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Australian researcher. Anti-corruption.
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Mar 28 6 tweets 2 min read
Prague-based 'Voice for Europe' a Russian propaganda medium. "Some European politicians cooperating with the news site were paid from Russian funds that in some cases also covered their 2024 EU election campaign," according to online independent media platform, Denik N. "The payments targeted politicians from Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands and Poland, Denik N said, citing a Czech foreign ministry source.
It singled out the far-right German party Alternative for Germany (AfD) as being involved."
Dec 20, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
As @davetroy posted, Deripaska's Rusal quietly morphed to avoid sanctions and is now PerenniAL. On April 28, 2022, Brian Hesse and his business partner formed a new U.S. company through a MBO of Rusal America Corp to form PerenniAL. Hesse is President and CEO of PerenniAL. Brian Hesse joined Rusal America in May 2019 as President/CEO. He was hired to lead the company's emergence from US Government sanctions. He has been a member of the foundation board of his alma mater, Northwest University since 2022. nwmissouri.edu/foundation/abo…
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Aug 15, 2023 40 tweets 14 min read
Suspected Russian spies
Orlin Roussev, 45, of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Bizer Dzhambazov, 41, of Harrow, north-west London
Katrin Ivanova, 31, of the same Harrow address
bbc.com/news/uk-665043… Orlin Roussev UK companies, now dissolved.
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Jul 19, 2023 27 tweets 6 min read
@StringwallApp Reza Zarrab intentionally visited the US and surrendered based on a plan, according to Amir Abbas Soltani, a fmr Iranian lawmaker and fmr member of the parliamentary committee tasked with pursuing the Babak Zanjani case. Zanjani is imprisoned and sentenced to death in Iran for siphoning oil billions. Soltani claims Zarrab is “the black box” of Zanjani’s case. Soltani says that following Zanjani’s case in Iran, Zarrab thought he would be captured by Iranian officials if he stayed in Turkey.
Jun 10, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
Frank Schneider, who was under house arrest in France awaiting extradition to the US, has evaded authorities. He faces up to 40 years in jail on fraud and money laundering charges for his alleged role in a $4bn crypto scam. bbc.com/news/world-eur… Schneider is an alleged participant in OneCoin's $4 billion Ponzi scheme. coindesk.com/policy/2022/12…
Jun 9, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
Hackers broke websites of Moscow provider and number of Russian companies: they wish success to Ukraine's Armed Forces news.yahoo.com/hackers-broke-… via @YahooNews "Due to a cyberattack, the main banks of Russia and credit organizations throughout the Russian Federation do not have access to banking systems and cannot make payments. Interruptions with communication in Moscow are also possible." 🇺🇦 🌻epravda.com.ua/news/2023/06/8…
Jun 3, 2023 29 tweets 8 min read
On May 28, 2023, four people drowned on Lake Maggiore south of the Swiss Alps. One was a former Mossad agent, two were Italian intelligence officers and the fourth victim was a Russian woman. They were among 23 people aboard the small boat. bbc.com/news/world-eur… "An Israeli man, 50-year-old Simoni Erez, also died. He was a retired Mossad agent." Image
May 17, 2023 6 tweets 6 min read
@Stephaniefishm4 @tomiahonen @AG_Hays thinks so.
@Stephaniefishm4 @tomiahonen @AG_Hays When FBI agents searched Rudy Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment just after dawn on April 28, they brought warrants to seize computers and devices like cell phones. According to reports, investigators were looking for comms with "powerful Ukrainian tycoons and government officials."
May 16, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Joe Biden postpones Australia visit due to domestic debt ceiling crisis abc.net.au/news/2023-05-1… via @ABCaustralia President Biden was planning to travel to Papua New Guinea and Australia after the G7, including visits to Sydney and Canberra for security talks and an address to parliament. He will fly home directly after the G7 to negotiate with Republican politicians over the debt ceiling.
May 15, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
From ABC Australia - "The US Virgin Islands has subpoenaed Elon Musk in its lawsuit accusing JPMorgan Chase & Co of helping to enable sexual abuses by late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. According to a court filing, the Virgin Islands issued a subpoena to Musk on April 28. The filing says Musk, one of the richest people in the world, may have been referred to JPMorgan by Epstein.
Musk is yet to comment. The US Virgin Islands accuses JPMorgan of missing red flags about Epstein's abuse of women on Little St. James, a private island he owned there.
May 14, 2023 11 tweets 8 min read
May 3, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
More than 100 people arrested in crackdown of Italian crime group 'Ndrangheta. The arrests were part of a coordinated investigation by Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain abc.net.au/news/2023-05-0… via @ABCaustralia Pasquale Bonavota had been almost five years on the run. He is considered the brains of the ’Ndrangheta’s Bonavota clan, which includes his two brothers, based in the Sant’Onofrio area of the Calabrian province of Vibo Valentia.
Apr 28, 2023 15 tweets 17 min read
@StringwallApp @DavidManOnFire @SRuhle @mehdirhasan Epstein - suspected to work with CIA
Kazakhstan - Kenges K. Rakishev, Chairman, Kazkommertsbank JSC; Chairman, Net Element, Inc.
Prince Andrew - Kenges Rakishev (son-in-law of former Mayor of Astana) - helped Greek water firm EYDAP and Andrea Bubb, Swiss financier, Aras Capital @StringwallApp @DavidManOnFire @SRuhle @mehdirhasan win the water and sewerage contract for Almaty and for Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.
Epstein - friendship with Prince Andrew
Kenges Rakishev in 2007 allegedly brokered sale of Andrew's Berkshire mansion Sunninghill Park – for £3m over the asking price – to Timur Kulibayev,
Apr 27, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
Air Force suspends 2 commanders from 102nd Intelligence Support Squadron where alleged Pentagon leaker worked nbcnews.com/news/us-news/a… via @NBCNews The 102nd ISS provides intelligence systems maintenance, integration, and operations for the AF-DCGS Enterprise. enabling near real-time Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination of fused intelligence to warfighters, combatant commanders, and the larger IC. Image
Apr 26, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
Remember when China granted more trademark approvals to Ivanka Trump's firm - including voting machines? reut.rs/2yVTNNV I found the approval document. The Chinese word for voting machines is 投票机 -- Tóupiào jī
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Apr 25, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch face another giant legal claim over Fox News 'disinformation'. The case is still in the discovery stage, headed to trial in 2025. abc.net.au/news/2023-04-2… "Nothing can do more damage to a company like Smartmatic than what these defendants said."
"One category of speech that courts have said have no societal interest and are not deserving of constitutional protection is an intentional lie. We're talking about an intentional lie."
Mar 28, 2023 15 tweets 3 min read
Malaysia has filed criminal charges against 17 current and former directors at Goldman Sachs Group subsidiaries in a multi-billion-dollar corruption investigation at state fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd. GS has been under scrutiny for its role in helping to raise $6.5 billion through bond offerings for 1MDB, the subject of corruption and money laundering investigations in at least six countries.
Mar 14, 2023 14 tweets 3 min read
@DavidManOnFire @StringwallApp David asked me to verify if Casey DeSantis is related to Philly mob consigliere "Tony Bananas" (real name Antonio Caponigro) and the answer is yes. The murdered mobster, who died in 1980 when she was one, was her uncle. Related through her mother. Antonio Caponigro was consigliere to head of the Philly mob, Angelo Bruno. Caponigro ordered him killed. Two weeks later, Caponigro was garrotted.
Mar 14, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
@DavidManOnFire In May 2022, Coinbase launched a crypto think tank with an advisory board of finance and law academics from US universities such as Harvard, MIT, Duke and John Hopkins, together with an academic partnership with the University of Michigan. Heading the Institute is Coinbase's former director of policy Hermine Wong, who was was a General Attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission and and before that worked at the Department of State.
Feb 2, 2023 7 tweets 4 min read
@TheeRougarou More info on the ending of CEFC-Rosneft deal, some parties involved and huge compensation paid. reuters.com/article/us-ros… @TheeRougarou This is UK company QFG Holding Limited, "one of three British-registered companies created by Glencore and QIA for their deal to buy 19.5 percent stake in Rosneft in December 2016, was paid 224.82 million euros by CEFC between December 2016 and May 2018." …te.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/OC4149…
Jan 15, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
Duax Ngakuru, New Zealand-born global drug trafficking gang leader arrested in Turkey mol.im/a/11636639 For years, Australian law enforcement has believed Ngakuru, with his friend Ayik, to be part of a global syndicate behind some of the world's biggest drug deals.
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