities.” According to Swiss financial magazine CASH and This is Money in the UK, Cartwell was a boiler room telesales scam that pumped dubious penny stock. Writes financial journalist Tony Hetherington (This is Money), who investigated Chartwell Securities at length: “A highly organised network of ‘boiler rooms’ in England, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland and elsewhere used glossy brochures and high pressure phone calls to market shares in companies that existed only on paper. At the head of the scam was Tommy Quinn, a disbarred Brooklyn lawyer and an associate of the Genovese Mafia family. And his right-hand man? You guessed – Kurt E. Meier. To this day, nobody knows how much they made, but o
