#SignalPeakEnergy #GennadyTimchenko 🇷🇺 thread:
1/ Unable to reply to this⤵️ tweet bc of reply restriction, but copying people @FayeCook19 replied to: @25Ribbits @ABrat626 @AmySandSand @amys_here @AShoutOutfromMN @BiznezNuna
Jan 13 2023 h/t @TeresaCCarter2
2/ @DannyHulse3 @DenbySister @EdHall23 @Grumpiest17 @HiblerDana @mikes_booh @saabelieves @tammy_sager @wackiejalsh
NYT⤴️ paywall removed🧧, TY @FayeCook19
However, don't understand what prompted NYT to publish this (old news) article today Jan 13 2023.
3/ #SignalPeakEnergy in Roundup Montana, 30 miles north of Billings was purchased in 2008 by 2 Ohio-based companies:
▸FirstEnergy
▸Boich Group
In 2010, Gunvor Group🇨🇾 assumed a stake in the company.
Jan 13 2023 paywall removed🧧 courtesy @FayeCook19:
nytimes.com/2023/01/13/cli…
4/ As I mentioned before, oddly timed NYT article:
FirstEnergy Corp "invested $400 million to open the underground mine in 2009 w/the investment firm Boich Group. In 2021, the company admitted to funneling tens of millions...
Sep 2022 thread⤵️:
5/ ...of dollars in bribes to state legislators and regulators to advance a $1 billion bailout for aging nuclear and coal-fired power plants. The Justice Dept fined FirstEnergy a record $230 million in a sprawling bribery case, the largest ever in Ohio." (more)
6/ Ohio billionaire Wayne "Boich has also been implicated in the [FirstEnergy bribery] case. According to local news reports and a federal criminal complaint, he made substantial donations to the dark money organization at the center of the scandal. (con't)
7/ ...He [Ohio billionaire Wayne Boich] has not been charged with any crime."
"The third owner is the Gunvor Group, a multinational trading company 👉formerly co-owned by Gennady N. Timchenko🇷🇺, a Russian billionaire and confidante of Mr. Putin. (con't)
8/ ...Signal Peak is the only coal mine owned by Gunvor, which specializes in trading commodities like oil, gas and minerals, not producing them.
For years, the US Treasury maintained that Mr Putin held investments in Gunvor and may have had access to Gunvor funds. (con't)
9/ ...After Russia invaded Crimea in 2014, the State Dept placed sanctions on Mr Timchenko 👉and he announced that he had sold his interest in the company*👈."
*Sloppy NYT reporting? See downthread.
home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…
10/ From previous tweet, US Treasury sanctions Russians🇷🇺, Mar 20 2014:
"Gennady Timchenko is one of the founders of Gunvor, one of the world’s largest independent commodity trading companies involved in the oil and energy markets. Timchenko’s activities in the energy sector...
10/ ...have been directly linked to Putin. 👉Putin has investments in Gunvor and may have access to Gunvor funds👈."
Jun 30 2022: (more)
11/ "Gennady Timchenko is one of the richest and most powerful men in Russia. His friendship with Russian President Vladimir Putin dates back to the early 1990s, when he was an oil trader in St. Petersburg. (con't)
Jun 30 2022 thread⤵️
12/ ...Timchenko has been accused of fronting for Putin’s personal wealth, though he says they are just judo partners."
Timchenko's "engineering and construction company, Stroytransgaz, has built 👉multiple export pipelines for Russia’s oil and gas...
occrp.org/en/investigati…
13/ ...including the Nord Stream pipeline through Europe👈."
"Timchenko has also been one of the biggest beneficiaries of Moscow’s long-running economic ties with Syria🇸🇾, winning contracts to build part of a gas pipeline from Egypt🇪🇬 and two major gas processing plants." (more)
14/ Nov 11 2021:
"Timchenko’s wealth, estimated at $22 billion according to Forbes, derives 👉mainly from his commodity trading company Gunvor👈, set up in the late 1990s. The Swiss🇨🇭 company was 👉once the largest exporter of Russian oil. (con't)
15/ ...Timchenko sold his stake to his Swedish🇸🇪 partner in 2014, the 👉day before he was hit with U.S. sanctions for Russia’s seizure of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula👈."🧐
Which is not what NYT reported on Jan 13 2023 (tweet #9⤴️).
One more tweet...
rferl.org/a/russia-monk-…
16/ NYT Jan 13 2023 focuses on the $40million embezzlement from #SignalPeakEnergy by former VP in charge of surface operations, Larry Price Jr, who is now in federal prison.
In 2014, Price built a 26K square foot mansion w/10 bedrooms in Billings. /end @satirehat @TammyinMT406
17/ Coda. Forgot this🤦♀️.
Nov 10 2015:
"As husband and wife, Kirill [Shamalov, son of Nikolai Shamalov, a longtime friend of the president🇷🇺*] and Katerina [Putin's daughter] would have corporate holdings worth about $2 billion...
*Putin
reuters.com/investigates/s…
18/ ..., according to estimates provided to Reuters by financial analysts.
That wealth stems mainly from a 👉large publicly disclosed stake in a major gas and petrochemical company that Kirill acquired from Gennady Timchenko👈, another longtime friend of Putin." /end
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