Thread by @RealBristolNews

@lukeharding1968 Been reading your excellent book (20 pages to go) date error on p274 - Firtash was indicted in Chicago June 2013 (not 14) date 20th - it was then sealed 30th June 2013. Reopened again Oct 30-Nov 3 2014 (part of Victoria Nuland push to get Ukraine to side with EU)

Nov 20th 2013 - Firtash puts £5m deposit down on ex tube station at Brompton Rd (Mortgage from Tory donor David Rowland) making a succession of payments until 2016 (days before start of Brexit)

Nov 20 2013-to-Feb 27 2014 (99 days) Jones Lang laSalle failed to Google your story on Wikileaks cables from Amb Bill Taylor (Dec 10) stating Firtash worked with Russian backed gangster Don Semyon Mogilevitch in Ukraine - (continued)

or (Aug 10) where security services veto Pauline Neville Jones appt to Cabinet (Firtash cash) - 99 days where due diligence by JLL for the Min of Def was a joke. Feb 26 2014 USA issued an extradition warrant for Firtash - next day they exchanged contracts and sold him Brompton Rd

Firtash also had a Power of Attorney representing him Denis Gorbunenko (who'd been investigated by the FCA for 8 months over him taking over Seymour Pierce brokers - they'd found him as dodgy as hell & ordered repayments of loans to DG) - (continued)

but he's your man to manage £53m from Banque Haviland Tory donor David Rowland - then in 2018 Rowland 'hides' Banque Haviland's involvement with a shell company he owned using a Deed of Requirement to change the Land Reg docs. (PPS -Gorbunenko had a cousin who worked for Burisma)

@threadreaderapp "unroll" @lukeharding1968 got all the receipts for the above too + Rees-Mogg has a tale connected too

"We visit every company we invest in and know them well" - yet LG Antenna Fund poured cash into a UK company 1/3rd owned by Robert Shetler-Jones (aka Firtash)

Spadi Trading (Firtash) Sir Anthony Bamford (JCB) LG Antenna Fund (Mogg) Vantania Holdings (Tchenguiz Bros) a veritable nest of pro-Brexit vipers with dodgy links and backstories

Jones Lang LaSalle has around 100 subsidiaries around the globe - this is why the MOD felt them the best company to do due diligence on Russian-backed Dmytro Firtash when he bought Brompton Rd in 2014
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