As a result of my over 25 years investigating the Russian Orthodox Church in USSR/Russia and the current head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, I have come to the conclusion that the Russian Orthodox Church has worked as a state-run money laundry for decades.
The church could launder their money and that of the Orthodox oligarch and other Russian oligarchs through Swiss Bank accounts and transfers to off shore accounts with the help of Swiss accountants and businessmen, a couple of them have known the Patriarch for years
and one of these businessmen gave him a chalet back in the 1970s.
Otherwise when directly asked about his palaces, luxury cars, yachts and jets the Patriarch says they are all owned by the Russian Orthodox Church. This is to be expected.
Bank accounts appear to be well hidden in Switzerland. Well the Patriarch is good for several billion and the Russian Orthodox Church for copious amounts of money all deposited in the name of the church but laundered for the Kremlin, oligarchs and the Orthodox oligarch.
The Patriarch alone made billions from cigarette import, export of oil, precious stones and the most expensive seafood, the Kamchatka crab.. This began before he became Patriarch
The Patriarch was a KGB agent from the 1970s staunchly supporting the intelligence services and providing them with information gathered while abroad working as the ROC member of the world Council of Churches.
And the Patriarch continues to show his "true faith" by openly supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war atrocities and killings of innocent Ukrainian civilians thus making him guilty of these atrocities which he should stand trial for.
Russian Orthodox Church and KGB/FSB connection...
I have investigated this connection since early 90s and without going into any detail I can say that from early 1970s a priest could only become a Bishop with the blessing of the KGB, by being a KGB operative, yes that's true!
Every priest was given a KGB code name and in the case of patriarch Kirill he was given the code name Mikhailov. He served with KGB and their task was to spread the gospel of the USSR abroad and KGB 1st directorate, domestic security, decided if they were to become a Bishop,
Kirill was very active as a KGB operative, travelling around the world meeting foreigners, spreading the gospel of the USSR as did the other members of the cloth....
Back in 1970s in London I met a couple of these KGB agents/priests..
Switzerland - The Russian oligarchs paradise..
Even though some of the Oligarchs have been sanctioned they still have representative offices in Switzerland and have the very best lawyers, accountants and consultants to help keep their billions afloat in offshore companies & banks
There are an estimated 200 billion Swiss francs held in Swiss banks by the Russian oligarchs and Switzerland is doing very little to recover those billions.
Switzerland knows this money is dirty yet somehow appears to turn the other way and let the Oligarchs continue to
live, keep their luxury properties, yachts, boats and private jets as well as continue to keep their businesses going.
And in this maze of bank accounts and offshore accounts we will find Patriarch Kirill's billions or as he says, ROC*s money..
They do as they want in UK because UK has not decided to cancel citizenship for oligarchs as I've been campaigning for them to do as unfortunately if UK had listened to me early on in mid late 1990s and acted accordingly we would not have the situation in UK today
You must all be aware of the fact that the Oligarchs are snakes and they have made their way to the very top of UK society which has always been their goal, plan from start.. Invest billions in UK industries, get a golden UK passport and then get working on
your goals of sending kids to top private schools buy your way into top universities to have universities offer your kids places. Meanwhile you continue to attend parties with politicians, royalty etc and in the end like the son of KGB officer Lebedev who ends up being best
I am quite sure I am one of very few westerners who has personal experience of the Russian organized crime groups from the early 1990s.
Yes there are journalists who have interviewed gang bosses and made interesting documentaries/articles but that is just a facade..
Yes there are journalists who have interviewed gang bosses and made interesting documentaries/articles but that is just a facade..
Through my working with security detail for wealthy Russians from 90s to early 2000s I have first hand experience of the groups and what they were capable of and carried out, assassinations, kidnappings and other crimes....
Having campaigned for more than 25 years to have the UK government sanction the Russian oligarchs who moved to the UK and particularly London/Moscow on the Thames back in 90s after the aluminium and oil wars in Russia it is very encouraging to see that having sanctione
the Oligarchs and frozen their assets... The K-Cell of NCA is investigating the oligarch Enablers that can include professionals like private bankers, estate agents, specialist concierges, accountants and solicitors who are hired by the Oligarchs and other extremely
wealthy Russians to maintain their properties seized by Treasury.
The Oligarchs can have transferred finances to an enabler, an associate or family member in order for all the services required to maintain a property like security, gardening, household etc.
USA would be making a grave mistake if they were to exchange Viktor Boot/Bout(Бут) for Griner.
Why?
Well the reasons are many fold... 1. This man is one of the world's most infamous gun-runners 2. Deep insight into global military intelligence. 3. Russia is already a powder keg
with Prigozhin and Kadyrov already having greater influence over putin than government officials in the Kremlin.
Kadyrov wants to increase the war effort and eliminate the neo nazis in the Ukraine and has Russians from all different regions of RF flying into Grozny to fight for
Kadyrov and his mob in the Ukraine. Kadyrov considers the Russian War effort to have been too weak and he wants to take command over the Russian military with Prigozhin by his side