Time to refresh our memories:
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"The trades here were "mirror trades," in which some Russian entity would buy a chunk of Russian shares from Deutsche Bank's Moscow office for rubles, and an affiliated entity would sell the same shares to Deutsche Bank's.."
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"The trades here were "mirror trades," in which some Russian entity would buy a chunk of Russian shares from Deutsche Bank's Moscow office for rubles, and an affiliated entity would sell the same shares to Deutsche Bank's.."
"In another case, a counterparty representative, when told by a DB-Moscow trader there were no Sberbank Russian shares available for a mirror trade, immediately switched the order to Gazprom Russian shares. No rationale for this switch was apparent"
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GlobalOptions was founded by Neil C. Livingstone, a behind-the-scenes adviser to Reagan White House official Col. Oliver North during the arms-for-hostages deal with Iran. Livingstone left the company in late 2006 to start a similar firm, Executive Action LLC"
"While Livingstone was still CEO of GlobalOptions, the firm said its foreign clients operated "primarily in Russia and the Caribbean,” according to an SEC filing unearthed by Harper’s magazine blogger Ken Silverstein in 2007."
"One was Ukrainian businessman Dimytro Firtash, who “brokered several billion-dollar deals between Gazprom and the government of Ukraine,” which drew “criticism from the U.S. ambassador to the Ukraine at the time for the deals’ lack of transparency,”
Now for the real dig, go to @LincolnsBible for the "DF"
