"It is not clear why the Rowlands would choose to refinance properties owned by Dmytro Firtash, who has been under an FBI indictment since 2013 and is currently under house arrest in Vienna..."👀
"The questions follow revelations about a group of wealthy donors who have given money to the Conservatives and have business links to Russia or other wealthy Russians."
"The two intelligence agencies secretly arranged for 9 FBI agents to temporarily become CIA operatives in the overseas prison network where the spy agency used torture to interrogate prisoners."
"The once-secret program came to light in pretrial proceedings in the death penalty case. The proceedings are examining whether the accused mastermind of the [9/11] plot, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and his 4 co-defendants voluntarily confessed after years in the black site network."
"At issue is whether the military judge will exclude from the eventual trial the testimony of FBI agents who questioned the defendants in 2007 at Guantánamo and also forbid the use of reports that the agents wrote about each man’s account of his role in the hijacking conspiracy."
"The story of the Lyubishin affair has two parts involving different actors."
Mexican drug cartels asked Russian arms dealers for help shooting down U.S. helicopters, and Hungary Let the Russians Go newsweek.com/mexican-drug-c…
"The story of the two Russians did not end with the raids of the counter-terrorism unit, in fact the most interesting twist came only after the arrests."
Lord of War in Budapest: The DEA busted 2 Russian arms dealers and Hungary extradited them to Moscow direkt36.hu/en/ket-orosz-f…
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May 15, 2019
"At the end of Monday’s meeting with Viktor Orbán, US President Donald Trump said the Hungarian prime minister and he 'were like twins'..."
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"At least 68 prisoners have been killed and 25 injured in a jail in the city of Guayaquil in Ecuador after bloodletting between rival gangs broke out on Friday night..."
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"Dubnikov's lawyer, Arkady Bukh, said that his client was traveling to Mexico on vacation when he was detained and put on a plane to the Netherlands in early November."
"The news of Denis Dubnikov’s arrest comes after a Bloomberg report revealed this week that his Eggchange is the target of anti-money laundering investigations in Europe and the U.S."