Fascinating. This tracks with something @MattBernardini7 and I have been looking into for a long time.
We have another shadowy oil company tied to Kozak. What did it do? It secretly paid Giuliani's buddy Artemenko, who was (is?) under FBI scrutiny: forensicnews.net/giuliani-probe…
@MattBernardini7 The new OCCRP reporting confirms what we suggested last year: Putin's buddies Medvedchuk and Kozak are secretly using oil companies and sham nominee directors in countries like Hungary and Armenia to hold vast $$$ and spread influence. forensicnews.net/giuliani-probe…
@MattBernardini7 Artemenko got this payment from an oil company in Prague in 2019 according to his company's FARA disclosures.
What Artemenko didn't tell you is that he was not being paid by an oil company. It was a cut-out for Medvedchuk's Channel 112 in Ukraine (since sanctioned).
@MattBernardini7 The Kremlin is using a sophisticated web of companies in secrecy jurisdictions with intermediaries and nominee shareholders to obfuscate their cash cow and malign influence.
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I spend at least a few months on the vast majority of my articles. That is how investigative journalism is supposed to work.
Probably really bad for business, but I can't operate any other way!
I've noticed that this means that I don't pursue every story that I find interesting/noteworthy which leads me to my 2022 goal: More original reporting just on Twitter.
This article is *strongly* suggesting that a Kremlin insider with knowledge of the 2016 DNC hacks is turning coats and might help American intelligence. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Interesting @emptywheel piece suggesting that U.S. interest in Klyushin might have something to do with the Trump campaign strategy/polling data shared with Russian intelligence via Manafort/Gates ---> Kilimnik
.@forensicnewsnet is currently under a sustained, large DDoS attack.
@forensicnewsnet We experienced an absolute crush of requests in a very small time period on one of our articles. The traffic is largely coming from the US and the UAE.
@forensicnewsnet Just learned that Lin Wood posted one of our articles in his Telegram channel. This brought a ton of suspicious activity to the site.
@ImagineWorldas1 conducted a study looking at the corporations and organizations that gave the most money to the explosion of restrictive pieces of state legislation in 2021.
@ImagineWorldas1@forensicnewsnet This isn't about pushing a political agenda or ideology, this is about transparency. The public deserves to know which companies/orgs are pouring cash into anti-democracy bills in statehouses.
It reminds me that we never figured out the identity/details of the unnamed Israeli in Roger Stone's search warrant documents who allegedly tried to get the Trump team "critical intel" during the 2016 campaign.
And that Michael Flynn worked for NSO during the 2016 campaign.
NEWS: The FBI's most senior counterintelligence officer in New York left his position in 2018 and by 2019 he helped a top aide to Oleg DERIPASKA find a law firm and "business intelligence consultants" according to new Foreign Agent paperwork: forensicnews.net/retired-top-fb…
The foreign agent paperwork (first spotted by the amazing @WendySiegelman) was filed by a man named Sergey SHESTAKOV. I was able to establish, via multiple open-source intelligence tricks, that he is a former high-ranking Soviet diplomat.
Shestakov says he, with the assistance of Charles MCGONIGAL, the former Special Agent in Charge of Counterintelligence for the New York Office, connected the Deripaska aide Yevgenyi FOKIN to a US law firm and "business intelligence consultants"