1/ A prominent Russian fixer is reportedly selling access to Donald Trump at the planned forthcoming Trump-Putin summit in Moscow for $2 million a head. It's likely to be aimed at Russian oligarchs seeking lucrative commercial opportunities from a US-Russia deal. ⬇️ 
2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports:
"Although the situation with Donald Trump's possible visit to Moscow is still very vague, tickets for a closed event with the US President have gone on sale. The cost is $2 million.
"Although the situation with Donald Trump's possible visit to Moscow is still very vague, tickets for a closed event with the US President have gone on sale. The cost is $2 million.
3/ As a VChK-OGPU source reported, one of the biggest Russian fixers, Valery Bitayev, who positions himself as a person close to the first deputy director of the FSB of the Russian Federation Sergei Korolev, officials of the Presidential Administration of the…
4/ …Russian Federation, etc., confidentially informed his selected clients that the Kremlin and the FSB of the Russian Federation have begun to form a list of people who will be present at a "closed" meeting with Trump during his visit to Moscow.
5/ "Bitayev tells clients that there are very few places, but he is able to facilitate their presence on the coveted list for $2 million. There are those who want to be on it."
6/ Valery Bitayev is a former Red Army soldier who served as a Russian 'advisor' in the Angolan civil war. He became a very wealthy businessman and regional official, owning a four-story mansion in the plush Moscow suburb of Serebryany Bor.
7/ Nicknamed "Valera the Fish-Eye," he is reported to have used his friendship with Korolev to become "one of the most famous specialists in relations with the "siloviki" [security officials], namely the FSB."
8/ According to Russian journalist Alexander Shvarev, Bitayev is close with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB. "It is with these agencies that he undertakes to "sort out" problems, and his clients are all oligarchs."
9/ A Russian businessman comments that Bitayev's influence has only increased as the state has steadily shrunk the space for private business. It's likely that his clients are seeking commercial opportunities from the Trump-Putin summit.
10/ While there's no suggestion that Trump knows anything about Bitayev's reported manoeuvrings or has any involvement with him, the story is a reminder that any resumption of trade relations between the US and Russia is certain to be accompanied by rampant corruption. /end
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