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Parish has also been convicted in Switzerland for his role in a fraudulent arbitration in a dispute between rival members of the Kuwaiti ruling family aimed at falsely authenticating fraudulent videos showing corruption and breach of Iran sanctions.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/geneve-trois-avocats-un-cheikh-inculpes-faux-arbitrage|title=A Genève, trois avocats et un cheikh sont inculpés pour faux arbitrage|newspaper=Le Temps|date=September 16, 2016|via=letemps.ch |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613134342/https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/geneve-trois-avocats-un-cheikh-inculpes-faux-arbitrage |archivedate=13 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/un-puissant-membre-cio-renvoye-tribunal-faux-arbitrage|title=Un puissant membre du CIO renvoyé au tribunal pour faux arbitrage|last=Besson|first=Sylvain|date=16 Nov 2018|work=Le Temps|access-date=2018-11-17|language=fr |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230831045210/https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/geneve/un-puissant-membre-cio-renvoye-tribunal-faux-arbitrage |archivedate=31 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.afp.com/en/news/824/powerful-kuwaiti-ioc-member-be-tried-switzerland-forgery-doc-1ax1v23|title=Powerful Kuwaiti IOC member to be tried in Switzerland for forgery|date=17 Nov 2018|agency=Agence France-Presse|access-date=2018-11-17|language=en|archive-date=2018-11-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117233555/https://www.afp.com/en/news/824/powerful-kuwaiti-ioc-member-be-tried-switzerland-forgery-doc-1ax1v23|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Convicted">{{Cite web|title=Lawyers charged in Geneva over fake arbitration|url=https://globalarbitrationreview.com/lawyers-charged-in-geneva-over-fake-arbitration|access-date=2021-07-20|website=globalarbitrationreview.com|language=en |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720182139/https://globalarbitrationreview.com/lawyers-charged-in-geneva-over-fake-arbitration |archivedate=20 July 2021 }}{{subscription required}}</ref> AP reported in February 2021 that a court hearing had been held and adjourned until August 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Trial of Olympic sheikh on forgery charge pushed back|url=https://apnews.com/article/kuwait-olympic-games-geneva-9c77ef49910db515b5369c4afa7afc09|access-date=2021-05-08|website=AP NEWS|date=20 April 2021 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508132806/https://apnews.com/article/kuwait-olympic-games-geneva-9c77ef49910db515b5369c4afa7afc09 |archivedate=8 May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=AP|date=2021-04-13|title=Forgery trial of Olympic powerbroker now set to open in August|work=Business Standard India|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/sports/forgery-trial-of-olympic-powerbroker-now-set-to-open-in-august-121041300985_1.html|access-date=2021-05-08 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415064640/https://www.business-standard.com/article/sports/forgery-trial-of-olympic-powerbroker-now-set-to-open-in-august-121041300985_1.html |archivedate=15 April 2021}}</ref> In September 2021, Parish was convicted and sentenced to three years' jail time and was banned from practicing law in Switzerland.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=AP |first=PTI & |date=2021-09-11 |title=Olympic power broker Sheikh Ahmad found guilty of forgery |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/sport/olympic-power-broker-sheikh-ahmad-found-guilty-of-forgery/article36397605.ece |access-date=2023-11-02 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://up4net.com/uploads4/up4net.com163275145015861.pdf|title=مركز رفع وتحميل صور وملفات رابط مباشر|access-date=2022-01-10|archive-date=2022-01-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220110172509/https://up4net.com/uploads4/up4net.com163275145015861.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> As AP reports, "Judge Gonseth said he was an arbitration expert and 'manifestly' involved at all stages of the process".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/sports-europe-middle-east-geneva-2020-tokyo-olympics-5599b701407ea05fcd1b2cb76bc394f4|title = Olympic power broker Sheikh Ahmad found guilty of forgery|work = ]|date = 10 September 2021 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917012729/https://apnews.com/article/sports-europe-middle-east-geneva-2020-tokyo-olympics-5599b701407ea05fcd1b2cb76bc394f4 |archivedate=17 September 2021}}</ref><ref name="Convicted"/> Parish has also been convicted in Switzerland for his role in a fraudulent arbitration in a dispute between rival members of the Kuwaiti ruling family aimed at falsely authenticating fraudulent videos showing corruption and breach of Iran sanctions.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/geneve-trois-avocats-un-cheikh-inculpes-faux-arbitrage|title=A Genève, trois avocats et un cheikh sont inculpés pour faux arbitrage|newspaper=Le Temps|date=September 16, 2016|via=letemps.ch |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613134342/https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/geneve-trois-avocats-un-cheikh-inculpes-faux-arbitrage |archivedate=13 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/un-puissant-membre-cio-renvoye-tribunal-faux-arbitrage|title=Un puissant membre du CIO renvoyé au tribunal pour faux arbitrage|last=Besson|first=Sylvain|date=16 Nov 2018|work=Le Temps|access-date=2018-11-17|language=fr |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230831045210/https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/geneve/un-puissant-membre-cio-renvoye-tribunal-faux-arbitrage |archivedate=31 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.afp.com/en/news/824/powerful-kuwaiti-ioc-member-be-tried-switzerland-forgery-doc-1ax1v23|title=Powerful Kuwaiti IOC member to be tried in Switzerland for forgery|date=17 Nov 2018|agency=Agence France-Presse|access-date=2018-11-17|language=en|archive-date=2018-11-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117233555/https://www.afp.com/en/news/824/powerful-kuwaiti-ioc-member-be-tried-switzerland-forgery-doc-1ax1v23|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Convicted">{{Cite web|title=Lawyers charged in Geneva over fake arbitration|url=https://globalarbitrationreview.com/lawyers-charged-in-geneva-over-fake-arbitration|access-date=2021-07-20|website=globalarbitrationreview.com|language=en |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720182139/https://globalarbitrationreview.com/lawyers-charged-in-geneva-over-fake-arbitration |archivedate=20 July 2021 }}{{subscription required}}</ref> AP reported in February 2021 that a court hearing had been held and adjourned until August 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Trial of Olympic sheikh on forgery charge pushed back|url=https://apnews.com/article/kuwait-olympic-games-geneva-9c77ef49910db515b5369c4afa7afc09|access-date=2021-05-08|website=AP NEWS|date=20 April 2021 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508132806/https://apnews.com/article/kuwait-olympic-games-geneva-9c77ef49910db515b5369c4afa7afc09 |archivedate=8 May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=AP|date=2021-04-13|title=Forgery trial of Olympic powerbroker now set to open in August|work=Business Standard India|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/sports/forgery-trial-of-olympic-powerbroker-now-set-to-open-in-august-121041300985_1.html|access-date=2021-05-08 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415064640/https://www.business-standard.com/article/sports/forgery-trial-of-olympic-powerbroker-now-set-to-open-in-august-121041300985_1.html |archivedate=15 April 2021}}</ref> In September 2021, Parish was convicted and sentenced to three years' jail time and was banned from practicing law in Switzerland.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=AP |first=PTI & |date=2021-09-11 |title=Olympic power broker Sheikh Ahmad found guilty of forgery |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/sport/olympic-power-broker-sheikh-ahmad-found-guilty-of-forgery/article36397605.ece |access-date=2023-11-02 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://up4net.com/uploads4/up4net.com163275145015861.pdf|title=مركز رفع وتحميل صور وملفات رابط مباشر|access-date=2022-01-10|archive-date=2022-01-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220110172509/https://up4net.com/uploads4/up4net.com163275145015861.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> As AP reports, "Judge Gonseth said he was an arbitration expert and 'manifestly' involved at all stages of the process".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/sports-europe-middle-east-geneva-2020-tokyo-olympics-5599b701407ea05fcd1b2cb76bc394f4|title = Olympic power broker Sheikh Ahmad found guilty of forgery|work = ]|date = 10 September 2021 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917012729/https://apnews.com/article/sports-europe-middle-east-geneva-2020-tokyo-olympics-5599b701407ea05fcd1b2cb76bc394f4 |archivedate=17 September 2021}}</ref><ref name="Convicted"/>

==Controversy in Ukraine==
Following his conviction in Switzerland, Parish published the website "The Paladins Organisation" where he gives his opinions on the ]. On October 2nd, 2023, Parish joined the volunteer organization Hell's Kitchen (ПеКельна Кухня) in ] Ukraine where he worked for four days. On October 6th, 2023, a residential building in Kharkiv was struck with a Russian ], killing a 10 year-old child.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/06/europe/10-year-old-ukraine-boy-asleep-when-russia-drone-strike-intl-hnk/index.html#:~:text=Buildings%20damaged%20by%20a%20Russian,of%20Kharkiv%20on%20October%206.&text=A%2010%2Dyear%2Dold%20boy,residential%20buildings%2C%20Ukrainian%20officials%20said.</ref> Parish didn't arrive at work that morning, instead choosing to go photograph the attack site. He claimed he could not leave his building, writing, "My hotel appears to have locked its guests inside. Nevertheless I am now going to try to escape my temporary prison and walk to work."<ref>https://www.the-paladins.com/post/fragments-from-a-war-diary-part-59</ref> This conflicted with Parish's ability to photograph and provide first-hand accounts of the site's excavation in the same article. He further conflicted his claim in his diary with the line, "I headed for that building. I soon found one of the strike locations. It is on a prominent street in central Kharkiv, about 150 metres from my accommodation." Following the attack, Parish quickly boarded a train out of Kharkiv.<ref>https://www.the-paladins.com/post/fragments-from-a-war-diary-part-66</ref> On October 14, 2023, after learning of his criminal history, Hell's Kitchen banned him from returning to their organization while he was traveling to Kharkiv, resulting in him rerouting his journey.<ref>https://www.the-paladins.com/post/fragments-from-a-war-diary-part-82</ref>

On October 13th, 2023, Parish was denied service for wearing false military apparel in a bar in ].<ref>https://www.the-paladins.com/post/fragments-from-a-war-diary-part-79</ref> In his articles, he references his military jacket (containing UK and Ukrainian military insignia) despite no prior service in the ], ], or the ]. He has received criticism for representing himself as being involved in combat operations with claims that he is "amidst the trenches of the front line in Ukraine in ragged boots and torn uniform."<ref>https://www.the-paladins.com/post/fragments-from-a-war-diary-part-160-1</ref><ref>https://www.the-paladins.com/post/fragments-from-a-war-diary-part-163</ref> It is unclear how close to the front line Parish has been. However, there are no reliable sources citing his involvement in any military action, and no records of his travel beyond the green zones in Kharkiv.


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Matthew Parish
BornHeadingley, Leeds, England
Occupation(s)Lawyer, academic, author, international relations expert
Years active1998–present
Criminal chargesFraud
Criminal penalty3 years prison
Websitewww.matthew-parish.com

Matthew Parish is a British international lawyer and scholar of international relations, based in England and Eastern Europe. In September 2021, Parish was sentenced by a Swiss court to three years in prison for his role staging a fraudulent arbitration to prove the authenticity of incriminating evidence in a political dispute between rival members of the Kuwaiti ruling family.

Early life

Parish was born in Leeds, in West Yorkshire. He is a graduate of Cambridge University.

Career and publications

Parish worked in the legal department of the International Supervisor for Brčko, part of the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His first book, on reconstruction in post-war Brčko, A Free City in the Balkans (2009), drew on his experience working for the OHR. The book has been criticized for being too sceptical of the international community's statebuilding efforts in the country.

Parish's second book, Mirages of International Justice, was published in 2011. The book describes international law as "for the most part quite useless". According to a sceptical review by Christian Axboe Nielsen, the book "concludes by wishing that both international law and international organizations would disappear from the face of the earth". Nielsen compares the book unfavourably to A Free City in the Balkans, describing the latter as making "provocative and, by comparison, cogent arguments".

Parish left Akin Gump's Geneva office for Holman Fenwick Willan's (HFW) Geneva office in 2011. In December 2014 he and a colleague at HFW set up their own practice, Gentium Law Group. Gentium was one of the first boutique arbitration law firms that involved teams of senior arbitration lawyers splitting away from large established law firms and forming their own smaller practices under new brands. The group was nominated as a Global Arbitration Review Top 100 Law Firm worldwide in 2016 and 2017.. In November 2018 Parish ceased to manage the company having handed control to a new partner.

Legal issues

In 2018, Parish was found guilty of criminal defamation in Switzerland for making the reports to Western intelligence services accusing his former clients, Murat Seitnepesov and Konstantin Ryndin, of money laundering, fraud and financing terrorism. Sentenced to two months, Parish reports in a self-published book that he spent 23 days in prison.

Parish was further charged in 2019. He was subsequently fined, given a one-year suspended prison sentence and instructed by the court to see a psychiatrist. Reuters reported that a spokesman for the Geneva prosecutor's office said: "Mr. Parish is found guilty of defamation, calumny, a coercion attempt and of failing to conform with an authority’s decision." Parish indicated his intention to appeal the conviction.

Parish has also been convicted in Switzerland for his role in a fraudulent arbitration in a dispute between rival members of the Kuwaiti ruling family aimed at falsely authenticating fraudulent videos showing corruption and breach of Iran sanctions. AP reported in February 2021 that a court hearing had been held and adjourned until August 2021. In September 2021, Parish was convicted and sentenced to three years' jail time and was banned from practicing law in Switzerland. As AP reports, "Judge Gonseth said he was an arbitration expert and 'manifestly' involved at all stages of the process".

Works

Books

References

  1. Farge, Emma (2021-09-10). "Kuwait's Sheikh Ahmad convicted of forgery in Geneva trial". Reuters. Retrieved 2023-09-13.
  2. Biography, MattewParish.com
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  4. ^ Morrison, Kenneth (15 June 2010). "Matthew Parish, A Free City in the Balkans: Reconstructing a Divided Society in Bosnia". Balkan Insight. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  5. Geoghegan, Peter (14 May 2014). "Welcome to Brčko, Europe's only free city and a law unto itself". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  6. Sadiković, Mirna. "Iz OHR za etto.ba: Tvrdnje Parisha o smjeni visokog predstavnika nisu tačne". Etto. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  7. Matthew Parish, "A Free City in the Balkans: Reconstructing a Divided Society in Bosnia" (London: I.B.Tauris 2009)
  8. Subotic, Jelena (2010). "A free city in the Balkans: reconstructing a divided society in Bosnia, by Matthew Parish, New York, I.B. Tauris, 2009, xvii + 256 pp. + maps, illustrations (hardback), ISBN 978-1848850026". Nationalities Papers. 38 (3): 440-442. doi:10.1017/S0090599200039787.
  9. Nielsen, Christian Axboe (2013). "Mirages of international justice: the elusive pursuit of a transnational legal order, by Matthew Parish, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar, 2011, 268 pp., £75 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-84980-408-0". Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. 13 (1): 110–112. doi:10.1080/14683857.2013.773185.
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  17. Osborne, Lydia (6 June 2018). "Swiss Lawyer Imprisoned After Making Fraud Accusations". Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. Archived from the original on 15 June 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  18. Parish, Matthew (2018). Spy's Diary: Essays from a Maximum Security Swiss Prison (PDF). Matthew Parish. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 February 2022.
  19. "British lawyer faces new charges in Geneva". globalarbitrationreview.com. Archived from the original on 27 October 2020.(subscription required)
  20. "A Genève, trois avocats et un cheikh sont inculpés pour faux arbitrage". Le Temps. September 16, 2016. Archived from the original on 13 June 2018 – via letemps.ch.
  21. Besson, Sylvain (16 Nov 2018). "Un puissant membre du CIO renvoyé au tribunal pour faux arbitrage". Le Temps (in French). Archived from the original on 31 August 2023. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
  22. "Powerful Kuwaiti IOC member to be tried in Switzerland for forgery". Agence France-Presse. 17 Nov 2018. Archived from the original on 2018-11-17. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
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  24. "Trial of Olympic sheikh on forgery charge pushed back". AP NEWS. 20 April 2021. Archived from the original on 8 May 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  25. AP (2021-04-13). "Forgery trial of Olympic powerbroker now set to open in August". Business Standard India. Archived from the original on 15 April 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  26. ^ "Olympic power broker Sheikh Ahmad found guilty of forgery". Associated Press. 10 September 2021. Archived from the original on 17 September 2021.
  27. AP, PTI & (2021-09-11). "Olympic power broker Sheikh Ahmad found guilty of forgery". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2023-11-02.
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