In modern information war, he who starts it – loses it.
Scott
Since the April 4th, we all have been enjoying the “revelations” coming from OCCRD an organization funded by the George Soros’ Open Society Foundation and the USAID, a front for C.I.A. operations and operatives. In brief, they claim that people known to President Putin personally shifted $2bln though some offshore shell companies to avoid sanctions on financial translations with Russia that were imposed by Obama regime.
For several years we have witnessing a frantic search for the “Putin’s fortune” in banks and companies around the world. In 2014 it was estimated $400bln. In 2015 it shrunk to $40bln. This year, it’s meager $2bln they are now talking about.
What all of these American and European small time neo-liberal crooks don’t understand is that Vladimir Putin thanks to his work to restore Russia has already become a figure comparable to Saint Vladimir and Peter the Great. We don’t need to wait for centuries to recognize his place in history.
The West refuses to understand that Vladimir Putin has already taken everything in Russia, but not in terms of money or wealth, but in terms of responsibility.
Imagine a feeling to be an intricate part of something historically great. This is a feeling similar to being in a presence of God. It cannot be replaced by the act of counting money.
Let’s look back a bit: In 2011, the Reuters expressed much concern about at the time Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s efforts to return Russian money from offshore.
“Dec 19 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday decried the illicit use of offshore structures by Russian state businesses to spirit cash out of the country and ordered them to return from the “offshore shadows”.
The comments by Putin, who has launched a bid to return to the Kremlin next March, mark his clearest indication to date of concern that accelerating capital flight is being partly driven by corrupt schemes run by managers at state businesses.
“The wide-ranging nature of Putin’s comments is likely to raise concern among publicly traded firms in sectors such as metals and mining, telecommunications, power, real estate development and retail that are owned via offshore structures.
“Since Putin first became president in 2000, the government has pressed companies to return to Russia, suspecting them of using their offshore status to minimise their tax exposure.”
British tabloid, the Reuters referred to a famous meeting Putin held with the heads of the energy companies, and the government officials in December 19th, 2011.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused a number of heads of Russian energy companies of money laundering through offshore areas and of creating corruption schemes. [source]
Putin’s speech at a session of a government commission for advancing power engineering held at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro-electric power plant on December 19th, 2011
Uploaded on Dec 20, 2011
“The outflow of financial resources from the energy sector is intolerable.
It’s time to put an end to the offshore legacy of the era of wild privatizations. Otherwise, we can’t have a healthy business climate in the country. We can’t even talk about being trustworthy. ”
“I request the Energy Ministry, the Economic Development Ministry, industry agencies within two months to check companies with a government stake such as Gazprom, Vnesheconombank, and it wouldn’t hurt Sberbank either. Bring all things to an end.”
“Returning the Russian economy’s strategic sectors from the offshore shadows to the national economy is our priority task for the next period,”
Reminder that Putin is talking about the state owned companies, and the companies with the state of a shareholder.
Putin: “It’s a shame that the reason, the push for this inspection didn’t come from the Ministry of Energy, it didn’t come from FSB, it came from citizens. Everywhere, all over the country, people are talking about the problems in the energy sphere.”
“Altogether we have check 352 heads of energy companies, 162 officials are affiliated with 355 commercial companies. Practically every other. These is in addition to those they are officially running. We discovered that in some cases the entire regions of the Russian Federation have fallen under control of some family clans. For example, the energy system of the Northern Caucasus region mostly is being controlled by one family, the family of Mr. Kaitov.”
[In 2013, the family of Kaitov was “cut off” the energy sources, was under investigation and currently many members of this “family” are locked up]
“How was it done? Consumers were remitting money, paying for the services of the affiliate companies, who act as agents of the energy producers. Next step, this money being turn into cash via multiple shell companies, or directly being taken by the family members.
In some cases, the real shareholders of the companies that distributes energy are not known. Everything is hidden offshore. Meanwhile these distributors take up to 67% of the market, ladies and gentlemen. It’s, of course, our common problem. In 2008-2010 profits from the selling energy grew, do you know how much? It’s up 279%. Only for them… For the organizations distributors. They also raised their dividends to shareholders by 312%. Considering, that the essence the business model of these companies is collection of utility (electric and natural gas) payments from the consumers. I think that Energy Ministry should find simpler and transparent methods to organize this kind of work.
But this is not enough… After they collect money from the consumers… The schemes are built in such way that money flows through offshore companies and there they leave part of the money, then money comes back here… What kind of work is this?”
“We should put an end to the offshore heritage of the wild epoch of privatization. If we want to create a normal investment climate in the country, there is no doubt that we cannot tolerate offshore schemes, primarily in the infrastructure industries.”
In 2011, under the law companies were allowed to keep their profits abroad, but only after taxes are paid in Russia, which those companies were avoiding doing.
“However, the removal of funding from industry through offshore businesses is unacceptable.”
Putin also demanded that top managers of state-owned energy businesses declare their assets as well as their relatives’ incomes. If questionable connections are revealed, such officials should be replaced, he declared.
The entire meeting is here December 19, 2011
Five years later…
Moment of Schadenfreude, skadefryd, and þórðargleði for Soros and the US Treasury.
Who benefits from the Panama Papers Leak?
“The ICIJ is funded by the Adessium Foundation, Open Society Foundations, The Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Fritt Ord Foundation, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Ford Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts and Waterloo Foundation.
“The “Panama Papers” were also supported (funded) by USAID, the United States Government agency which is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid.”
“USAID estimated its budget for “media strengthening programs in over 30 countries” at $40 million annually, including aiding “independent media organizations and bloggers in over a dozen countries,” In Ukraine before the coup, USAID offered training in “mobile phone and website security,” which sounds a bit like an operation to thwart the local government’s intelligence gathering, an ironic position for the U.S. with its surveillance obsession, including prosecuting whistleblowers based on evidence that they talked to journalists.”
“USAID, working with billionaire George Soros’s Open Society, also funds the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, which engages in “investigative journalism” that usually goes after governments that have fallen into disfavor with the United States and then are singled out for accusations of corruption. The USAID-funded OCCRP also collaborates with Bellingcat, an online investigative website founded by blogger Eliot Higgins.”
“The primary targets: Vladimir Putin, Bashar Al-Assad, Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the Argentine leader Mauricio Macri, the King of Saudi Arabia, and a sister of the former King of Spain.”
“Another target is the Russian Sberbank, whose U.S. investment banking branch recently enlisted the services of the Podesta Group. According to its lobbying registration form, the firm will work on banking, trade, and foreign relations issues. One of the three lobbyists working on the account is Tony Podesta, a bundler for the Clinton campaign and the brother of campaign chairman John Podesta, who co-founded the firm.”
“Panama Papers” Casualty in brief:
• Iceland’s embattled Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunlaugsson has resigned.
• Head Of “Transparency International” In Chile Resigns After “Panama Papers” Revelations
• Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Tuesday has demanded resignation from Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif
• Shots Fired: Wikileaks Accuses Panama Papers’ Leaker Of Being “Soros-Funded, Soft-Power Tax Dodge”
Meanwhile in Russia….
The Russian Audit Chamber knows more about the grey offshore schemes of Russian business than the authors of an ICFJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) report published on April 4, Oksana Dmitriyeva, a member of the Russian State Duma Committee for Budget and Taxes, said.
She called for bringing the investigation into all facts of withdrawing finance abroad to the end; initiate criminal proceedings and punish appropriate bureaucrats.
Sputnik putting a bit of bite in it’s headlines
George Soros’ Anti-Kremlin Info Laundering Backfires on Clinton, Cameron
http://sputniknews.com/world/20160406/1037543197/soros-putin-clinton-cameron-panama.html
The Panama Papers could hand Bernie Sanders the keys to the White House
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-panama-papers-could-hand-bernie-sanders-the-keys-to-the-white-house-a6969481.html
I had to laugh, then scratch my head, listening to a CBC radio announcer report this story, mentionioning Putin’s name then twice insisting he was not directly implicated.
Why bother?
Google “Clinton + Panama Papers” and you’ll get your answer.
The purpose of this carefully calibrated ‘leak’ is taking down Hillary Clinton. She will not get a honeymoon period with US voters. President Sanders most definitely will, especially because he is stopping ‘insane’ Donald Trump.
It’s classic. Make the problem and offer a solution the people will run to. Of course people might run to Trump which will also be fine with the puppeteers.
The Soros bankster gang needs a period of calm after they steal your life’s work, an exact repeat of the 2008 ‘bailout.’
All bail-in legislation has been carefully prepared and is ready to go. SDR is ready to go. My hunch is a controlled demolition of the global economy will happened before November 8. All pieces are now in place, with only fear and loathing needing to be ramped up a little (or a lot) more.
Everything is connected. All crisis’ serve the same purpose: a transition to NWO and preservation of zionist power.
I say we take’em down anyway.
Really. And why on earth are the powers that be supposed to prefer Sanders or Trump over Hillary “the elite consensus is my God” Clinton?
I can buy the idea that either of those people make more acceptable fallbacks than would seem at first glance, but I see no plausible reason the top dogs would want to deliberately sideline Clinton, their perfect candidate–warmonger, finance puppet, completely conventional-minded, and standing ready to deliver complacency from women while doing for them what Obama did for blacks (which is to say, less than nothing).
I think you overestimate the appeal of candidate Clinton, to the Panama Papers elite; however, all candidates are available according to unfolding circumstances. Hillary means war. We agree.
Clinton has baggage. She is disliked by many and I see a slow chipping away at her status as frontrunner, from the same sources who claim to support her.
Bernie is available as the dues ex machina, after a period of instability, he will be the cooler head that prevails, giving the bankers everything they demand, because he is a ‘realist.’
Bernie represents the ‘Obama effect,’ which can be rather useful to the finance elite, as they change over to a new monetary order, favouring themselves while disfavouring the USA.
The number one objective of the super elite is maintenance of their power. They will use whichever candidate suits their objective and Bernie could be their best option for a stable transition. He is back on my list of possible Presidents.
Scott – nice one, dude.
It’s good to have this Russian context – Putin, really – to see what’s involved here. If all the stolen money could ever come back to the people, we could all live decent lives. And the way to end the stealing is to prevent the transfers of money taken from where it originates and belongs, moving to where it disappears from view.
And now we have Scott’s Law: “In modern information war, he who starts it – loses it.”
I welcome these wars erupting onto the street level, and I welcome Russia being taunted to join in. Let the gangsters and punks all fight it out, in public, on the street. Let Russia fight it as a real war. In the end, because of Russia, the people will gain.
The Panama Papers have exposed Britain’s awkward and tangled relationship with its 17 crown dependencies and overseas territories. In the BVI, the official language is English, the flag, the Union Jack, the anthem, “God Save the Queen.” The queen appoints the governor, who in turn appoints a prime minister.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-06/for-island-of-500-000-companies-panama-leaks-unleash-storm
If you go to https://www.occrp.org/ (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project), scroll to the bottom, you’ll see the sponsors:
– Open Society Institute (Soros)
– USAID (USA)
– Swiss-Romanian Cooperation Programme (Switzerland)
The last one is interesting because it’s not well known. It’s basically a program where Switzerland pours money on Romania with no benefit in return. There’s absolutely zero reasons for this organization to support the OCCRP project and it shows how easy it is to divert money from a “neutral” country to support the agenda of the US.
This is an interesting article found in the german-sputnik,with summary translated in english :
Behind the Panama Papers
Prepared well in advance
On closer inspection, however , it is found that the choice of tax evaders falls exceptionally well within the concept of the US government . So far there are not confirmed allegations against the environment of Vladimir Putin and the daughter of Chinese ex-president,while man sought in vain among the listed tax evaders after a single US citizen .
At the unveiling of the data is also by no means a journalistic bomb that exploded overnight , but a long beforehand prepared coup , in which nothing was left to chance : 400 journalists from 100 media organizations in 80 countries habe been more than for 12 months engaged in the evaluation of the data .
Interestingly, to the 400 journalists are part of the consortium of investigative journalism , which was established in 1997 and related to the US Center For Public Integrity,which is financed by foundations, including the Ford Foundation , the Carnegie Endowment , the Rockefeller Family Fund , the Kellogg Foundation and the Open Society Foundation of George Soros .As one can safely assume that the affected media are firmly in the hands of international investors , one should not expect revelations of the ” Panama Papers ” , which could be dangerous for the international financial elite. What could be in the background after the publication of this supposedly controversial information ?
The question answers itself when you look more closer at the US policy in recent years towards the largest tax havens in the world.
Since the millennium, the American government has left no stone unturned to get to the money of their own tax withdrawing citizens . So the US Congress 2010, the FATCA law ( Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act ) adopted , which force exta-teritorial financial institutions to report all account data of US citizens to the US Internal Revenue Service ( IRS )
Among others, Switzerland , Luxembourg , Monaco, Cyprus , Singapore and the Cayman Islands were targeted by US justice . Meanwhile, many Swiss banks have accepted to pay penalties in the billions to the US for her offer on non-prosecution , their tactics for tax evasion being disclosed and thus marked the end of Swiss banking secrecy .
The dual strategy of the US government
.The result of the American hardness was however rather sobering : The money came in a big way from the old in new tax havens . Therefore, the US searched for a better way to get to the money from tax evaders and changed her own tactic : As part of the G 8 and the G 20 they managed and obtained that their members and the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ) to sign an agreement on the automatic exchange of information ( AIA )
This agreement binds almost 100 countries, against foreign tax authorities to disclose the financial situation of their citizens .
Only a few countries have not signed this agreement – Bahrain , Nauru , Vanuatu … and the USA .
In other words, the United States have urged the world with emphasis on the disclosure of tax secrecy, meanwhile the same enforced regulations hasn’t been taken by US. And that’s not all : In recent years, they have turned four US states in true tax havens for international capital : Delaware,South Dakota,Wyoming,Nevada(Here the Swiss Rothschild Bank in 2013 has opened a new branch in Reno who cares about the assets of the ultra-wealthy families from around the world – No capital duty , no accounting and accounting obligation , no obligation to store documents and evidence for use of funds and – with appropriate legal advice – no audits)
The US has not only managed to force the rest of the world ,by helping them in the hunt for their own tax evaders , but also made their tax evaders alienated against their own country,paving the way to ensure the influx of huge sums into his own country . So they have killed two birds with one stone : They have severely weakened the competition and assured the influx of billions of dollars into the US ,bolstering its own balance of payments and the ailing dollar – at least temporarily. .
and here is the original article :
http://de.sputniknews.com/kommentare/20160405/308967184/hinter-panama-papers.html
The whole Putin accusation stinks from “guilt by association” from the very beginning. It’s another ridiculous chapter in the very boring tale of the Putin blame game. yawn.
Someone, please, reveal the story of the major banks’ collusion with drug money laundering…especially the New York City based firms.
Narconews some where around the year 1999. Citibank took them to court in
N.Y. for reprintIng the story from a newspaper in Mexico. They won 1st Amendmend rights for the Internet. Also linked Bill Clinton to Roberto Hernandez and Bank of Mexico to the Narco trade. Didn’t go very far after that.
I found no link to Facebook to post tour articles in my page Are you planning to ad this kind of app?
Scott, once again I enjoyed your article.
I am guessing listing all those other people, it’s like saying: you see? it’s all true.
Even though we know: Putin is the real target.
Regards,
Every leak or hack that reveals fraud, tax evasion, corruption etc. by russian business or government officials or people is welcome, fighting (financial) crime is one of president putins goals and it is a good goal.
So thank you for the panama papers work to do for russia :-) more leaks please! Clean russia from financial crime and make russia more rich, and more able to develop amd strengthen itself.