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The Russians Are Listening And Cooking Your Goose.2.

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Everyone has known about Fridman and many other Russians for more than 12 years and the poisoning at Salisbury is just a sideshow but a public one that then forces the hand of a reluctant government in a particular case.

Stratfor said this of him in 2007 in its confidential and high fee report for private clients:

“Mikhail Fridman was one of the original Russian oligarchs who robbed the Russian
state blind in the 1990s. He also is one of only a handful from the early days who is not dead, exiled or in prison.

He despises Russians and seems to take a perverse pleasure in the part he played in
Russia’s economic meltdown during the 1990s. He has no moral qualms about defrauding Russians, while his actions indicate that he has few problems defrauding anyone.

…organized criminal elements could be used to physically intimidate employees and
executives, or to cause security problems at competitor facilities, including bomb threats or the detonation of small explosive devices.”
https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/attach/17 ... gation.pdf

There is probably more about him known by people who are no longer alive. He lives in safety and some grandeur in London and is well known and liked in the City of London and meets all their ethics requirements – they don’t have any. There are scores of similar Russian others welcomed into the City.

He could be a real asset to Egypt. In the 90’s in Russia he and others rigged the auction of state assets and got them for nothing. With Egypt’s forthcoming sale of state assets this could be a real ‘winner’ - bribe the ‘vendor’ and pay only a penny for the asset. Just like Mubarak’s privatizations.

He likes Egypt and as well as the telecom he once controlled he is now a major player in the new West Nile Delta gas field (produces 1/3rd of Egyptian consumption) https://thediplomat.com/2017/08/sino-ru ... -in-egypt/ and announced in 2015 a $US12 billion joint project with BP – how this doesn’t bring US sanctions against BP/Egypt amazes me. https://www.ft.com/content/6f5b0df6-c42 ... 144feab7de http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/me ... on-bp-deal

How Egypt allows the gay Lord Browne to control/influence Egyptian gas should be brought to the attention of the souk, the asset seized and no compensation paid – just like the 1950’s. Maybe Lord Browne whilst voting on British welfare reform, the deployment of the UK Army and managing a Russian gangster’s PR is no longer showing the bad judgment he once did by basing life-long and public relationships on very young Canadian prostitutes. His emotional foundations were not well sunk.

The North Alexandria and West Mediterranean fields also have minority Fridman interests – together with BP. (its hard to know but it appears that BP is selling down its Egyptian assets) https://af.reuters.com/article/commodit ... 9U20150519

He and his friends have bought a German oil and gas services/logistics company with operations in Egypt for more than E5 billion so it looks like he is going to control the whole system. https://www.reuters.com/article/rwe-dea ... G520131121. How Germany permits the sale of key, strategic national assets to crooks is beyond me.

Letting a chap like him in is dangerous but probably part of the future as the two autocrats – Sisi and Putin – move closer together and as Trump turns a blind eye to this even though the US has spent $US50-70 billion propping Egypt up for nearly 50 inglorious years.

It is possible that a number of years ago when he was dealing with BP in Russia he threatened, or worse, Bob Dudley, the then BP head in that country so that Dudley fled the country. Fridman may have used the KGB to deliver the threats. Dudley is now world head of BP and still alive. https://www.economist.com/europe/2018/1 ... n-oligarch

There are other dirty Russians on the block and maybe I will post on them. Meanwhile the best that could be said is that things could be worse – and probably will get so.

There is good news. His Alfa Group/Bank of Holland (called ATB there) probably acts as the ‘legitimate’ wheel barrow for getting a deal of dirty Russian money into the European system. That’s helpful for some and avoids going to that hell hole Cyprus to do the same and getting mugged or vomited on by some UK tourist there. http://www.atimes.com/good-oligarch-bad-oligarch/ and http://fortune.com/2016/11/02/donald-trump-alfa-bank/. Very courteously they employ Putin’s daughter and the son-in-law of Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov.

Egypt needs to be cautious and have disinfecting teams with all its meetings with the Russians because a large number of the oligarchs who own firms investing in Egypt are like their European and US brothers – Jewish. I think the Egyptian street needs to be fully informed. At least told that their cooking gas is Jewish gas from Fridman – or gay gas from Lord Browne.

The Alfa Group is the beating heart of Mueller’s current investigations into an attempt to pervert democracy. Fridman may not need to try so hard in Egypt as he did in the US.


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