Spanish anti-corruption rosecutor Jose Grinda has asked a judge to subpoena Russian billionaire (and Alfa Bank owner) Mikhail Fridman related to possible illegal seizure of Zed Worldwide technology group, which was bankrupted and acquired below market elpais.com/economia/2019/…
Spanish authorities suspect Mikhail Fridman of illegal seizure of company - According to the Spanish Prosecutor's Office, Fridman achieved “financial strangulation” of Zed WorldWide technology group and acquired it at a price much lower than the market. en.crimerussia.com/oligarchs/span…
More on Spanish prosecutor José Grinda who also investigated Alexander Romanov, friend of NRA-linked Alexander Torshin, and Manafort's ex-business associate Dmytro (aka Dmitry) Firtash
Trial began Tues for Bruce Garelick - charged with enabling his boss Michael Shvartsman at Rocket One and others to make millions illegally on inside info that acquisition firm DWAC was taking Trump Media public
WaPo reported on earlier probe of investors including Russian born FL businessman Anton Postolnikov who sold most of his stake in DWAC days after Trump/DWAC announcement sent stock soaring, per FBI search warrant he made $22 million (and was not charged)
An April SEC filing for Trump Media reveals new details on early investors in Trump’s company - including ex FL AG Pam Bondi who owns 100,000+ shares worth several million dollars and her brother advised on the deal. My latest newstracs.com/april-sec-fili…
A new name in the Trump Media Apr S-1 Registration Statement is lawyer Michael Milkersen with 300,000+ shares (and several hundred thousand founder and ARC shares) making him one of the largest investors. It's not clear how he became involved in the deal. newstracs.com/april-sec-fili…
A new name in the alternative financing group is 'Washington Muse Investments SPC' which has a Cayman Islands address and owns 4,166,666 shares and 1,388,888 warrants, making it one of the top owners - but there is almost no public info on this company.
AG Mayes announced indictments in ongoing investigation into AZ fake elector scheme
Kelli Ward, Tyler Bowyer, Nancy Cottle, Jacob Hoffman, Anthony Kern, James Lamon, Robert Montgomery, Samuel Moorhead, Lorraine Pellegrino, Gregory Safsten, Michael Ward
Here's Apr 9 filing USA v Guo Wengui and Yanping Wang
"Distributions from the ACA Bank Account also demonstrate $10 million in transfers to William Je and his wife, and a $1 million transfer to a company associated with Steve Bannon, a co-conspirator."
Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point website says it has 350 part and full-time staff, 800+ chapters on 3,500 US campuses where they run events, recruit activists and register voters
Kirk meanwhile hosts shows espousing conspiracy theories and far-right views
Michael Shvartsman who pleaded guilty today to insider trading related to DWAC-Trump Media merger is friends w/Anton Postolnikov who used ES Family Trust to loan $8mil to Trump Media in 2022 per @hugolowell
There's another link from Shvartsman to ES Family Trust, see 🧵below
As @hugolowell reported the ES Family Trust
creation papers included a declaration that, if the original trustee – a Paxum employee named Angel Pacheco – stepped down from the role, his successor would be a certain individual named Michael Shvartsman
@hugolowell After story about $8 million in loans made to Trump Media came through Paxum Bank and ES Family Trust, where Angel Pacheco was a trustee - researcher @braisincapital found Pacheco and Shvartsman were listed as managers of Foundation Card Services in 2019