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Oct 23, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read Read on X
It surprised me to see China's CEFC in the new Hunter Biden conspiracy

Since 2017 I've tweeted 50+ times on huge deals CEFC pursued with Russia - w/Deripaska's EN+ and a Rosneft deal that fell thru when CEFC corruption was exposed

CEFC's activity has been odd for years
In 2017 CEFC and Rosneft announced an agreement for CEFC to invest over $8 billion in Rosneft - which would have been the largest Chinese investment in Russia in a decade

The deal fell through when CEFC was investigated for corruption

Oleg Deripaska's EN+ listed on London Stock Exchange and raised $500 million from CEFC through subsidiary AnAn Group

EN+ was Russia's largest global IPO after they were sanctioned for Crimea, and an important test of raising $ through public offerings

2018 story reported Russian bank VTB demanded CEFC’s subsidiary repay loan VTB gave to invest in EN+

Story noted CEFC investment was a key "boosting for the listing, the largest Russian public offering in years"

VTB loaned $ to CEFC to boost EN+ IPO

ft.com/content/196256…

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Sep 12
NEW: Former Cambridge Analytica executive Brittany Kaiser's latest gig is CEO of crypto firm AlphaTon Capital - research shows multiple people linked to this business have connections to Russia, and a company co-founder was a Brexit supporter, my latest:
newstracs.com/former-cambrid…
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Portage renamed AlphaTON appointed Brittany Kaiser CEO and plans to buy $100M TON tokens and develop apps for Telegram
newstracs.com/former-cambrid…
AlphaTON filing has 3 execs: Kaiser, Chief Investment Officer Enzo Villani, Chief Business Dev Officer Yury Mitin

Mitin worked in Moscow until 2020 and runs Canadian RSV Capital (aka Red Shark Ventures) where 3 execs list Moscow's Skolkovo on their bios
newstracs.com/former-cambrid…
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Sep 4
I recently reported ex-Cambridge Analytica exec Brittany Kaiser is a director of Gryphon Digital which just merged w/American Bitcoin co-led by Eric Trump

Kaiser was also pursuing deal with RSV Capital, I noted in story some RSV execs were Russian and linked to Russia's Skolkovo
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I noted there is an RSV Capital aka Red Shark Ventures in Canada led by several businessmen from Russia and many had been involved with Russia's Skolkovo

newstracs.com/eric-trumps-st…Image shows text from Newstracs.com on Kaiser and RSV Capital - link here: https://newstracs.com/eric-trumps-stake-in-american-bitcoin-corp-may-be-367m-after-ipo/2025/08/06/
Today AlphaTON Capital Corp (formerly Portage Biotech) announced they launched TON digital asset treasury strategy for the Telegram ecosystm

AlphaTON appointed Brittany Kaiser CEO & Board Member

Yury Mitin from Red Shark Ventures is involved in deal

globenewswire.com/news-release/2…
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May 12
American Bitcoin (20% owned by Don Jr & Eric Trump) and majority owned by Hut 8 will go public via merger w/Gryphon Digital Mining, will trade as ABTC on Nasdaq

Ex Cambridge Analytica exec Brittany Kaiser is a Gryphon director, was Board Chair thru Sept24
coindesk.com/markets/2025/0…
In my story (Russian-American businessman who loaned $8M to Trump Media sent $10.8M to firm that may link to Don Jr. and Eric Trump’s new business partners) - I reported on connections between Gryphon Digital and people linked to Trump-related deals
newstracs.com/news-on-russia…
In March I reported on some of Don Jr & Eric Trump's biz partners and found a connection with Gryphon Digital where Brittany Kaiser had been board chair

I noted "maybe there is more to these connections than meets the eye" - today's news shows I was right
newstracs.com/news-on-russia…Screenshot shows text excerpt from the article for a section that starts "It would be a coincidence..."  The link in the post goes to the full article.
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May 11
Trump admin poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as gift for Trump from Qatar

The jet worth $400M will be overhauled by L3Harris, used as Air Force One and later transferred to Trump's presidential library foundation

WH & DOJ claim this is not a bribe
abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump…
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In this earlier story from May 1st WSJ reported L3Harris was tapped to overhaul the Qatari Boeing 747 - and that after Trump toured the plane and said he was considering buying it

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NEW: Russian-American businessman Anton Postolnikov loaned $8M to Trump Media in 2021-2022. He also sent $10.8M to a firm named Eleven Ventures LLC. New reporting shows a firm with that name is linked to Eric and Don Jr.'s new business partners, my latest:
newstracs.com/news-on-russia…
Russian-American financier loaned $8M to Trump Media in 2021-2022 and sent $10.8M to firm that may link to Don Jr & Eric Trump

The MSM is behind on this story - to support this work donations are appreciated on my site or find me on Patreon & Substack

newstracs.com/news-on-russia…
Last year The Guardian reported Russian-American businessman Anton Postolnikov, nephew of an ally of Russian President Putin, provided $8 million in loans to Trump’s social media company in late 2021 and early 2022 and $10.8M to Eleven Ventures LLC
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Feb 18
The US-Russia meeting about a Ukraine peace plan not only excluded Ukraine, a main focus is restoring US/Russia relations.

Kremlin spokesman Peskov said talks would be focused on “restoring the entire range of U.S.-Russian relations" as well as Ukraine.

apnews.com/article/russia…
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It is so on brand that the Trump administration's first meeting with Russia about a Ukraine peace plan not only excluded Ukraine, it did not include any European officials and did include two officials from Saudi Arabia who hosted the meeting.

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