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By Max Greenwood - 04/07/18 04:27 PM EDT

Five things to know about Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska

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The Trump administration's decision to hit dozens of Russian oligarchs, companies and government officials with sanctions on Friday took direct aim at those close to President Vladimir Putin.

Among those hit by the penalties was Oleg Deripaska, a billionaire aluminum magnate who once had ties to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

According the Treasury Department, the sanctions on Deripaska, 50, were prompted by allegations of threatening the lives of business rivals, illegal wiretapping, extortion and racketeering.

The Russian oligarch has also been a recurring figure in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 election and whether President Trump's campaign conspired with Moscow to swing the presidential race.

Here are five things to know about Deripaska:

Manafort reportedly offered him personal briefings about the 2016 election

Just weeks before Trump accepted the 2016 presidential nomination, Manafort allegedly offered in an email to an intermediary to provide Deripaska with private briefings on the campaign.

"If he needs private briefings we can accommodate," Manafort wrote in a July 7, 2016, email obtained by The Washington Post.

It's unclear if Deripaska ever got the message. A spokesman for the aluminum magnate denied to the Post that the offer reached him, and blamed the emails on "consultants in the notorious ‘beltway bandit’ industry."

Those messages and other documents have been handed over to special counsel Robert Mueller and congressional investigators looking into whether members of the Trump campaign conspired with Russia during the election.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/382111-five-things-to-know-about-deripaska

Oleg is standing accused of transferring 400K to Hillary Clinton.

Abedin then rehearsed with Clinton what the latter had decided to say in a planned telephone-call with Steinmeier: “Our government is taking a ‘hands off’ role. Any decision will be made independently by GM, based on commercial considerations. The United States government does not play an active role nor do we have a position on any particular bid.”

This was false. Clinton was lying to Steinmeier. Steinmeier knew it; he had to guess why. Abdedin and Clinton decided not to disclose that Clinton’s objection to the Opel sale was the Russian involvement – that of Putin’s, and of Deripaska’s. Clinton was also hostile to the economic integration of the Russian and German car industries as a threat to US car sales worldwide. Abedin emailed Clinton a copy of a newspaper report from the Dow Jones Berlin bureau, which appeared on August 21. The newspaper said Merkel and Steinmeier favoured the purchase of Opel by the “Austrian-Canadian car parts maker Magna International Inc. (MGA), in a consortium with Russian savings banks OAO Sberbank (SBER.RS), and Belgian private equity firm RHJ International SA (RHJI.BT)”.

Clinton already knew much more, as did all Officials sitting on the ATF. Not least that was because of the activities of Deripaska’s Washington lobbyist, Adam Waldman (right), image022and a small firm called Endeavor Group, which he operated at a modest office on K Street in Washington. As Deripaska’s retainer grew, Waldman and Endeavor moved up to premises on Pennsylvania Avenue, across the street from the White House.

According to Endeavor’s website, Deripaska’s retainer was something to be proud about, even boast of at the top of the company’s home page,although Deripaska’s name was kept in the dark. “One of the world’s leading industrialists is interested in both protecting and expanding his global business empire, which extends across Russia, Asia, Africa and North America. Endeavor was engaged to provide general counsel across a range of strategic, legal, regulatory, philanthropic and communications issues, and to facilitate investments, capital raising and merger & acquisition activities across borders. Endeavor acts as a core member of its Client’s holding company executive team, and is the sole representative of its Client’s myriad interests before the U.S. government.”

No mention of Deripaska by name in Endeavor’s selfie didn’t mean the secret could be kept from the US Government. Here’s how Waldman’s hiring started on May 8, 2009, as required for disclosure to the US Department of Justice’s Foreign Agent Registration (FARA) Unit. No contract was signed, though, so no paper needed to be disclosed. Instead, Waldman reported Endeavor had been “engaged at will”. Payments, which began running at $40,000 per month and have risen to almost $70,000 per month, have come from Deripaska through a UK company called Taviner Ltd; a Belize entity called Sea Chaika Corporation, and RTI Ltd., a Jersey company with this unusual record.

https://johnhelmer.net/favour-for-hillary-clinton-did-she-take-money-from-russian-oligarch-oleg-deripaska-for-favour-in-general-motors-opel-deal/

OH NOESSSS

MULLER and Deripaska

Special counsel Robert Mueller has withstood relentless political attacks, many distorting his record of distinguished government service.

But there’s one episode even Mueller’s former law enforcement comrades — and independent ethicists — acknowledge raises legitimate legal issues and a possible conflict of interest in his overseeing the Russia election probe.

In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007.

Yes, that’s the same Deripaska who has surfaced in Mueller’s current investigation and who was recently sanctioned by the Trump administration.

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/387625-mueller-may-have-a-conflict-and-it-leads-directly-to-a-russian-oligarch

Deripaska is just one of about 100 oligarchs in Russia who control about $420 billion dollars, a third of all the wealth in Russia. Vachel Lindsay added,

Rosie Unmasked ⚖️

@almostjingo

⚖️ @ChuckGrassley fires off very interesting letter to State Dept. and DHS. Apparently Deripaska hired Waldman to magically obtain a diplomatic passport (despite criminal ties) turns out Waldman also knows Steele based off texts with Warner. #TickTock https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/med…cords).pdf …

1. Here's another oligarch you're likely to hear about : Viktor Vekselberg. Estimated worth : $16 billion.

Deripaska : $7 billion.

Vekselberg was a Deripaska rival, whose company SUAL was competing with Deripaska's RUSAL - both aluminium producers.

1. It's a long story that I won't go into, but before they fell out, the two oligarchs merged their companies (2007), anther merger partner being none other than Glencore, a Marc Rich company (yes, the same man inexplicably pardoned by Clinton).

1. Unfortunately for the merger, the 2008 GFC hit and suddenly Deripaska & Vekselberg were unable to relay sects to western banks. A Putin bank gave them a loan to do so, to keep RUSAL in Russian hands.

1. Vekselberg wanted out. Also, Deripaska controlled board decisions and had suspended all dividend payments etc. Deripaska was also looking for a way out. He made an audacious bid to buy the German car company, Opel, in 2008/9:

1. A sale that Germany's Merkel & Putin also wanted. And which Deripaska paid big money to the Clinton Foundation to ensure its safe passage.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/09/…-deal.html …

And which Clinton BLOCKED. Why?

1. Because at the same time, the Clintons were ALSO being paid by someone opposed to the deal. Someone who wanted to destroy Oleg Deripaska.

Viktor Vekselberg.

1. How? It's complicated, but $ milions of were diverted from the Russian funds provided by Rusnano, a Putin owned company, which ended up in a bank account controlled by the Clinton Foundation.

Those funds had been allocated to the Skolvoko project. Which was controlled by?

1. Why, Viktor Vekselberg.

He paid the Clintons to damage Deripaska. That's how far the Clinton circle had mired themselves in Putin's Russia.

Don't believe me?

1. Just after Uranium One went through CFIUS, in 2011: an American joins the board of a small energy company called Joule Unlimited. Two months after he joined, the Putin poured some $35 million into the company. Happy days!

1. Again, the funds came from Rusnano. Again - a Russian government investment fund, started in 2007 by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Who was the American citizen?

This man:

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1. Now, who do we also know were working for Putin during this time - 2011 (at least from 2007)?

Paul Manafort & Tony Podesta.

Who is investigating these two right now?

Robert Mueller.

You starting to see what's happening behind the scenes now, folks?

1. Ignore the noise and distraction, everyone. Focus on what's REALLY going on.

Mueller is uncovering a scandal the likes of which very few people can comprehend. The Clintons were being paid by Putin himself. THAT'S what's going to come out.

1. Forget the Drumpf-Russia BS. IMO Trump has tasked Mueller with perhaps the most important investigation in US history. Actually, no. THE most important. No doubt about it.

And it takes time. Huge amounts of effort. The money laundering schemes alone are vastly complicated.

1. Why Trump is targeting Putin's oligarchs & targeting aluminium etc. It's ALL connected.

He's going to squeeze that SOB Putin SO hard. As for the Clintons & Podestas?

1. Addendum: good article on what's happening related :

Manafort Case May Lead Back to Podesta Brothers, Russian Uranium, and Mueller’s Role as FBI Chief

https://m.theepochtimes.com/manafort-cas…45750.html

End of conversation

(thread roll from the fringe found when searching for clinton/deripaska info)

https://the-fringe.com/thread-russia_the_deeper_blatant_story_of_corruption_putin_s_cash_clinton_s_foundation

ANNNND up pops Christopher Steele and the dossier

"A release last week of texts showed that Christopher Steele, the former British spy whose memos regarding the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia are referred to as the Steele dossier, reached out to Sen. Mark Warner, the ranking Democratic member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, through a Russian-linked Washington, D.C., lobbyist named Adam Waldman. Among Waldman’s clients is Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. In a text dated March 16, 2017, Waldman texted Warner, “Chris Steele asked me to call you.”

In 2009, Waldman filed papers with the Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) registering himself as an agent for Deripaska in order to provide “legal advice on issues involving his U.S. visa as well as commercial transactions” at a retainer of $40,000 a month. In 2010, Waldman additionally registered as an agent for Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, “gathering information and providing advice and analysis as it relates to the U.S. policy towards the visa status of Oleg Deripaska,” including meetings with U.S. policymakers. Based on the information in his FARA filings, Waldman has received at least $2.36 million for his work with Deripaska.

A letter dated Feb. 9 sent by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley to a London-based lawyer may shed light on why Steele used Waldman as an intermediary. (Waldman’s office did not reply to an email from Tablet requesting comment.)"

https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/255290/christopher-steele-putin-oleg-deripaska

OH NOES…Oleg sues Paul Manafort

>Oleg Deripaska sues Paul Manafort for allegedly failing to recover $18.9 million Deripaska had invested in a failed joint venture to acquire the Ukrainian company Black Sea Cable. Though Manafort claimed in 2016 that the suit had been resolved, and his spokesman said the case “is dormant and will not be pursued further,” according to The Washington Post, “there are no signs in court documents that the case has been closed.”

Paul Manafort is a longtime American consultant and political operative who served as Donald Trump’s second campaign chairman. After serving in the Reagan administration, Manafort co-founded the lobbying firm Black, Manafort, Stone, and Kelly, which became known as “The Torturers’ Lobby” for its work on behalf of dictators like Ferdinand Marcos and Mobutu Sese Seko and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi. Prior to joining the Trump campaign in March 2016, Paul Manafort worked extensively to advance Russian interests in Ukraine and the United States.

https://themoscowproject.org/collusion/oleg-deripaska-sues-paul-manafort-18-9-million/

This Russian investigation is going to lead RIGHT to Hillary

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Leonid Bershidsky is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering European politics and business. He was the founding editor of the Russian business daily Vedomosti and founded the opinion website Slon.ru.

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The biggest Russian threat to Western institutions doesn't come from disinformation or the clever use of social networks but from a certain kind of money that, by its very nature, corrupts everything it touches. To understand how that works, it's worth re-examining a uranium story that has resurfaced as part of the U.S. political debate after Washington, D.C. publication The Hill ran an article about it on Tuesday.

The article, which prompted the Senate Judiciary Committee to open a probe into "Russian nuclear bribery," recounts how the Obama administration approved the sale of Uranium One, a Canadian company with some U.S. mining assets, to Russian state-owned nuclear power monopoly Rosatom, despite an ongoing Federal Bureau of Investigation corruption probe into the activities of a Rosatom official in the U.S. The Uranium One case and the bribery case of the official, Vadim Mikerin, were reported by the media separately but it's the linking of the two by The Hill that has caused a ruckus.

Tenam, the company Mikerin set up and ran in the U.S., is a subsidiary of Rosatom's foreign trade arm, known outside Russia as Tenex. Vadim Zhivov, who became president of Uranium One after Rosatom assumed control in three separate deals between 2009 and 2013, was also deputy head of Tenex and might have run the company had he been willing to give up his Canadian dual citizenship. Mikerin, the son of a Soviet deputy minister for nuclear energy, had only ever worked in the Rosatom-Tenex system, which he knew inside out and, it turned out, exploited for personal profit.

When Rosatom decided in 2010 to acquire Uranium One and applied to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (Cfius) for approval, Mikerin was the top Rosatom official in the U.S. Though his primary responsibility was to facilitate the sales of Russian uranium to U.S. power plants, it's likely he was involved in planning the Uranium One purchase. Mikerin was under an FBI investigation for offering a U.S. businessman a consulting contract in exchange for kickbacks; the American went to the authorities and was allowed to pay the kickbacks as the FBI and the Department of Energy watched and recorded everything.

Along the way, they discovered that Mikerin also received kickbacks from U.S. companies involved in the transportation of Russian uranium in the U.S., and that he apparently shared the money – in cash – with his Rosatom superiors when they visited. Some of that was known to government agents before Cfius approved the Uranium One deal, but, apparently, it never come up in discussions, though Attorney General Eric Holder was on the committee.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also sat on the committee. By the time of the Uranium One decision, the charitable foundation run by her husband Bill Clinton had received, but not fully disclosed, hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from a Uranium One shareholder and former chariman, Ian Telfer, who stood to benefit from a generous Rosatom offer of a premium to the stock price. In June, 2010, when Rosatom made known its interest in controlling Uranium One, Bill Clinton received $500,000 for a speech organized by Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank that was talking up Uranium One shares.

Ostensibly, these were all unrelated events: A kickback probe into the work of a Rosaton official in the U.S.; Rosatom's bid for Uranium One and for U.S. approval of the deal; Bill Clinton's fundraising. No one has managed to connect the dots convincingly, since there was no formal link between Mikerin and Uranium One, Hillary Clinton maintained she'd done nothing to expedite the deal, and Telfer insisted he'd never talked to her about it.

Russia, however, is a land of magic. Whatever happened in Washington in 2010, Rosatom ended up owning Uranium One. In 2016, it made an operating profit of $67.8 million on $314.6 in revenue.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-18/russian-money-talks-america-was-all-ears

Bloomberg..>BEFORE the election.

>>2200579

>Roger Stone, hmm?

Roger Stone is MUCH more than he seems…even more than you can imagine. He's been an Israeli plant to gain inside access to Trump and his family for years. The truth of that is horrific. Why do you think he was ejected from the inner circle.