Thread by @TrickFreee

Senior executive of steel plant in Russia, Bruno Charles de Kooman, falls out of window in Moscow
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Last month, Russian steelmaker NLMK reported Q2 earnings at decade high. NLMK is a competitor of Evraz, Abramovich's steel company. NLMK is also not subject to Russian sanctions, shipping steel into Paulsboro, New Jersey's port.
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NLMK has two plants in the United States: NLMK Pennsylvania in Farrell, Pa., and NLMK Indiana in Portage.
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The largest shareholder of NLMK is Vladimir Lisin forsal.pl/artykuly/12367…

After Russian sanctions, Vladimir Lisin, who started as an electrical fitter in Siberia in the 1970s, is now Russia's wealthiest person. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

In 2012, Lisin was implicated in the shipment of Russian weapons to Syria. A shipping company he owns was alleged to have transported a boat load of weapons from St Petersburg to Syria. telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…

Andy Wigmore, a close friend of the Brexit donor, claims to have “often” visited the castle owned by the oligarch Vladimir Lisin, who has been dubbed the Monarch of the Glenski after buying his castle in Perthshire. thetimes.co.uk/article/spin-d…

Squire Patton Boggs is the third-largest largest lobbying firm in America & worked with Michael Cohen. Natasha Hammond, a lobbyist at the firm represented NLMK, lobbied Paul Ryan, who worked to remove a "buy American" provision from an infrastructure bill. urbanmilwaukee.com/2016/12/22/mur…

Rep. Mike Kelly said he had a sit-down talk with Donald Trump on NLMK and a separate conversation with a representative from Vice President Mike Pence’s office. Kelly said he also talked with White House trade adviser Peter Navarro about a tariff exemption
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De Cooman was a noted academic who had published more than 500 papers. "He had previously worked for technology giant Phillips and had worked in South Korea. He had been educated at Ghent University as well as Syracuse and Cornell University in the US." nypost.com/2018/08/30/ste…