Duarte Levy ! Journalist or Charlatan ?

[DevilsAdvocate]

I have not read up too much on this character !
Enlighten me please.

[amaraltheofficeboy]

what makes you think he could be a Charlatan from your limited reading of him?

[DevilsAdvocate]

What makes you think Amaral is an office boy ?

[ferryman]

Levy tried to 'sell' non-existent photographs to a tabloid newspaper that he claimed would blow the case apart:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/vile-fantasist-ties-to-sell-dynamite-1656692

[DevilsAdvocate]

Levy tried to 'sell' non-existent photographs to a tabloid newspaper that he claimed would blow the case apart:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/vile-fantasist-ties-to-sell-dynamite-1656692

Hi Ferryman, with respect, he may have been offered these supposed photographs from a third party and as history has proven a 'Pap' will sell photos to the highest bidder.
Is there any background on Msr.Levy prior to May 2007 ?

[Redblossom]

I have not read up too much on this character !
Enlighten me please.

He could be both, honest and dishonest depending on circumstances, its not uncommon.

[DevilsAdvocate]

I have not read up too much on this character !
Enlighten me please.

He could be both, honest and dishonest depending on circumstances, its not uncommon.

Hi Redblossom, unfortunately you can not be honest and dishonest, it's like claiming you are a little bit pregnant i.e. you are either one or the other.

[Redblossom]

 Yea they can be. Journos are mercurial, go with the wind, change their tune.They can post truth and lies.

[DevilsAdvocate]

Yea they can be. Journos are mercurial, go with the wind, change their tune.They can post truth and lies.

Being mercurial does not negate honesty, you either are or you are not !

[icabodcrane]

Does this character still write about the case  ?

[DevilsAdvocate]

Does this character still write about the case  ?

That's an interesting question Icabod, I don't know ! Anybody else ?

[icabodcrane]

Does this character still write about the case  ?

That's an interesting question Icabod, I don't know ! Anybody else ?

It would be most odd if he stopped  writing about the case at the same time he claimed some famous British legal firm were offering him a fortune   ( for his pictures and his silence ! ) 

That couldn't be the case though, surely ? 

[DevilsAdvocate]

Does this character still write about the case  ?

That's an interesting question Icabod, I don't know ! Anybody else ?

It would be most odd if he stopped  writing about the case at the same time he claimed some famous British legal firm were offering him a fortune   ( for his pictures and his silence ! ) 

That couldn't be the case though, surely ?

Hi Icabod, was he offered a fortune for the supposed photos by a law firm ? May I be so bold as to ask for a source for this please ?

[icabodcrane]

Does this character still write about the case  ?

That's an interesting question Icabod, I don't know ! Anybody else ?

It would be most odd if he stopped  writing about the case at the same time he claimed some famous British legal firm were offering him a fortune   ( for his pictures and his silence ! ) 

That couldn't be the case though, surely ?

Hi Icabod, was he offered a fortune for the supposed photos by a law firm ? May I be so bold as to ask for a source for this please ?

I know nothing about this chap DA  ( which is why, like you,  I'm asking questions )

I was going by the link, above, to the Mirror article,  which says Levy claimed a well known British legal firm offered him over half a million pounds for the photos

[amaraltheofficeboy]

In this post I will expose and prove how the so called journalist 'Duarte Levy' is nothing more than a con man, a swindler and a dangerous pathological liar. I was compelled to write this article as a warning for others who may fall prey of his lies and manipulative games, even though the subsequences that will probably originate from here will no doubt be used by persons who have other agendas.

In 2007 I used to follow a few blogs to learn about the Madeleine McCann case, one of those blogs was SOS Maddie, written by a freelance Belgium journalist, 'Duarte Levy'. As many others, I had the impression that 'Duarte Levy' was a man that knew through investigative journalism and that had in his possession documents which he would use as a basis to then write articles about the Madeleine case.

Later in 2008, Duarte Levy wanted to meet me, at the time I was on the North of Portugal at my family's house, and he travelled there to meet me and to talk about the case. What I didn't know at the time is that Duarte Levy 'studies' very well his soon to be victims, before he does the operation 'Charm & Con'.

Anyway let's stop calling this man of 'Duarte Levy' since that is not his real name. Let's call him by the name that his Portuguese parents gave him: Nuno Miguel Duarte, being Duarte his family name, a common name in Portugal like Silva or Lopes.

So, in 2008, this man, wanted to meet me. Obviously I was absolutely excited for knowing someone that could fill in the gaps, with whom I could exchange information and ideas. He presented himself as being Duarte Levy, a freelancer journalist who worked with the Times, the Sun, Hareetz, La Dèrniere Heure, El Mundo and several other papers which I don't recall - the Times and El Mundo being the only newspaper that I could confirm the veracity of his allegations [that is regarding the Madeleine McCann affair previous to that...nothing exists].

When I questioned that his name 'Duarte Levy' didn't appear in the on-line newspapers or that his professional past as a freelance journalist simply wasn't traceable he told me that he wrote under a few alias, one of them being Simon de Bruxelles [profile at journalisted.com; facebook and twitter];  the twitter social profile of Simon de Bruxelles has  however a striking similarity with 'Duarte Levy' & 'Arthur Finkelstein' twitter profiles, updates, similar followers, etc.. As a final consideration on these three tweeter profiles, I can only assume that the journalist 'Duarte Levy' uses this 'sock puppets' to sustain his own allegations and to, in the public view, assume a credible professional image.

There is also another fake on-line character, just created to praise and divulge his work - a kind of split personality syndrome - named DJorn - which as 'Duarte Levy' himself explained to me was a nick created by adding his name 'Duarte' with 'Jornalista' [Journalist].

Djorn, is a member of three arguidos, which has defended his '«master's voice» several times, even affirmed that he and Duarte Levy are totally different persons - interestingly Djorn posted several times on the 3 Arguidos Forum using - guess what - my own IP address, attributed by TVCABO operator [see screenshots bellow] - which is odd, to say the least, considering that I never met Djorn. Or did I?

Another interesting situation is how Djorn was also able to connect to the internet via TMN GPRS operator, an account that 'Duarte Levy' asked me to open for him, affirming that he would pay me every month, since he didn't have a Portuguese home address to give - a condition to have a mobile net service. Yes, gullibly, I opened that account with my name, my home address and ended up paying more than 1000 Euros - and this is not an easy thing to assume in front of unknown persons: I was defrauded.

etc etc (there is more)

http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2009/06/exposing-swindler-truth-about.html