Swiss prosecutors charge 4 Russian bankers with laundering millions in assets belonging to Vladimir Putin.
The Swiss branch of Russia's Gazprombank has been winding up operations due to sanctions.
Bank officials classified Putin pal & his daughter's Godfather as a non politically connected customer to avoid due diligence like asking where the money was coming from.
The banks knew who he was but pretended he was just a conductor at a theater.
Who needed to move more than $10M per year through Swiss banks.
Not suspicious at all...
The politically connected Russian bank sending the money to Switzerland tried to hide it's involvement by using anonymous email addresses.
But the #PanamaPapers leaks exposed the shell companies & allowed investigations of global money laundering schemes.
This investigation started in 2016 following the leaks.
By 2018, Swiss regulators had concluded the bank violated the laws. But some Swamp draining was required at the Swiss AG's office before these criminal charges were filed.
So criminal charges for Russian bankers, running a Swiss bank for Gazprom, for laundering tens of milliosn of dollars that actually belonged to Vladimir Putin but was hidden in the name of his daughter's godfather.
Last year, the US sanctioned "Putin's cellist" Sergei Roldugin for laundering Putin's money or him.
The Panama Papers revealed that he had over $2B in shell companies, but that figure is likely low as it only included 1 shell company agency from Panama. news.yahoo.com/u-issues-fresh…
Roldugin has been Putin's best friend since the 1970s.
In 2016, Putin tried to claim Roldugin's income came from owning stock in a Russian bank. The same Russian bank that used anonymous emails to send the cash to Switzerland... web.archive.org/web/2017122607…
Of course people who follow me won't be surprised that much of this wealth came from insider trading on stock in Rosneft & Gazprom.
Like those collusion deals that someone tried to say were involving @realDonaldTrump & @carterwpage but actually involved a lot of Swamp creatures.
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For those who don't understand the law in this case, Congress has authorized the Attorney General to specially appoint lawyers & conduct legal proceedings at the same level as US Attorneys without confirmation. It's specifically authorized.
While Canon ignores Section 515, it specifically authorizes AGs to appoint special attorneys to prosecute criminal cases & run grand juries same as a US Attorney can.
She claims the law does not authorize the AG to appoint a special counsel with the authority of a US Attorney.
Julian Assange flying to the North Marianas to plead guilty to espionage.
Gets a 62 month prison sentence, but will be released with time served for his 5 years in British prison.
The choice of the Northern Marianas Islands is unusual.
That US territory is a hub for Chinese money laundering to the US & to US politicians. Wonder if he will testify to a US grand jury while he is there? Or has he already done so by Zoom?
The Chinese have been buying off Swampy politicians on Pacific islands that are US territories to infiltrate them to get into the US financial system.
The Northern Marianas, the Solomons, & many others...
Beny Steinmetz connects to so much corruption around the world!
Steinmetz was arrested 3 years ago shortlay after FBI seized Hunter & Rudy's electronic devices including communications with his lawyer former FBI Director Louis Freeh.
#ButNothingsHappening
On behalf of Steinmetz & other clients, Freeh tried to gain access to Trump & Biden through Guiliani & Hunter. Freeh marked all his emails as Attorney Client privileged in an effort to protect them. DOJ needed filter teams or a special master to read them.
Exclusive: The case of the Michael Cohen condo just got a whole lot more interesting!
I found an online report on the resident. It isn't an embassy or a diplomat.
It appears to be a couple who are financial reporters for CNBC & Bloomberg?
It was well publicized that Michael Cohen's condo at 111 Murray Street is 19West or 19W.
A condo that he rented on 11/27/18 prior to pleading guilty in SDNY on 11/29/18.
The website identifies as a resident of 19W Sara A Eisen, 39 formerly of Cincinatti, OH.
It appears to be Sara A. Eisen the co-host of CNBC's Squakbox. One of her associates listed on the website is her husband Matthew Levine. usphonebook.com/address/111-mu…
The majority of Daszak's funds came from DOD, but the previous investigations focused on Daszak taking money from NIH that prohibited him from conducting GoF work.
Work he did in Wuhan anyway & concealed it from NIH.
Daszak claimed he 'accidentally' conducted GoF work in Wuhan in 2018-2019. But he concealed this from NIH until 2021 even though his grants required immediate reporting of 'accidental' GoF results.
US sanctions Russian Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Beloglazov, the owner of the financial firm Titul for colluding with Putin's Oligarch Oleg Deripaska to sell his shares in an Austrian construction firm!
Shares frozen by sanctions...
#ButNothingsHappening