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7 Jul, 11 tweets, 5 min read
Exclusive: Documents Reveal Erik Prince's $10 Billion Plan to Make Weapons and Create a Private Army in Ukraine

June 2020 plan obtained exclusively by @TIME includes “roadmap” for creation of “vertically integrated aviation defense consortium” by @shustry
time.com/6076035/erik-p…
The account is based on 7 sources & docs that describe "a series of ventures that would give Prince a pivotal role in Ukraine’s military industry and its ongoing conflict with Russia, which has taken more than 14,000 lives since it began seven years ago."
time.com/6076035/erik-p…
One proposal would create a new private military company, another deal would build a new munitions factory in Ukraine, while a third would consolidate Ukraine’s leading aviation and aerospace firms

time.com/6076035/erik-p…
A big scoop in this story - it was known Prince was in business with Andriy Artemenko but another Prince ally in Kyiv was Andriy Derkach, whom the US accused of being an “active Russian agent” - Derkach helped advance Prince’s business ventures in Ukraine
time.com/6076035/erik-p…
Both Artemenko and Derkach are now under criminal investigation

"Artemenko tells TIME that federal investigators have questioned him about his relationship with Prince"

time.com/6076035/erik-p…
Story fills in details about Artemenko & Prince's business ties

Artemenko founded transport company AirTrans LLC in 2010 and often flew cargo for Prince’s operation - in 2015 AirTrans officially became a part of Prince’s Frontier Resource Group - notably before Trump was elected
Here's a recent chart I made showing Artemenko - and his links to Derkach, Giuliani and Prince

wsiegelman.medium.com/andrii-artemen…
Correction to a tweet in the thread above - scoop on Derkach aiding Prince was broken in May 2021 by @ChristopherJM

Prince is part owner of Eitanium Ltd set up in 2019 with partners in the cyber surveillance and arms industry

Reporting by @shustry on Prince's proposals in Ukraine don't link to Eitanium, but sharing this chart since there seem to be similarities

wsiegelman.medium.com/eitanium-ltd-c…
Another interesting detail from today's Time story
Former Blackwater exec and Trump advisor Joe Schmitz - who was ready to represent Ukraine for a fee of $500,000 plus expenses, according to a proposed lobbying agreement obtained by TIME - was also involved in an effort to find Clinton emails

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washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
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NY prosecutors to indict Trump Org insider - but not Trump sources say

People familiar with case said prosecutors are preparing criminal charges against Trump Org chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg & considering criminal charges against the company
reuters.com/world/us/ny-pr…
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