The ex-wife of sanctioned Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska sold a 2.6% stake in the power and aluminum company En+ Group International PJSC to Emirati state-owned holding company, Mubadala Investment Co (UAE). bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Intelligence Online says the deal sealed last week between EN+, Oleg Deripaska's ex Polina Yumasheva and Abu Dhabi's sovereign fund has attracted the interest of the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC), particularly since it involved a small group of well-connected consultants
Kacy Grine, a financial adviser to several wealthy individuals in Europe and the Middle East, advised Yumasheva on the deal.
Ari Emanuel "talent agent" WME (Trump - The Apprentice) introd Pecker to Grine. Pecker arranged Kacy Grine meeting w Trump. Shortly after, Trump was in Saudi Arabia. From inauguration onwards, Kushner took over the relationship with Pecker+Saudi Arabia.
David Pecker did Trump a favour by squashing the story of Trump's affair with Karen McDougal, paying the Playboy model $150,000 in hush money. theguardian.com/us-news/2018/d…
Sept. 2017, Pecker in Saudi Arabia + Kacy Grine + MBS about business opportunities
May 2018 - Jeff Bezos owner of WaPo received a WhatsApp message + malware video link from MBS account ➡️ revelation of Lauren Sánchez affair
July 2018 Pecker + Grine meet Trump + Kushner at WH
MBS used Pegasus malware to monitor the two women closest to WaPo columnist Khashoggi, and other members of his inner circle.
One of the women was Hanan Elatr, an Egyptian flight attendant and Khashoggi's wife.
Oct 2018 - Jamal Khashoggi murdered and dismembered by a team ordered by Prince Bonesaw, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Pissed off with criticism of his command for Jamal Khashoggi's murder, Prince Bonesaw MBS undertook an Asian tour in February 2019 to shore up friendships, starting with Pakistan and ending with China, giving presents along the way. $20B to Pakistan.
February 22, 2019 - Beijing - Prince Bonesaw shakes with Pres Xi, saying he "supports the Belt and Road Initiative and hopes to align it with the Saudi Vision 2030".
Time: "Saudi Arabia is trying to make the best of the fraught situation, positioning itself as a potential peace-broker between India and Pakistan while trying to get closer to the Chinese, its largest trading partner".
Weekend of 21-22 Nov 2020, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu made an unannounced visit to Saudi Arabia to meet Prince Bonesaw Mohammed bin Salman and the US’s Mike Pompeo.
There are at least three possible explanations for this meeting, which are outlined here. brookings.edu/blog/order-fro…
While Pompeo was in the region - the weekend of 21-22 November 2020 - he met in the Qatari capital Doha with UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MBZ) and discussed the UAE’s normalization of ties with Israel.
Mubadala history
1984 - International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) created to advance Abu Dhabi’s natural petro wealth
Mubadala Dev Co followed in 2002
Mubadala Investment Company created in 2017 through merger of IPIC and Mubadala Dev Co
September 2020 - Mubadala & Sberbank, largest bank of Eastern and Central Europe, signed agreement covering cooperation - co-investments, debt & equity financing, long-term financing of Mubadala projects in Russia and other territories, advisory services, 4X hedging, credit risks
Has Mubadala taken over Trump loans as a credit risk?
Did Rosemary Vrablic negotiate for Deutsche Bank's Trump credit risk to be taken over by Sberbank which then passed the risk on in an agreement with Mubadala?Trump's loans come due in 2023 and 2024. baltimoresun.com/news/nation-wo…
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This case has so much to offer: Ken Kurson, friend of Jared Kushner + racketeering investigators + Kurson's close contact, Giuliani + The NY Observer + Ripple (XRP) crypto + blockchain + Modern Consensus + South Orange NJ Police Department + FBI + Kurson's lawyer Marc Mukasey...
"Newly discovered shipping records demonstrate one of the first known instances of a private Israeli cyber intelligence company working directly with former KGB and current FSB officials who are authorized to maintain Russian state secrets."
@MingGao26 "Rayzone Group, a Tel Aviv-based cyber intelligence/spyware company, received a shipment from the Engineering and Commercial Multidiscipline Center, part of a Russian defense and intelligence contractor in Moscow."
Will Tom Barrack walk away from a $250 million bond? He must wear a tracker and his travel has been restricted to Southern Cali and NY. He's accused of using his proximity to the WH to lobby for the UAE without disclosing his role as required to the DOJ. variety.com/2021/tv/news/t…
Barrack provided $5 M cash and 21 M shares of the company he founded, now called DigitalBridge (DB). Son, Thomas Barrack III, ex-wife Rachelle, and Jonathan Grunzweig, a DB exec, signed over their residences. His lawyers promised to relinquish Barrack’s US and Lebanese passports.
During Barrack's short stay in jail, he resigned from the boards of USC, First Republic Bank and DigitalBridge. As part of the terms of his release, the magistrate prohibited Barrack from having contact with Emirati or Saudi officials.
"China’s top financial regulators see Tencent as the next target for increased supervision after the clampdown on Jack Ma’s Ant Group Co. Like Ant, Tencent will probably be required to establish a financial holding co. to include its banking, insurance, and payments services."
Matthew Chance Hudson, Age 78 aka M Nance, Matthew Hodson, Mathew C Hudson, M Hudson "Matthew Hudson, who had been in semi-retirement restoring historic Blanefield House near Kirkoswald and
trying to improve a struggling golf game...had a $20m law suit outstanding against him...
"In October 2020, KrebsOnSecurity looked at how a web of sites connected to conspiracy theory movements QAnon and 8chan were being kept online by DDoS-Guard, a dodgy Russian firm that also hosts the official site for the terrorist group Hamas."
"DDoS-Guard said its services rely in part on a traffic-scrubbing facility in Los Angeles owned by CoreSite [NYSE:COR], a real estate investment trust which invests in “carrier-neutral data centers and provides colocation and peering services.”" krebsonsecurity.com/tag/ddos-guard/