There is a UK cabinet minister with a 20yr track record of investing Russian/Putin companies. Before he set up on own with his Lloyd George Management friends he stuck a large amount of LG cash in a UK company 40% owned by this Putin-backed Russian asset
The UK security services 'agreed with me' over just how dangerous the Russian backed Putin asset was and vetoed a Cameron Cabinet appointment due to dirty Russian backed cash
The US Ambassador to Ukraine then had a chat with our Putin-backed Russian asset - documented it in a cable which was leaked to Wikileaks
Our 'Putin asset' agreed he worked for the Russian mob (Putin is Russian mob)
This Russian asset was frontrunner to buy an ex-tube station from the MoD (he does so Feb 27 2014) TWO Tory MPs and a Tory Lord get him a Foreign Office meeting 2 days after Maidan. Next day FBI issues a warrant for his arrest. Day after he buys the tube
Jones Lang LaSalle worked for the Mayor of London (Boris) not MoD. The MoD named them to sell tube. They took a £4m deposit off the Russian asset 20 Nov 2013. They then had 99 days to google "Firtash" and see the stories above - - NOPE-- the sale was cooked in favour of Firtash
JLL appointed 30 July - people behind the sale named for any journo curious to talk to them in the story below
@PippaCrerar@Kevin_Maguire "We emphasize company visits and we visit every company we invest in" - Jacob Rees-Mogg to Global Investor May 2002 - his company Lloyd George Asset Management ran the Siberian Investment Company "every investment east of the Ural mountains"
@PippaCrerar@Kevin_Maguire We'd all now recognise these companies as Putin linked even back in 2002 - the FSB/KGB was moving in to take control of them & Mogg and co were happily investing "having visited them all"
One of the board members of the Siberian Investment Company was Oleg Preksin (clearly a creature of the Russian state, high ranking and Putin linked - on the board of a LG fund)
"Uniquely we invite key clients to join an advisory board which meets annually, encouraging an effective alignment of interest between the partnership and our investors" (Jacob Rees-Mogg's SCM) @peterjukes@carolecadwalla@ByDonkeys WHO MIGHT THEY BE?
Given volumes of cash SCM poured into Russia (+ 10 years earlier via Lloyd George Asset Management's Siberian Investment Fund did) - did Lukoil, Yandex, Sberbank (beneficiaries of Mogg's largesse - have a Beneficial Godfather acting as a SCM shareholder?
Rees-Mogg ran the LG Antenna Fund and invested in Zander Group (which is more than one third owned by Russian backed Dmytro Firtash via his Spadi Trading shell company) - given Firtash love of laundering cash could a representative of Firtash be 'on board' of Somerset Cap Mgt?
@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)
@Kevin_Maguire Jacob Rees-Mogg put his LG Antenna fund's cash in Zander Grp. Top donor Shetler-Jones (aka Putin protege Dmytro Firtash). Tchenguiz bros and Firtash move funds to invest in SCL (Cambridge Analytica) - Firtash employs Zander CEO, Tories work for Zander (Lord Risby)
Here's Risby confessing he worked for Firtash to the WSJ December 2013
Here's Mogg running the fund that invests in Firtash/Zander
@Hardeep_Matharu@peterjukes@BylineTimes End of 2011-12 Guido selling ads to the Kremlin Harry Cole, Guido et al are in Moscow as Navalny uses Facebook to protest against the Putin regime (just after Arab Spring had used it).