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A BLITZ ON ALEX VAN DER ZWAAN
Van der Zwaan has been in the news recently as he has been indicted by Robert Mueller on February 20, 2018, for lying about his contact with Rick Gates for work they did in the Ukraine. He also confessed to deleting e-mail exchanges.

nytimes.com/2018/02/20/us/…
Van der Zwaan pleaded guilty to it. At the time, Gates and Paul Manafort had not pleaded guilty (Gates has, apparently, switched this on February 23, 2018 and has pleaded guilty himself).

nytimes.com/2018/02/20/us/…
Van der Zwaan worked for Skadden at 40 Bank Street, Canary Wharf in London in the United Kingdom, representing corporations, individuals and sovereign entities, including commercial litigation and government agency investigations.

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Van der Zwaan, alongside Gregory Craig, Clifford Sloan, Margaret Krawiec, Allon Kedem, Alex Haskell, Paul Kerlin and Kara Rossen were involved in the indictment, trial and conviction of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in 2012.

ukrainebusiness.com.ua/modules/news/c…
Van der Zwaan's father-in-law is German Khan, the owner of Alfa Group.

nytimes.com/2018/02/20/us/…
This is German Khan's page on the Alfa Group website.

alfagroup.org/about-us/super…
German Khan is also on the board for LetterOne, with Lord Davies of Abersoch, Mikhail Fridman, Alexey Kuzmichev, Petr Aven, Andrei Kosogov, Jonathan Muir, David Gould, Richard Burt and Wolf von Schimmelmann.

letterone.com/about%20us/lea…
German Khan is married to Angelika, mother-of-three.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
Van der Zween (known to work with Russian oligarchs) was married to Eva, an art critic.

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The flowers at this wedding were provided by Rob van Helden, who also did Pippa Middleton's wedding flowers - although Google Translate tried to convince me that Rob had actually married Pippa.

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Skadden's website unpersoned van der Zwaan.

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Here is a video of van der Zwaan walking into the Washington branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

During his time working in the Ukraine, van der Zwaan served as a rule-of-law consultant to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.

German Khan, meanwhile, may have been serving as an intermediary between Skadden and Ukraine.

law.com/ctlawtribune/s…
This is the official document, assigned to Judge Amy Berman Jackson, showing that van der Zwaan lied on November 3, 2017 to the Special Counsel's Office.

google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j…
Van der Zwaan spoke with Rick Gates in the middle of August 2016 (one text message), and communicated with a mysterious Person A in 2014, although he was unsure why an email between him and Person A was not produced to the Special Counsel's Office. Then he deleted some e-mails.
The indictment was brought to you by Robert S. Mueller III, Andrew Weissmann, Greg D. Andres, Kyle Freeny and Brian M. Richardson.

google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j…
This is a spotlight I did as an introduction to Robert Mueller's team.

This is a spotlight on Andrew Weissmann.

This is a spotlight on Greg Andres.

This is a spotlight on Kyle Freeny.

The Ukrainian case that van der Zwaan was involved in also featured both the United States Department of State and Eric Holder.

lawfuel.com/blog/skadden-a…
In April 2017, van der Zwaan and David Kavanagh released a document for Skadden entitled "The Risks Associated with Worldwide Freezing Orders".

google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j…
Van der Zwaan also had some form of involvement in "The Restructuring Review" by Law Business Research Ltd., published in September 2011. It was produced / created by Christopher Mallon.

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Van der Zwaan was also involved with Covington & Buring LLP's Arbitration World International Series for the International Chamber of Commerce, with Nadeau-Seguin, Nicholas Adams, Ahmed Abdel-Hakam, Simon Mercouris...

google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j…
... Anna Heimbichner, Joseph Landon-Ray, Simon Walsh, Tom Southwell, Christopher Lillywhite and Eleanor Hughes.

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It was actually Gates and Manafort who contracted Skadden in 2012 to enter the Ukrainian job.

qz.com/1211431/robert…
Skadden is under investigation by the Special Investigations Department, headed by Serhiy Gorbatyuk, due to embezzlement during the Yanukovych era.

Van der Zwaan, Clifford Sloan and Gregory Craig were wanted for questioning in November 2017.

kyivpost.com/ukraine-politi…
In October 2017, German Khan (father-in-law), Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven filed a suit with the U.S. District Court in Washington against Fusion GPS for libel.

themoscowtimes.com/news/russian-i…
Some more information on van der Zwaan's wife, Eva - she graduated from Saint Martins College in London, and studied at Courtauld Institute of Art. She has a sister, Eleonora.

en.crimerussia.com/gromkie-dela/w…
German Khan, Petr Aven and Mikhail Fridman also filed a defamation suit against BuzzFeed and other journalists, including Ben Smith, back in May 2017.

uk.businessinsider.com/buzzfeed-ceo-s…
I'm fairly certain this is van der Zwaan's Pictame account.

pictame.com/user/alexvdzwa…
Literally just some pictures.
At one stage, van der Zwaan had a LinkedIn profile.
At some point, Eva Khan (also known as Eva van der Zwaan) had an Instagram profile.
No comment.

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Ending it here. I cannot find any other information on van der Zwaan. I will add this to my spotlight pastebin.
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Either A) it’s a trap. They want us to react in a dem-similar fashion to the Kavanaugh trials. When it’s proven false, we look like hypocrites.

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It’s official! Rick Gates has FLIPPED & is finalizing a plea deal with Robert Mueller‼️

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