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Jan 19 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Update: 2 days after my report from last month, former Soviet Foreign Ministry official Sergey Shestakov filed an amendment to state that his dealings with Oleg Deripaska's top aide are now terminated: efile.fara.gov/docs/7048-Amen…

My report from December:
forensicnews.net/retired-top-fb…
In this amendment, Shestakov, the former Soviet official says he got $25,000 from the law firm Kobre and Kim in November 2019 and $8,000 from a "business intelligence" company that does not seem to exist anywhere online in November 2021.
I've updated the article to include this new information that makes this filing even weirder. I would love to hear from the #FARA expert community @annalecta @CBHolman @JoshRudes
The Kobre and Kim thing is weird because they denied to me that the Deripaska aide was a client...
By the way, this is how Forensic News gets results. We thoroughly investigate and then report and force people to show their hands. In this case, Shestakov felt compelled to file the amendment 36 hours after I wrote about the situation. Public pressure.
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