The Grayzone has reviewed a sealed indictment for pro-Palestine donor Fergie Chambers, who was arrested in Spain on dubious money laundering charges concocted by the Trump DOJ. His partner accuses the US government of “political persecution.”
Fergie Chambers, a communist philanthropist and heir to the Cox family fortune, has been jailed in Ibiza, Spain, on the orders of the US Department of Justice. According to a sealed indictment seen by The Grayzone, Chambers now awaits extradition to Washington on dubious federal charges of “international money laundering… with the intent to provide material support to and resources to foreign terrorist organizations.” If deported to the US, he faces up to 30 years in prison.
On July 10, six Spanish police vehicles surrounded Chambers’ car while he drove through Ibiza with his family, before detaining him. Since his arrest, he has been denied bail and contact with the outside world. Chambers’ detention marks the first time an individual has faced extradition to the US from Spain for supporting the Palestinian cause.
An heir to the vast Cox family fortune, in 2023 he cut ties with his family and sold his stake in Cox Enterprises, receiving an estimated $250 million. Vowing to use this money to fund social activism and international solidarity work, Chambers has since donated over $1 million to humanitarian projects supporting those impacted by the Gaza genocide, and to support pro-Palestine activist groups and news outlets.
The sealed indictment offers no evidence that Chambers has donated any money to “foreign terrorist organizations.” It merely states “Chambers made numerous transfers of funds from banks in the US to banks in Tunisia,” where he relocated in late 2023.
His money is now US money I guess. Good reminder if you ever get money like this and want to use it against the empire in even the most mundane ways they’ll find a way to call it terrorism or Chinese spy money and arrest you and take it. So don’t live within the domain of their obedient vassals (all of EU, the Asian countries you know, etc). Live in Russia, China, Vietnam (they’ll drag you to the US if you do digital piracy but I doubt they’d let this slide).
At the very least choose France and buy a French citizenship as they won’t extradite French nationals so you get to fight their BS on slightly friendlier soil though you could still easily get robbed of your money and thrown in a French cell for 30 years.
It’s seriously easy for the US to declare whatever a terrorist organization and to claim your funds got into the hands of said organization even if they passed through 3 sets of hands to get there and then stick it on you.
