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From 2009-2019 one of the largest tobacco companies in the world used their Singapore subsidiary to sell tobacco to North Korea in violation of sanctions & launder the proceeds of the sales.
Plead guilty & agreed to cooperate with the feds.

#ButNothingsHappening
3 individuals involved have also been indicted but have not yet been captured. One is a North Korean banker & the other 2 are Chinese facilitators. ImageImage
Part of a larger scheme of tobacco related corruption used by the North Korean government to fund other activities including their nuclear weapons program.

I'm guessing DOJ now has the #receipts... Image
The US Treasury Dept also filed a civil cse settlement for $508M against British American Tobacco for violating North Korea's WMD sanctions.

ofac.treasury.gov/media/931666/d… Image
BAT executives in London approved the set up of the shell company to evade sanctions on North Korean sales. Though it happened in 2007, the conspiracy continued through at least 2019 so statutes of limitations would be valid for prosecution. Image
They laundered NK money though at least 12 US banks.
The products included "Kit Sets" which were used to manufacture counterfeit US cigarettes for NK to sell on the globabl black market for profit.
In Dec. 2016 BAT decided to stop selling to NK & to end business by May 2017. Image
But their Singapore division continued doing business with NK until Sept 2017. Image
British American Tobacco were very bad...

But they quickly flipped & cooperated. ImageImage

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Apr 26
It's amazing what happens after you drain the Swamp creatures out of the Swiss AG's office!

#ButNothingsHappening
If you have missed the decade of global swamp draining connected to the 1MDB case, you don't know what the Swamp is, how it works, or how it is being drained.
How serious? Like President Xi offering bribes to President Trump to obstruct the FBI serious...
I can't find anyone reporting the name of the 2 PetroSaud managers. My guesses would be the Obaid brothers, guys I call the Kevin Bacon's of global corruption. From them every Swamp creature on the planet is within 6 degrees of separation.
Read 8 tweets
Apr 17
The indictment of 40+ Chinese MPS officers is now online.
Very interesting how closely the trolling tactics mirror the techniques we run into with various groups of trolls. Both the Tuesday Trolls of this era & the Cleetuses of a few years ago...
justice.gov/d9/2023-04/squ…
This is from a meme they shared internally.

I'm sure we can find some way to use it on the CCP agents pretending to be MAGA or UltraMAGA or DarkMAGA or whatever the CCP wants to rebrand as... Image
Those accounts trying to tell people that President Xi is secretly on Trump's side & that MAGA should like him...

Yeah... ImageImage
Read 16 tweets
Apr 17
3 sets of charges against Chinese intelligence assets for running a covert operations center in New York City.

Attempting to suppress free speech in the US to help China.
#ButNothingsHappening
This is an expansion on a investigation of agents working for Chinese Ministry of Public Security.

Note: at the beginning of this thread I suspected that the agent was working at Webex, but as I not later in that thread it was Zoom that was compromised.
Charges include efforts to influence the election of a US Congressional race to stop an anti-CCP candidate running for office.
Read 5 tweets
Apr 6
Looks like Justice Clarence Thomas is being exposed as a Swamp creature. I'm sure he isn't the only one...

I guess that is why the federal court system finally agreed to make Justices & Judges report gifts from their friends on their ethics filings.

#ButNothingsHappening
Since the 70s, judges & justices havee ignored federal ethics laws. But because they exempted themselves from compliance with reporting gifts they allowed this process to continue.

Wish someone would give me a free $500,000 vacation... ImageImage
Read 5 tweets
Apr 5
The Swamps must be running out of steam if Dmitry Firtash is negotiating a plea deal!

Wonder who he is willing to flip against?
It better be everyone!
#ButNothingsHappening
Firtash was likely behind the Furman & Parnas effort to frame Trump for corruption, but good thing Rudy collected the #receipts for DOJ!
Firtash was also behind the CEO of Wirecard, the corrupt financial services company that was stealing billions & working with hostile intelligence agencies.

That CEO was once involved in a plot to by spyware like the stuff Biden just banned by EO.
Read 13 tweets
Apr 5
Money & crypto processing app designer stabbed to death in San Francisco. No real details yet.
cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/n… Image
A short seller investment research firm (not a reliable source of information as they sometimes manipulate investments to cover short bets) Claimed Cash App was enabling rampant fraud & criminal activity.
cnbc.com/2023/03/24/rep…
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey lost a half a billion dollars in a day when the short seller released their claims...
As Jack said, It's a trap!
thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/jack-d…
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