Sunday, October 22, 2017 8:12:41 PM
In Russia, a Bribery Case Lifts the Veil on Kremlin Intrigue
"Russian Journalist Masha Gessen on Trump & Putin's Autocracy and Media's Refusal to Call Out Lies"
By ANDREW E. KRAMEROCT. 21, 2017
The former Russian economy minister, Aleksei V. Ulyukayev, who denies that he solicited a $2 million
bribe from the oligarch Igor I. Sechin. Credit Maxim Shipenkov/European Pressphoto Agency
MOSCOW — The Russian elite, the group of oligarchs and other loyalists around President Vladimir V. Putin who
amassed great wealth over nearly two decades of hand-in-glove work with the government, is showing signs of cracking.
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Mr. Sechin has accused Mr. Ulyukayev of seeking the bribe in exchange for dropping objections to the state oil company’s acquisition of a recently nationalized
midsize oil producer, Bashneft. The sale was billed as a privatization; Mr. Ulyukayev had objected that it could not be a privatization if a state company bought it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/world/europe/russia-bribery-vladimir-putin-igor-sechin.html
See also:
The timeline of Trump's ties with Russia lines up with allegations of conspiracy and misconduct
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The dossier claims that Carter Page was used by Manafort as an "intermediary" between the campaign and high-level Kremlin officials.
Specifically, the dossier alleges that Page traveled to Moscow in July 2016, where he met with the president of Russia's state oil company Rosneft, Igor Sechin. An associate of Sechin's, the dossier claims, "said that the Rosneft President was so keen to lift personal and corporate Western sanctions imposed on the company, that he offered Page and his associates the brokerage of up to a 19 percent (privatised) stake in Rosneft."
The dossier says that Page "expressed interest" in the offer but was "noncommittal." It also says that Page promised that "sanctions on Russia would be lifted" if Trump were elected.
What happened
The timing of the alleged meeting between Page and Sechin aligns with a Page trip to Moscow in July 2016, where he delivered the commencement speech for the New Economic School.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128647243
"Russian Journalist Masha Gessen on Trump & Putin's Autocracy and Media's Refusal to Call Out Lies"
By ANDREW E. KRAMEROCT. 21, 2017
The former Russian economy minister, Aleksei V. Ulyukayev, who denies that he solicited a $2 million
bribe from the oligarch Igor I. Sechin. Credit Maxim Shipenkov/European Pressphoto Agency
MOSCOW — The Russian elite, the group of oligarchs and other loyalists around President Vladimir V. Putin who
amassed great wealth over nearly two decades of hand-in-glove work with the government, is showing signs of cracking.
[...]
Mr. Sechin has accused Mr. Ulyukayev of seeking the bribe in exchange for dropping objections to the state oil company’s acquisition of a recently nationalized
midsize oil producer, Bashneft. The sale was billed as a privatization; Mr. Ulyukayev had objected that it could not be a privatization if a state company bought it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/world/europe/russia-bribery-vladimir-putin-igor-sechin.html
See also:
The timeline of Trump's ties with Russia lines up with allegations of conspiracy and misconduct
[...]
The dossier claims that Carter Page was used by Manafort as an "intermediary" between the campaign and high-level Kremlin officials.
Specifically, the dossier alleges that Page traveled to Moscow in July 2016, where he met with the president of Russia's state oil company Rosneft, Igor Sechin. An associate of Sechin's, the dossier claims, "said that the Rosneft President was so keen to lift personal and corporate Western sanctions imposed on the company, that he offered Page and his associates the brokerage of up to a 19 percent (privatised) stake in Rosneft."
The dossier says that Page "expressed interest" in the offer but was "noncommittal." It also says that Page promised that "sanctions on Russia would be lifted" if Trump were elected.
What happened
The timing of the alleged meeting between Page and Sechin aligns with a Page trip to Moscow in July 2016, where he delivered the commencement speech for the New Economic School.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128647243
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