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We've got Lord Ashcroft flying to do biz in Ukraine and then departing miles off his route to Lutsk to have lunch in a restaurant by Andrei Pannikov @carolecadwalla @peterjukes
"Jim Mellon, was dragged into row after it emerged one of his companies was involved in a business deal with a former Russian spy. The financier is the chairman and largest shareholder in Regent Pacific, a Hong Kong-based investment vehicle 1/2 @carolecadwalla @peterjukes
2/2 @carolecadwalla @peterjukes Regent Pacific entered a business relationship in 2012 with Andrei Pannikov, a Russian expelled from Sweden in 1988 for trying to recruit westerners for espionage. Mellon said he had “no idea” how deal had come about and “never met Andrei Pannikov”
@carolecadwalla @peterjukes Plot thickens ....just before 2012 Lord Ashcroft's BELIZE-based bank was deep in the doo doo and he had to grab funds and restructure it - anyone else live in Belize we know of? independent.co.uk/news/business/…
@carolecadwalla @peterjukes Can we put Lord Ashcroft in the 'right location' (oh yes) lordashcroft.com/2018/04/my-vis…
@carolecadwalla @peterjukes "In USSR, foreign trade was awash with spies and former spies. Mr. Timchenko's team hooked up with Andrei Pannikov, a Soviet trade counselor in Stockholm who was expelled for espionage in 1988 after he tried to recruit an oil-industry contact.
@carolecadwalla @peterjukes Mr. Pannikov was "always asking questions about oil," recalls Tore Forsberg, the head of Swedish counterintelligence at the time. wsj.com/articles/SB121…
@carolecadwalla @peterjukes 1990, Pannikov set up SP Urals, a petroleum-trade joint venture with Swedes and several Russians including Timchenko's, Kirishineftekhimexport. Refinery team supplied refined products to SP Urals, which then sold them abroad. lordashcroft.com/2018/04/my-vis…
Regent Pacific (stake in Lukoil, co-founded by Pannikov) expelled for spying from Sweden in 88. Pannikov obtained 1st oil export license issued by Russia, had close relations with Vladimir Putin, whom he financially supported. @carolecadwaladr @peterjukes opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
@carolecadwalla @peterjukes Seems like Pannikov has an Irish business partner
offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/80110242
offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/80110242
companydirectorcheck.com/finian-rory-o-… - this chap @carolecadwalla @peterjukes both into the oil biz - and we've got a jet registered in Belize for you (under VTB Bank) 
And another jet registered in Belize that seems to spend all its time in Moscow not Belize odd that? @carolecadwalla @peterjukes
more to come anon
@threadreaderapp unroll - @Turloughc @NCA_LynneOwens (thread points in some VERY interesting direction towards the Caribbean once more)
Why is Lord Ashcroft in Rivne in Ukraine eating at a restaurant owned by Andrei Pannikov literally miles and miles out of his way @carolecadwalla @peterjukes
2012 Ashcroft bank in the poop @Turloughc @lukeharding1968
@Turloughc @lukeharding1968 Ashcroft in Ukraine
Pannikov thrown out of Sweden for spying in 1988
