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>Obama donates millions to Equatorial Guinea - a country run by a dictator - who starves his people, decimates his own population, a country deeply involved in human trafficking and has a high child death rate. Then they spend millions building up the airport and port to a place that isn’t for tourism.
And look at this -- a UKRAINE connection.
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https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/7847-ukrainian-businessmen-linked-to-russian-front-man-for-equatorial-guinea-s-ruling-obiang-family
An alleged Russian “front man” for Equatorial Guinea’s kleptocratic ruling Obiang family counts two notable Ukrainian businessmen among his associates: One is a former security official who was once imprisoned for smuggling missiles to Iran; the other is an arms dealer with business interests throughout Ukraine’s civilian airports.
But a fresh investigation has now found ties between Kokorev and two colorful Ukrainians who have also both done business in Equatorial Guinea: Vladimir Yevdokimov and Roman Chelnokov.
Chelnokov, Equatorial Guinea’s honorary consul to Ukraine, is a businessman involved in the arms trade who also has a range of civil aviation businesses, including aerial surveying and ground handling services at the country’s airports. In 2014 and 2015, he was effectively in charge of handling senior government officials and foreign dignitaries at Kyiv’s main airport.
Most significantly, he was the man in effective control of the “Hall of Official Delegations” at Kyiv’s main Boryspil Airport from 2014 until spring 2015. Run by the State Management of Affairs, an agency which falls under the administration of President Petro Poroshenko, the hall is the terminal favored by senior government officials and visiting foreign dignitaries, including Joe Biden, then US Vice President, who passed through in December 2015.
In the final pages of his memoirs, Biden recalls his flight into Kyiv that day, on which he prepared a speech to Ukraine’s parliament he believed could tip the balance between success and failure of Ukraine’s 2014 revolution.
By his own account, Chelnokov was brought in to reorganize the terminal by the Ukrainian president’s administration in mid-2014.
“It was Poroshenko’s team that asked me to introduce order,” Chelnokov told OCCRP. “I can’t say who, but it was a top Ukrainian politician.”
However, his management team soon came into conflict with workers at the facility. In interviews with OCCRP, each side accused the other of using the facility as a cover for smuggling.