Is Steve Schwarzman the guy holding the $19.5B in Rosneft money from the Trump Dossier?!
The Huffington Post axed the original post...
Remember the Steele Dossier on Trump?
They were trying to find about the Rosneft sale.
REUTERS INVESTIGATED this and found the shares went to this company in the Caymans.
How Russia sold its oil jewel: without saying who bought it
Bloomberg even talked about how suspect this was:
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Trump Pal Linked To Russia Oil Firm Rosneft Sale To Mystery Buyers, Report Says
NEWS
FEBRUARY 12, 2017
TRUMP PAL LINKED TO RUSSIA OIL FIRM ROSNEFT SALE TO MYSTERY BUYERS, REPORT SAYS
JONATHAN VANKIN
The mysterious sale of $11 billion worth of shares in Russia’s state-run oil company Rosneft is linked to a personal friend of Donald Trump, according to a new investigative report
published Sunday on The Huffington Post. The shares had allegedly been offered last year as a possible bribe to Trump in exchange for lifting economic sanctions on Russia,
according to allegations in a controversial dossier prepared by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
To read earlier
Inquisitr coverage of the Trump-Rosneft allegations, click on the link in the “previous coverage” box below.
Russian President Vladimir Putin whose state-run oil company recently sold $11 billion in shares to unnamed buyers — but new research shows that a close friend of Donald Trump may be connected to the deal. [Image by Etienne Oliveau/Getty Images]
According to allegations in the Steele Dossier, former Trump adviser Carter Page allegedly acted as the go-between between Trump and the Vladimir Putin run oil company,
meeting with Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin, who proposedarranging a transfer of the shares to Trump in exchange for removing the United States economic sanctions, which were put in place under former President Barack Obama as retaliation for Putin and Russia’s annexation of Crimea and proxy war against Ukraine.
In
an interview with ABC News, Page denied earlier this month that the alleged meeting with Sechin took place, and that he took part in negotiating any
quid pro quo between Russia and Trump.
But political writer Alex Mojaher in his Sunday
Huffington Post piece presents evidence that at least part of that $11 billion sale — 19.5 percent of the massive oil company — may have gone to a Cayman Islands company connected to Steve Schwarzman,
the billionaire CEO of Blackstone Group, a major Wall Street financial management firm.
Schwarzman (pictured with Trump at the top of this page), a close friend and adviser of Trump, has a reported net worth of $11.4 billion. Trump had been reportedly planning to attend the
lavish 70th birthday party thrown bySchwarzman for himself on Saturday, February 11, in Palm Beach, Florida. While Trump apparently did not attend — though he was at his Palm Beach Mar-A-Lago estate on Saturday meeting with Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe —
his daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Trump White House adviser Jared Kushner, did show up at the party where
pop singer Gwen Stefani gave a private performance.
Billionaire Steve Schwarzman (r) and wife Christine. [Image by Chris Greenberg/Getty Images]
Trump did reportedly attend Schwarzman’s 69th birthday party last year.
According to Mojaher’s report, Schwarzman’s Blackstone firm owns — through a Dutch company that Blackstone acquired in 2012 — a Cayman Islands firm
known as Walker’s Management Services. Walker’s, in turn, recently registered a limited partnership at the same Cayman Islands address as its own offices there. The partnership is
known as QHG Cayman Limited.
Why is QHG Cayman Limited potentially important? Because the shares representing 19.5 percent of Rosneft, when they were sold in December, were transferred to Singapore firm QHG Shares,
a partner with QHG Cayman, according to the
Cayman Compass newspaper. The Cayman-based QHG was part of the deal that provided financing for the massive sale of Rosneft shares.
“If this money trail is correct, it would mean Schwarzman now has an interest in the 19.5 percent Rosneft stake,” Mojaher wrote.
However, the complete ownership structure of the Cayman-based firm remains shrouded in mystery, as does the entire Rosneft deal in which Putin and Russia
were able to unload the $11 billion in oil shares without revealing their true buyers.
If this is true, Trump got paid through Schwarzman by the Russians!!!!