Thread by @shady_inf0

Looks like 'The Barker Plan' came through then.

This is the same Greg Barker, @Conservatives peer who refused to give evidence about EN+/Deripaska, to a Select Committee on the flow of Russian money into the UK.

Will he now speak?
theguardian.com/politics/2018/…

https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1089671487248834566

@Conservatives List of new appointees at EN+

Christopher Bancroft Burnham.
Carl Hughes.
Joan MacNaughton
Nicholas Jordan.
Igor Lojevsky
Alexander Chmel
Andrey Sharanov

documentcloud.org/documents/5696…

@Conservatives Some of the Brits, ex .Gov, Energy, banking, are now appointed to a company that is part owned by one of Putin's close oligarchs, Oleg Deripaska.
Barker also prev employed by Abramovich.

So Greg Barker is the @Conservatives peer who refused to give evidence to the foreign affairs committee, looking into the flow of Russian ££ into the UK.

He offered to give 'private evidence' until negotiations with the US authorities have concluded.

theguardian.com/politics/2018/…

@Conservatives Hi @TomTugendhat Now that US sanctions appear to have been lifted, will there be any follow up to Greg Barker's refusal to offer evidence to the committee? thank you.

@Conservatives @TomTugendhat Adding this in here

https://twitter.com/shady_inf0/status/1090589281846992896?s=20

@Conservatives @TomTugendhat And this too

https://twitter.com/shady_inf0/status/1090592560257601536?s=20

Adding in Bill Browders appearance at foreign affairs committee where he talks in disbelief (I'm with him) at Lord Barker being paid by Deripaska to lobby the US to stop the sanctions on Deripaska's [now part owned] EN+ of which Barker is Chairman. 😟

https://twitter.com/shady_inf0/status/1095831768488464385?s=19

Barker is now set to appear before the committee.
So just to recap.
Lord Barker, chairman of a group owned by Putin Oligarch Deripaska has been lobbying the US to stop sanctions against the company of which he is chairman. & the UK seems fine with that. 😕

https://twitter.com/shady_inf0/status/1090408404718370818?s=19

When EN+ was 'allowed' (?) to float on the UK SE causing alarm in the security industry, $$ were used to pay back russian state owned VTB bank sanctioned by the US.

BBC News - Deripaska float funds blacklisted bank bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

https://twitter.com/HenryJFoy/status/930098268675235840?s=20

Here's the notice on the London Stock Exchange about EN+ re-paying back $942.6m to VTB

Back to the sanctions lifted by the US on Deripaska & original claims that he will relinquish ownership as part of the deal, have already been questioned after a confidential doc shows he & his allies will still retain majority ownership of 57% of EN+.

https://twitter.com/shady_inf0/status/1087639845302882304?s=20

Details of the deal laid out below which shows how Deripaska has been allowed to 'divest' 21M shares of EN+ to his own charity foundation allowing him & members of his family to still 'effectively' control EN+.

https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1087446448793403393?s=20

not forgetting to mention the deal lifted sanctions against Deripaska's Rusal tied to Viktor Vekselberg & Len Blavatnik.
Len Blavatnik, named in Paradise papers, donated to Trump campaigns & UK Conservative party, backed the Brexit Movie & knighted by the Queen.

https://twitter.com/shady_inf0/status/1089285767329972224?s=20

Lord Barker hired Mercury Public Affairs [close to Trump] to help get the Deripaska sanctions lifted.

It's the same outfit Manafort chose to lobby congress for pro Russia/Ukraine interests, named as 'Company A' in the federal indictment.
prweek.com/article/144885…

We can't forget what Lord Barker said above & below after US sanctions were lifted. he suggest Deripaska would consent to being a minority shareholder, going from 70% [to 44.95%]
From here bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

But according to NYT Journalist Ken Vogel Deripaska can 'effectively' still control 57%
nytimes.com/2019/01/21/us/…

https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1087446448793403393?s=20

And when you throw in these 2 letters from Lord Barker to Ben Wallace, where he claims his lobbying of the US will lead to the "removal of Deripaska" it looks like Lord Barker has a few questions to answer when he appears in front of the select committee on the 27th Feb.

So we've gone from 'removal of Deripaska,' to 'removing his control' .... and ending up with him effectively still keeping control of EN+. Barker's plan all along?

So, a UK Lord, [Barker] chairman of EN+, [owned by russian oligarch Deripaska] is somehow 'allowed' [using Manafort lobby group] by the UK to lobby the US to lift sanctions against EN+ as long as Deripaska is removed. Deal then shows Deripaska effectively still in control.
#sham

Lord barker is due to appear today to talk about his involvment with Deripaska / EN+. More later.

https://twitter.com/vanessafrank3/status/1100756427658985473?s=19

Just a small update on Lord Barker's new 'Plan' .... which is to leave the UK in the lurch as #brexit approaches, having not voted since 11/2 according to the Sunday Times.

So what will he do?

Lord Barker takes time out for Russia’s En+ (ofc)

cityam.com/273740/lord-ba…

https://twitter.com/shady_inf0/status/1100930002382712832?s=20

So here is the full 2 hour long video the UK Foreign Affairs Committee held into Lord Barkers involvement in the sanctions lifted in the US, against Oleg Deripaska's EN+ & Rusal. sparks fly!
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/1c…

list of attendees

Lord Barker EN+
William McGlone (Latham & Watkins)

Tom Tugendhat (chair)
Bob Seeley
Chris Bryant
Mike Gapes
Ann Clwyd
Ian Murray
Royston Smith

Chair TT tells Barker he wants brief answers.
Asks him about working for Abramovich at Sibneft, the 'aluminium wars' & when he met Deripaska.
He tells the committee, invest' banks wanted him as 'independent' chair & was hired close to EN+'s IPO, Nov 17.
goo.gl/2aT4HM

Both Abramovich & Deripaska were plagued with allegations of murder, corruption, organised crime & extortion during the aluminium wars, which saw Deripaska come out 'on top of the pile'.
Oleg Deripaska and the Russian aluminium wars europeanceo.com/profiles/oleg-… via @europeanceo

Deripaska recently lost a court case against Viktor Chernukhin, husband of Tory tennis match donor Lubov.
Article 👇
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6…
video below of Deripaska's 'men' taking control of Tryokhgornaya factory in 2010.

https://twitter.com/MacFinn44/status/1071096159488364545?s=20

MG asks about Abramovich links & who controlled EN+ IPO (Maxim Sokov)
Barker asked if inv in prep of IPO (no) but his name appears in prospectus.
Barker gets tetchy with committee "none of you have ever been inv with an IPO!" TT steps in.
goo.gl/YJrckA

The IPO was called a scandal given Rusal alleged to have used same powder in production of missile which investigators said took down Malaysia flight 17.

MI6 ‘concerned’ at Russian oligarch Deripaska's £1bn flotation of EN+ in London. thenational.ae/world/europe/m… via @TheNationalUAE

ofc the US were not happy either saying the IPO undermined it's own sanctions.

US official says Britain undermined American sanctions by letting Russian firm EN+ raise £1bn on stock exchange. telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/1…

How can the @Conservatives claim to take dirty Russian ££ in London seriously, when one of their own helped float Putin crony Deripaska's company there, (which paid back russian state bank VTB 😕), then helped that russian co' get sanctions lifted against it, imposed by the US.

Since May became PM in 2016 £2M has flowed into Tory coffers from russian linked donors.

https://twitter.com/shady_inf0/status/1094595916722511872?s=19

Not forgetting May also said she also wants a different relationship with Russia in the future.

https://twitter.com/shady_inf0/status/1062270874852753408?s=19

MG - Did Rusal sell Alu powder to Russia after sanctions imposed in 2014? Barker says no & says his IT staff checked on Rusal w/s. Committee tells him they have evidence from Rusal website despite Rusal removing it.

goo.gl/YwCtS3

More evidence of Rusal selling its products to arms makers as recent as sept 17 (ipo was Nov17) was uncovered by the Standard below.

Fears grow over EN+ float after fresh claims of defence work

standard.co.uk/business/fears…

The Standard's article, along with others, was supplied by Julian Lewis (chair Defence Committee) to Liz Truss & Sir Mike Penning as concerns that Rusal was benefiting [from EN+ ipo] while 'contributing to threats to our national security'
parliament.uk/documents/1803…

BS - You're aware Deripaska invgtd over ML, rival biz threats, wiretap of Gov official, extortion, racketeering, allegations of bribing Gov official, ordered murder of rival?
you comfortable with that?

LB - I no longer work for OD. he's not in control.

goo.gl/JpQYGd 1

BS - It looks like very rich, smart western facilitators, have helped get him around sanctions ...... undermining our ability to deal with Putin's malign influence.

LB - You're uninformed & wrong!

BS - You're rude & condescending!

🔥🔥
goo.gl/j3EhXr 3

Barker mentions Sen Lyndsey Graham at the end of the video. Graham (+ McConnell & Rubio) received $$ from 'Sir' Len Blavatnik after he made a 'hard right turn' in donations to GOP PACs in 2015/16.
Deripaska, Vekselberg, Blavatnik all under some scrutiny by Mueller.

But not that much from the UK.
Is it surprising when UK Royalty opens the Blavatnik School of Government in the UK?
Abramovich allowed to buy a football club?
& UK allows Gazprom & EN+ to float on the LSE?

As the Russian Embassy said " Business as usual?"

CB to Barker - Do you think Deripaska should have been sanctioned?
LB - "I have a view"
CB - "Well what is it?"

CB - What talks took place btw you & OD?
LB - 'erm', (in fact, lots of erms)

CB - [was it] "How can we get round this?" [sanctions]

goo.gl/EwbGwL (5 mins)

CB - Did you hire Mercury Public Affairs & why?
LB - to represent me
CB - To lobby US Gov? You're aware MPA>Mueller>Manafort indictment?
LB - pure coincidence he met Reid
Bryan Lanza, Steve Hilton, Morris Reid & US cong'man Joe Garcia named as contacts

goo.gl/Ddt2tY 4

CB -You're aware major questions abt Mercury as regards FARA?
LB - Not in relation to the work they've done for us, they haven't.
CB - Specifically in relation to you, actually! 🔥🔥
LB - what questions?
CB - Mr Barker, it's not for you to ask us Q's 🔥🔥

goo.gl/enWBFF