Мафия не сдается

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Евгений Пригожин - не единственный путинский олигарх, который борется с расследованием Мюллера и американскими санкциями. Тем же занят Олег Дерипаска. Через «сливного бачка» Джона Соломона и верный Fox News запущена история, как Дерипаска рассмеялся в лицо агентам ФБР, которые приходили к нему в Нью-Йорке в сентябре 2016.

Lord this is sad pic.twitter.com/jLF6H7ll2w

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 15, 2018

Соломон напоминает про то, как Дерипаска помогал ФБР искать Боба Левинсона, пропавшего в Иране в 2007.



История мутная. Дерипаске не давали американской визы из-за его связей с российской организованной преступностью. Он сумел пробить себе визу через сделку с ФБР, пообещав им помощь с поисками Левинсона, но обещания не сдержал.

According to “Missing Man,” a forthcoming book by New York Times reporter Barry Meier, the FBI later relented and secretly arranged to have the Department of Homeland Security issue Deripaska a temporary visa in 2009, allowing him into the U.S. to meet with American business leaders after the oligarch promised he could help the bureau find Robert Levinson, a former bureau agent who has gone missing in Iran. But according to Meier’s book, Deripaska’s leads went nowhere and bureau officials determined they had been had by the Russian. The FBI concluded that Deripaska and two associates “were bullshit artists who had used Bob’s case as a means to try to get the United States to do what they wanted without ever delivering anything,” Meier writes.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-campaign-chief-ducks-questions-about-214020365.html

С ФБР Дерипаску свёл Борис Бирштейн из Торонто, замешанный в связях с солнцевской ОПГ, КГБ и Трампом.

Mr. Deripaska’s entry into the case held great promise. He headed an international mining and metals empire with business ties to Iran.
His involvement also came with a price. The State Department had refused Mr. Deripaska a visa because of allegations linking him to organized crime — accusations he has denied. But Mr. Birshtein, the Toronto businessman, had approached the F.B.I. with a plan: He would persuade Mr. Deripaska to join the search and, if they succeeded, both would get their entry problems resolved.
Mr. Deripaska said he would put up millions to fund the venture, but he insisted that his role be kept secret. However, word that big money was in play made its way to Iran. Suddenly, a man with family connections to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, insisted that he could engineer Mr. Levinson’s release for a hefty price. F.B.I. officials were so confident about the plan that they told Mrs. Levinson to stay by the phone for a call from her husband. It never came.
Mr. Deripaska, who was scheduled to meet in 2009 with bankers in the United States, wanted to collect on his end of the deal. The State Department, after two heated meetings with Justice Department officials, refused to issue him a visa, according to government officials. The F.B.I., hoping to keep him in the game, made an end-run around State Department officials and issued him a visa under a special program, allowing him to enter the country twice.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/world/middleeast/a-disappearing-american-spy-and-the-cia.html

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