rumitoid wrote:
The circle narrows.
Rumitoid,
the mainstream media is playing you like a fiddle. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, now 80 years old, is squeaky clean. This so-called investigation into Ross's banking ties with the Russians at the Bank of Cyprus is another attempt at Democrat deflection over their ties to Cyprus.
Let's lay out the history of Bank of Cyprus, an offshore haven for crooks, drug smugglers, money launders and the Russian Mafia that Putin shut down over a decade ago. Wilbur Ross didn't arrive on the scene until 2015:
The Paradise Papers
Trump commerce secretary's business links with Putin family laid out in leaked files
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/trump-commerce-secretary-wilbur-ross-business-links-putin-family-paradise-papers"The Ross interests appear in the Paradise Papers, a trove of millions of leaked offshore files reviewed by the Guardian, the
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and other partners. They join established links between Ross and Russian finance that have raised questions over his se******n by Trump to head the US Department of Commerce...
"The disclosures come as inquiries intensify into Russian interference with the 2016 US e******n. Congress and Robert Mueller, the special counsel, are investigating possible collusion between Trump’s p**********l campaign and Moscow. Ross has dismissed claims of collusion as “rumour and innuendo..."
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is one of billionaire George Soros's 200 foundations under his Open Society Institute that hacked into the Panama Papers and now, have hacked into Appleby's banking clientele to retrieve millions of files on more offshore investors and banks, including the Bank of Cyprus.We do know that George Soros also funded Hillary Clinton's campaign for the presidency. Back in the 1990s, the Bank of Cyprus was an international haven for European Union crooks, drug peddlers, money launderers, the Russian Mafia and oligarchs under Boris Yeltsin's presidency, later shut down by Putin to save the drain of Russian money to offshore banks. And, according to the Guardian, under entirely new leadership, the Bank of Cyprus was cleaned up:
"And in 2015, while Ross was vice-chairman of the bank, its Russia-based businesses were sold off to Artem Avetisyan, a Russian businessman who had been appointed by Putin to lead an agency responsible for strengthening ties between the Kremlin and business.
"Democratic senators wrote to Ross in February demanding that he disclose “the full extent of your connections to Russia”. Ross did not respond. The senators also lambasted the White House for refusing to provide answers to the questions before the v**e confirming Ross.
"Asked around that time whether Bank of Cyprus had any customers under US sanctions during his time there, Ross told CNN: “That’s a question that is very complicated to answer,” adding that he had never approved any such deals..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/opinion/putins-role-in-cypruss-collapse.htmlDid Putin Sink Cyprus?
By BEN JUDAHAPRIL 2, 2013
"How did so much Russian money end up in Cyprus? Mr. Putin took office in 2000 promising a “dictatorship of law,” but the moneymakers lost confidence in him.
By 2003, the country’s richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, had been arrested, ultimately to be stripped of his biggest holdings and thrown into a Siberian prison, making it clear that what Mr. Putin really had in mind was manipulating the law to control any potential challenge from the oligarchs’ wealth..."
So., who are the Russian oligarchs that drained the new Russian Federation dry of all its assets? This is the rest of the story that the mainstream media is covering up. Let's look at Russia's wealthiest oligarch, Mikhail Khordorkovsky, former owner of YUKOS Oil, a fugitive on the run wanted for murder:
December 23, 2015 / 12:50 AM / 2 years ago
Russia wants Khodorkovsky arrested abroad on murder charges
https://www.reuters.com/article/russia-khodorkovsky-arrest/russia-wants-khodorkovsky-arrested-abroad-on-murder-charges-idINKBN0U60PU20151223MOSCOW (Reuters) - "Russia has issued an international arrest warrant for Mikhail Khodorkovsky on suspicion of ordering a contract k*****g, investigators said on Wednesday, prompting the former oil tycoon to declare the Kremlin had gone mad..."
Mikhail Khodorkovsky is the wealthiest of numerous former c*******t bureaucrats that became the Russian Mafia and ransacked the Russian Federation of its commodities. They first came to America for bank loans to buy the Russian commodities, approaching the Bank of New York where James Comey and Loretta Lynch were employed in the 1990s and borrowed the necessary money (but that's another story for another day):
How to Think About Vladimir Putin
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/how-to-think-about-vladimir-putin/March 2017 • Volume 46, Number 3 • by Christopher Caldwell
"Let me stress the point. The oligarchs who turned Russia into an armed plutocracy within half a decade of the downfall in 1991 of C*******m called themselves capitalists. But they were mostly men who had been g***med as the next generation of C*******t nomenklatura—people like Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky. They were the people who understood the scope and nature of state assets, and they controlled the privatization programs. They had access to Western financing and they were willing to use violence and intimidation. So they took power just as they had planned to back when they were in C*******t cadre school—but now as owners, not as bureaucrats. Since the state had owned everything under C*******m, this was quite a payout. Yeltsin’s reign was built on these billionaires’ fortunes, and vice-versa.
"Khodorkovsky has recently become a symbol of Putin’s misrule, because Putin jailed him for ten years. Khodorkovsky’s trial certainly didn’t meet Western standards. But Khodorkovsky’s was among the most obscene privatizations of all. In his recent biography of Putin, Steven Lee Myers, the former Moscow correspondent for the New York Times, calculates that Khodorkovsky and fellow investors paid $150 million in the 1990s for the main production unit of the oil company Yukos, which came to be valued at about $20 billion by 2004. In other words, they acquired a share of the essential commodity of Russia—its oil—for less than one percent of its value. Putin came to call these people “state-appointed billionaires.” He saw them as a conduit for l**ting Russia, and sought to restore to the country what had been stolen from it. He also saw that Russia needed to reclaim control of its vast reserves of oil and gas, on which much of Europe depended, because that was the only geopolitical lever it had left...."
These Russian oligarchs and Mafioso who stashed their cash in the Bank of Cyprus are banished from the kingdom, happily settled into the European Union and western Ukraine where President Obama, the State Department, George Soros and the CIA's GSO Renaissance Foundation ran an infamous c**p d'Ă©tat to install Viktor Poroshenko with the help of the Ukrainian nationalist neo-N**i Bandera gang. View Oliver Stone's documentary on the collapse of the Ukrainian government:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzM4iVm4dRcUkraine on fire - Oliver Stone
It is increasingly obvious that Obama, Secretary Clinton and George Soros were willing to restore c*******m to Russia and the European Union at any cost. This investigation on Wilbur Ross and his ties to the Bank of Cyprus are going to lead right back to the Democrats' ties to the Russian Mafia, just like Paul Manafort's ties to the Podesta Group and the DNC's ties to the Russians.