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This is the secret case argued on Friday. Many of us had speculated it was Trump.
It was a corporation owned by "Country A." Here's a thread speculation about which state-owned corp. I've been writing about a few today:
QIA, Qatar's sovereign fund?
Saudi AramCo?
A UAE fund? 1/
2/ @delavegalaw with Rosneft for the win. And I'll link to a primer on Rosneft.
3/ I've been linking the Steele Dossier's Rosneft allegation to the real-life sale of 19.5% in Dec. 2016 to Qatar and Glencore and Jared Kushner's shady deals with Apollo and Brookfield. My blog post this morning:
shugerblog.com/2018/12/18/mor…
4/ Here's my piece from last March on the Rosneft sale and Jared Kushner's alleged crimes. Why did Kushner push the Gulf region to the brink of war?
slate.com/news-and-polit…
5/ It's not Deutschebank, which is private, not the German central bank Deutsche Bundesbank.
But we all know Deutschebank is in prosecutors' sights in Europe and the U.S.
6/ Ranking the secret subpoena possibilities:
1. Rosneft
2. Rosneft
3. Rosneft
4. Qatar IA, sovereign fund
5. A UAE sovereign fund
6. Saudi AramCo
Underdog:
Trump Org is wholly owned by Russia!

h/t @EricColumbus
7/ To those who have posted that Rosneft is not state-owned:
Rosneft is indeed state-owned.
"JSC ROSNEFTEGAZ, fully owned by the Russian Government."
rosneft.com/about/Rosneft_…
8/ Let's not count out Qatar!
This story demonstrates how clearly Mueller was seeking answers. H/t @Theophite nbcnews.com/politics/natio…
9/ It appeared from Friday's comings and goings in DC that Zainab Ahmad was working on this case. And @emptywheel has been all over Ahmad speculation. Ahmad's role more likely involves a Gulf state, but could also involve Russia...
10/ @emptywheel last week on Ahmad:
"As an experienced counterterrorism prosecutor... Ahmad is an expert in prosecutions involving extraditions. Also of note, given the questions around...Flynn..., she’s an Arabic speaker."
emptywheel.net/2018/12/05/upd…
11/ @emptywheel on Ahmad:
"We’ve not seen a substantive plea [on] Middle Eastern graft (centered around... Seychelles meeting Flynn attended), though...Mueller has spent a lot of time investigating it...an area where Flynn’s cooperation would be key. Given Ahmad’s skill set..."
12/ In my timeline, I also mention Russian banks:
VEB, a Russian-owned development bank (Putin's slush fund, which has links from its chair Gorkov to Kushner/Flynn in Dec. 2016:
shugerblog.com/2018/05/14/rus…
13/ I think Gorkov's VEB (Vnesheconombank) is the most likely of the Russian bank bracket.
There's also Torshin's Russian Central Bank (Butina's mentor), but a central bank seems less likely.
Alfa Bank is private (cc: @FranklinFoer) docs.google.com/document/d/1nR…
14/ I left out VTB Bank:
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