Под перекрестным арт-огнем...
Достоверно известно, что Прохоров не любит число 13. Не зря: решающий год будет - ну, хоть не скучно. Все же как дорого обходятся политические ошибки - иногда они стоят бизнеса, хорошо если не жизни и свободы... Для русских Прохоров - американофил и компрадор, для истеблишмента США - удобная фигура для расправы, олицетворение Кремля. Было бы смешно, кабы не было так смешно. В России дали сбыть с рук активы, в США банально внесут в санкционный список и отожмут все, что нажито непосильным трудом. Майкл, Майкл... Публичность в бизнесе - хреновая штука. "Деньги любят тишину." (C)
Может, закинуть бабосы в Китай? Трамп наверняка и с Поднебесной посрется (в любимом стиле Америки по проведению ''честных" соревнований: уроем конурента любым доступным способом и гордо выиграем по очкам как самые сильные и красивые), счета будут не доступны для блокировки со стороны США. А так, потенциально, - санкционный список.
Все мы люди, все мы ошибаемся.
В двух словах: на Прохорова вешают связи с Кремлем, финансирование четы Клинтон, спонсирование хакерских атак, допинга на государственном уровне, сирийских террористов и ИГИЛ. Вполне вероятно, что через 180 дней его имя будет внесено в санкционный список, а все счета и имущество арестованы - на всех территориях, до которых могут дотянуться американские ручонки. А Трамп, оказывается, проказник, зачетно мочит в сортире политических противников.
Дайджест событий:
1. In June 2010, Bill Clinton visited Moscow to give a keynote speech for $500,000 to Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank owned by Mikhail Prokhorov, who owns the Brooklyn Nets, Barclays Center Arena, and several other entertainment venues in Brooklyn.
23 марта 2017, Observer: "The Clintons’ Neoliberal Dystopian Ties to Russia’s Billionaires."
2. Prokhorov allegedly paid a Russian Olympic athlete millions of rubles (the equivalent of several hundred thousand dollars) in hush money not to reveal Russia’s elaborate doping scheme. Whisteblower Grigory Rodchenkov, who exposed Russia’s doping scandal after fleeing to the United States, alleged in sworn testimony that Prokhorov paid Russian biathlete Irina Starykh to keep her quiet after she stumbled upon the scheme, according to the Wall Street Journal.
7 декабря 2017, Daily News: "Mikhail Prokhorov, Nets owner, paid Russian Olympic athlete millions of rubles to keep quiet amid doping scandal: report"
3. ... a 2014 “confidential” report written by the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) found that the wealthy Russian, a so-called politically exposed person-finance parlance for government officials, candidates, and their relatives who are deemed to be at a higher risk of bribery or money laundering-kept 23 accounts at FBME Bank Ltd., formerly known as the Federal Bank of the Middle East.
All 23 of the Prokhorov accounts had been set up by “front men,” according to the CBC report, and FBME was found not to have complied with Cyprus’ own anti-money-laundering law in accepting the deposits. The bank was shuttered in May of this year following a U.S. Treasury Department statement noting that it was used to facilitate a host of international financial crimes, including money laundering on behalf of sanctioned regimes and non-state actors.
The bank is now in resolution, a government-imposed liquidation process, and all of its customers’ deposits are frozen. The CBC report does not say how much money Prokhorov, Smirnov, and Shishkin kept at FBME, or how much of that money has now been frozen.
Igor Sushchin, the security director for Renaissance Capital, an Onexim Group holding, was charged by the U.S. Justice Department with being an officer of Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, the successor agency of the KGB, which was involved in the hacking of half a billion Yahoo email accounts.
Because of the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, which President Donald Trump reluctantly signed into law in August, FBME’s roster of Russian depositors will almost certainly draw scrutiny on Capitol Hill.
As stated in that legislation, the “Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of State,” is duty-bound to report to Congress within 180 days of the law’s enactment on “senior foreign political figures and oligarchs” in Russia, among them the “most significant... as determined by their closeness to the Russian regime and their net worth.”
And of that all-star list of politicos and oligarchs, their relationship to “President Vladimir Putin or other members of the Russian ruling elite” must also be established.
According to Fried, it looks like Prokhorov, Smirnov, and Shishkin all qualify for inclusion in such a report, given their biographies, and especially given the Treasury Department’s role in getting FBME shuttered in the first place.
13 декабря 2017, The Daily Beast: "The Shady Bank Where This Russian NBA Owner Stashed Money."
4. Mikhail Prokhorov was at Barclays Center Tuesday night to enjoy his team’s newfound respectability. He spoke briefly to Brian Lewis of the Post about his upcoming sale of 49 percent of the team to Joe Tsai, the Taiwanese billionaire who was one of the founding partner of e-commerce giant Alibaba.
“Just we are finishing the deal. I think Joe is a great partner and will help the game and help the NBA...”
This is the third time in less than two weeks that Prokhorov’s name has wound up in negative stories. In late November, Prokhorov was quoted in Russian news reports as being willing to sue the Russian whistleblower who exposed the country’s extensive doping operations. Prokhorov, who had run the Russian biathlon program prior to the Sochi Olympics, was particular incensed when two biathletes were banned from international competition for life.
Than, last week, there was another report in the Wall Street Journal on the same scandal. The Journal reported that the whistleblower alleged in sworn testimony that Prokhorov paid one of the banned biathletes “millions of rubles” not to disclose the elaborate doping scheme.
13 декабря 2017, NetsDaily: "As Mikhail Prokhorov prepares to sell stake in Nets, a stream of scandals."
5. A network of secret slush funds inside a corrupt Cyprus bank has exposed Kremlin connections to frontmen for Syria’s chemical weapons programme and the terrorist group ISIS. FBME held 23 accounts belonging to Prokhorov at the time of his presidential run - nearly all for companies registered in the British Virgin Islands and using what the central bank audit described as “front men” as directors.
14 декабря 2017, BuzzFeedNews: "Exposed: Kremlin-Linked Slush Funds Funnelling Money To Syria's Chemical Weapons Financiers."
PS: я ж писала, не получится сидеть на двух стульях... Еще не хватало иска в суд к Родченкову, МОК и WADA от имени биатлонисток, о возможности которого громогласно заявил Михаил. Картина маслом: "Миша и лыжницы 12 лет спустя''. Америка - не Россия, реально ведь придется "Грозу" Тургенева со скуки годами перечитывать...
Прохоров, БЕГИ!