In regards to noteable >>7429253

Had seen the name Optima in relation to Ukraine Companies while digging telecoms/illegal activity/trollfarms from companies owned by Ukrainian Oligarchs, which led into China ties.

Rough notes but context is there.

There are a bunch of companies under the "Optima" name, connected to Igor Kolomoisky. As previous anon said look into "Optima schemes"

This deals with Optima Telecom in Ukraine.

System capital Management acquired Optima Telecom in 2005

In 2005 Ukraine's leading financial and industrial group System Capital Management has acquired Farlep-Invest Holding and Optima Telecom, and consolidated these assets into Farlep-Optima group. From 2005 to 2008 SCM has acquired and successfully merged a number of assets, including companies CSS, IP Telecom, Matrix, Vilcom, and over 30 others.

http://www.chamber.ua/en/Membership/MembersListPage/8841note

Farlep is actually the operational management arm of Vega Telecommunicatioins

Vega Telecommunications Group is among the leading players of the Ukrainian market of fixed telephony, broadband Internet access and data transfer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_Telecommunications_Group

RINAT AKHMETOV/ SYSTEM CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

System Capital Management is A major Ukrainian financial and industrial holding company Controlled by Rinat Akhmetov.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCM_Holdings

Rinat Akhmetov is a Ukranian Billionaire businessman and oligarch. Accusations of ties to organized crime have never stuck. He is a practicing Sunni Muslim.

Released in a WikiLeaks diplomatic cable, Volodymyr Horbulin, one of Ukraine's most respected policy strategists and former presidential advisor, told the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine in 2006 that the Party of Regions, which "enjoyed deep pockets, being largely financed by billionaire Donetsk boss Rinat Akhmetov" is partly composed of "pure criminals" and "criminal and anti-democracy figures".[37] In a U.S. diplomatic cable dated 3 February 2006, then U.S. Ambassador John Herbst referred to Akhmetov's Party of Regions as "long a haven for Donetsk-based mobsters and oligarchs" and called Akhmetov the "godfather" of the Donetsk clan

. The largest company in the SCM Group is Metinvest, which is a mining and steel business and is generally agreed to be Ukraine's largest private business and is one of the larger steel businesses in Europe.

Following the Orange Revolution, Akhmetov was pivotal in arranging a lasting relationship between his employee and close friend Paul Manafort and defeated presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich.[79] Also, Akhmetov ensured proper translation services for Manafort through Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russia Army trained linguist and known Russian intelligence operative that operates Manafort's office in Kiev.[80] Kilimnik has been central to collecting fees owed to Manafort's company by the Russia-friendly political party called Opposition Bloc.[80]

Manafort asked Kilimnik to pass the data to Ukrainians Serhiy Lyovochkin and Rinat Akhmetov.

Rinat Akhmetov and Viktor Pinchuk purchased a steel factory, Kryorizhstal, in 2004.

In 2004 Pinchuk and Rinat Akhmetov, two of Ukraine's richest men, acquired the Kryvorizhstal steel factory for about $800 million.[5] Later, the first Tymoshenko Government reversed this sale, and held a nationally-televised repeat auction that netted $4.8 Billion.

>>7430946

RINAT AKHMETOV/METINVEST/KOLOMISKY/TAX FRAUD

Why did the Ukrainian oligarch “overpay” himself more than $42 million for his own coal earlier this year? One of the local experts says the businessman is just compensating for his losses from the Donbass blockade and assets nationalized in Lugansk and Donetsk. “On the one hand, money is taken out of the country and transferred to the accounts of his own company in U.S. as profit. On the other hand, growth of expenses on coal, and consequently, on metallurgical production allows reducing profits and paying less taxes. At the same time, this does not affect the group’s rating as the money remains in the company. Only the state budget of Ukraine suffers from all this,” the expert says.

He is sure that businesspersons holding oil refineries and car filling stations practiced such “compensation schemes.” “Oil refineries were publishing their losses, while the profits are transferred to car filling stations,” the expert told EADaily. “The idea was to optimize tax burden. For instance, 43% of Kremenchug oil refinery belongs to the state, but operational control is in the hand of Privat Group of Igor Kolomoisky. If oil refinery generated profits for the accountable period, it would have to share it with the state. If the margin was transferred to car filling stations owned by Privat, there was nothing to share with the state. One can see a similar situation with import of coal from U.S. Artificial reduction of profits of Metinvest’s metallurgical combines enables the group to evade profit tax in Ukraine.”

https://eadaily.com/en/news/2017/07/20/ukraines-oligarchs-make-up-for-donbass-losses-with-expensive-coal-from-usa

*Side note these threads deal with Rinat, Kolomoisky, and Pinchuk +IMF

https://mobile.twitter.com/RevisitedRick/status/1179160879255953408

https://mobile.twitter.com/RevisitedRick/status/1187475366559932418

SYSTEM CAPITAL MANAGEMENT/URKTELECOM

System Capital Management also owns Urktelecom

Ukrtelecom JSC (Ukrainian: Укртелеком) (PFTS: UTLM) is Ukraine's monopolist telephone company, also active in Internet service providing and mobile markets. The company was governed by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of Ukraine with 92.9% shares belong to government until Austrian investment firm EPIC bought a 92.79 percent stake in Ukraine's main fixed-line operator Ukrtelecom UTLM.PFT from the Ukrainian government for $1.3 billion.[3] This stake was resold to System Capital Management of Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov.[4]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrtelecom

URKTELECOM/HUAWEI

As noted by its press service, in late December 2015 Ukrtelecom signed long-term strategic partnership agreements for financial and technical support with China Development Bank (CDB) and Huawei, with the aim of completing the modernisation of its network and accelerating the expansion of advanced telecoms facilities across Ukraine

https://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2016/04/12/ukrtelecom-begins-three-year-modernisation-project-with-huawei/

>>7430962

**This dig started off as a look into suspicious activity from an IP Ivanov Vitaliy Sergeevich.

I am not well versed in tech/IT,.so keep that in mind, just following leads. What followd is the beginning of all that's above.

IVANOV VITALIY SERGEEVICH AS48031

Ivanov Vitaliy Sergeevich has one peer, a company called ITL LLC.

https://www.bgpview.io/asn/48031#info

ITL LLC and Ivanov Vitaliy Sergeevich are both under the RIPE registry.

https://www.ripe.net/membership/indices/data/ua.itl.html

"The RIPE community develops and sets policies for the technical coordination of the Internet and the management and distribution of Internet resources (IP addresses and Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs)) through an established, open, bottom-up process of discussion and consensus-based decision-making"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIPE

*note:RIPE and IRAN connection needs dig

The more you look into RIPE, the more red flags you see, such as this example

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/634983/suspicious-netstat-activity/

*note: The following troll farm connection is a big hint.

Back to ITL.. Found this CNN article about Russian Troll Farms. If you read it as through the lens of projection, it starts to paint a picture.

https://money.cnn.com/2017/10/25/media/itl-green-floid-cloudflare-russian-sites/index.html

Seems some very nefarious actions have been connected to these companys and this network/registry.

On a list of threats associated with ITL networks we see "Grizzly Steppe".

The CEO is a person named Dmitry Deineka, friends of Vitaly Ivanov, owner of Xserver

Grizzly Steppe is the name given by DHS and the FBI to the malicious activity by purported Russian Intel services → Fancy Bear/Cozy Bear etc.

Russian frame up for "DNC Hack"

https://threatreconblog.com/2017/01/25/itl-company/

*Note, uh hello vault 7 C_A→Dragonfly/Koala/Iron Liberty/Energetic Bear/[CROWDSTRIKE]

Examining some of the peers of ITL network uncovers an interesting web.

Starting with AS12883 PRIVATE JOINT STOCK CO FARLEP-INVEST.

Farlep is actually the operational management arm of Vega Telecommunicatioins

Vega Telecommunications Group is among the leading players of the Ukrainian market of fixed telephony, broadband Internet access and data transfer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_Telecommunications_Group

>>7430969

UKRANIAN NEWEST TELECOMMUNICATIONS (UNTC) AS197726

Peer with ITL LLC

https://www.securityinformed.com/companies/ukrainian-newest-telecommunications-untc.html

UNTC/YURI LUTSENKO

Yuri Lutsenko was known to be an owner of the Ukrainian Newest Telecommunications company (UNTC LLC) that was providing data transmission services for the mobile network operator UMC operating in Ukraine since 2005.

While it has been purchased by Igor Mazepa, Ukrainians still continue to associate the name of the company with the Lutsenko family.

https://igor-mazepa.com/igor-mazepa-as-a-banker-covering-an-illegal-business-of-the-lutsenko-family/

*NOTE need to verify info/source

UNTC/PROSAT/XINWEI

. The Committee gave permission to the Ukrainian telecommunications operator Prosat, which, together with the Chinese company Xinwei, is implementing a project to create a national mobile broadband multimedia communication network for the acquisition of the Ukrainian Newest Telecommunications operator (TM UNTC), which provides Internet access services, telephony (SIP), television, building data networks and remote video surveillance systems in 8 regions.

https://112.international/article/whip-or-carrot-in-whose-interests-antimonopoly-committee-of-ukraine-acts-40642.html

The Chinese telecommunications company Xinwei Group plans by 2018 to install 2,300 base stations providing high-speed Internet coverage throughout Ukraine.

According to the website of Xinwei Group in Ukraine, the company together with the Ukrainian telecommunications operator Prosat is implementing a project to create a network of mobile broadband multimedia communications of national scale.

https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/economic/421752.html

XINWEI

Wang Jing - President and Chairman of Xinwei Group.

http://www.xinwei.com.ua/en#about2

XINWEI/WANG JING/PLA

Possible ties to Chineese Military/PLA

Part of Xinwei’s work with the PLA is in satellites. The company is working on a “wireless broadband platform” for the BeiDou system of navigation satellites — an alternative to the Global Positioning System and the Russian GLONASS

https://www.blacklistednews.com/Chinese_Firm_Planning_a_Canal_Through_Nicaragua_Has_PLA_Ties/39731/0/38/38/Y/M.html

https://dialogochino.net/4054-wang-jings-canal-dream-and-the-people-behind-it/

XINWEI/SATELLITES

A Beijing businessman behind a controversial project to build Central America's second canal linking the Pacific and Atlantic oceans has unveiled his latest big idea - an ambitious plan to establish a constellation of satellites to provide low-cost mobile communication services to China.

The latest project is reminiscent of the Iridium satellite venture launched in 1998, which operates 66 satellites.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1625357/plan-satellite-constellation-china-data-users

>>7430981

XINWEI/SPACECOM/SPACEX

Chinese telecommunications company Beijing Xinwei Technology Group will buy Israeli satellite communications company, Spacecom, for U.S.$190 million, according to Israeli press reports.

Beijing Xinwei Technology Group was originally going to pay U.S.$285 million for Spacecom, contingent upon the successful launch of Spacecom’s Amos-6 communications satellite. The

Amos-6 communications satellite was destroyed when a static engine test of a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket went wrong at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, United States, on 1 September 2016.

https://spacewatch.global/2016/12/chinas-xinwei-buys-israels-spacecom-190-million/

FAILED NICARAGUAN CANAL/HKND (money laundering?)

HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co., Ltd.[1][2][3] also known as HKND is a private infrastructure development firm that is registered in Hong Kong. HKND was founded in 2012[4] with the purpose to develop the Nicaragua Canal as a wider and deeper alternative to the Panama Canal. HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment is owned or controlled by the Chinese businessman Wang Jing.[5] In 2014 it was announced that an IPO is being prepared to provide financing for the project[6] but following financial difficulties, HKND finally closed its offices in April 2018.

Work was to start officially on December 22, 2014 and was scheduled to be completed by 2020,[8] though construction never began.[11] Following financial difficulties, HKND finally closed its offices in April 2018, leaving no forwarding address or telephone numbers to be reached.[1]

NOTE curious they shut down after financial trouble in 2018 due to China stock market being down. (Trump presidency changed game plans?) also, plans would have established a free trade zone

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HK_Nicaragua_Canal_Development_Investment

https://anticorruptiondigest.com/2019/08/19/the-great-nicaragua-canal-scam/#axzz66L4zYP00

End of notes this far

>>7431168

https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2019/06/11/how-ukrainian-oligarchs-secretly-became-the-largest-real-estate-owners-in-downtown-cleveland

https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/who-controls-oligarch-ihor-kolomoiskys-offshore-assets.html

2nd source questionable but business ties are shown