Michael Flynn, Inovo and Erdogan

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Tim Griffin

What makes McCauley interesting is that he put the Clinton Benghazi email scandal in the spotlight in October 2016. After McCauley was hired by Flynn, he suddenly went public with the claim that the State Dept pressured him to declassify a Clinton email. The first payment from FIG was made on “10/04/2016”...

This looks to me like Brian McCauley got paid $28,000 (by the Flynn Intel Group with the half million dollar from Inovo BV) to influence the presidential elections.

Benghazi was (or could have been) really damaging to Hillary Clinton...
At 7:19 pm, ET in the early stages of the “terrorist attack” on the US consulate on 11 September 2012, Jeremy Bash sent an email that forces could assist the consulate (after they refused to answer his phone call). The deputies of Secretary of State Clinton simply forgot to approve this option.
A former Special Forces member explained to Bryan Suits in a popular radio show in Los Angeles that the Commanders In extreme Force (CIF) were available to help the consulate.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta lied in 2013 that there hadn’t been enough time to get forces to the scene in Benghazi: http://investmentwatchblog.com/new-...send-help-benghazi-proving-leon-panetta-lied/

Clinton was already informed by the DoD on 12 September 2012, that the terrorist attacks were planned 10 days in advance by the terrorist group BCOAR. This shows that Clinton was lying when she told that these attacks were the result of a protest gone wrong against some video: http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-...d-planned-benghazi-attack-10-days-in-advance/

According to The Hill, not registering under FARA is a felony, but firms can evade prosecution by belatedly submitting paperwork. In other words it doesn’t matter that Michael Flynn and his gang didn’t disclose their ties to Turkey, because they did so in new, updated FARA filings…
SGR LLC Government Relations and Lobbying, which was paid $40,000 by the Flynn Intel Group of the Inovo BV half a million, contacted Tim Griffin, a former Republican congressman now Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas and Miles Taylor, a staffer on the House Homeland Security Committee.
S.G.R. LLC “helped to submit” the op-ed under Flynn’s name on election day: http://thehill.com/business-a-lobby...iscloses-lobbying-that-may-have-helped-turkey

Rafiekian met National Security Advisor to the House Committee on Homeland Security, Miles Taylor, twice in October 2016. Once in Taylor’s office and once in FIG’s office (joined by a representative of S.G.R. LLC Government Relations and Lobbying). Taylor also works for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
He was schooled at the legendary Oxford University and was the youngest presidential appointee in the George W. Bush Administration: http://www.ned.org/fellows/miles-taylor/

John Timothy Griffin (Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin) later said that SGR LLC contacted him to investigate the ties between the LISA Academy charter schools in Arkansas and the Gulen movement.
Griffin, another lawyer who said he's an advocate of LISA Academy, said that according to Scott Smith there’s no evidence that LISA is connected to Gulen: https://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBl...charter-schools-for-mike-flynn-didnt-run-deep

There’s certainly an interesting scandal involving Tim Griffin, who coincidentally lives in Little Rock, Arkansas (and I’m not talking about the 2000 presidential elections).
In September 1999, Griffin became Deputy Research Director for the George W. Bush’s election campaign; he was a legal advisor for the "Bush- Cheney 2000 Florida Recount Team". Maybe they thought something similar would be needed to beat Hillary Clinton?
In 2004, Tim Griffin was working on the re-election of Bush Jr.
On 26 August 2004, Griffin sent a “caging” list to Kelly Porter and Lindy Landreaux. A copy was also sent to GeorgeWBush.org, that’s run by John Wooden, who’s no friend of the Bush family, who informed investigative reporter Greg Palast.
The mail contained 2 “caging.xls” files with typically Hispanic, black and Jewish names.

Voting-rights attorney Bobby Kennedy, who said that Tim Griffin “should be in jail”, explained “caging” like this:

They send out letters to poor black and Hispanic voters, first class, with instructions to return, don’t forward, if the letter is not deliverable. The returned [“caged”] letter is then used as ‘evidence’ the voter’s listed address is fraudulent, and the Republican functionary then gets the name struck from voter rolls, or the absentee ballot, if mailed in, is not counted.

All of the following would have a good reason that a letter wasn’t deliverable, but should be eligible to vote: military personnel sent abroad (registered at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville), homeless people, students away at school, and US voters whose addresses contain typos.
But if GOP functionaries challenge them, their ballots are rejected.

To convince us that there’s a massive amount of voting fraud in the USA, a list of 28 “fraudulent” voters was shown on TV by Justine Fox-Young.
David Iglesias refused to indict a single person for voter fraud, because it were “bogus fraud prosecutions”. Iglesias and 8 other US attorneys were subsequently removed by the White House because they had “been ineffectual managers and prosecutors”.

Griffin resigned in a tearful performance, laid low for a while, and is now the “respected” Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-a...l-rove-and-republican-dark-art-election-theft

 

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Robert Mueller, Lockheed Martin

The trail of Ekim Alptekin, Bijan Rafiekian (a.k.a. Bijan Kian) and Michael Flynn leads to Robert Mueller and Lockheed Martin.

This looks to me like Brian McCauley got paid $28,000 (by the Flynn Intel Group with the half million dollar from Inovo BV) to influence the presidential elections.

According to the book “Twilight Warriors”, published in 2015, Brian McCauley and Michael Flynn are personal friends. They both served on the board of directors for Brainwave Science: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/19/us/politics/ex-fbi-official-hillary-clinton-email.html

I can still remember that when special prosecutor Robert Mueller was chosen to head the investigation on how Russia is connected to Donald Trump’s team, the state media claimed that this had Donald Trump running scared because Mueller is above corruption…

There is a direct connection between Brian McCauley and Robert Mueller. When Mueller was FBI director, he appointed McCauley as Associate Deputy Director of the NCS for HUMINT.
See the April 2016 press release of Brainwave Science, with the announcement that Brian McCauley is the newest member of the advisory board: http://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...sistant-Director-Special-Agent-Federal-Bureau

As a direct result of his impact in Afghanistan, FBI Director Robert Mueller selected Mr. McCauley to serve as the Associate Deputy Director of the National Clandestine Service (NCS) for Intelligence Community Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Operations. Deputy Assistant Director McCauley was responsible for the executive level management and oversight of HUMINT policies and programs, as well as coordination and de-confliction of United States HUMINT operations worldwide. As a direct result of his collaborative efforts, Mr. McCauley received the Donovan Award, the highest recognition given by the National Clandestine Service. Following this assignment in October 2012, Mr. McCauley was named Deputy Assistant Director of the International Operations Division where he served until his retirement. and the Department of Defense.

I’ve archived this page here: http://archive.is/wp9Dz

Then in the autumn of 2008, Pieper and partners suddenly filed for bankruptcy on behalf of Eclipse Aviation. In January 2009, the bankruptcy court allowed company’s assets to be sold.
Later in 2009, a group of investors, including Ekim Alptekin (who was already involved in Eclipse since January 2008), bought Eclipse Aviation to create the Turkish company EA Aerospace.

In October 2010, Sikorsky Aircraft announced that it would invest in Eclipse Aerospace. The deal was completed by the end of January 2011, with Sikorsky (at the time part of United Technologies) buying an undisclosed equity share in Eclipse.
A subsidiary of Sikorsky in Poland would build the Eclipse airframe, while the firm's sister company Pratt & Whitney supplies the engines. Sikorsky will also offer access to its worldwide support network: https://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2011/11/air-taxis

In July 2015, the mammoth Lockheed Martin Corporation bought Sikorsky Aircraft from its parent company United Technologies Corporation (UTC) for $9 billion: http://www.utc.com/News/News-Center...nces-Agreement-To-Sell-Sikorsky-Aircraft.aspx

In one of those strange coincidences, in 1984 none other than Rupert Murdoch joined the board of directors of the United Technologies Corporation: http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/28/business/murdoch-joins-board.html?mcubz=0

Another familiar sounding name is Jeffrey L. Kushner, born in 1948 in Wilmington, Delaware, who was a manager for both UTC and Sikorsky: http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=839279
I don’t know if Jeffrey is related to Jared…

In the follow up to Watergate the “Lockheed scandal” erupted, which showed that the US weapons industry paid huge amounts of “kickbacks” to politicians all over the word to buy their products. The politicians in fact negotiated higher prices at the cost of the taxpayers…
It doesn’t sound farfetched that a company like Lockheed Martin would pay half a million for $110 billion in sales.

In May, Jared Kushner (Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser), picked up the phone during a meeting with Saudi officials and called the chief executive of Lockheed Martin, Marillyn A. Hewson, over a $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
Part of the deal was a commitment from Lockheed Martin, Sikorsky’s parent company, to work with the Saudi government. Saudi Arabia would “procure” more than $28 billion worth of Lockheed Martin missile defence, combat ship, tactical aircraft and rotary wing technology.
The program would support more than 450 US jobs and another 450 in Saudi Arabia: http://www.ctpost.com/business/article/U-S-Saudi-arms-deal-could-support-450-Sikorsky-11163497.php

Of course no journalist can figure out that something is very wrong when more than $120 million is needed per created job…
President Trump has repeatedly shown support for Sikorksy.

In April, Donald Trump had his personal Sikorksy S-76 helicopter flown to Mar-a-Lago, even though as President he is not allowed to fly in it. A helipad has been built at Mar-a-Lago especially for President Trump...
According to this propaganda piece, Trump had the helicopter showing up when there were many people to admire it, completely by accident: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/04/donald-trump-helicopter-mar-a-lago
See Trump’s Sikorksy “parked” at Mar-a-Lago on 9 April.

On 17 July, the White House arranged a "Made in America" event in which Sikorsky Aircraft was put in the spotlight.
Two Sikorsky executives came to the White House, where the company displayed models of its CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopter.
The White House let the green-and-white Sikorsky VH-3D helicopter (Marine One) fly to the South Lawn, which cost taxpayers $24,000. The Hatch Act prohibits federal employees from using government property for political purposes. Because President Trump declared it an “official event” this wasn’t covered by the Hatch Act.
The White House said taxpayers didn’t pay for any of the other props featured at this “official event”: http://time.com/4885934/white-house-helicopter-cost/

On 18 April, President Trump signed the “Buy American” Executive Order. The order is focused on controlling the process under which federal agencies get waivers from the 1933 Buy American Act. This doesn’t mean that buying foreign is prohibited, government agencies can still get waivers, but it does give Donald Trump’s team more control.
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, a supporter of the “Buy American” Executive Order, claims that the DoD has spent nearly $200 billion on foreign products in the last decade.

According to Jeff Bialos, the US defence industry has bought foreign products for 3 reasons: lower cost, a higher capability, and as trade-offs to encourage sales of US equipment abroad. Bialos expects that because of this Executive Order the costs will rise: https://www.defensenews.com/pentago...er-could-drive-costs-in-defense-supply-chain/

 

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What’s also strange - there is no Wikipedia page for Bijan Kian (a.k.a. Rafiekian).

Drone Aviation paid Flynn a $36,000 annual salary and awarded him 100,000 shares of restricted stock. The company later won a $400,000 Defense Department contract.

There is another interesting story that involves Drone Aviation Corporation, which involves Donald Trump Jr. Drone Aviation only became a public company in 2014 when it acquired MacroSolve Inc.

MacroSolve was originally founded in 1997 by David Payne as Anyware Mobile Solutions, which sold software to make a profit. Between 2008 and 2010, sales plunged from $2.7 million to $638,000.
In 2011, MacroSolve signed a 2-year contract with Trump Jr. for a one-time fee of $45,000 and 5 million shares of restricted MacroSolve stock. MacroSolve’s focus suddenly shifted to patent lawsuits as the company's main source of profit - “patent trolling”. MacroSolve owned a single patent issued in October 2010. The patent describes a "remote computing device" that sends out a questionnaire to a user, gets answers, and registers those answers. In MacroSolve's view, it applies to anyone using questionnaires on a mobile app.
In December 2011, it filed more than 10 lawsuits, claiming that global travel companies infringed the '816 patent. It sued: Southwest, United, Continental, American, Priceline, Hotels.com, Travelocity, Hertz, and Avis. In early 2012, MacroSolve filed lawsuits against: Facebook, Walmart, Yelp, Geico, Marriott, AOL, and Inter-Continental Hotels.

According to MacroSolve’s 2013 annual report filed with the SEC, the company “focused on intellectual property licensing and enforcement of our patent in the mobile app market development space”.
In the first few months of filing lawsuits, MacroSolve reaped more than $1 million in settlements. By mid-2012, MacroSolve had sold nearly all that remained of its software service business. Just 3 employees remained, and litigation comprised 97 percent of the company’s revenue.
MacroSolve filed complaints against 101 defendants, all filed in the patent-friendly Eastern District of Texas, and received settlements from 68 of them. The company reported revenue of $1.45 million in 2013. The lawsuits earned the company at least $4.6 million in total.

MacroSolve hit a roadblock around 2014, when patent defendants filed 2 challenges against MacroSolve at the US Patent and Trademark Office. One of the challenges resulted in the cancellation of all MacroSolve patent claims. Following that, the company dismissed its remaining legal cases.
In 2014, MacroSolve's remaining assets were bought by Drone Aviation Holding Corporation. I cannot be the only one to miss the point of why a company that sells drones buys a company that over the last years has only made money with “patent trolling” (and what that such a company could be worth)...
According to the annual report, Drone Aviation took in $1.47 million in revenue for 2016. The company recorded a net loss of $8.5 million, or $1.23 a share: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/macrosolve-donald-trump-jr-s-favorite-patent-enforcer/


What’s also interesting is that on 28 April 2015, Bijan Rafiekian mailed with none other than Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/42127

 

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I take from the rich; maybe I should give some to the poor.

care to make a donation?

Facing ‘Tremendous’ Legal Bills, Michael Flynn Establishes Legal Defense Fund
http://truepundit.com/facing-tremendous-legal-bills-michael-flynn-establishes-legal-defense-fund/

 

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HIA, George Soros, Shearson Lehman

Oh that poor, poor, Michael Flynn...

According to financial disclosure forms released in March, Mike Flynn earned between $1.37 and $1.47 million in 2016, most of it from the Flynn Intel Group (FIG).

Whenever I see pictures of Michael Flynn (or other army generals), their looks appear to confirm what Kay Griggs said about the top of the military: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?511915-Mind-control-by-sexual-perversity-in-the-army


This is sort of an intermediary post; the next one will bring some shocking stuff.

In 2002, Ekim Alptekin was a Senior Fellow for the NGO Humanity In Action (HIA).
In 2003-2004, Ekim Alptekin worked as a counsellor to the Dutch-Turk Fatma Koser Kaya, who was a member of the Dutch Parliament for the D66-party. Koser Kaya chairs HIA in the Netherlands. Fatma Koser Kaya is also an Armenian genocide denier.
Marietje Schaake, who co-founded Inovo BV, is in the Euro Parliament for D66, and together with Alptekin is a member of the George Soros funded European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), which is chaired by Mabel (the widow of Prince Friso of the Netherlands). Schaake also took part in HIA.

Humanity In Action is a partner of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International that are both funded by George Soros. George Soros’ Open Society Foundations also finances Humanity In Action.
In 2005, George Soros supported the AKP of Recep Tayyip Erdogan with the words:

The AKP is more honest than administrations which preceded it, there is very little corruption. I believe they deserve support.

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/george-s...eves-in-democracy-deserves-our-support-326041
The following picture shows on the left George Soros and Mabel Wisse Smit, and on the right Erdogan (and Basbakan?), in 2003 in Davos.

Also see the following mail, which shows that co-founders of the Nowruz Commission, Nasser (Kazeminy) and Bijan Kian, expected to meet Minister Ildirim on 21 December 2011, and also arranged a meeting with Ertugal Gurler of Calik Holding: https://www.wikileaks.org/berats-box/emailid/50704

Emails in the Wikileaks archives show that Erdogan’s son-in-law, the current Turkish Minister for Energy Berat Albayrak, was involved with the same Powertrans that got an effective monopoly on importing ISIS-oil because of Turkish laws prohibiting this: https://wikileaks.org/berats-box/article
Albayrak was also the CEO of the Calik Holding from 2007 to 2013.

When I searched the Wikileaks archive with “Bijan Kian Nasser”, I should find the December 2011 mail, but it’s blocked from the Wikileaks search results…

There is no Wikipedia page on Bijan Kian, but I found a list of the companies he worked for.
Kian was schooled at the legendary Oxford University.
Kian was a manager at Great American Savings Bank and is Director of Z Advanced Computing, Inc.
He was also Vice President of Shearson Lehman/American Express: https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=1433812&privcapId=253063615

The Shearson Lehman link is interesting.
There is a link between Shearson Lehman and the CEO of Blackstone (that financed the Cadre of Jared Kushner with George Soros), Stephen A. Schwarzman.
Schwarzman is chairman of the business advisory council of President Trump. See the following picture, from left to right Schwarzman, Trump and Mary Barra (CEO of General Motors) in the White House.

 

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From 1987 – 1993, when Bijan Kian was Vice President of Shearson Lehman/American Express, one Felix H. Sater worked there as a stock trader.
Felix Sater and his associate Tefvik Arif with their Bayrock Corporation have been partners in crime with the Trump Organization.
In 2007, Bayrock founded the Dutch front KazBay BV, which was in turn owned by the “Dutch” Bayrock BV (of Bayrock Group LLC of Sater, Arif and Trump) and the Swiss Helvetic Capital SA. KazBay was used to launder millions of dollars. It was the Bracewell & Giuliani LLP law firm of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s cybersecurity adviser, which set-up the KazBay construction: https://zembla.bnnvara.nl/data/files/2033471528.pdf

The wife of Viktor Khrapunov was the owner of Helvetic Capital SA. Former Kazakh minister Khrapunov has been accused by the Kazakh government of embezzlement of hundreds of millions of tax money.
In 2005, Donald Trump owned 18% of Trump SoHo; Bayrock owned the rest of it. In 2013, the Khrapunov family used shell companies to buy 3 apartments in Trump SoHo for $3.1 million.

After it became public knowledge that Felix Sater had been involved in a variety of criminal activity, including money laundering, Donald Trump exploited this situation by demanding more money; see the mail of Sater of 28 January 2008: https://zembla.bnnvara.nl/data/files/3444027513.pdf

The Iceland investment fund FL-Group is a strategic partner of Bayrock. FL was funded by Russian investors close to Vladimir Putin. FL and Bayrock planned to commit tax fraud for $250 million.

The agreement between Bayrock and FL was signed by none other than Donald Trump:
https://zembla.bnnvara.nl/data/files/2350754984.pdf

The previous is from the Dutch Zembla: https://zembla.bnnvara.nl/nieuws/the-dubious-friends-of-donald-trump-the-russians
(archived here: http://archive.is/FJOlS)

Felix Sater was born in the Soviet Union in 1966, and immigrated with his family to the USA when he was 8 years. At 24 he was a successful Wall Street broker, at 27 he lost his job (at Lehman) after cutting somebody up in a bar, who needed 110 stitches, and at 32 he was accused of conspiring with the Mafia to launder money.

In 1993, after being locked up in prison for the “bar fight”, Sater, Gennady “Gene” Klotsman, Salvatore Lauria and partners gained control of White Rock Partners (later named State Street Capital Markets). They would gain control of large blocks of stock in 4 companies through offshore accounts. Through an illegal “pump and dump” scheme, they would inflate the value of the shares through under-the-table payoffs to brokers and swindled investors out of $40 million.
In 1998, Sater and Klotsman pleaded guilty for this fraud, and Sater became an informant for the police.
Sater was also involved in a plan to buy anti-aircraft missiles on the black market in either Russia or Afghanistan for the CIA.

Since 2003, Sater and Arif - Bayrock – are co-conspirators with Donald Trump.
Trump and Sater have been repeatedly seen together. Sater even had a business card of the Trump Organization in which he’s labelled “senior advisor to Donald Trump”: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/nyregion/17trump.html

In 2007, Donald Trump celebrated the launch of Trump SoHo with partners Tevfik Arif (centre) and Felix Sater (right).

Trump said that most of his dealings with Bayrock had been with Tevfik Arif.
Tefvik Arif was born in Kazakhstan, but is now a Turkish citizen. The Arif family controls Doyen. Doyen Sports employs international superstars like David Beckham, Usain Bolt and Neymar.
Refik Arif, Tefviks brother, partnered with Sitki Ayan in a deal involving a gas pipeline from Iran to Europe. Part of the pipeline would go through Turkmenistan, in which Calik Holding was involved, where Erdogan’s son-in-law Berat Albayrak was CEO until 2013. Sitki Ayan is a childhood friend of President Erdogan, and is so close that he calls the president by his first name in public and occasionally joins him on official trips abroad.
The gas was paid for in gold to circumvent that Iran was blocked by international sanctions, with over ten billion dollars in revenue. President Erdogan and his son Bilal were caught on tape in conversations in which they appeared to discuss the bribes to be received with Sitki Ayan.

In 2012, Ali Demirhan, stalwart of President Erdogan's AKP Party, became Doyen's new legal advisor. Demirhan is described as a “close friend and partner” of the Arifs.
Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson, ex- wife of Prince “Randy Andy” Andrew became embroiled in a scandal involving children. The Turkish Ministry of Justice even issued an international arrest warrant. Ferguson turned for help to her Turkish friends in London, Arif “Arif” Efendi, son of Tevfik Arif, and Demirhan. Doyen drafted an apology letter addressed to Erdogan explaining the misunderstanding. The charges against Ferguson were subsequently dropped: https://theblacksea.eu/index.php?idT=88&idC=88&idRec=1281&recType=story

See Recep Tayyip Erdogan with Arif “Arif” Efendi in Yalta, Ukraine.

 

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Tevfik Arif -paedophile sex ring

There are a lot of stories on the internet about Felix Sater, which portray Tevfik “Skip” Arif (born Tofic Arifov) as some sort of bit player. It looks like Arif is too big for jail, and effectively above the law, while Sater is nothing more than a gopher for the big shots.
There are some stories in French about the money laundering Doyen Group, and in Turkish about the Arif family, but by far the best (or only) site in English I’ve found on Arif himself is the Blacksea site.
This post is about the child trafficking charges against Tevfik Arif. I’ll also present some information on another paedophile sex ring to which Donald Trump was connected, Jeffrey Epstein, and the involvement of Robert Mueller in the “Franklin cover-up”...

First some more on the child trafficking charges against Tevfik Arif in Turkey in 2010 (Arif has been a resident of New York City since the 1990s).
On 28 September 2010, Arif was arrested by the Turkish police for running a prostitution ring onboard a luxury yacht. The 9 young women between 18 and 23 from Russia on board were suspected of being prostitutes.
The yacht had been rented by the Kazakh-based billionaire and Belgian citizen Alexander Mashkevitch, the president of metal and mining Eurasian National Resources Corporation (ENRC) and a member of the World Jewish Congress. Mashkevitch was also a strategic partner with Bayrock, and a friend of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Among the other guests on board were Mashkevitch’s colleagues at ENRC, Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov (together called the “Kazakh trio”, although they’re not Kazakhs). It was also reported that Telman Ismailov, a Kazakh-American businessman and senior aide to the Kazakh prime minister, was on board.

The Turkish newspaper Vatan, reported that Kanat Saudabayev, secretary of state in Kazakhstan, was also on the yacht, which was quickly denied. Saudabayev has been a friend of Kazakh President Nazarbayev since 1968, and is a former Ambassador to Turkey, the UK and the USA. Saudabayev was a close associate of Mashkevitch, and according to Wikileaks cables had used Mashkevitch's homes in Almaty and Astana, Kazakhstan, to host visiting American dignitaries.

A former employee of Alexander Mashkevitch said that:

Mashkevitch and Bazhaev were sometimes talking everyday to each other. (…)
Chodiev and Ibragimov don't like to work with him, but Mashkevitch is still in business with him.

Bazhaev is close to none other than Vladimir Putin. Last year he was entertained at the Kremlin, where he presented a $46 million project for a sports and music centre in Bethlehem in the Occupied Territories. Putin spoke the following words to Bazhaev at this occasion:

I congratulate you on this project. I think that people in Palestine will enjoy it and remember those who actually carried out the project.

See Musa Bazhaev and Putin.

Tevfik Arif was charged with trafficking girls as young as 15 for sex from modelling agencies in Russia, which he denied.
In early 2010, the police was informed that Musa Celik and Gunduz Akdeniz were involved in providing underage prostitutes to rich clients. Gunduz was called “The Uncle”, Tevfik was “The Boss, and the girls were called “models”.
“The Uncle” would call Celik to supply teenagers from Russia (particularly, girls of 16 and younger).
On 20 February 2010, Musa Celik asks Olga via SMS for women from Eastern Europe. Olga asks “Do you want all models for sex?”, to which Celik replies “Olga, client wants sex”.

On 4 March 2010, Akdeniz asks Celik about a girl called Vasilisa “the one who is 15” and asks if her friends will also come to Turkey. The next day, Akdeniz tells him that “The Boss, demands more photos of better looking girls”.
On 12 March, Akdeniz tells Celik that the price is raised from $1,000 to $1,500 for girls of 16 or younger.
On 15 March, the cops stop a black 2005 Mercedes Vito on the suburbs of Belek. Tevfik Arif’s driver, Kemal Tokay, is transporting foreign girls, including the 15 year-old Vasilisa and 16 year-old German Stefania. Vasilisa and her friend later released a statement that they were not prostitutes.
On 16 March, at the Rixos Premium Hotel the girls walk through the corridors without checking in. The receptionist demands information; Celik answers they are guests of Gunduz. During this time, Tevfik Arif stays at the hotel.

After Gunduz informs Arif that he’s being watched by the police, they only hire and transport women over 18, which is still human trafficking according to Turkish law.
In the trial, Tevfik and his gang are charged with trafficking girls under 18 to Turkey for prostitution. Tevfik and Akdeniz deny all accusations, but Celik admits:

In March of 2010 I brought in very young girls. They were 16 or 17. I brought them in at Tevfik Arif’s request. To be precise, Gunduz Akdeniz phoned me with that request.

On 11 April 2011, the court acquits Tevfik Arif, but Musa Celik, Gunduz Akdeniz and 2 others, are sentenced to 2 years in prison for “mediation in prostitution, finding a place and inducing to prostitution”: https://theblacksea.eu/index.php?idT=88&idC=88&idRec=1274&recType=story
(archived here: http://archive.is/QLNLU)


This is the third time that I hear about a close associate of Donald Trump that sexually abused underage girls (beside Tevfik Arif, John Casablancas and Jeffrey Epstein).
Jeffrey Epstein was a friend of both Donald Trump and the Clintons, and a member of the Mar-a-Lago, where he and Ghislaine Maxwell even recruited the underage Virginia Robert for their paedophile sex ring.
After a yearlong investigation that started in 2005, 20 girls testified they were sexually abused between the ages of 14 and 17 by Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein made a deal, and only served 13 months in “prison” (6 nights a week and every Sunday). Part of the deal was that his powerful “friends”, including Prince Andrew that was even flown to visit Epstein in Donald Trump’s private jet, that abused children, got off the hook.
The sweetheart deal was made with Alex Acosta (these days Trump’s Secretary of Labour): Boycott-the-elections


The following picture shows Nat Rothschild, the son of Baron Jacob Rothschild who dated Ivanka Trump before she got engaged with Jared Kushner, Nefer Suvio, Nick Rhodes and Ghislaine Maxwell at The Royal Albert Hall in July 2013.

I had already learned that Robert Mueller is connected to the same Brian McCauley, who received $28,000 for “Consultancy” of the Inovo BV half a million paid to the Flynn Intel Group, but recently I’ve learned that Mueller has also been involved in the “Franklin cover-up”.
In the 1980s a huge amount of children were sexually abused by a group that went all the way to Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. Larry King (not the TV-host) was used for a scapegoat: Boycott-the-elections


Here’s the report compiled by the late FBI-agent Ted L. Gunderson, who sent letters to law enforcement agencies, knowing in advance that the scandal would be covered up: https://web.archive.org/web/2022071...df.upl/Ted+Gunderson+-+The+Finders+Report.pdf

Here’s Robert Mueller’s reply to the 11 March 1992 letter by Gunderson, with the conclusion that there is “no evidence of misconduct by FBI personnel that would justify your charge of obstruction of justice”.

 

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Here’s some more on Tevfik Arif (based on a long story from the Blacksea site)...
Tevfik Arif (Tofic Arifov) moved to Turkey in 1993, and shortly after emigrated to the US with wife and children.

Musa Bazhaev, head of Alliance Group in Russia, was also on the Savarona boat with the prostitutes in September 2010…
Bazhaev inherited Alliance Group in 2000, after the death of his brother Zia (son-in-law of Nazarbayev). Bazhaev tried to get Mashkevich to join a possible oil deal between Alliance Group and CapFox Congo, owned by Khulubuse Zuma, nephew of Jacob Zuma (the South African president).
See from left to right: Bazhaev, Alexander Mashkevich, and Tevfik Arif.

Patokh Chodiev has said that the “Kazakh trio” (Chodiev, Mashkevich and Alijan Ibragimov) first met the London based billionaires, David and Simon Reuben, in the spring of 1992.
Tevfik was recruited by the Trans World Group because of his good connections in Kazakhstan. Tevfik’s younger brother, Refik Arif, was senior manager at the Kazakh Ministry of Industry from 1991 to 1999.
Trans World was started around 1991 by the Reubens and Uzbekistan-born Israeli oligarchs, Lev and Michael Cherney. It was the successor to Trans Commodities, an import/export business of the Ukrainian Semyon “Sam” Kislin, who employed the Cherneys in the late 1980s.

Sam Kislin, who emigrated from the Soviet Union to the USA in the early 1970s, is part of the Solntsevskaya Russian (Yaponchik) mafia group based in New York of Vyacheslav Ivankov (according to FBI reports). Ivankov, who once owned a condo in Trump Tower, was the right hand man of Semion Mogilevich, who was considered one of the most powerful crime bosses in the Soviet Union. Ivankov was assassinated in Moscow in 2009.
The “Kazakh trio” and the Reubens set up a network of offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), including KazChrome. It is alleged that the Reubens and Cherneys hired contract killers to murder their competition in the aluminium sector.

I can remember the Reuben brothers, who own the Millbank tower, from where the video of the see-through car that reportedly smashed pedestrians on Westminster Bridge on 22 March was made.
Millbank tower is home to the Henry Jackson Society (think tank), whose members include MP’s, former heads of British intelligence agencies, CFR, Homeland security, Israel, NATO, and former CIA-director James Woolsey...
The Reuben brothers have contributed to a campaign of Boris Johnson (who was in the Bullingdon club with Nat Rothschild and David Cameron).


Rixos owns 20 hotels across the world, mostly in Turkey, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Russia and UAE, with an annual revenue of around half a billion euro. Sembol is one of Turkey’s leading construction companies; its turnover is estimated at nearly $1.5 billion, mostly through public contracts in Kazakhstan, and also building 4 Rixos hotels. Secret documents disclosed by Football Leaks show that by a hidden arrangement Tevfik Arif owns a majority share in Rixos and Sembol.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) decrees that a new committee will decide on investments, which includes Tevfik, Fettah Tamince, Mutlu Simayli, and Eugene Jaffe of Salford Capital Partners. Salford is a London based investment firm that was reputedly owned by the deceased oligarchs Badri Patarkatsishvili (from Georgia) and Boris Berezovsky (from Russia). In 2010 and 2011, the Arifs provided Berezovsky – under his alias “Platon Elenin” - with 2 unsecured loans totalling 6.5 million GBP (around 8 million Euros).
In the mid-2000s, Felix Sater became a senior advisor to Rixos and Sembol, a position he still holds.
On the Rixos board is the Ukrainian Igor Gumenyuk, an associate of Rinat Akhmetov, owner of the Shaktar Donetsk soccer team.

Bayrock Capital was housed in the Trump Towers in New York. Tevfik appointed Burak Yeneroglu as president of Bayrock. Yeneroglu lives in a mansion opposite Tevfik in Miami. Yeneroglu raised $652,000 for Obama's re-election campaign.
The Sapir Organization, owned by Georgian property developer Sapir Tamir, partnered with Bayrock. Sapir and Sam Kislin were guests at the weddings of Tevfik’s children - along with the Kazakh trio, Musa Bazhaev, the Reuben brothers, Telman Ismailov, and Leonid Bilunov (reportedly a Russian mobster operating from Monaco).

In March 2012, Ali Demirhan introduced Doyen Capital's vice president, Tevfik Eren to Sadik Albayrak (father of Berat Albayrak) Murat Ulgen (CEO of Besiktas), and Ali Agaoglu (a real estate magnate close to Erdogan). Agaoglu has been accused of bribing Bilal Erdogan, by donating millions to his education foundation Turgev.

There was also an obvious fraud involving Doyen Natural Resources (DNR) based in Panama, Efendi Arif's Lomisa Trust and Kamelot Enerji (Doyen’s Turkish coal company) – all 3 Arif companies.
DNR bought coal for around $180 per tonne, and then traded it to Kamelot for ten dollars more. Kamelot’s financial records for 2014 and 2015 show millions in losses, while continuing to buy and sell coal. DNR's Credit Suisse statements show millions being paid into the family’s trusts, including the Carlyle Trust, based in the BVI that owns the London mansion.
The profits should have been taxed in Britain or Turkey, but DNR was quickly liquidated, when the money had disappeared.
In 2012, Gubre Gida Kimya (GGK, also part of the Doyen Group) purchased Kamelot Enerji for $12.1 million: https://theblacksea.eu/index.php?idT=88&idC=88&idRec=1278&recType=story
(archived here: http://archive.fo/nzDL3)


Starting in August 2014, DNR began gifting money to Lomisa. A letter shows that DNR “gifted an additional amount of USD $41,100,000.00 (forty one million one hundred thousand US dollars)” to Lomisa Trust, which brings "the total amount gifted to the Trust to $46.100.000.00”.
The mentioned Eristavi Limited is a Guernsey-based company owned by the Lomisa Trust.

 

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amazing work... please keep posting.

 

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Football money laundering

It’s good to know that at least somebody appreciates this thread.
I don’t promise anything, but after this post; I’ve got another one prepared, which I expect to be my last addition to this thread for some time.

Real estate is of course used to launder money, but professional team sports – like soccer – can do this much faster.
This can be done especially fast when transfer prices for players are inflated. At this moment even millions of Euros are paid for “average” players.

In 2008, the hedge fund Doyen Group of the Arif family began “investing” in professional football. Doyen Sports Investments Limited, of the Doyen Group, is very active in financing Third-Party Ownership (TPO) of contracts for soccer players.
Nélio Freire Lucas founded Doyen Sports in 2011, and describes this process as "Third Party Investment". As opposed to TPO, which has recently been banned by the FIFA.
From 2011 to 2016, Doyen invested €170 million in association football.
Doyen Sports lends money to professional football clubs for transfers. The club has 3 years to repay its debt, if they can’t they are forced to resell the players. Doyen gets a percentage of the transfer. In this way Doyen (and affiliated funds and club owners) can keep on inflating the prices indefinitely (controlling both the selling and the buying club)…

Doyen Group's financial division, Doyen Capital LLP, is based in London. Doyen Capital has the same address as Doyen Group and is headed by Nélio Lucas, Simon Oliveira, and Matthew Kay.
Doyen Capital LLP is the origin of funding for Doyen Sports and Doyen Sports Investments Limited, which has 4 shareholders: Malik Ali; Claudio Tonolla (Swiss investor, residing in Malta); Nelio Lucas and Ali Lüftü Ethem Kadirgan.
The main investors of the Doyen Group remain anonymous, except for three people:
- Fettah Tamince, a relative of Turkish President Erdogan, who owns Star Media Group and the hotel chain Rixos (together with Tevfik Arif);
- Erick Thohir, an Indonesian billionaire who bought Inter Milan;
- Tevfik Arif.

Nélio Lucas owns 20% of the Doyen Group subsidiary Doyen Natural Resources through shell corporations in tax havens.
The nucleus of shareholders at Doyen Group are, Tevfik Arif and 3 of his sons: Refik (Doyen Capital LLP and Doyen Global Limited); Efendi (Doyen Capital Services Limited) and Kemal (Doyen Capital).
Benington Group Assets also holds 80% of the shares of Doyen Sports Investments Limited.

Doyen Sports reportedly paid €10.8 million in secret commissions for the transfer of various players (including the French Kondogbia and Mangala and the Colombian Radamel Falcao), using shell companies. According to Football Leaks, the companies Rixos, Denos and PMCI, are used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doyen_Group
(archived here: http://archive.fo/LVvLV)


The Blacksea site (again) has an interesting story on the transfer of Kondogbia.
Sevilla only wished to sell the Frenchman for 20 million Euros, and Fifa rules prohibit investment funds from influencing transfers.
In August 2013, Nelio Lucas arranged a party in Miami, involving prostitutes, to convince Real Madrid president Florentino Perez, to buy Kondogbia for 20 million Euros. The location was the Arif residence on Fisher Island, a short distance from Miami Beach.
The transfer to Real didn’t work out, and it was Monaco that paid the 20 million for Kondogbia.
Lucas texted to Arif “Great deal for us”, Arif replied: “Congrats bro!!!!!!!”.

The transfer gave Doyen Sport a net profit of 7.8 million Euros, a return on its initial “investment” of 524% in only one year (that’s money laundering in a fast way…).
One year after the transfers, Lucas used the Denos limited shell company, registered in Ras al-Khaimah (part of the United Arab Emirates). On 17 July 2014, Doyen Sports paid 1.3 million Euro to Denos, 785,865 Euro for the transfer of Kondogbia and 533,190 Euro for Falcao. The Football Leaks documents don’t reveal to whom the money ultimately went.

In December 2014, Italian football agent Gianluca Fiorini filed a complaint, in which he accused Doyen Sports of committing “grave abuse” in Kondogbia’s transfer to Monaco because it controlled both the player’s agent and the agent for then Monaco manager Claudio Ranieri.
Fiorini said Spanish agent Juan Manuel Lopez (who was Kondogbia’s agent) had “invested” in Doyen Sports, just like his Italian colleague Giuseppe Bozzo, who was Ranieri’s agent. Lopez is one of Nelio Lucas’s professional collaborators, and Bozzo has been appointed by Nelio Lucas as the exclusive representative for Doyen Sports in Italy.
Fifa also suspected that a secret payment of 500,000 Euro was made during Kondogbia’s transfer from French club Lens to Sevilla in 2012.
At the beginning of 2016, the Fifa sentenced Sevilla to a formal warning and a fine of 55,000 Swiss francs. Sevilla appealed the sentence: https://theblacksea.eu/index.php?idT=88&idC=88&idRec=1276&recType=story
(archived here: http://archive.fo/Ej9CI)


Here is Donald Trump with Tevfik and Efendi Arif.

 

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Chabad house

The stories that I found so far from the Blacksea site were interesting; but I have found even better stuff (maybe in a next post...). For anybody that wants to check it out for themselves, better be quick, it could disappear without a trace: https://theblacksea.eu/?idT=88&idC=88

Today I walked into a bookstore, searching for something interesting.
A 400 page biography about Donald Trump caught my eye, written by the award winning Marc Fisher and Michael Kranish of The Washington Post.
In this relatively thick book, nothing is mentioned about Tofik Arifov (a.k.a. Tevfik Arif). The Bayrock Group is mentioned on a single page in the book. It mentions that Felix Sater had been in jail, and that Trump has denied remembering Sater, and that’s about the whole story. That’s the state of journalism in 2017…

Since 2013, The Washington Post is owned by one of the richest men in the world, Jeff Bezos, who is best known as the founder, CEO and biggest shareholder of Amazon.com.
An interesting is that Amazon made a $600 million deal with the CIA: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/business/expecting-the-unexpected-from-jeff-bezos.html
After Hillary Clinton lost the Presidential election, John Podesta joined the Washington Post as a columnist….

Doyen Sports reportedly paid €10.8 million in secret commissions for the transfer of various players (including the French Kondogbia and Mangala and the Colombian Radamel Falcao), using shell companies. According to Football Leaks, the companies Rixos, Denos and PMCI, are used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doyen_Group
(archived here: http://archive.fo/LVvLV)

For some reason the “independent” Wikipedia has deleted interesting information…
I think that this is the most interesting of the archived versions of this page, with quoted below the part that has been deleted: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doyen_Group&oldid=768855025

Investors
According to Bloomberg News as of 2015, the main investors of the Doyen Group remained anonymous, except for three people:
• Fettah Tamince, a relative of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan; runs and owns the Turkish hotel chain Rixos and Star Media Group;
• Tevfik Arif, Turkish Kazakh owner of the Bayrock Group,[15][16] a New York-based real estate developer and partner of Fettah Tamince and Donald Trump.[17]
• Erick Thohir, an Indonesian billionaire who bought Inter Milan

Four members of the Arif family form the nucleus of shareholders at Doyen Group: Tevfik Arif and three of his sons: Refik (Doyen Capital LLP and Doyen Global Limited); Efendi (Doyen Capital Services Limited) and Kemal (Doyen Capital; 2011–2013);[1]

The Arif family made a fortune through the privatization of a chemical plant in Kazakhstan during the collapse of the USSR before financing the investment fund "Doyen Sports" to the tune of €75 million and hiding this money in dozens of offshore companies in "tax havens such as Panama, Isle of Man, the Netherlands, Malta or the British Virgin Islands".[6] The Doyen Group has always kept the source of its funds secret; According to the newspaper L'Équipe (based on information from the "Football Leaks"), this could be motivated by "fiscal reasons" but also by the origin of the family fortune of the "Arif clan" built from the ruins of the former USSR by "appropriating mines and factories at low prices, with the support of corrupt politicians and organized crime (...) protectors apparently so dangerous that they can ruin The Arif family with a finger snap." It is this sulphurous silver (€300 million siphoned in a Kazakh chemical factory) that financed Doyen Sports. €75 million paid by Refik Arif, which affects interest but does not appear anywhere, hidden behind an offshore shell driven by a nominee, a nephew Arif"[6] who specifies that Bloomberg had identified in 2013 one of the shareholders of the Doyen group, Turkish naturalized Kazakh businessman Tevfik Arif.

Following is an official document by the Turkish prosecutor on the human trafficking case against Tevfik Arif and his gang of paedophiles: https://theblacksea.eu/RES/uploads/files/Savarona prosecution docs_ocr.pdf
The most important addition to what is already in this thread about the prostitute scandal (including sexual abuse of underage girls), is that at least one 16-year-old flew to Miami to satisfy the sexual pleasures of some dirty old men:

Erkan Akdeniz: but, as far as I know, the 16 years old girl went to Miami, apparently, it was earlier, no, it's not important, forget it
(…)
Erkan Akdeniz: 16 years old already were, she is already 17, and she went to America 4-5 times
(…)
Erkan Akdeniz: the 16-year-olds went to Miami earlier, as far as I know, but OK, it doesn't matter, I'm not going to mix anything up

In this thread is information on the “business” connections between the Trump Organization, and the elite of Russia, Turkey and Kazakhstan, going all the way to the top – President Putin, President Erdogan, President Nazarbayev, the Dutch Royal family and George Soros.
For a fuller picture, look at the following site with some connections between Putin’s Russia, Roman Abramovich, Queen Elizabeth and Rothschild: http://www.dzig.de/sites/default/files/Putin-Rothschild-Rockefeller.htm
(archived here: http://archive.li/BVRgq)


Now to the main topic for this post – Chabad, an international Hasidic movement with ties to both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
The Chabad-Lubavitch movement was founded in Lithuania in 1775; its total number of members these days is estimated at 10,000 to 100,000.
Roman Abramovich was reportedly the first person to recommend to Yeltsin to choose Putin as his successor.
In 1999, Putin enlisted the oligarchs Lev Leviev and Roman Abramovich, to create the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia under the leadership of Chabad rabbi Berel Lazar. Leviev and Abramovich would become Chabad’s biggest patrons worldwide.

In December 2007, Trump hosted the wedding of Sapir’s daughter, Zina, and Leviev’s right-hand man, Rosen, at Mar-a-Lago. A few months later, Leviev met Trump to discuss potential deals in Moscow. Trump has called Sapir “a great friend”.
In June 2008, Zina Sapir and Rosen held a bris for their newborn son. Trump and Jared Kushner attended the bris.

Kushner married Ivanka Trump and in 2015 bought the old New York Times building on West 43rd Street from Leviev for $295 million.
Ivanka and Jared also formed a close relationship with Abramovich’s wife, Dasha Zhukova.
Ivanka and Jared, go to the worshipping ceremonies at a Chabad synagogue in Washington.

Bayrock-Sapir, (then) led by Soviet émigrés Tevfik Arif, Felix Sater and Tamir Sapir, are all 3 connected to Chabad.
Sater and another Bayrock employee, Daniel Ridloff, who at one time both worked for the Trump Organization, belong to the Port Washington Chabad house. Sater told POLITICO that he sits on the boards of numerous Chabad entities in the US and abroad.
In 2014, the Port Washington Chabad house named Sater its “man of the year”. At the ceremony honouring Sater, the Chabad’s founder, Shalom Paltiel, told that he once received special clearance to accompany Sater in a ceremony at the federal building in Manhattan. There several intelligence agents applauded Sater’s secret work and told him: “stuff that was more fantastic, and more unbelievable, than anything he [Sater] had been telling me”.
See the award ceremony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSpFtCmoD5o

Paltiel is also close to “Putin’s rabbi” Lazar, calling Lazar “my dear friend and mentor”.
I have to admit that some of the stuff surrounding Trump, is almost too fantastic for me to believe…

According to the Times, in late January of this year, Sater met Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to discuss a Ukraine peace deal to end US sanctions on Russia. Cohen then delivered this to Michael Flynn at the White House. Cohen himself is a regular presence at the Midtown Chabad on Fifth Avenue: http://www.politico.com/magazine/st...sh-group-that-connects-trump-and-putin-215007
(archived here: http://archive.li/jd6FZ)

Dasha Zhukova would host Ivanka and Jared Kushner in Russia in 2014 and even attended Trump’s inauguration as their guest in January.
Zhukova is also a friend and business partner of Rupert Murdoch’s ex-wife Wendi Deng, one of Ivanka’s closest friends, and a friend of Karlie Kloss, the long-time girlfriend of Jared’s brother, Josh Kushner.
In 2016, Jared and Ivanka Kushner shared a box at the US Open with amongst others Zhukova and Deng: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3784716/Ivanka-Trump-Karlie-Kloss-Wendi-Deng-Murdoch-watch-Open.html

See the picture at the US Open (clockwise from top left): Michael Kives, Wendi Deng, unknown guest, John Hess, Princess Beatrice, Karlie Kloss, Dasha Zhukova, David Geffen, Michael Hess, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.

 

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There are even connections to the money laundering Malta Island, where earlier this month a journalist, internet blogger was executed with a car bomb: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?516145-Maltese-blogger-assassinated-by-car-bomb

The son-in-law of President Erdogan, Berat Albayrak, set-up an offshore structure in Malta and Sweden to evade millions of dollars in taxes for his company – Calik Holding. Calik is owned by billionaire Ahmet Calık, a friend of President Erdogan.
The plan was to transfer millions made in Dubai to bank accounts of shell companies in Malta, paying 35% tax and then apply for an 80% refund, as the money wasn’t made in Malta - an effective tax rate of only 5%.
Then it would transfer to bank accounts (of shell companies) in Sweden. By declaring that it already paid 35% in Malta, Calik avoids further deductions.
When the money is finally brought to Calik in Turkey, the tax authorities are fooled into believing it is from a high-tax and reputable jurisdiction in Scandinavia.

Then in 2015, Albayrak becomes Turkey’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, with an even better plan.
Five months after his entry in cabinet promotion, Safak Karaaslan sends a message to Albayrak on his private e-mail address with a document explaining how the US refused to join the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), a global anti-money laundering initiative. This means that Turkey can do the same.
A month later, on 3 June 2016, Karaaslan sends another email to the energy minister - with a draft bill for a new “tax amnesty” to be presented to the Turkish parliament. The law called the “Wealth Peace Act” would permit Calik to repatriate unlimited amounts of offshore cash (tax-free).

On 21 June, Albayrak forwards the draft bill to Erdogan’s private secretary, Hasan Dogan.
On 23 June, Turkish prime minister, Binali Yildirim, offers the new Draft Bill to “Amend Laws to Stimulate Investment” to parliament, including the “Wealth Peace” provisions (Article 2 from the Bill), written by Calik’s Karaaslan.
The Bill caused mayhem in Turkish Parliament, with opposition Members of Parliament explaining that it would open Turkey’s doors to dirty money. Opposition parties threatened to block the whole draft law, if the AKP refused to remove Article 2.
On 14 July 2016, the AKP caved. Ozgur Ozel, MP for the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) declared a victory, vowing to fight it if it reappeared.

On 15 July 2016, the coup event was staged. In the weeks that followed, parliament was preoccupied with passing state of emergency laws to tackle the “rebels”.
On 22 July 2016, the Budget Commission added the “Wealth Peace provisions to another draft bill and sent it to the parliament. The bill passed in little over a week, and was sent to President Erdogan for his approval.
On 18 August, Erdogan signed the “Wealth Peace” money laundering law: https://theblacksea.eu/malta-files/article/en/erdogans-son-in-law-off-shore-tax-scheme
(archived here: http://archive.is/gWLKh)

Here's Erdogan’s partner in crime, Fethullah Gulen, who was blamed for the coup, in a Masonic handshake with Pope John Paul II.

 

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I’ve found a (pretty complete) story on the US lobby firms that have registered with the US Department of Justice as a Turkish agent.

Gephardt Group, founded by former House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt was hired by Turkey from February to December of 2016 for $1.7 million (this includes the period of the “coup”).
Gephardt subcontracted: i) the Capitol Counsel for $32,000 each month; ii) Madison Group $20,000 each month; iii) McBee Signal $20,000 each month; iv) Jim Arnold $20,000 each month; v) MediaFix for $9,000 per month.

The Gephardt Group also sub-contracted Capitol Counsel LLC, led by former Republican Congressman Jim McCrery, for $32,000 a month.
The Gephardt Group also sub-contracted Greenberg Traurig LLP, where Rudy Giuliani works, for $40,000 a month.
Greenberg Traurig in turn subcontracted The Daschle Group, founded by former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. The Daschle Group will receive $432,000 in 2017.

Turkey also paid APCO Associates $741,000 in 2016.

Turkey and its embassy hired Amsterdam & Partners LLC for $50,000 each month.
Amsterdam subcontracted Mercury, of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, for $20,000 per month.

In May 2017, Burson-Marsteller signed a contract with the Turkish Embassy for $1.1 million till the end of the year, shortly before Erdogan’s visit (when Erdogan’s troops beat up some protesters).

The Brookings Institution received multi-year six-figure “gifts” from the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TUSIAD).

In 2013, the Atlantic Council released a list of “foreign government entities” that have given funds over the previous five years. The list includes Turkish firms.
In 2015, the Atlantic Council received “gifts” from the Turkish government and other sources affiliated with the Turkish government.
The Atlantic Council arranged a forum at the Turkish Ambassador’s residence for Erdogan to pitch luminaries like Madeline Albright, William Cohen, and David Petraeus.

HalkBank, a Turkish state bank, recently hired former Congressman Bob Wexler and Ballard Partners for $375,000 per quarter. Mehmet Hakan Atilla, Halkbank’s deputy general manager, has been charged by the Justice Department for conspiring to evade sanctions on Iran: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...turkish-influence_us_59bf17dbe4b0390a1564def5
(archived here: http://archive.is/xAmap)

Brian Ballard’s firm, Ballard Partners, will be paid $1.5 million from 15 May 2017 to 14 May 2018.
Brian Ballard is a long-time lobbyist for Donald Trump, and raised $16 million for Trump’s presidential campaign. Trump called him after purchasing Mar-a-Largo in 1985, and paid Ballard at least $460,000 from 2013 to 2015 for lobbying work.
This year Burson-Marsteller was hired by Turkey. From 2012 to 2015, it was lobbying for the Alliance for Shared Values, a group tied Erdogan’s partner in crime, Fethullah Gulen: https://armenianweekly.com/2017/06/...illion-to-hire-two-new-lobbying-and-pr-firms/

In November 2015, Turkish prime minister for the AKP, Ahmet Davutoglu, also hired Burson-Marsteller: https://euobserver.com/foreign/131009


On 4 August, a couple of weeks after the “coup”, Turkey hired global public relations firm APCO Worldwide to perform “crisis communications” to spin the “coup” into something that increases Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s power.
APCO Worldwide will provide:

media relations, crisis communications, third party outreach, and social media strategy and development within the United States all in furtherance of promoting positive relations between the Republic of Turkey and the United States

Gephardt Government Affairs, has worked for Turkey since 2008: http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/lobbying-hires/290417-turkey-hires-pr-firm-after-coup-attempt

Before the end of July, thus literally within 2 weeks of the “coup”, Turkey had already dismissed some 1,700 military personnel, including 149 generals and admirals (about 40% of all Turkish generals and admirals).
Turkey fired over 60,000 government officials within Turkey’s judicial, public, policing, and educational system.
Turkey also shut down 131 media outlets: http://theantimedia.org/west-silent-nightmare-turkey/
(archived here: http://archive.is/zmW7r)

Before the end of July, more than 7,500 people were arrested. In addition, 9000 cops were dismissed.
312 people were murdered, 208 civilians and police, and 104 “coup plotters”. And 1491 people were injured.
There were calls to reintroduce the death penalty, which was abolished in 2004: http://www.notey.com/@qz_unofficial...nt-has-arrested-and-fired-since-the-coup.html


The purge has continued in 2017, and has already claimed the jobs of up to 140,000 government officials.
Earlier this year, Erdogan arranged a constitutional referendum to expand his presidential powers, giving him unprecedented control over the country's political system.
On September 25, Turkey announced a ban on protesting against Erdogan:

Singing songs, singing the national anthem in a disturbing way, screaming slogans, arranging press conferences or doing such acts in any way is strictly forbidden.

Governor Ergan Topaca, who has since been forced to resign , announced earlier this month that the protest ban is extended for another 3 months, it includes a prohibition on unauthorised protesting, press conferences, singing in the Turkish capital, hunger strikes, sit-ins, concerts and other unauthorized gatherings in the city's public spaces.

A US grand jury indicted 15 Turkish security officials after they beat up anti-Erdogan protesters when he visited Washington.
Turkey has arrested 2 US consular staff members this year. Last month, a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) worker was arrested. In May, a consulate translator was arrested. Both men are Turkish nationals accused of being involved in the July 2016 “coup”: http://www.newsweek.com/you-cant-protest-government-turkey-new-ankara-policy-700333
(archived here: http://archive.is/QmgmT)

 

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Solntsevskaya, Birshtein, Mogilevich, Shnaider, YBM

I’m afraid I’m having some troubles distinguishing between Turkeygate, Kazakhgate, Ukrainegate and Russiagate...

In 1994–96, under the infamous “loans-for-shares” program, Russia privatised 150 state-owned companies for just $12 billion.
The principal beneficiaries of this cartelization, were just 25 or so oligarchs with the right insider connections. The needed money to buy the companies was mostly loaned from the Russian state, who in turn had loaned it from the World Bank, IMF, and the Clinton Administration (USAID).
Many banks, private bankers, hedge funds, law firms, accounting firms, leading oil companies (like ExxonMobil and BP), as well as needy borrowers, like the Trump Organization, effectively looted the post-Soviet spoils.

In 2005, according to a Wikileaks cable, Patokh Chodiev (referred to as “Fatokh Shodiyev”) attended the birthday party of reputed Uzbek mob boss Salim Abduvaliyeva and presented him with a $10,000 “gift”.
Wikileaks cables from November 2010 describe a close relationship between “the Kazakh Trio” and the Nazarbayev kleptocracy.
Chodiev and Alexander Mashkevich were also partners in crime with the Russian-Canadian businessman, Boris J. Birshtein. Birshtein was also in business with the reputed head of Solntsevskaya Bratva - Sergei Mikhavlov. According to Fortune in 2014, Solntsevskaya was the world’s highest-grossing organised crime group.

In 1991, while in law school, young Alex Shnaider started working for Birshtein at Seabeco’s Zurich headquarters. When Alex Shnaider had become a Canadian billionaire, he financed the 70-story Trump hotel-tower in Toronto, Canada (which opened in 2012). Shnaider reportedly owns Talon International Development, which oversaw construction of the Toronto Trump hotel-tower.
In 2008, the previously mentioned money laundering Iceland’s FL Group extended a €45.8 million loan to “poor” billionaire Alex Shnaider so he could buy a yacht.
There are rumours about a secret US Federal Reserve report on Iceland banks that were laundering Russian money.

On 23 October 2009, Felix Sater, after turning government informer, got a $25,000 fine, no jail time or probation for his $40 million fraud. The court files remained sealed...

Reportedly Donald Trump has personally sold five separate condos in Trump Tower to David Bogatin. David’s brother Jacob Bogatin was CEO of the ghost company YBM Magnex International. YBM was founded in 1995 indirectly in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania by "the Brainy Don" Semion Mogilevich, who earned a spot on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.
In 2003, Mogilevich was indicted in Philadelphia on 45 felony counts for this $150 million stock fraud. There is no chance that Russia will ever extradite Mogilevich. Jacob Bogatin was also indicted in the Philadelphia case.
Another key Mogilevich lieutenant in the US during the 1990s, Vyacheslav Ivankov, also once resided at the Trump Tower: https://www.the-american-interest.c...of-donald-trumps-private-russian-connections/
(archived here: http://archive.is/gkiZX)


Mogilevich ran his YBM scam from Budapest, with $2.4-million to start it up. To make YBM look legitimate, he bribed lawyers and accountants and set up a network of shell companies to disguise his ownership.
YBM issued press releases and held investor conferences about its success. The trust in the phantom company was increased by having former Ontario Premier David Peterson on its board.
In 1997, YBM unsuccessfully applied for a listing on the US stock markets.
Shares in YBM on the Toronto Stock Exchange rose from 10 cents per share in July 1994 to $20.15 in March 1998. Mogilevich made a nice profit of $18.4 million.
In 1998, the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice got a tip that YBM had (unsuccessfully) offered its auditors a $500,000 bribe to certify its financial statements.
When the FBI raided YBM’s headquarters there were no magnets (to be sold) at all: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/glo...aud-and-be-a-vigilant-investor/article556022/
(archived here: http://archive.is/j2e9G)


According to an August 1996 report by the FBI, Boris Birshtein hosted "a summit meeting of Russian organised crime figures" at his office in Tel Aviv in October 1995.
Participants in this meeting included Sergei Mikhailov and Semion Mogilevich.

In 1999, Olexander Volkov was a top adviser to Leonid Kuchma (Ukrainian President from July 1994 to January 2005).
Belgian investigators revealed that Volkov was associated with the Russian Solntsevskaya crime syndicate.
Kuchma's political rivals used the media to criticise his connections to Birshtein.
Belgian prosecutors have confirmed that at least $5 million of the transfers to Volkov from September 1994 to January 1996, came from companies or associates of Boris Birshtein: http://willzuzak.ca/lp/clover01.html
(archived here: http://archive.is/n2izj)

 

[Swordsmyth]

I’m afraid I’m having some troubles distinguishing between Turkeygate, Kazakhgate, Ukrainegate and Russiagate...

Swampgate.

They all mix together in the swamp.

 

[Firestarter]

Because of Tevfik Arif, I had almost forgotten about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
It looks like Erdogan is caught in some money laundering scandals.

The leader of Turkey’s main opposition party CHP, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, claims he has documents to prove that members of Erdogan’s family and their allies, in late 2011 and early 2012 transferred $15 million to offshore company Bellway Limited, registered in the British Isle of Man.
According to Kilicdaroglu, Erdogan’s brother Mustafa, his eldest son Ahmet Burak, and brother-in-law Ziya Ilgen - each paid $3.75 million into the Bellway account. Close associates reportedly also made payments to this account, including $2.25 million from Osman Ketenci (Ahmet Burak’s father-in-law), and $1.5 million from Mustafa Gündogan (Erdogan’s former private secretary).

Erdogan responded to the allegations:

Do you have any proof of your allegations? If so, show them to the public… If Tayyip Erdogan has a penny abroad, in any bank, come out and prove it. When you prove it, I give you the guarantee that I will not stay in the Presidency one more minute.

Photos taken of Kilicdaroglu’s documents with snippets of SWIFT transactions, suggest that the money goes in the opposite direction: the Erdogans and associates didn’t pay but received millions from Bellway Limited.

The Erdogan family owns 2 other offshore company (besides Bellway Limited) - Pal Shipping Trader One Ltd in Malta, and Bumerz Limited (owned by Ziya Ilgen) on the Isle of Man.
Since around 2008, the Erdogan family has operated a network of companies from Malta to Turkey to the Isle of Man. The opaque offshore network is designed to obscure the family’s ownership of the $25 million oil tanker Agdash, built in 2007.

The bill for the Agdash tanker was paid by 2 businessmen close to the Erdogan family. The first is childhood friend of Erdogan Sitki Ayan – mentioned by Kilicdaroglu -, who provided a $7 million “loan” from his Turkish company Som Petrol. The second is Mübariz Mansimov, president of shipping conglomerate Palmali Shipping, who provided the remaining $18 million.
The Erdogans never repaid the “loans”. Instead, they leased the ship to the same billionaire Azeri-Turkish businessman Mübariz Mansimov, who had already paid millions for the oil tanker in 2007.

In November 2011, shares in the Erdogan’s Turkish company, Bumerz Denizcilik, were transferred to Bellway Limited, which was set up by Sitki Ayan using an Isle of Man service company called Equiom. Sitki’s son, Bahaddin Ayan, and employee of Sitki Ayan, Kasim Oztas, appear as directors on several companies in the offshore network - Pal Shipping Trader One, Bumerz Limited, Bumerz Denizcilik, and Bellway Limited: https://theblacksea.eu/malta-files/article/en/erdogan-offshore-update
(archived here: http://archive.is/B9HjT)


I’ve found the court document that describes the complaint of attorney Frederick Oberlander, against Bayrock, Tevfik Arif and Felix “Satter” Sater dated 10 May 2010 (6 MB, 165 pages): https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2638421/Kriss-v-Bayrock-Complaint.pdf

It really is a bizarre strategy. This was a civil case, where the attorney describes criminal wrongdoing. It’s more like a description of how the Department of Justice and IRS are helping Arif and Sater in their criminal activities.
Then argues that because the defendants hid the money they took, his clients (that were working for this criminal organisation) are entitled to part of the money they “skimmed”.

There are 2 main topics in this document:
1) Tax evasion.
2) Taking millions of dollars.

I find the tax evasion boring.
They simply booked “profits” as “loans” (with the help of deaf, dumb and blind accountants) and, when you borrow money, you can’t be expected to pay taxes…

40. One way they did this was to use Bayrock to skim millions of dollars of cash, giving Satter a million dollar a year unreported income and causing Bayrock Group to execute a sham “note” with him, a note Arif and Schwarz have admitted on MP3 was never meant to be repaid
(…)
125. The Satter Frauds II. By late 2007, Satter’s $1,000,000 skims had reached $3,750,000

They showed the FL group from Iceland, since 2008 known as Stodir, a portfolio that included developing property for hundreds of millions of dollars, and sold FL a stake in the “Four Subs” enterprise for $50 million, which they skimmed:

534. The terms of FL’s partnership and “trial merger” with Bayrock called for FL to transfer S50.000.000 and other consideration in return for. inter alia, a partner’s share of the distributions expected to flow up front the Four Projects into the Four Subs, 1(518.
(…)
560. So all through January, February, March, and April, Arif, Satter, and Schwarz were negotiating a deal that would repay hidden interests in Russia and Kazakhstan on behalf of Arif, would give Arif $8,000,000, millions more than he had in personally given what he had already taken out from Michael Samuel’s payment and other withdrawals, would pay Arifs taxes, would pay an old Mafia buddy of Satter’s, possibly do other things for Satter with or without kickback from Lauria, but otherwise do nothing for Bayrock or anyone else, particularly Schwarz.

On 23 October 2009, Felix Sater, after turning government informer, got a $25,000 fine, no jail time or probation for his $40 million fraud. The court files remained sealed...

What’s also interesting is that Felix Sater had been partners in crime with the Gambino crime family in this $40 million fraud:

209. Twenty of Satter’s White Rock confederates, including members of the Bonanno, Gambino, and Colombo Mafia organized crime families, were also convicted, many on racketeering charges. Most were sentenced to prison terms and multimillion dollar restitution.

This is all the more interesting, because in one of those strange coincidences, President elect Donald Trump rang in the New Year at the Mar-a-Lago with Joseph Cinque - a convicted felon with ties to the Gambino crime family boss John Gotti.
The American Academy of Hospitality Sciences, owned and operated by Cinque, has awarded more than a dozen of Trump's golf courses, hotels, casinos and private clubs with so-called "Star Diamond" awards. Trump was listed on the company's website as its "ambassador extraordinaire", and he appeared in a 2009 video in which he complemented Cinque: "There's nobody like him. He's a special guy". About half of the roughly 30 people listed as "trustees" to the Academy are associates of Trump.
Donald simply denied knowing anything about his criminal past: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...iliated-felon-new-year-bash-article-1.2932315

 

[Firestarter]

Zarrab, Iran, Alptekin, Erdogan

In March 2016, Reza Zarrab was arrested by FBI agents in Miami. Zarrab was very close to Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Zarrab was arrested for violating sanctions against Iran, with the support of the Erdogan administration, by buying oil and natural gas in exchange for gold.
The Minister for the Economy, Zafer Caglayan, received kickbacks of over 45 million dollars worth of cash and luxury goods from Zarrab.

When police entered the home of Süleyman Aslan, CEO of Halk Bank, which Zarrab used to launder his money, they found shoeboxes filled with 4.5 million dollars.
In March/April 2017, the FBI agents arrested Mehmet Hakan Atilla, deputy CEO of Halk Bank, when he arrived at JFK Airport, New York (obviously not concerned with legal problems…).

Zarrab fired most of his lawyers and hired Rudy Giuliani (close to President Donald) and Michael Mukasey (former US Attorney General).
In March 2017, Trump fired US attorney Preet Bharara, who had prosecuted Zarrab: http://linkis.com/www.newyorker.com/ne/GVArt


More on the “hero” of this thread - Ekim Alptekin.
Alptekin wasn’t born rich. He could only found his construction company, which invested hundreds of millions of dollars, after selling his share in the ATH Company to one of Turkey’s biggest gold trader, and Erdogan’s friend, Cihan Kamer. ATH was on the verge of bankruptcy in 2011, so it’s not clear how Alptekin got wealthy from his shares in ATH.
ATH had sold surveillance equipment to the Turkish government when Erdogan was Prime Minister. At that time Alptekin’s close friend Mucahit Arslan was Erdogan’s closest aide.

When the corruption scandal erupted on 17 December 2013; Erdogan said on TV that he had found bugs in his Prime Ministry offices in 2011.
This statement wasn’t supported by evidence, but was based on a “secret witness statement”. The secret witness was the owner/CEO of ATH (Alptekin himself or his CEO), who stated that they had sold bugs to the police officers, who spied on Erdogan.

According to expert reports, there was no connection between ATH and the bugs allegedly found in the offices of Erdogan. The judges decided that the cops were innocent.
The judges along with the experts, who wrote the report, were jailed by Erdogan’s regime. Judges friendly to Erdogan (or possibly too afraid to be jailed...) were appointed to this case.

ATH had also sold surveillance equipment to the Hazar Aritim Company, co-owned by Iranian-Turk Polat.
Polat was partners in crime with Reza Zarrab in their Homa Yapi Company: http://www.turkishpedia.com/2017/04/30/a-portrait-of-erdogans-revolutionary-guard-ekim-alptekin/
(archived here: http://archive.is/FyPxJ)

 

[RonPaulMall]

On Election Day, Flynn published an article in The Hill, a newspaper serving Congress, where he called Gulen “a shady Islamic mullah” and “radical Islamist”. According to Flynn, the USA shouldn't provide "safe haven" to Gülen, whom Flynn compared to Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini.
Flynn compared Gülen’s supporters to “the Muslim Brotherhood”.

Flynn wrote: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/michael-flynn-lobby-turkey-235843

Gülen is a "shady Islamic mullah". His sect would be more accurately referred to as a cult. You have the cause and effect backwards. It isn't that Flynn did work for Turkish business interests and was therefore bribed in to having a negative opinion of Gülen. It is simply that anybody who does work with Turkey, and gets to know about Gülen and his crew is going to come away with a negative opinion of him. Gülen is a con artist and a criminal who would have been prosecuted by the United States for the massive fraud he has committed in the American Charter School business if not for the CIA quashing the investigation. Gülen is a nut job the CIA is keeping on ice in the hopes that they will some day be able to install him as puppet dictator in Turkey.

As far as Trump knowing and associating with the Russo-Jewish Mafia in New York, how is that news? You can't be a real estate developer in New York without dealing with the Russo-Jewish mafia. That story is no reflection on Trump. Obviously he'd rather not deal with them. The fault for them should be placed squarely on the people that allowed them to immigrate here in the first place.

 

[Firestarter]

Gülen is a "shady Islamic mullah". His sect would be more accurately referred to as a cult. You have the cause and effect backwards. It isn't that Flynn did work for Turkish business interests and was therefore bribed in to having a negative opinion of Gülen. It is simply that anybody who does work with Turkey, and gets to know about Gülen and his crew is going to come away with a negative opinion of him.

You really don't have a clue what you're talking about, are you?

Michael Flynn was paid $530,000 from the Dutch shell company Inovo BV. Then $80,000 was paid back for "consultancy" (a kickback...) to Ekim Alptekin. Alptekin was raised in the Netherlands and besides being well connected to Erdogan's inner cricle, he is part of the ECFR (that's affiliated with Rothschild agent George Soros and Mabel of the Dutch Royal family), and the Nowruz Commission (that is connected to Flynn and pushes for the war against Iran).

The Flynn Intel Group registered as a Turkish foreign agent (I didn't make this up). I haven't found out where the $530,000 came from, so I agree that it's doubtful that this cash came from Turkey...

Gülen, Erdogan, Putin, Donald Trump are all mere puppets of the NWO, taking their orders from the City of London.
The CIA often gets the blame, but it's really the Rothschild and European Royal families that decide what happens.
For more information on Fethullah Gülen: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?517986-Fethullah-G%FClen-CIA-asset

 

[Firestarter]

Felix Sater, Neil Bush

When I first found out about Bayrock, it was trough a story where Felix Sater was the main topic.
When I looked further, it didn’t make sense to me at all, and I quickly concluded that Tevfik Arif was the more interesting one of the Bayrock directors...

I have (finally) found information that Felix Sater was also partners in crime with none other than Neil Bush, son of George H.W. Bush and brother of George W. Bush.

According to the following story Felix Sater knew Michael Cohen, one of Trump’s personal attorneys, since they were teenagers: https://trump-russia.com/2017/08/30/felix-sater-and-michael-cohen-childhood-friends/


The following story features the notorious 3 November 2015 mail from Felix Sater to Michael Cohen:

I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected.
(…)
Buddy our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it.

Sater said he had financed the Trump Tower deal with VTB Bank, a Russian bank that was under US sanctions for Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine.

In January 2016, Cohen wrote to Putin’s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, asking for help restarting the Trump Tower project: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/politics/trump-tower-putin-felix-sater.html?mcubz=1


Sater and a former Trump Organization colleague, Daniel Ridloff, received roughly $20 million — from a case linked to a multi-billion-dollar global money laundering scheme originating in Kazakhstan, and stretching to Russia and the USA.

Now the most interesting stories that I’ve found – the connection to Neil Bush...

In 2013 a complaint filed by a Swiss financier, that accused Sater and Ridloff of absconding with nearly $43 million from the sale of the Ohio shopping mall Tri-County Mall near Cincinnati to American Pacific International Capital (APIC).
One of the directors of the San Francisco based APIC is… Neil Bush.
Bush has denied knowing Sater and says that the mall was purchased for $43 million by APIC at a public auction, and then transferred to a real estate company SingHaiyi Group based in Singapore that he chairs.

In one of those strange coincidences, Kazakhstan’s BTA Bank and the city of Almaty (Kazakhstan) accused 3 Kazakh men - Viktor Khrapunov (former Almaty mayor), his son Ilyas, and Mukhtar Ablyazov (former chairman of BTA Bank) - of disappearing with billions of dollars.
A testimony in the Khrapunov case is by Nicolas Bourg, the same Swiss financier who accused Sater and Ridloff of stealing the $43 million from the Ohio mall deal. Bourg was president of the real estate fund Swiss Development Group (SDG) that was controlled by the Khrapunov family.
The Financial Times has revealed that 3 Trump Soho condos in Manhattan were bought in 2013 with $3.1 million that came from laundering the Khrapunov billions. The beneficiary of the companies that bought the condos was Elvira Kudryashova — the California-based daughter of Viktor Khrapunov. Sater and Ridloff worked closely with Kudryashova in 2012.

In Ridloff’s Linked-In bio he refers to himself as the former vice president of SDG-Investment Fund. Bourg claimed that the shell he created in Luxembourg — Triadou — was wholly-owned by SDG. Bourg states that Triadou was also used to buy the Ohio shopping mall.
Telford International was used to fund Triadou. Telford was allegedly used to move the money to the same FBME Bank that was banned in the US due to money laundering and terror financing allegations: https://www.dcreport.org/2017/05/12/the-kazakhstan-connection-trump-bayrock-and-plenty-of-questions/
(archived here: http://archive.is/nKSQM)

Here’s a bizarre transcript from 2008, where Tevfik Arif explains how they’ve bought 2 coal fields for $400,000-$500,000 that they don’t own.
They also talk about “Khrapunov and his son” who own the coal field (if I understand correctly): https://www.scribd.com/document/348218683/Audio-Excerpts-May-2008


In Felix Sater’s LinkedIn bio he described himself as a former “Senior Advisor to Board of Directors” to TxOil of none other than Neil Bush (TxOil once drilled in Turkmenistan).
Not only has Sater’s LinkedIn bio, https://www.linkedin.com/in/felix-s-153455, been removed from the internet, but also from web.archive.org…
When I search for the internetpage it finds 2 results, 9 May and 11 October 2017. The 11 October gives no information, and the 9 May gives the error message “Wayback Machine doesn’t have that page archived”: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.linkedin.com/in/felix-s-153455

I’m sure it’s only a coincidence. I’ve tried it a couple of times, here’s a screenprint.

In another strange coincidence, while I was making this post, the page with the 9 May and 11 October 2017 results has also been deleted by web.archive.org.
Fortunately I had made a screenprint...

Best of all, I’ve found (a picture of) Felix Sater’s LinkedIn page...
Companies he has worked for are Mirax (2008-2010), Trump (2010-2011), TxOil (2011-2013), Regency Investment (1998-present), Rixos (2005-present), Sembol Construction (2007-present), Global Habitat Solutions (2009-present). Bayrock isn’t on this list.
Tevfik Arif owns a majority share in both Sembol and Rixos...