A British court has formally charged a former senior policy adviser for the United States government with child sex crimes.
Rahamim “Rami” Shy, 46, appeared in Crown Court via video link from HMP Bedford, a high-security men's prison, on Friday. The judge ordered Shy remanded in custody before further proceedings in June.
Shy coordinated Washington's strategy for combating foreign terrorist organizations, including Al Qaeda, during the Obama administration.
Bedfordshire Police arrested the 46-year-old in February. Authorities charged him with arranging the commission of a child sex offense, possession of two category C indecent images of children and possessing a prohibited image of a child. (RELATED: GOP Congressman Stuns CNN, Says Gaetz Paid Minors For Sex)
Per the Daily Mail:
Most recently employed as an executive at banking group Citi, Shy worked in a senior role at the US Treasury department from 2008 to 2014, advising officials on countering the financing of terrorism and assisting foreign governments to impose sanctions on hostile regimes. As well as working as a senior adviser to the late US diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who served under the last three Democrat presidents, Shy provided strategic policy analysis to chiefs of staff at the US Department of Defence.
He was deployed to Afghanistan to provide expertise to the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which was set up to maintain stability following the America-led invasion of the country.
According to his LinkedIn page, Shy provided ISAF with counter- terrorist finance expertise and went on to present the US's strategy on Afghanistan to a congressional hearing in 2010.
Shy was a student at Rutgers University in New Jersey and went on to study international security policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in New York.
A representative from Citi confirmed to the Mail that Shy is no longer an employee.
Set for trial in August, Shy awaits his fate.
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