You guys should check out this amazing summary that someone posted over at the gaming forum NeoGAF — perhaps the most concrete and best corroboration of anything in the dossier I’ve seen yet:
Ex Mi-6 agent Chris Steele’s 35 page long opposition research dossier on Trump is dated October 18th and has this bombshell in it:
Russian State Oil Company CEO Sechin (who is part of Putin’s inner circle) offered Trump/Page associates 19% stake in Rosneft if personal and state sanctions were lifted.
SOURCE: https://i.imgur.com/XXKR2iM.jpg
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On November 7th, Russia signed the deal to sell 19.5% of its stake in Rosneft - which amounts to $11 billion - to Glencore Plc and Qatar sovereign wealth fund.
Commodity trader Glencore Plc and Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund agreed to buy a 10.2-billion euro ($11 billion) stake in Russia’s largest oil producer from the state in a triumph for President Vladimir Putin over sanctions imposed by the West.
SOURCE: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic…for-11-billion
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What a coincidence, on December 26th: A top executive of Rosneft Oleg Erovinkin, also a former FSB agent, was found dead, with no official cause of death.
SOURCE: http://www.dailysabah.com/europe/201…dead-in-moscow
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Starting in September, it was reported that Carter Page would be ‘advising Trump on energy policy and Russia’, and has been probed by the US regarding ties to Russian leaders. Page also has ties with executives at Gazprom through his assistance in advising ‘some of its biggest deals in the past decade’. Gazprom is the investment bank that funded the 19.5% purchase of the Rosneft stake by Glencore.
SOURCE: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/me…145052476.html
“Trump’s mystery man in Moscow”
http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto…-moscow-214283—
And then we have this:
The head of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund said it would invest $10 billion in unspecified infrastructure projects inside the United States in response to Donald Trump. Qatar was part of the sale of the 19.5% of Rosneft.SOURCE: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-qa…-idUSKBN1421AF
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Bonus round:
Rudy Guiliani’s law firm also has Rosneft as a client.
SOURCE: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic…n-office-grows
They also advise Qatar’s state run oil company:
SOURCE: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/1…nflicts-231413—
Carter Page, who has worked for several years in Moscow for Merrill Lynch is tied to that Glencore fund.
SOURCE: http://www.interpretermag.com/russia…ember-13-2016/
also Page seeing opportuniities in Russia:SOURCE: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ru…-idUSKBN13Y1VD
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And in an interview from January 14th with the WSJ, Trump still going on about lifting sanctions as soon as Russia is nice and helps with the fight against terrorists.
SOURCE: http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-t…ina-1484360380
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DoublePlusGood bonus round:
Trump’s SOS pick Rex Tillerson has excellent ties to Sechin/Rosneft
SOURCES: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/…e-with-russia/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/…an-oil-company
http://www.vox.com/energy-and-enviro…nctions-russia