Posted on 11/26/2019 11:08:28 PM PST by bitt
Just before Christmas 2015, the British intelligence operative Christopher Steele emailed a report to private clients that included an American lawyer for a Ukrainian oligarch.
The title of the dossier was FIRTASH Abortive Return to Ukraine, and it purported to provide intelligence on why the energy oligarch Dmitri Firtash tried, but failed, to return to his home country of Ukraine.
FIRTASHs talk of returning to Ukraine a genuine ambition rather than merely a ruse to reveal Ukrainian governments hand. However the oligarch developed cold feet upon the news of a negative reception at Boryspil airport, Steele reported on Dec. 23, 2015.
Perhaps most important to the recipients, the former MI6 agents report purported to share the latest thinking of Russian and U.S. officials on Firtash, who at the time faced U.S. criminal charges and was awaiting extradition from Austria.
Those charges and extradition remain unresolved four years later. Firtash insists on his innocence, while the U.S. government stands by it case despite recent criticism from Austrian and Spanish authorities.
The prevarication over his return has lost FIRTASH credibility with the Russians, but his precarious position in Austria leaves him little choice but to acquiesce with Moscows demands, the Steele report claimed. Separate American sources confirm that US Government regards FIRTASH as a conduit for Russian influence and he remains a pariah to the Americans.
(Excerpt) Read more at johnsolomonreports.com ...
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The Lord will spare America if we can honest men and women who will step forth boldly and speak His truth to a lying, evil world.
Lord protect John and all those others out there who will search out truth from vast webs of lies, to keep the truth in the forefront!, for those of us who still care and are corageous enough to share it with others!
.....if we can support....
Great reporting.
But it raises a question for me. Why don’t we refer to people like Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, etc., as oligarchs? Aren’t they, in either the Russian or the original Greek sense?
Because they are not oligarchs, but oleaginous.
More Deep State conspiracies exposed.
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