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Russian Oligarchs Sanctioned by the US/Europe over Ukraine
Mikhail Fridmanwas cofounder of Alfa Bank, Russia's largest non-state bank (and was the bank cited in Mueller's Trump-Russia investigation). It's not readily apparent why the US/West should be so interested in sanctioning Fridman because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine–you have to ponder that one.
His wiki page says that in his younger days Fridman was denied entrance to Moscow's top physics college because he is Jewish. He is currently an Isreali citizen. He has been an active supporter of Jewish initiatives in Russia and Europe.
A Ukraine native, Fridman and his college buddies German Khan and Alexei Kuzmichev started commodities trader Alfa-Eco in 1989.
Fridman bought the Tyumen Oil Company (TNK) in 1997. Friedman then merged it with Britain’s BP in a deal brokered with then head of BP Lord Browne, who is as a rather interesting fellow. His full name is Edmund John Phillip Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley.
Fridman was CEO of TNK-BP, for nine years. In 2012, Russia's state-run Rosneft bought BP's 50% stake inTNK-BP. The deal was structured by the Rothschild Group. After the sale he co-founded the international investment company LetterOne (a play on the name of Alfa bank).
Fridman's home is Ukraine which has obvious implications to George Soros and, by extension, the Rothschilds. Many of the participants in Kiev’s “EuroMaidan” demonstrations were members of Soros-funded NGOs and/or were trained by the same NGOs sponsored by Soros’ International Renaissance Foundation (IRF), and his various Open Society institutes and foundations. From 1990 to 2010 the International Renaissance Foundation provided more than $100 million in support to numerous Ukrainian non-government organizations (NGOs), community groups, academic and cultural institutions, publishing houses, etc. This was the same timeframe that Fridman's business career started to take off.
It took some effort to find a verifiable link between Soros and Fridman…
A lot can be hidden in the weeds of financial deals. But I believe this is one important link–the Council on Foreign Relations. Soros Fund Management is a President’s Circle Corporate Member of the CFR and Soros himself served as a director of the CFR for a decade (1995-2004).
Mikhail Fridman has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2005, the CFR’s International Advisory Board, and provided the funds to create the CFR’s “Russia and Russian-American Relations Lecture” program. Funding NGO's and creating wealthy cut-out celebrities to front your interests, while hiding your involvement, is the standard operating procedure for the hidden elites.
But, as we've seen before, cutouts don't get to keep their wealth for generations… think about all of the recent oligarch deaths. And then there's this…
Fridman says he doesn’t want his four children involved in Alfa Group – nor does he plan to leave them money in his will, as they should create something on their own. “I am going to transfer all my money to charity. I don’t plan to transfer any money to my children,” Fridman said in 2016.
Saying things like this is pretty common for "Philanthropists" including Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, etc. I don't know if there is any truth to it or not. Is the wealth transferred back to its real owners, the higherups in the bloodline, or it's all just hidden in new places?
https://www.intellinews.com/profile-mikhail-fridman-chairman-of-alfa-group-121087/
https://thenewamerican.com/george-soros-s-giant-globalist-footprint-in-ukraine-s-turmoil/
https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/es/market-insights/latest-news/oil/100112-aar-hires-rothschild-group-to-help-finance-buyout-of-bp-stake-in-tnk-bp
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-contested-afterlife-of-the-trump-alfa-bank-story