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💥⚡️🔥🤯🔴📣⚡️🌋🔥 The thread on #Veselnitskaya’s husband's ties to the #Kremlin illustrates the mechanism of turning the natural resources stolen from the Russian people into the political tool through money laundering and bribes. Oligarchs, FSB, mafia & fascists, united.

1. #Veselnitskaya represented #DenisKatsyv’s #Prevezon. The case had initially been brought by #PreetBharara. Trump fired Bharara in 2017. latimes.com/politics/washi…

2. Denis Katsyv is the son of Pyotr Katsyv, the Minister of Transport of the Moscow Regional Government (2004-12), & from 2012, the head of the main department for interaction with federal authorities appointed by Sergey Shoygu
forbes.ru/profile/petr-k…

2.1. Sergey Shoygu was briefly a Governor of the Moscow region. Currently, he is the Minister of Defense and a close Putin's ally en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Sh…

2.2. Currently, Pyotr Katsyv is the Vice President of Russian Railways, state-run rail monopoly. eng.rzd.ru/statice/public…

2.2.1. Russian Railways was established by the RF Government Decree of September 18, 2003. The founder and sole shareholder of JSC Russian Railways is the Russian Federation. On behalf of the Russian Federation to the shareholder by the Government of the Russian Federation.

2.3. Veselnitskaya's husband, Alexander Mitusov, was Petr Katsyv’s First Deputy (Deputy Minister of Transportation)
rollingstone.com/politics/news/…

2.4. Veselnitskaya met Mitusov while working for the office of the prosecutor of the Moscow Region. mosoblpress.ru/38/20994/?PAGE…

2.5. Mitusov served as a deputy prosecutor of the Moscow region from 1993; the first deputy prosecutor from 2000; and, briefly, an acting prosecutor until 2004.
mk.ru/editions/daily…

2.6. 📣⚡️NOTE: Moscow Region Prosecutors are appointed by the circles close to the Kremlin as the land close to Moscow is valuable and is known to be used for mansions and investments. Prosecutors of the Moscow Regoin have a history of scandals, corruption and crime.

2.6.1. Ivan Sydoruk, the prosecutor of Moscow Region (2003—2005) came from St.Petersburg circles close to Putin, and despite being forced to retire, is now a deputy of Yuri Chaika, Prosecutor General of Russia. Mitusov worked under Sydoruk in 2004.

2.6.2. The document used by Veselnitskaya and obtained by Business Insider closely mirrored the contents of a memo provided to Republican US Rep. Dana Rohrabacher by the office of Chaika while Rohrabacher was in Moscow last April.
businessinsider.com/veselnitskaya-…

2.6.3. Sydoruk’s successor, Alexander Mokhov, Moscow Region prosecutor 2008-2011, was fired after a scandal with illegal casinos/bribes.

mosoblproc.ru/istoriya-proku…

2.6.4. Notably, his successor is Aleksey Zakharov, Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu's son-in-law (2013—current)

mk.ru/mosobl/article…

2.6.5. NOTE: Family members in place of power is one of the characteristic features of a mafia state.

3. 💥⚡️Currently, Mitusov is the Vice President of SG-Trans, the leading railway operator for the transportation of oil and gas and a strategic partner of Gennady Timchenko’s Transoil.

sg-trans.ru/company/about/…

3.1. SG-Trans clients include Gazprom, Rosneft, Novatek, Sibur, and more.

3.2. In 2011, SG-Trans transported 98% of Rosneft LPG (liquefied petroleum gas.)

3.3. SG-Trans has close ties with the Russian government. In 2012, top government officials, including then-Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, spoke in company's support. (see the article clip attached above)

4. 💥⚡️🔥 NOW PAY ATTENTION!!! One of the SG-Trans owners is Senator Alexander Babakov, a politician with close ties to Putin and ties to a nationalist/fascist party Rodina.

4.1. Babakov is State Duma Deputy, as of 2014, Chair of the State Duma Commission on Legislative Provisions for Development of the Military-Industrial Complex of the Russian Federation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander…

4.2. He is appointed by Putin to work with the "Russians living abroad."

4.3. From April 2006, Alexander Babakov is a member of the Council under the President of Russia on the realization of priority national projects.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander…

4.4. In 2012, 100% of "SG-trance" was bought by the AFK Sistema; it then cut the shares to 50%; the remaining 50% went to the Vector Rail. In 2016, Sistema sold the remaining 50%to a company affiliated with Alexander Babakov. rbc.ru/business/10/10…

5. ⚡️🔥 Here come the fascists/alt-right. In 2006, Babakov replaced Dmitry Rogozin as chairman of the Rodina Party. n 2005, Rodina deputies asked for an investigation aimed at outlawing all Jewish organizations in Russia.
old.themoscowtimes.com/sitemap/free/2…

5.1. In 2015, Rodina organized the International Russian Conservative Forum an a coalition of far-right parties. The same year, Rodina and the Russian Imperial Movement, another Russian far-right party, organized the World National-Conservative Movement
ecology.iww.org/texts/misc/AnI…

5.2. More about IRMF.

interpretermag.com/the-far-right-…

6. 🔴📣⚡️NOTE: Going international. Babakov played a significant role in assisting Front National‘s Marine Le Pen in getting a multimillion loan from a Chech-Russian Bank, allegedly controlled by Gennady Timchenko.

6.1. Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, a member of the Marine Blue Gathering, a coalition of far-right parties supporting Le Pen, responsible for finding funds for the National Front introduced Le Pen to Babakov.
mediapart.fr/journal/france…

6.1.1. Babakov, with help of Dmitry Rogozin, arranged a meeting of Le Pen and Putin.

6.1.2. In 2014, the National Front secured a €40 million loan from the First Czech-Russian Bank, almost exclusively owned by the companies (including Stroytransgas) and holdings controlled by Timchenko, a Putin's ally & a co-founder of Cyprus-registered Gunvor Group Ltd.

6.1.3. Czech-Russian Bank allegedly has ties to Russian intelligence and/or organized crime elements

webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache…

7. Babakov has an alleged history of corruption and organized crime ties.
sites.google.com/site/rusmafiae…

7.1. Babakov was mentioned in Panama Papers:

occrp.org/en/panamapaper…

8. SG-Trans is also a strategic partner of Gennady Timchenko's Transoil.

kommersant.ru/doc/3212156

8. SG-Trans is also a strategic partner of Gennady Timchenko's Transoil.

kommersant.ru/doc/3212156

8.1. Timchenko allegedly has longterm close ties to Putin and is reported to be a front for Putin.
anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.com/2015/05/russia…

Oil and gas money is siphoned from Russia. Offshores, shell and front companies are used. The money is then used to weaken the West by inciting discord via supporting separatists, hate groups, etc; bribing the Western officials and installing puppet regimes. An old KGB tactic.

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