Iraq: riots, Abdul Mahdi’s resignation, sanctions
7 December, 2019
Khamis Farhan al-Khanjar al-Issawi
Iranian officials including the powerful commander of its Revolutionary Guards’ elite Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, stepped in to prevent Abdul Mahdi’s resignation in October. Soleimani was reported to be in Baghdad, negotiating with political leaders for a new consensus candidate for prime minister. https://wp.me/p1kUZv-14O
OFAC designated Qais al-Khazali, Laith al-Khazali, and Husayn Falih ‘Aziz al-Lami pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13818 for their involvement in serious human rights abuse in Iraq. Additionally, OFAC designated Iraqi millionaire businessman Khamis Farhan al-Khanjar al-Issawi for bribing government officials
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm847
Harvey Weinstein violated his bail conditions by mishandling his electronic ankle monitor, which left his whereabouts unrecorded for hours at a time,. Prosecutor Joan Illuzzi accused him of leaving home a piece of the monitoring technology that keeps the ankle bracelet activated. Defense attorney Donna Rotunno denied it was deliberate. Decision is deferred until next week.
[December 3 2019]
Weinstein is due to appear December 6 2019 at a bail hearing necessitated by changes that go into effect Jan. 1.
[November 29 2019]
New York judge James Burke on November 26 2019 issued an ominbus ruling that declined Weinstein’s request to unseal the names of two complaining witnesses, one of which is reportedly Sciorra, and made several other rulings on witness testimony.
Barbara Ziv, an expert on sexual assault and rape trauma syndrome, will be allowed to testify over Weinstein’s objections. Weinstein’s experts on human memory, Deborah Davis and Elizabeth Loftus, will also be allowed to testify — but they won’t be allowed to provide testimony on issues of memory specifically tied to sexual interactions and “the phenomenon known as ‘voluntary unwanted sex.'”
Weinstein asked the court to dismiss two counts of Predatory Sexual Assault, arguing that it requires that the defendant had committed an “underlying crime” and had engaged in an “aggravating crime.” Here the underlying crime is alleged to be a July 2016 rape and the aggravating crime is an alleged rape during the winter of 1993-1994, and Weinstein argued the alleged aggravating crime happened before the Predatory Sexual Assault statute was enacted in 2006 and therefore the two counts that relied upon it should be dismissed. Alternatively, he argued that they should be dismissed because the alleged victim of the mid-’90s rape can’t further narrow down when it happened. The producer also asked the court to dismiss the superseding indictment as a whole on procedural grounds.
Burke denied all three requests.
[October 3 2019 motion to move trial denied ]
2009
On October 3 2019, a New York state appeals court denied Weinstein’s motion to move the trial to a different location, ruling that it must stay in the city,
[Seprember 7 2019 lots of accusers – consolidation ]
Judge James Burke on September 6 2019 approved consolidating two indictments against the fallen movie mogul and permitted prosecutors to replace two older predatory sexual assault charges with new ones.The case to be taken to trial on Jan. 6, assuming no other changes between now and then, now involves the same two original accusers, plus Sciorra, plus a number of other accusers of Weinstein who will be testifying as “prior bad acts” witnesses, or Molineux witnesses as they are known in New York.
[August 26 2019 Jan.6 was firm, “Not really” ]
There’s a grand jury indictment against Harvey Weinstein, pushing his trial back to 2020 but allowing one of his alleged victims to testify against him. The new indictment gets around statute of limitations issues pertaining to Annabella Sciorra’s testimony,
Judge James Burke told them the new trial date of Jan. 6 was firm. To make the point, he stared at the defendant and asked, “Mr. Weinstein, do you want to go to trial?”
“Not really,” Weinstein quipped.
Weinstein, 67, who’s free on $1 million bail, has denied all accusations of non-consensual sex.
https://wp.me/pEe9-13e
[August 22 2019 Sep. 9 trial brings motions ]
A new and sealed grand jury indictment was issued August 22 2019 against the fallen movie mogul and accused sexual predator.
[August 20 2019]
Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon said in a letter to the judge and defense attorneys on August 13 2019 that prosecutors would re-present their case to a new grand jury starting on August 16 2019 in order to include the testimony of a woman who claims Weinstein raped her at her apartment in New York in the winter of 1993-1994.
Such changes in an indictment give the defense up to six weeks to respond, which would postpone the already pushed back trial start. Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer Arthur Aidala has moved for a change of venue on August 16 2019. Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office declined comment August 20 2019 on the new filing. A response is expected to be formally filed in the next few days.
[August 19 2019]
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office planned to present another alleged victim of Weinstein’s to a grand jury to support predatory sexual assault charges against him, according to court filings.
The accuser is Annabella Sciorra, the actress known for her role in “The Sopranos” who says Weinstein violently raped her in 1993, Prosecutors directed Weinstein to appear before the grand jury August 15 2019 if he wanted to testify, court records show. The grand jury must vote on a new indictment before its term ends Aug. 26, just two weeks before the scheduled start of Weinstein’s trial on Sept. 9, the filings indicate.
[July 28 2019]
Justice James Burke said in a one-line decision on August 7 2019: “The request for a change in bail conditions is denied.” He refused to allow Harvey Weinstein to travel to Europe to consult on a stage production of Cinema Paradiso, a 1988 film that he was involved with that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards.
Weinstein is set to go to trial on September 9 in New York for rape and could spend the rest of his life in prison if found guilty. Thus, the pleas from his attorneys to allow him to travel to Italy and Spain was quickly turned down. Weinstein wanted to travel Aug. 12 through Aug. 22 for the project.
Justice James Burke refused to allow testimony from Annabella Sciorra, who accused Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in 1993, but also refused Weinstein’s legal team’s bid to toss out some counts, Burke rejected prosecutors’ argument that language in the predatory sexual assault statute gave them “leeway” in terms of introducing “additional persons” at trial, and granted the defense motion to exclude Sciorra from the case.
[July 28 2910 Daryl Hannah on Weinstein ]
Daryl Hannah in Rome January 2014
See October 31 2017 below
https://www.axios.com/the-allegations-against-harvey-weinstein-and-their-fallout-1513306092-662e5326-9c61-42ec-8665-2f571e309382.html
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/weighing-the-costs-of-speaking-out-about-harvey-weinstein
[March 10 2019 stars in “Papa” ]
Papa:June 15, 2018 (Laemmle Monica Film Center)
[11 April 2018 Daryl Hannah weds Neil Young ]
Daryl Hannah and Neil Young outside a San Francisco courthouse where they were supporting a man with cancer who was suing Monsanto.
Daryl Hannah in Kill Bill
Neil Young and actor Daryl Hannah are said to have married on Young’s yacht near the San Juan islands to the north of Puget Sound in Washington state, adjacent to Canada’s Vancouver Island.
[October 31 2017 on Harvey Weinstein ]
Daryl Hannah on Harvey Weinstein trying to get in.
[June 26 The Slider 2017 release; “Sense8” cancelled ]
The Slider (2017)
Drama
“Sense8” an edgy sci-fi drama is gone after two seasons, “Sense8” Created by Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski (of the “The Matrix” fame) followed a small group of people around the world who were hunted by a mysterious organization because they shared a mental connection that allowed them to tap into one another’s thoughts and skills.
[June 20 2015 stars in Sicilian Vampire ]
Sicilian Vampire (2015), Thriller | 10 September 2015 release(Canada)
[June 9 Daryl Hannah: Sense8 downloaded by pirates, left-handed praise]
Daryl Hannah “persecution, bigotry and fear.”
Sense8 – season one, 5 June
“Eight people. Eight cities. One mind.” in a schoolyard premise that holds enough intrigue to call viewers back, has been downloaded by pirates more than half a million times less than three days after its release.
[January 26 Daryl Hannah stars in Death Squad [ 2047 – Sights of Death (2014)]]
![Daryl Hannah in Death Squad. Death Squad [ 2047 - Sights of Death (2014)] perhaps 2047 Sights of Death isn't really designed for theatrical release.](https://i1.wp.com/i153.photobucket.com/albums/s213/RedCarlisle/hannahd_zps38944566.jpg)
Daryl Hannah in Death Squad. Death Squad [ 2047 – Sights of Death (2014)] perhaps 2047 Sights of Death isn’t really designed for theatrical release.
The state of California filed a $62,622,tax lien against Daryl Hannah on March 24th with the EL Lay County CA Recorder of Deeds, said to get cleaned up.
On August 25, Daryl Hannah joined the film Michael to play Deborah, who runs a Colorado Buddhist retreat where Michael goes to find solace.
[Jun 29]
Daryl Hannah (“Kill Bill”)joins the international cast. of the upcoming 10-episode Netflix sci-fi series “Sense8” . Sense8 will follow a group of people who are somehow physically linked and find themselves on the run from an unknown force because of their “unique gift,” which is an “evolutionary leap, which was caused by technology.” Major themes of the series will reportedly be “persecution, bigotry and fear.” The cast has signed for all 5 Seasons of the show (should they be made).
[May 14]
[February 21]
Daryl Hannah in Rome January 2014
Blade Runner 1982
Principal photography will commence this month in Rome on the action thriller in which Major Anderson (Daryl Hannah) and some unscrupulous mercenaries led by Lobo (Michael Madsen), do the dirty — both just out of “Skin Traffik” where they did the same in Britain.
AMBI Pictures, the Italy-based film development, finance and production company run by Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi, today announced that Danny Glover (“Lethal Weapon” series, “Saw” “The Color Purple”), Daryl Hannah (“Kill Bill” “Blade Runner” “Splash”), Rutger Hauer (“Blade Runner” “Sin City” “Batman Begins”), Stephen Baldwin (“The Usual Suspects” “Born on the 4th of July”) and Michael Madsen (“Reservoir Dogs” “Kill Bill” “Donnie Brasco”) have signed on to star in the action thriller “Sights of Death” / “S.O.D,” which will be directed by Alessandro Capone (“L’amore nascosto” “Superstition 2”).
Monika Gomez del Campo Bacardi, Lady of Bayfield Hall, better known as “Monika Bacardi,”
is the widow of drinks magnate Lord Luis Bacardi. The pair set up AMBI Pictures late last year.
[February 19]
Director Ara Bradley Paiaya: his debut ‘Hollywood’ feature film is ‘Skin Traffik’ . Rugby League player Keith Mason is set to appear on screens in just a few months’ time alongside Mickey Rourke and Daryl Hannah in Skin Traffik, directed by Ara Paiaya (The Suppressor, Maximum Impact). The film is a dark tale set in the world of human trafficking, with a jaded hit man regaining his humanity amidst a brutal underworld, in which daily survival is not so much a skill, but an instinct. The cast is headed by British action star, Gary Daniels and sees Michael Madsen, Mickey Rourke and Darryl Hannah all popping up to phone in performances. Skin Traffik is due out in the UK at the end of Summer 2014, maybe.
Russian laundromat: ABN Amro
6 December, 2019
The share price is ~€2 lower than before the investigation was unveiled in September, which implies the size of the fine the market thinks possible is in the region of €2bn.
[September 26 2019]
ABN Amro (ABNd.AS) is being investigated for involvement in a money laundering network which allegedly channeled billions of euros from Russia. Around 13 billion euros ($14.2 billion) was laundered each year through The Netherlands between 2004 and 2014, a sum equivalent to roughly 2% of Dutch GDP.
[September 26 2019 Aivar Rehe dead, Deutsche Bank raided ]
The body of Aivar Rehe, former head of Danske Bank in Estonia, who was a witness in an investigation into a €200bn (£177bn) money-laundering scandal, has been found in an apparent suicide.
German authorities have raided Deutsche Bank’s (DBKGn.DE) Frankfurt headquarters in search of information related to Danske Bank (DANSKE.CO) and a money laundering scandal,
Deutsche Bank had alerted authorities to 1.1 million suspicious transactions, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors also said that a double-digit number of transactions, with a volume of 12.5 million euros, were either registered by Deutsche too late with authorities, or the bank should have blocked them from the start.
[March 17 2019 Deutsche Bank internal report ]
Deutsche Bank asked two in-house financial crime investigators – Philippe Vollot and Hinrich Völcker – report on the Russian Laundromat.. Their nine-page presentation was shared last year with the audit committee of the bank’s supervisory board and is marked “strictly confidential”.
The pair identified numerous “high-risk entities”. They included 1,244 in the US, 329 in the UK and 950 in Germany. These entities were responsible for nearly 700,000 transactions, the report says, involving at least £62m in the UK, $47m in the US, and €55m in Germany.
As part of its investigation, Deutsche Bank sent 149 “suspicious activity reports” to the National Crime Agency in London. Similar disclosures of potential money-laundering transactions were made to authorities in the US and elsewhere – with 30 private and corporate Deutsche Bank clients reported. Some may have been “unknowingly used”, the report says.
[ Troika Dialog, Quantus Division, Ltd[BVI] $billions out of Russia ]
The system dubbed the Troika Laundromat by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project involved at least 75 offshore companies and exported about $4.8 billion between 2006 and 2013, often through fictional deals, with help from a now-defunct Lithuanian bank, according to the OCCRP’s investigative journalists.
The oligarch, Ruben Vardanyan, is the former boss of Moscow investment bank Troika Dialog. The payments were from a company called Quantus Division Ltd, registered in the British Virgin Islands, which is revealed today to have been part of a network of offshore companies that sent billions of dollars out of Russia.
The network was managed by a Moscow investment bank, Troika Dialog, whose chief executive at the time was Mr Vardanyan, who was the 99th richest man in Russia two years ago,
[December 19 2018 U.S.Sanctions- Oleg Deripaska real estate seized — Rusal sanctions lifted ]
Oleg Deripaska
12/19/2018
Today, OFAC submitted a notification to Congress of its intention to terminate the sanctions imposed on En+ Group plc (“En+”), UC Rusal plc (“Rusal”), and JSC EuroSibEnergo (“ESE”) in 30 days…to remove sanctions on Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska’s aluminum company, United Co. Rusal, after reaching an agreement to significantly reduce his ownership stake.
Deripaska will remain under U.S. sanctions and his property will remain blocked,
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20181219_33.aspx
[October 8 2018]
Washington has frozen Oleg Deripaska’s US-based assets, including massive mansions in Manhattan and Washington, DC. But the feds are also negotiating with him to give up some of his European-based operations to keep them running free of sanctions, Treasury officials say.
Deripaska’s US assets include a mansion at 11 East 64th St.
FBI agents tried unsuccessfully to flip Deripaska in exchange for information on Russian organized crime — and Russia’s aid to President Trump’s 2016 campaign, the New York Times reported last month.
In an affidavit attached to a July 2017 application, an FBI agent said he had reviewed tax returns for a company controlled by Manafort and his wife that showed a $10 million loan from a Russian lender identified as Oleg Deripaska. When Manafort joined the Trump campaign, he owed Deripaska close to $20 million, according to legal complaints Deripaska’s lawyers filed in the Cayman Islands and New York
[ September 2018 Abramovich divorced then transferred holdings to her ]
Listed by Treasury as Putin-related oligarch, Roman Abramovich has transferred Manhattan property to his ex-wife (2017).
On Sept. 14, the city recorded the transfer of the three townhouses at 9, 11 and 13 E. 75th St. from Roman Abramovich to Dasha Zhukova for a total $74 million. In addition, Abramovich transferred 15 E. 75th St. to Zhukova for $16.5 million. (11, 13 and 15 are the ones being combined after June approval from the Landmarks Preservation Commission.)
Abramovich also transferred a fourth floor co-op at 225 E. 73rd St. to Zhukova for $900,000, as well as another first floor co-op at 215 E. 73rd St. for another $900,000, according to property records.
[April 22 Oerlikon is neither sanctioned nor blocked ]
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Department of the Treasury has identified Viktor F. Vekselberg and Renova Group, Moscow, as specially designated nationals pursuant to US sanctions rules, effective April 6, 2018.
Viktor F. Vekselberg indirectly holds an interest of 43.04 % in Oerlikon. Pursuant to the regulations of the OFAC of the US Department of the Treasury, Oerlikon is neither considered a sanctioned nor a blocked party because Mr. Vekselberg’s ownership interest in Oerlikon is less than 50 %. US persons and entities, as well as any other persons and entities, are therefore not restricted in their dealings with Oerlikon or in investing in Oerlikon. Press release(04/09/18).
Assets totaling between $1.5 billion and $2 billion have been frozen as a result of sanctions imposed on Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg and his Renova Group conglomerate, Renova, which is headquartered in Moscow and has a subsidiary in Zurich, intends to maintain its Swiss holdings, which include a stake in Oerlikon (OERL.S).
[ April 10 Oleg Deripaska is a SDN. What does that mean? ]
“We [Oleg Kouzmin and Daniel Salter] note that the fundamentals surrounding the Russian market remain mostly unchanged and that Russian equities still provide among the healthiest dividend returns globally. We would thus ignore the current jitters and buy into the current weakness, particularly with dividend season almost upon us.”
The economic impact of the new sanctions was also unclear and analysts said it was too early to revise forecasts.
[April 7]
SDN stands for “Specially Designated National.” In its statement announcing the sanctions, the U.S. Treasury Department said U.S. entities will be “generally prohibited from dealings with” the people and firms on the sanctions list.
In addition, it said, companies outside the United States “could face sanctions for knowingly facilitating significant transactions for or on behalf of” sanctioned entities.
Deripaska, with a net worth of $6.7 billion, is the main owner of the conglomerate EN+, which in turn is the co-owner of some of the world’s biggest metals producers, Rusal and Nornickel.
Hong Kong-listed Rusal is one of the world’s biggest aluminum producers. It says exports to the United States account for over 10 percent of its output.
Rusal owns assets in Italy, Ireland, Sweden, Nigeria, Guyana, Guinea. It owns a stake in Australian QAL, the world’s top alumina refinery.
Nornickel has assets in Finland, in Australia, where it holds a license to develop the Honeymoon Well Project, and in South Africa, where it has a 50 percent stake in the country’s only nickel concentrate producer, Norilsk Nickel Nkomati.
Swiss-headquartered Glencore is a shareholder in Rusal, and his said it plans to switch those shares to Deripaska’s newly-created holding company, EN+. According to a Rusal prospectus, its major customers include Glencore, Toyota, and Rio Tinto Alcan.
Other foreign firms with ties to Deripaska’s empire include Austrian construction company Strabag, in which the Russian’s firm Rasperia has a blocking stake, and Singapore’s Changi Airports International, which is a partner with a Deripaska-owned airports firm.
[April 6 Oligarchs and Russian meddlers sanctioned: up to April 6 2018 ]
Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin
AKIMOV, Andrey Igorevich,
BOGDANOV, Vladimir Leonidovich,
DERIPASKA, Oleg Vladimirovich,
DYUMIN, Alexey Gennadyevich (a.k.a. DYUMIN, Alexei),
FRADKOV, Mikhail Efimovich (Cyrillic: ФРАДКОВ, Михаил Ефимович),
FURSENKO, Sergei (a.k.a. FURSENKO, Sergey; a.k.a. FURSENKO, Sergey Aleksandrovich);
GOVORUN, Oleg,
KERIMOV, Suleiman Abusaidovich (Cyrillic: КЕРИМОВ, Сулейман Абусаидович) (a.k.a. KERIMOV, Suleyman)
KOLOKOLTSEV, Vladimir Alexandrovich,
KOSACHEV, Konstantin,
KOSTIN, Andrey Leonidovich,
LEONE MARTINEZ, Miguel Jose (a.k.a. LEONE, Miguel),
MILLER, Alexey Borisovich,
PATRUSHEV, Nikolai Platonovich,
PEREZ ALVEAR, Jesus (a.k.a. “Chucho Perez”),
REZNIK, Vladislav Matusovich,
ROTENBERG, Igor Arkadyevich (a.k.a. ROTENBERG, Igor Arkadevich)
SHAMALOV, Kirill Nikolaevich
SHKOLOV, Evgeniy Mikhailovich
SKOCH, Andrei Vladimirovich (a.k.a. SKOCH, Andrey)
TORSHIN, Alexander Porfiryevich,
USTINOV, Vladimir Vasilyevich,
VALIULIN, Timur Samirovich,
VEKSELBERG, Viktor Feliksovich,
ZHAROV, Alexander Alexandrovich (a.k.a. ZHAROV, Aleksandr)
ZOLOTOV, Viktor Vasiliyevich,
• AgroHolding Kuban
• Basic Element Limited
• B-Finance Ltd.
• EN+ Group PLC
• JSC EuroSibEnergo
• GAZGroup
• Gazprom Burenie, 000
• Ladoga Menedzhment, 000
• NPV Engineering Open Joint Stock Company
• Renova Group
~ Russian Machines
~ United Company RUSAL PLC
• Any other entity in which one or more of the above persons own, directly or indirectly,
a 50 percent or greater interest
e, all transactions and activities
otherwise prohibited by the Ukraine Related Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 589, that are
ordinarily incident and necessary to divest or transfer debt, equity, or other holdings in the following
blocked persons to a non-U.S. person, or to facilitate the transfer of debt, equity, or other holdings in
the following blocked persons by a non-U.S. person to another non-U.S. person, are authorized through
12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time, May 7, 2018:
• EN+ Group PLC
• GAZ Group
• United Company RUSAL PLC
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0338
[ March 15 targets are the same as Mueller’s? ]
Targets are the same as those identified by an indictment by Robert Mueller?
Internet Research Agency LLC
Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin
Concord Management and Consulting LLC
Concord Catering
Dzheykhun Nasimi Ogly Aslanov
Anna Vladislavovna Bogacheva
Maria Anatolyevna Bovda
Robert Sergeyevich Bovda
Mikhail Leonidovich Burchik
Mikhail Ivanovich Bystrov
Irina Viktorovna Kaverzina
Aleksandra Yuryevna Krylova
Vadim Vladimirovich Podkopaev
Sergey Pavlovich Polozov
Gleb Igorevich Vasilchenko
Vladimir Venkov
Officials
Sergei Afanasyev
Vladimir Alexseyev
Sergey Gizunov
Igor Korobov
Igor Kostyukov
Grigoriy Molchanov
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0312
[February 1 Oligarchs listed by U.S. Treasury – from Forbes ]
Yevgeniy Kasperskiy
“A lot of work had gone into compiling the original list, but someone high up in the administration had ordered for it to be binned and replaced by the Forbes-based list.
In an emailed statement to Forbes, a Treasury spokesperson explained that the unclassified report was derived from open sources, including Forbes and others
UNCLASSIFIED
Appendix B: List of Oligarchs
1 Aleksandr Abramov
2. Roman Abramovich
3. Araz Agalarov
4. Farkhad Akhmedov
5. Vagit Alekperov
6. Igor Altushkin
7. Aleksey Ananyev
8. Dmitriy Ananyev
9. Vasiliy Anisimov
10. Roman Avdeyev
11 Petr Aven
12. Yelena Baturina
13. Aleksey Bogachev
14. Vladimir Bogdanov
15. Leonid Boguslayskiy
16. Andrey Bokarev
17. Oleg Boyko
18. Nikolay Buynov
19. Oleg Deripaska
20. Aleksandr Dzhaparidze
21. Leonid Fedun
22. Gleb Fetisov
23 Mikhail Fridman
24. Aleksandr Frolov
25. Filaret Galchev
26. Sergey Galaskiy
27 Valentin Gapontsev
28. Sergey Gordeyev
29. Andrey Guryev
30, Yuriy Gushchin
31. Mikhail Gutseriyev
32. Sait-Salam Gutseriyev
33. Zarakh Iliyev
34. Dmitriy Kamenslichik
35. Vyacheslav Kantor
36. Samuel Karapetyan
37. Yevgeniy Kasperskiy
38. Sergey Katsiyev
39 Suleyman Kerimov
40. Igor Kesayev
41. Danil Khachaturov
42. German Khan
43. Viktor Kharitonin
44. Aleksandr Klyachin
45. Petr Kondrashev
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED
46. Andrey Kosogov
47 Yuriy Kovalchuk*
48 Andrey Kozitsyn
49. Aleksey Kuzmichev
50. Lev Kvetnoy
51 Vladimir Lisin
52. Anatoliy Lomakm
53 Ziyavudin Magomedov
54. Igor Makarov
55 Iskander Makhmudov
56. Aleksandr Mamut
57 Andrey Melnichenko
58. Leonid Mikhelson
59 Yuriy Milner
60. Boris Mints
61. Andrey Molchanov
62. Aleksey Mordashov
63. Vadim Moshkovich
64. Aleksandr Nesis
65. God Nisanov
66. Aleksandr Ponomarenko
67, Sergey Popov
67, Sergey Popov
68. Vladimir Potanin
69. Mikhail Prokhorov
70. Dmitriy Pumpyanskiy
71. Megdet Ralchimkulov
72. Andrey Rappoport
73 Viktor Rashnikov
74. Arkadiy Rotenberg*
75. Boris Rotenberg*
76. Dmitriy Rybolovlev
77. Ayrat Shaymiyev
78. Radik Shaymiyev
79 Kirin Shamalov
80. Yuriy Sheller
81. Albert Shigabutdinov
82. Mikhail Shishkhanov
83. Leonid Simanovskiy
84. Andrey Skoch
85. Aleksandr Skorobogatko
86. Rustem Sulteyev
86. Rustem Sulteyev
87 Aleksandr Svetakov
88. Gennadiy Timchenko*
89. Oleg Tinkov
90. Roman Trotsenko
91 Alisher Usmanov
92. Viktor Vekselberg
93. Arkadiy Volozh
94. Vadim Yakunin
95. Vladimir Yevtushenkov
96. Gavril Yushvayev
UNCLASSIFIED
3
Malaysia: Najib Razak misled by Jho Low in state fund 1mdb
6 December, 2019
Muhammad Shafee Abdullah
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak opened his defense December 3 2019
in his first corruption trial linked to the multibillion-dollar looting of the 1MDB state investment fund. Najib’s defense will show he is also “a victim” of a scheme devised by Low and his cohorts, Najib’s lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah told reporters during lunch break Tuesday. Low bribed the management of 1MDB and SRC to do his bidding and kept Najib in the dark.
Low is wanted in both Malaysia and the U.S. and currently in hiding.
[November 22 2019]
Najib Razak went on trial on November 18 2019 in the third case related to the multi-billion-dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB, with prosecutors saying Malaysia’s former prime minister tampered with a government audit of the fund in a bid to avoid civil and criminal proceedings. His lawyers say he was misled by rogue bankers led by Jho Low. The trial opened just days after another court ordered Najib to enter his defence in his first case, which relates to 1MDB unit, SRC. A second case started in August and is ongoing.
DSK: Britain ‘only aimed at slowing’ EU
5 December, 2019
“Since 1973, you can’t say that the British have helped us much,” Dominique Strauss-Kahn wrote in an editorial for French newspaper Les Echos. “Apart from a long period of Labour rule from 1997-2010, their actions have only aimed at slowing the European project, according to what they judge to be their interests. Without them, the Union today would have advanced much further, been much stronger and much more united.”
The piece, entitled in English “I am a sad Brexiteer”, the former French economy minister begins: “I have too much admiration for the intelligence and capacity of the British to underestimate the risk they pose to the European project…”
Trump v. House Committee on Oversight and Reform
5 December, 2019
President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on December 5 2019 to void a subpoena from the House of Representatives that seeks the president’s financial records from his accounting firm.
The justices already have shielded the documents from being turned over while they consider whether to hear Trump’s case and his separate appeal of a court order that requires the same accounting firm, Mazars USA, to give his tax returns to the Manhattan District Attorney. The court could say as early as mid-December whether it will hear and decide the cases by the end of June.
[April 30 2019]
DONALD J. TRUMP,
v.
ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, in his official capacity
as Chairman of the House Committee on
Oversight and Reform
“Regarding the House Oversight Committee’s request for the Trump Organization’s financial records from its accounting firm Mazars USA LLP. Mr. Cox opines that short of a subpoena, the firm is unlikely to comply with a letter request from the committee. Under state statutes and regulations, accountants have a duty to maintain the confidentiality of client confidential information. Mr. Cox states that there are certain exceptions under the AICPA’s ethics rules where an accountant can turn over records in response to a subpoena or documents that are already publicly available.”
Mazars, through its outside counsel, wrote back to Chairman Cummings on March 27.
Mazars informed Chairman Cummings that it “cannot voluntarily turn over the documents….Despite the Ranking Members’ objections, Chairman Cummings issued the subpoena to Mazars”
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000016a-4546-d50f-a96a-ed5763d30000
Trump taxes: 2d Cir. Court of Appeals upholds House subpoena
4 December, 2019
“We believe the subpoena is invalid as issued,” Jay Sekulow, an attorney for Trump said. “In light of the 2nd Circuit decision, we are evaluating our next options including seeking review at the Supreme Court of the United States.”
Deutsche Bank and Capital One must comply with a House subpoena seeking a broad range of financial documents related to President Trump and his businesses,
A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on December 3 2019 ruled 2-1 in favor of ordering “prompt compliance” with the subpoenas from the House Financial Services and Intelligence Committees.
https://www.scribd.com/document/438067498/Appeals-Court-on-Deutsche-Bank-Subpoenas
