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发帖数: 38600 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: beijingren (to thine own self be true), 信区: USANews
标 题: 普京声称美国情报人员向克林顿竞选捐款4亿美元
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jul 16 18:45:29 2018, 美东)
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agents-funneled-400-million-clinton-campaign
For instance, we can bring up Mr. Browder, in this particular case.
Business associates of Mr. Browder have earned over $1.5 billion in Russia
and never paid any taxes neither in Russia or the United States and yet the
money escaped the country. They were transferred to the United States. They
sent [a] huge amount of money, $400,000,000, as a contribution to the
campaign of Hillary Clinton. Well that’s their personal case.
It might have been legal, the contribution itself but the way the money was
earned was illegal. So we have solid reason to believe that some [US]
intelligence officers accompanied and guided these transactions. So we have
an interest in questioning them. | m****d
发帖数: 1 | 2 Lock Clinton family up的前奏 | s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 3 Browder不是情报人员而是银行家。当年苏联垮台之后跑去俄国炒国有资产搞各种灰色
生意，但因为批评官府的企业政策，尤其是普京的铁哥们开的石油公司，和普京和黑帮
结下梁子。
05年他在莫斯科的办公室被警察抄了，抢走2亿多说是用来还签政府的税。 公司的税法
律师Magnitsky跑去理论被逮捕，后来死在监狱。
至此Browder一直想法给Magnitsky报仇。终于在12年国会通过Magnitsky法案，冻结包
括普京本人的在内的俄国富豪在美国的财产，之后欧洲也采取了类似行动。 这从此就
成了普京和Browder的个人恩怨。
2016年俄国律师在疮破大厦和小疮，女婿见面时专门提供了Browder和生意伙伴Ziff
Brothers Investments给欧巴马政治捐款的备忘录。但没有任何关于给克林顿捐款的信
息。
对于普京指控的四亿给希拉里的捐款，Browder说普京是信口开河，因为如此大的金额
很容易查到。
另外Browder是英国公民，美国政府不可能拿他交易。
Who Is Bill Browder, Kremlin Foe Singled Out in Putin’s Offer?
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William F. Browder, an American-born financier now based in Britain, leaving
an anti-graft prosecutor’s office in Madrid in May.CreditFrancisco Seco/
Associated Press
By Michael Schwirtz and Kenneth P. Vogel
July 16, 2018
LONDON — President Vladimir V. Putin made a surprise offer to Robert S.
Mueller III, the special prosecutor investigating Moscow’s meddling in the
2016 presidential election, when speaking at the news conference on Monday
concluding the summit between him and President Trump.
The Kremlin, Mr. Putin said, would allow Mr. Mueller and his team to come to
Russia and be present at the questioning of 12 Russian military
intelligence officers the special counsel indicted last week for hacking
into the computer systems of the Democratic National Committee and the
Clinton presidential campaign.
In exchange, however, the United States would also have to permit Russian
law enforcement officials to take part in interrogations of people “who
have something to do with illegal actions on the territory of Russia.” He
singled out one man in particular: William F. Browder.
A London-based financier, who has led a global human rights crusade against
the Kremlin that has resulted in sanctions being leveled against numerous
Russian officials, Mr. Browder is a source of deep frustration for the
Kremlin, which has gone to great lengths to shut him down. In May, he was
arrested and briefly detained in Spain by officers acting on a Moscow-issued
Interpol red notice, the sixth the Russians have filed against him.
Mr. Browder’s name also came up at the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower in
New York between members of the Trump Campaign and a Russian lawyer who
promised damaging information about the Clinton Campaign. Mr. Putin on
Monday accused Mr. Browder’s associates of evading taxes and funneling $400
million to the Clinton campaign with money illegally moved out of Russia.
Mr. Browder’s paternal grandfather was a leader of the American Communist
Party; his father was a distinguished mathematician. Bill Browder took a
different path. After getting an M.B.A. from Stanford in 1989, he went into
finance, joining a flood of investors looking to make a fortune from the
privatization of the Russian economy following the collapse of the Soviet
Union.
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Mr. Browder, 54 — a frequent Kremlin critic who now lives and works in
Britain — was thrust back into the news on Monday, when Russia’s president
, Vladimir V. Putin, accused Mr. Browder and his associates of evading taxes
on some $1.5 billion of earnings in the country.
“They never paid any taxes,” Mr. Putin said at a news conference, standing
alongside President Trump. “Neither in Russia nor in the United States.
Yet, the money escaped the country.”
Mr. Putin also suggested that Mr. Browder might be part of a quid pro quo
deal, in which Russia would share information with American investigators
examining meddling in the 2016 presidential election and, in exchange, the
Americans would help Russia get information on Mr. Browder. Mr. Trump later
called it “an incredible offer.”
In a phone interview on Monday, Mr. Browder said that Mr. Putin’s
denunciation was just another sign of the Kremlin’s unhappiness with the
Magnitsky Act, a 2012 law that Mr. Browder championed, in which the United
States imposed sanctions against Russia.
“It’s a true affirmation of the fact that we’ve found Putin’s Achilles’
heel with the Magnitsky Act,” Mr. Browder said in the interview. “He’s
basically lost it, emotionally, because his own money in the West is now
being seized under that Magnitsky Act.”
Out of safety concerns, Mr. Browder, who holds British citizenship, would
not say where he was located. But he said he did not believe Mr. Putin’s
remarks put him in any greater danger.
“America is a rule-of-law country, and I think that the rule of law will
protect me,” he said.
In 1996, Mr. Browder and the financier Edmond J. Safra were the co-founders
of Hermitage Capital Management, which eventually became the largest
portfolio investor in Russia, with more than $4 billion under management as
of 2005.
Along the way, Mr. Browder angered the Kremlin by becoming one of the most
vocal critics of Russia’s weak standards in corporate governance. He was
responsible for fostering changes at giants like Lukoil and spurring new
local laws to protect shareholders’ rights.
In November 2005, Mr. Browder arrived at the V.I.P. lounge in a Moscow
airport during one of the dozens of annual trips he made in and out of the
country. Rather than being whisked through as usual, he was turned away with
no explanation, even though he carried a valid visa. Soon after, he was
declared a “threat to national security” as a result of his battle against
corporate corruption.
Following his expulsion from Russia, the authorities raided his offices,
seized Hermitage Fund’s investment companies and used them to fraudulently
obtain $230 million in tax rebates. When the firm’s tax lawyer, Sergei L.
Magnitsky, investigated the crime, he was arrested by the same officers he
had implicated and tortured for nearly a year. He died in custody at age 37
in November 2009.
Since then, Mr. Browder has devoted much of his life to seeking justice for
Mr. Magnitsky. His campaigning led Congress to adopt the Sergei Magnitsky
Rule of Law Accountability Act in 2012, which imposed visa sanctions on and
froze the assets of those involved in Mr. Magnitsky’s detention. The
legislation was the first time the United States had sanctioned Russia in 35
years; Mr. Browder has urged the European Union to adopt similar
legislation.
Mr. Browder has himself been dogged by controversy over the years. In 1999,
VSMPO-Avisma, a leading titanium producer, accused Mr. Browder and other
investors of siphoning company assets into offshore accounts; that case was
settled in 2000.
In 2013, HSBC announced it would no longer serve as the trustee and manager
of the fund. At the time, Mr. Browder was facing a libel case in London, and
was being tried in absentia for tax evasion in Moscow.
Mr. Browder beat back the libel case, which was brought in London by a
Moscow police officer whom the financier had accused of involvement in a
fraud uncovered by Mr. Magnitsky. But in 2013, Mr. Browder was convicted of
tax fraud in absentia by a Russian court.
He then faced a new fight, as Russia sought to get British courts to find
and freeze his assets and enforce a civil judgment against him in Russia.
Russia pushed three times between 2012 and 2015 to get Interpol to issue
arrest orders against Mr. Browder. Having failed each time to convince the
police organization that it did not have political motives, it announced
this summer that it would try yet again.
“The Russians try stuff a hundred times, and sometimes it works,” Mr.
Browder said at the time. “They can fail 99 times, but the 100th time it
could work. For them, that makes it all worthwhile.” He described the
practice as “lawfare.”
“The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes,” a documentary film released last
year about Mr. Magnitsky, leveled explosive allegations against Mr. Browder.
It largely echoed the Kremlin line that the accepted version of Mr.
Magnitsky’s death was inaccurate. It claimed that Mr. Magnitsky had not
testified that government officials conspired to steal $230 million in
fraudulent tax rebates. Most controversially, it accused Mr. Browder of
committing fraud.
Mr. Browder blocked the screening of the film outside Russia by threatening
libel suits, and has called the film a state-sponsored smear campaign.
One lawyer who has represented the film’s producers is Natalia V.
Veselnitskaya, who met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower in June
2016 on the premise that she would deliver damaging information about
Hillary Clinton, as part of a Russian government effort to aid the Trump
campaign.
Ms. Veselnitskaya brought with her to the meeting a memo that detailed the
claims against Mr. Browder, and alleged that his lobbying in the United
States had gained traction because of the political connections of the
principals in one of the firms that invested with him, Ziff Brothers
Investments.
“According to information we have, the Ziff brothers took part in financing
both Obama election campaigns,” read the memo, a copy of which was
obtained by The New York Times. “It cannot be ruled out that they took part
in financing the campaign of Hillary Clinton.”
The memo does not offer any specific data to support those conclusions, and
public records do not support the notion that any of the Ziffs, or their
firm, were among the leading financial supports of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign.
Taken together, the brothers behind the firm — Daniel, Dirk and Robert Ziff
— combined with their spouses and parents have donated nearly $5 million
to Democratic and Republican campaigns and committees since the 1980s,
according to Federal Election Commission records. That includes about $35,
000 to Mrs. Clinton’s various committees and $1.1 million to the Democratic
National Committee.
Daniel Ziff also donated between $50,001 and $100,000 to the Clinton family
’s charitable foundation in 2015.
Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, enthusiastically accepted her
offer. “I love it,” he wrote in an email agreeing to meet with her.
In the meeting with Donald Trump Jr., at which Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort
and others were also present, Ms. Veselnitskaya raised the accusations that
Democratic Party donors associated with Mr. Browder had committed tax fraud
in Russia.
Members of the campaign team said they struggled to understand the
significance of her information, and the meeting wrapped up quickly. Ms.
Veselnitskaya initially denied any ties to the Russian government, but has
since said she has worked as an “informer” for Russian prosecutors.
On Monday, Mr. Putin revived the Kremlin’s accusations against Mr. Browder,
this time on the world stage.
Mr. Browder and others who closely followed the Kremlin’s campaign against
him expressed puzzlement over what Mr. Putin may have been referring to on
Monday when he claimed that Mr. Browder’s associates steered $400 million
to Mrs. Clinton’s campaign.
“This is just part of their weird non-fact-based emotional reaction,” Mr.
Browder said. “He has become unhinged.” Mr. Browder said he has not spoken
to any members of the Ziff family in “a long time.”
The Ziff Brothers firm did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Mr. Putin suggested that Mr. Browder “transferred” ill-gotten gains to the
United States.
“They sent huge amount of money — $400 million as a contribution to the
campaign of Hillary Clinton,” Mr. Putin said. “That’s their personal case
. It might have been legal, the contribution itself. The way the money was
earned was illegal.”
He offered to support efforts by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel
investigating interference in the 2016 presidential election in the United
States, in exchange for access to those interviewing Mr. Browder.
He also suggested that foreign intelligence agents had abetted what he
called Mr. Browder’s frauds.
“We have solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers guided
these transactions,” Mr. Putin said. “We have an interest of questioning
them. That could be a first step. We can extend it. Options abound. They all
can be found in an appropriate legal framework.”
How such reciprocity would work is not clear, as Mr. Browder is no longer a
United States citizen. | m****d
发帖数: 1 | 4 弄这么长，没累死
【在 s******r 的大作中提到】
: Browder不是情报人员而是银行家。当年苏联垮台之后跑去俄国炒国有资产搞各种灰色
: 生意，但因为批评官府的企业政策，尤其是普京的铁哥们开的石油公司，和普京和黑帮
: 结下梁子。
: 05年他在莫斯科的办公室被警察抄了，抢走2亿多说是用来还签政府的税。 公司的税法
: 律师Magnitsky跑去理论被逮捕，后来死在监狱。
: 至此Browder一直想法给Magnitsky报仇。终于在12年国会通过Magnitsky法案，冻结包
: 括普京本人的在内的俄国富豪在美国的财产，之后欧洲也采取了类似行动。 这从此就
: 成了普京和Browder的个人恩怨。
: 2016年俄国律师在疮破大厦和小疮，女婿见面时专门提供了Browder和生意伙伴Ziff
: Brothers Investments给欧巴马政治捐款的备忘录。但没有任何关于给克林顿捐款的信
| s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 5 美联社的通告。抄来的不累。
【在 m****d 的大作中提到】
: 弄这么长，没累死
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