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Jul 5, 2019 • 32 tweets • 18 min read
💰Bank of Cyprus & TeamTrump

Wilbur Ross led a group of US European investors to purchase a $1.3B stake in Bank of Cyprus in July 2014

Cyprus is at the center of 💰flows surrounding Brexit/2016TeamTrump Deripaska, Manafort, Rick Gates, NRA & so much more
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📌Ross's first co-chair was Putin appointee Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, a former KGB agent and long-time associate of Putin.
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wIn 2015, Strzhalkovsky was replaced by Maksim Goldman, is director of strategic projects at Viktor Vekselberg's Renova Group and sits on the board of Rusal.
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📌Viktor Vekselberg, one of the richest men in Russia, is the largest shareholder in the Bank of Cyprus holding a 9.3 percent stake as of early 2017.

#Inauguration #Renova #Intrater #Cohen #Trump

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Viktor Vekselberg: Russian aluminum tsar, reportedly worth $11-$17 billion; long-time business partner of Ukrainian-born billionaire Len Blavatnik, the UK’s wealthiest citizen; reportedly enjoys good relations with Vladimir Putin.
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📌Blavatnik: How Putin's oligarchs funneled millions into GOP campaigns
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📌Dmitry Rybolovlev, Russia's "Fertilizer King," owns a 3.3 percent stake in the bank. Rybolovlev purchased Trump's mega mansion in Palm Beach for $95M, which allowed Trump to more than double his $41 million investment in the property in four years.
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📌The timing of the purchase was essentially a Trump rescue package Trump was suing Deutsche Bank, his one remaining creditor, to try to avoid repaying a $40 million real estate loan. He lost.
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Deutsche Bank ♥️ Trump
🔑Interesting: Josef Ackermann, chief executive of Deutsche Bank from 2002 to 2012, replaced Ross as co-chair of the bank.

🔑Like co-chair Goldman, Ackermann currently works for Viktor Vekselberg.
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He joined the board of Vekselberg's Zurich-based holding company, Renova Management AG, in 2014 to manage Renova's international assets.

🔑Clearly, Vekselberg's interests are fully represented at the Bank of Cyprus.
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📌Columbus Nova CEO Andrew Intrater & Cohen exchanged 320 phone calls & 920 text messages beginning on Election Day 2016,
Intrater introduced Cohen to his cousin & biz assoc, Viktor Vekselberg. Cohen was even added to Columbus Nova’s office security list.
thedailybeast.com/cohen-called-c…
Michael Cohen payments put spotlight on New York investment firm linked to Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg
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DeutscheBank: After being blackballed by U.S. banks for failure to pay his loans, Trump turned to Deutsche Bank for liquidity. Deutsche Bank is estimated to have loaned Trump as much as $3 billion since the 1990s.
newyorker.com/magazine/2016/…
📌Trump's financial disclosures show that he has $364 million in loans from Deutsche Bank that will mature in 2024
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🔑During Ackermann's tenure as chief executive, Deutsche Bank engaged in a wide range of financial misconduct including, according to the New Yorker, laundering $10 billion of Russian money through its offices in New York, CYPRUS and MOSCOW.
newyorker.com/magazine/2016/…
Through Nov 2017, the bank had paid over $670M in civil penalties to the U.S. and the U.K. related to its Russian trades.

Deutsche Bank's Moscow office was run by Andrey Kostin Jr. until 2011 when he died in an ATV crash in a forest in northern Russia.
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🔑Kostin's father, Andrey Kostin Sr., is chief executive of VTB, the second largest state-controlled bank in Russia that is currently under U.S. sanctions.
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🔑VTB was the source of $191 million that Yuri Milner, a Russian billionaire in Silicon Valley, used to fund a major stake in Twitter in 2011 through his investment fund, DST.
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🔑Milner also channeled $920 million into Facebook funded by the investment arm of Russia's state-controlled gas monopoly, Gazprom.
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The money was transferred from Gazprom to DST through an offshore company in the Isle of Man, Kanton Services. The investment by Gazprom funded $1 billion worth of Facebook shares.
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🔑There are several tax favored areas around the world, but none can rival the significant advantages provided by the Isle Of Man as an offshore money center.
#TaxHaven #IsleOfMan
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🔑Gazprom's investment subsidiary is managed by Alisher Usmanov, an Uzbek-Russian billionaire with close ties to the Kremlin.
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🔑Carter Page, who served as a foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign and made several trips to Russia, has deep financial ties to Gazprom.
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📌Timeline of Carter Page’s Contacts with Russia [Updated]

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📌Yuri Milner also invested $850,000 of his personal funds into a real estate startup, Cadre, which Jared Kushner co-owns with his brother. Kushner failed to disclose his association with Cadre when he joined the Trump White House.
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Investment has flowed from overseas to Kushner’s company, Cadre, while he works as an international envoy for the US.

The money came through a vehicle run by Goldman Sachs in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven that guarantees corporate secrecy. #TaxHaven
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🔑Paradise Papers: Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner investor Yuri Milner

🔑Institutions with close links to Kremlin financed stakes through investor in Trump son-in-law’s venture (Cadre), leaked files reveal #ParadisePapers
theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/…
🔑Background: Paradise Papers leak reveals secrets of the world elite's hidden wealth

Files from offshore law firm show financial dealings of the Queen, big multinationals and members of Donald Trump’s cabinet
theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/…
🔑The leak of more than 13m docs from offshore law firms and registers have exposed in vivid detail the mechanics of a normally invisible & secretive industry – an industry that regards the Isle of Man as one of its global headquarters. #ParadisePapers
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#BankOfCyprus
#Ross
#Trump
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#Ackermann
#AndreyKostinSrJr
#VEB
#Deripaska
#Manafort
#Gates
#Strzhalkovsky
#MaksimGoldman
#Vekselberg
#ColumbusNova
#Intrater
#RenovaGroup
#Cohen
#Blavatnik
#Rybolovlev
#YuriMilner
#DST
#FB #Twitter
#Cadre
#Kush
Kushner uses Cayman to move foreign cash
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