Al-Khalifa Business School
Ritossa and his entire inner circle received his professorship in the same place — Al-Khalifa Business School, owned by the same His Highness Prince Mahmoud Salah Al Din Assaf. The founder and the chairman — His Excellence Prof. Sir Manuel Freire-Garabal y Núñez, who
“holds different knighthoods and high civil honours from Religions, Congresses, National, Regional-Federal and Local Governments from countries such as the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Peru and Madagascar.”
“He is also a registered Senior Lieutenant at the All-Russian Public Organisation for the Development of the Cossacks — “Union of Cossacks Warriors of Russia and Foreign Countries”.
In fact, this business school is an LLC chartered in the UK with two real employees. It exists only online, and after a small payment gives out (to the gullible) “courses” — pdf-files and “diplomas” that are not recognized anywhere.
You will find around thirty international locations on their website (no HTTPS), but all of them only show sales representatives. Images used to illustrate premises are stock photos.
Left to right — Ritossa, Freire-Garabal y Núñez, Prince Assaf
According to the university, it gave 700,000 scholarships, and 70,000 people graduated:
From the school's website. Note spelling of the word "remarCable", perhaps they should invest in some basic English proficiency.
But only 14 people on LinkedIn are proud of studying at the university. And the 14 include the Prince Assaf’s personal photographer.
School's LinkedIn profile
The school claims to make a global impact in impowerished countries:
But the images posted as the proof are easy to track and do not relate to the "school" at all:
As a confirmation of its caliber, the university boasts of an article about it in “Washington Mail” — not Washington Post. We never heard of this newspaper, but apparently it costs just $50 to get your article in.
The founder, Freire-Garabal y Núñez is also the President of the Private Council of His Highness Prince Mahmoud Salah Al Din Assaf , where he also serves with Mr. Ritossa — note that the council website also does not have an HTTPS certificate.
The “university’s” dean is His Excellence Prof. Sir Igor Olegovich Eleferenko. Sir Eleferenko’s career looks exactly what a covert Russian FSB agent looks like: Russian Information Agency chief in Havana, Head of the Bureau of RIA Novosti in Argentina; Deputy General Director, General Director of CJSC Russian Channel — Worldwide Russian Television. Cossack chieftain. Graduated from “the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after M. Teresa” (!). Naturally, a knight of the same Maltese pseudo-order. But looks like at some point he went off the rails:
His Excellence Prof. Sir Igor Olegovich Eleferenko
There are two people who share work on the board of Al-Khalifa Business School and the Prince's "private council". Both careers resemble Russia's FSB agents a lot.:
- His Excellence Prof. Sir Igor Olegovich Eleferenko (described in Anthony Ritossa's post)
- Sir Sergey Pecheliev - vice-rector of MGIMO, Russia's premier university for foreign service and espionage
Our verdict:
