Maltese Journalist Who Published Clinton-Linked Panama Papers Dies in Car Bomb Explosion

The final chapter (for the moment) in these Panama Papers debacle for the Democrats is the direct involvement with the Russians through Tony Podesta, the son of John Podesta, campaign manager for Clinton.

“’Some of these companies were initially connected to the Troika Dialog investment fund, which was controlled and run by Sberbank after the bank bought the Troika Dialog investment bank. Troika and Sberbank declined to comment,’ the project reported on Monday.

The Mossack Fonseca documents show that Troika Dialog secretly signed away much of its interest in a Russian truck manufacturer to ‘an unknown offshore’ called Avto Holdings. That company was partially owned by Sergei Roldugin, a close Putin friend and the godfather of the Russian president’s daughter.

The Panama Papers also reveal the existence of ‘similar agreements between Troika and offshore companies affiliated with Roldugin,’ according to the project.

‘These agreements were different just in dates, names of the companies, stakes and sums of money,’ the project reported. ‘But the point remained: offshore companies affiliated with Putin’s friend had privileged rights to control large stakes in strategic Russian enterprises, to receive dividends, and to buy these stakes for laughable sums.’

Despite its apparent ties to the interests of Russia’s political elite, Sberbank is officially a private company. That allows the Podesta Group to report it as a standard lobbying client, rather than a state-owned entity, which would trigger the more detailed lobbyist reporting requirements of the Foreign Agent Registration Act.

The Podesta Group did not respond to a request for comment by press time.”

This also links to another famous piece of legislation in the US, the Global Magnitsky Act, which was initiated after the murder of that Russian lobbyist after he questioned the donations and money that was pouring into the pockets of American politicians and which implicated the Russian Foreign Ministry at its highest levels.  The Foreign Agent Registration Act would have precluded many of these nefarious agents from operating within the US on behalf of the Democrat Party, but it was being completely ignored at the time of the this scandal with the murder of Magnitsky.  The Global Magnitsky Act was a US bill of sanctions against Russia and supposedly infuriated Vladimir Putin.  His retaliation may have been through these lucrative Uranium One transfers.

Another person whose name is implicated in these Panama Papers is Bill De Blasio, NYC Mayor.

[A]mong the Clinton connections is Fialkoff, now a senior adviser to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and director of the city’s Office of Strategic Partnerships. She, her brother, Brett, and her late father, Frank, are listed as shareholders of UPAC Holdings Ltd, a British Virgin Islands offshore company incorporated in June 2012.

Gabrielle Fialkoff said in an email that she has ‘no knowledge’ of the company and referred questions to her brother.

Brett Fialkoff, who serves as chief operating officer at his family’s business, Haskell Jewels, a New York-based designer, marketer and distributor of costume jewelry, initially told McClatchy he didn’t know why his family would be in the documents. Later, he said that someone must have opened an account in their names.

Still, later, he said he set up an offshore company to export accessories from China to the United States. The documents indicate the company’s files are registered in Beijing.

But, he said, he abandoned the new business to give more attention to his family’s jewelry company. He said there’s no money in any bank account overseas and declined to provide details about his compliance with U.S. tax laws.

‘I have news for you: There is no money,’ he said in a phone interview. ‘We’re not like Vladimir Putin, trying to hide money.’

The most recent Mossack Fonseca information of December 2015 shows the company remains active, registered on behalf of the Fialkoffs in the British Virgin Islands by a Hong Kong-based consulting company on June 6, 2012. Brett Failkoff acknowledged the company is still ‘legally alive’ but said it does not – nor has it ever – conducted any business.

Gabrielle Fialkoff, a longtime friend of de Blasio, was finance director for Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign, which de Blasio managed. After serving as Haskell’s president and chief operating officer, she chaired de Blasio’s inauguration and led New York’s unsuccessful bid to host the Democratic National Convention in 2016.”

To say that the Democrats and Hillary Clinton are deeply ensconced in the underhanded situations involved within the Panama Papers is an understatement of colossal proportions.  As is evident from all of these people, from Barack Obama down to Bill De Blasio, it’s obvious that the Democrat Party is corrupted beyond the point of revision.  Try as they might, this is not going away anytime soon.

What is apparent is that Donald Trump and all his associates can very easily rest at night, knowing that Special Counsel Robert Mueller will be called off the scent now that all trails now lead to Obama and Hillary.  That being said, this investigation by Mueller against Trump and his associates will slowly fade away into the annals of Fake News history with nary a mention of the findings within the Panama Papers.

As for Daphne Caruana Galizia…may she rest in peace.

Source:  The Guardian

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