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US Senators Target Top Russian Banks Over Syria
RIA Novosti ^
| September 18, 2013
| Staff
Posted on 09/18/2013 6:17:13 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
US lawmakers are calling for a crackdown against leading Russian lenders VTB, Vnesheconombank (VEB) and Gazprombank for allegedly helping Syrian President Bashar Assad circumvent sanctions, accusations the state-owned banks sharply denied Wednesday.
“The Syrians could not conduct this war without Russian financing,” US Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, said Tuesday at a policy discussion in Washington, Politico reported.
Blumenthal was one of four senators who sent a letter to US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew last week calling for sanctions against the three banks, accusing the lenders of enabling Assad to finance a war against rebel forces.
The senators cited “numerous reports” as saying that VEB had facilitated Syrian payments for S-300 missile batteries and that VTB holds Assad’s “personal funds.” They also cited the reports as saying that Gazprombank made “payments for crude oil,” though they did not specify the source of the reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at en.ria.ru ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: 113th; banking; banksters; bhorussia; putin
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This is what it is all about, and this is what will start WWIII
To: Navy Patriot
They also cited the reports as saying that Gazprombank made “payments for crude oil,” And not in petro-federal reserve notes.
This is the thing that has the PsTB in such a state of panic. If Russian and China, followed by Brazil start trading oil with something other than the federal reserve note, the game is up for the folks that McCain, Graham, Obama and the rest of the filth answer to.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:22:36 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: Navy Patriot
Whoa! Whoa!!
Here we are supplying weapons to the Muslim Brotherhood, but Russia isn’t supposed to help Assad?
Who are we to be the arbiters of what Russia should do?
IMO Russia is on the right side and we are dead wrong in this mess.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:22:55 PM PDT
by
Venturer
( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
To: Venturer
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:26:52 PM PDT
by
manc
(Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
To: Sirius Lee
Yes, and IIRC Syria is one of the few countries without a central bank...
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:26:55 PM PDT
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: Venturer
Here we are supplying weapons to the Muslim Brotherhood, but Russia isn’t supposed to help Assad? We're also 'helping' Al Qaeda...
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:32:10 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
( Politicians who fear the people seek to disarm them. - - Bill St. Clair)
To: null and void
Yes, and IIRC Syria is one of the few countries without a central bank... Wasn't it curious that the first thing the "rebels" in Libya did was set up a central bank, even before they had toppled the government. Stranger still - nobody in the media blinked an eye or thought to ask why such a curious thing took place.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:33:20 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: Venturer
Maybe our politicians could act tough toward Russia and China if they didn't weaken the country by burying us under trillions of dollars of debt. Washington DC is full of blowhards and creeps.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:34:29 PM PDT
by
peeps36
(I'm Not A Racist, I Hate Douchebags f All Colors)
To: Navy Patriot
Sounds like Cyprus all over again.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:35:10 PM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
(I think Obama and crew feel that time is being wasted and that we need to get the jump on Russian sh)
To: Navy Patriot
Democrats love war. Trade war, real war, it’s all just a game to them. Send them to the front and see how they run.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:35:46 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: Sirius Lee
This is the thing that has the PsTB in such a state of panic. If Russian and China, followed by Brazil start trading oil with something other than the federal reserve note, the game is up for the folks that McCain, Graham, Obama and the rest of the filth answer to. Exactly, and all economic collapse disputes between nations are resolved with war.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:36:02 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: Sirius Lee
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:40:31 PM PDT
by
Irenic
(The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
To: Sirius Lee; null and void
Yeah, and notice how Qaddafi's huge gold reserves just disappeared, those he intended to use to set up a gold backed central bank for North Africa independent of the IMF.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:41:01 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: 1010RD
Send them to the front and see how they run. Saw it for myself.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:43:24 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: Navy Patriot
US lawmakers are calling for a crackdown against leading Russian lenders VTB, Vnesheconombank (VEB) and Gazprombank for allegedly helping Syrian President Bashar Assad circumvent sanctions, We will know that WW3 is about to start once Russian banks are put on the OFAC list and assets frozen here in the U.S.
Not that I think that'll happen.....
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:43:34 PM PDT
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: justa-hairyape
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:44:49 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: usconservative
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:47:23 PM PDT
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: Navy Patriot
Thank you. We need to send these chickenhawks right to the front. McCain couldn’t wait to bunk up with his new friends in Syria. Is it senility or something worse?
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:49:30 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: 1010RD
He’s on the Saudi payroll.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:52:28 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: Navy Patriot
Cornyn and Ayotte lent their names to this letter.
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posted on
09/18/2013 6:52:52 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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