Thread by @StringwallApp

Nov 10, 2003

Arrested Russian Businessman Is Carlyle Group Adviser

washingtonpost.com/archive/busine…

The arrest of two of Russia's top businessmen in recent months was more than a distant headline for Washington's well-connected private equity firm, Carlyle Group.

Carlyle, known for the glittering roster of former statesmen among its partners and advisers, has ties to both Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, the jailed Russian tycoons.

Khodorkovsky, 40, Russia's richest man and former chief executive of Yukos Oil Co., serves as an adviser to Carlyle's Energy Group.

He is among 15 luminaries who help the firm sort through investment opportunities in energy industries, along with former secretary of state James A. Baker III, former British prime minister John Major and Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Daniel Yergin.

Khodorkovsky was arrested last month by Russian authorities for alleged fraud and tax evasion. Because the billionaire is seen as a possible political rival to President Vladimir Putin, his arrest has unsettled the country's business community and worried foreign investors.

Carlyle spokesman Christopher W. Ullman declined to comment on the matter.

Sources close to the firm say Carlyle is taking a cautious look at the business climate in Russia.

🔥🔥🔥➡️➡️➡️ So far, Carlyle has no investments in Russia, and has not followed through on preliminary discussions about starting a buyout fund with Russian investment company Alfa Group, the sources said. ⬅️⬅️⬅️🔥🔥🔥

Did everybody catch that? ⬆️⬆️ As of 2003, Carlyle Group was in discussions about starting a buyout fund with Alfa Group.

That would be this ⬇️ Alfa Group. The one that was started by rogue KGB agents who decided that narcotics trafficking and money laundering was the most lucrative business model. The one that was working with Dick Cheney & Halliburton circa 2000.

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Lebedev, chairman of Group Menatep, a holding company that is a major shareholder in Yukos, was arrested in July on fraud charges. Lebedev had served as an adviser to Carlyle's European investment funds, but is no longer listed on the firm's Web site.

Neither man has played a significant role for Carlyle, the sources said. Carlyle does not disclose its compensation to advisers.

🔥🔥🔥➡️➡️➡️ Meanwhile, the firm has lost the services of its most prominent associate: former president George H.W. Bush, who was senior adviser for Carlyle's Asia funds, retired last month, shortly after serving as the main draw at a dinner in Moscow to woo investors. ⬅️⬅️🔥🔥

This is almost too easy. Let’s make sure that you got that last part ⬆️⬆️: In late 2003, George HW Bush went to Moscow to woo Russian “investors” to launder their money through Carlyle Group.

Would these be the “investors” who were involved with narcotics trafficking and money laundering?

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Would these be the Russian “investors” who had secretly declared their intentions to make Russia into a hub for the drug trade flowing into Europe?

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Would these be the Russian “investors” who were looting public resources from the Russian people and stashing away their plunder in western investments?

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Maybe now would be a good time to review the fact that the FBI considers private equity to be a vehicle for criminal money laundering.

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Perhaps we should also consider that Kirkland and Ellis grew to be the world’s largest law firm (in revenue) thanks to the post-Soviet explosion in private equity investment.

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Probably shouldn’t be surprising that one of the clients of Kirkland and Ellis is Carlyle Group.

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We should probably also take this opportunity to review the Reagan/Bush strategy of working with shady characters around the world who could be leveraged as anti-communist proxies.

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Author Alfred McCoy alleges that the CIA was knowingly involved in the production of heroin in SE Asia.

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Which was reportedly part of the narcotics trafficking operation of the Alfa Group operation.

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So here’s something weird: McCoy also alleges that the CIA chartered Air America aircraft to transport opium out of Laos for their proxy partners.

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And then years later, Jeffrey Epstein arranged for Air America (who had since changed their name to Southern Air Transport) to move to Columbus OH to transport something on behalf of Wexner and L Brands.

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And when Epstein got in trouble, he was represented by Kirkland and Ellis. And his special deal in Florida was arranged by former Kirkland and Ellis attorney Alex Acosta, who claimed that Epstein “belonged to intelligence”. Huh…🤔🤔

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Do you get it? Do you see it? Do you understand that factions within our political & NATSEC communities partnered with crime syndicates to fight communism during the Cold War? And that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, these same syndicates rose to power?

Remember how the Steele dossier reported that Aven and Fridmam (from Alfa Group) had been working with Putin since the early 1990s, when they sent him large amounts of illicit cash?

https://twitter.com/StringwallApp/status/1443477834761179138

Do you understand that these same syndicates were working as proxies in covert operations being run by our NATSEC community to fight Soviet communism? And that these partnerships continued, even after the fall of the Soviet Union? And that they still continue today?

Do you understand why they want one of their guys to run the governor’s office in VA?

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, 40, Russia's richest man, owns Yukos Oil Co.