Thread by @DawsonSField

.@OCCRP has a new investigation into emails that they have been provided related to Paul Manafort's dealings in Ukraine & with the Hapsburg Group.

#ButNothingsHappening

https://twitter.com/OCCRP/status/1191356784524562432

@OCCRP Manafort attempted to line up Chinese bidders for the purchase of a Ukranian telecom during it's privatization.
The emails show 2 current MPs, using their position in Yanukovych's administration to rig the privatization sale...
occrp.org/en/investigati…

They were attempting to rig the bidding for Ukrtelecom to their advantage, even trying to set up a Swampy law to pay the new owners for the losses to provide telecom services to rural areas.

The deal also involved the head of Ukrtelecom, Grigory Dzekon. He went on to form a tech company in California....
The Lovochkina's deny any wrong doing of course...

Grigory Dzekon founded Bayware with Igor Tarasenko the CTO of Ukrtelecom and a lot of former CISCO personel.

Bayware specializes in moving all of your data onto their servers in the cloud...
bayware.io/company

The qualification & rigging of the sale of Ukrtelecom, eliminated most of the companies that were interested, resulting a only a single bid of $1.3B for a company valued at $2B.
It was of course form an unknown company named EPIC.

An investment group that seems to be a front company for Firtash. They then attempted to sell the company to Rinat Akhmetov in 2013.
But lawsuits over the shell company games ended the deal...

Serhiy Lovochkin also played a role in funding Manafort during the PR & lobbying effort to justify the imprisonment of opposition candidate Yulia Tymoshenko.
occrp.org/en/investigati…

This is an interesting claim, that Lovochkin as the source of the money behind this effort. The case against Obama White House Counsel Greg Craig claimed that the Clinton Foundation's biggest donor Victor Pinchuk was the one paying for these operations.'

OCCRP also received emails related to the Hapsburg Group, one of the quiet investigations following in Mueller's wake. A group of European politicians attempting to influence US & EU politics for their friends in Ukraine.

I'm sure the FBI has seen these documents already! Can't wait until more of them are public!

But they positively identify Mevlut Cavusoglu as the Turkish member of the Hapsburg Group who is now the Foreign Minister of Turkey. We have been trying to puzzle out his identity.

Manafort plead guilty for arranging a meeting between this Turkish official, PM Erdogan, Obama & Biden in 2013!

We thought it was either the former FM or the head of Turkish Intel, but we did not know who else was in the infamous meeting. @RevisitedRick

Most people still haven't figured out that Mueller put Manafort is in prison for illegally lobbying Obama & Biden in the White House in May of 2013!

https://twitter.com/DawsonSField/status/1099391402637692928?s=20

It looks like the Ukrainians were in hot water or not paying the Europeans & Americans who were colluding with them. Some of the HG members were EU representatives working on the Ukraine issue for the EU, while getting paid to lobby for crooks in Ukraine...

Of course the EU is so Swampy, it doesn't appear there were any laws prohibiting the HG members from selling out their services while representing the EU & influencing EU policy toward their clients.
Wonder if they tried to shake down the Ukrainians for a little too much?