Posted on 11/17/2016 5:54:06 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
While the world was focused in rapt attention on the outcome of the US Presidential election, Vladimir Putin did something quite amazing - he arrested Alexei Uliukaev, Minister of the Economy of the Medvedev government, on charges of extortion and corruption. Uliukaev, whose telephone had been tapped by the Russian Security Services since this summer, was arrested in the middle of the night in possession of 2 million US dollars. Putin officially fired him the next morning.
Russian official sources say that Uliukaev extorted a $2 million bribe for an assessment that led to the acquisition by Rosneft (a state run Russian oil giant) of a 50% stake in Bashneft (another oil giant). Apparently, Uliukaev tried to threaten Igor Sechin, the President of Rosneft and a person considered close to Vladimir Putin and the Russian security and intelligence services.
Yes, you read that right: according to the official version, a state-owned company gave a bribe to a member of the government. Does that make sense to you? How about a senior member of the government who had his telephone tapped and who has been under close surveillance by the Federal Security Service for over a year - does that make sense to you?
This makes no sense at all and the Russian authorities fully realize that. But that is the official version. So what is going on here? Do you think that there is a message from Putin here?
(Excerpt) Read more at sott.net ...
The headline misspells “filth”.
Is “liberal” Russian for corrupt?
Maybe we should hire the Russian Federal Security Service to investigate the Clintons. They seem to be much better than the FBI.
LOL— The words Putin and purge in the same sentence!
Uh, yeah...the Russians tend to take their purgings pretty seriously.
Pay for play in Russia is a series crime.
In America not so hugh.
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