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Mar 17 • 28 tweets • 7 min read
Ooopsie!

Commodities traders trading bags of stone instead of real reserves...

Metals trading markets have been getting exposed for almost a decade for rigging bids & markets.

Wait until they get to the fake gold bars...

#ButNothingsHappening
But nickel is also interesting too.

Oleg Deripaska (the man behind Spygate) owns a big piece of nickel mining & production.
Paid a corrupt FBI agent to investigate his partner as they fought over control & profits of the business.

forbes.com/sites/giacomot…
And Deripaska used a lot of Swampy influence to prevent sanctions against his nickle company too...

ft.com/content/b5eba0…
The London Market Exchange first ran into trouble in March of 2022 when someone manipulated the market to double the price of nickel with suspicious trading.
The LME canceled the afternoon's trades & got sued for it. cnbc.com/2022/06/07/lon…
I do hope someone got the #receipts.
While the bags found so far are said to be worth about $1.3M. This follows on corrupt commodities company Trafigura having to admit that more than $577M of it's nickel cargoes was fake. mining.com/trafigura-face…
Now supposedly the Gupta oligarch family from India was stiffing Trafigura for the nickel shipments.

But if you follow me you know I'd suspect that it was Trafigura laundering cash to Gupta for imaginary nickel & selling it to businesses paying the Guptas...
Corrupt commodity traders Glencore had a similar issue in 2014 when a half a billion dollars in copper disappeared from storage locations in China...
Of course sometimes the deals go the other way too.

You pay someone in gold bought with cash & you paint the gold silver & pay them the price of silver for it.

Oh look, Glencore owned the warehouse where this happened & sold it to another firm...

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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... Image
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oversight.gov/sites/default/…
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This isn't about birthday parties, but DEA personnel laundering money for drug cartels, ignoring Chinese fentanyl supplies, & much more.
This report came out about a month ago, but there is so much coming out that it is impossible to see it all.
But within a few minutes, it connected to several other issues.
Some of the funds were used to pay for trips for Acting DEA Administrator Tim Shea...
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