Dear friends,
Today I want to share with you the contents of three emails which I got over the past couple of days. My correspondent does not insist that this is a true story, only that it is potentially explosive and very interesting. I would add that considering Sweden’s amazingly anti-Russian stance, that could be one possible explanation for it.
I pass you the info “as is” with tons of caveats around it. As we say in Russian: “I am selling it to you at the same price I bought it”. Those of you in the media might want to follow up on this story.
Kind regards,
The Saker
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The Swedish paper Expressen has uncovered a mysterious Ukrainian gas deal. Unknown owners in taxhavens control a Swedish company that has made a secret deal with Ukraine. The deal, signed on 25 February 2011, will be secret until 2036. The company gets control of 110 wells in 26 gas fields in Ukraine. That means it controls about half the gas in the country, the paper says. The unknown owners use front men in Sweden and Norway. The owners may live in any country, including Ukraine.
I hope people in Ukraine will investigate this matter and start making a lot of noise.
In Russian or Ukrainian:
http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/–3/
In Swedish. I can’t translate it. Use Google Translate or perhaps Yandex.
http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/expressen-avslojar/svenska-bolaget-har-ukrainas-gastillgangar/
Important documents:
http://extra.expressen.se/ukrainadokument.pdf
A conservative paper, svd.se, says Expressens information is not entirely correct. The company does not control that much gas, it says. A company spokesman is quoted. We will see. There is still the matter of the secret deal and the secret owners. The articles are still up on Expressen 20 minutes before midnight in Sweden, long after the Svd article was published. Tomorrow I may have more.
Expressen and Svd [Svenska Dagbladet] are two of the four biggest papers in the country. They have a reputation to defend. Svd does not mention the secret owners. Expressen very seldom translates articles into foreign languages, so the reporters must believe in what they write. Now I know a Ukrainian, not Russian, translation was made.
Expressens articles affected the stock market big time. Trading in the
company was stopped:
http://www.svd.se/naringsliv/branscher/energi-och-ravaror/misen-rusade-pa-borsen-efter-felaktiga-uppgifter_3689158.svd
Expressen has not backtracked yet. Now the paper says Dmytro Firtasj and
Semjon Mogilevitj are secret owners of the company. There is also a video on the page and it starts automatically, unfortunately. Somebody speaks Ukrainian or Russian in the end:
http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/expressen-avslojar/ryska-maffian-bakom-det-svenska-gaskopet/
In Ukrainian:
http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/expressen-avslojar/–/
More information:
http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/oljebolaget-misen-handelsstoppades/
http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/forre-finansiaren-om-misen-inte-forvanad/
A pressrelease from the company is expected soon.
The information, if true, is sensational. Secret owners and secret deals. However, I wonder how information like this comes to the surface. Is one oligarch fighting another? Is this about the US going after Firtasj?
Q: The deal, signed on 25 February 2011, will be secret until 2036.
R: Correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s 2014 now and the proverbial ‘cat’ is out of the bag today. Either this is another piece of sloppy [grammatical] journalism [should have been ‘was supposed to be kept secret until…] or I’m overly sensitive to incorrect phrasing of this, that and the other thing.
Having bribed individuals myself, I do realize this is not just a fairytale story. I guess that single line [in bold] just triggered a set of narrow minded alarm bells to go off…
I was wondering about this exact question the other day..hmmm…So far, this is the only credible explanation of the Swedish hostile attitude towards Russia. Well, that and the fact that they’re very much a NAZI culture to begin with but then again they should also hate the Ukrainian people, whom they consider even worst then Russians. I know this because I used to have few close friends from uppsala.
I wonder what Chevron, Exxon-Mobil, Shell and BP think about this.
Not that we’ll ever find out…
Swedish hostility towards Russia goes back centuries. Russia was the “colony that got away”. Sweden was one of NATO’s most loyal assets regarding the USSR, even though they were not NATO, but “neutral”. But I doubt this has anything to do with that.
Look at how Sweden played a pivotal role in the attack on Wikileaks. Sweden is now a full fledged colony of Israel-America, the zionazis. The country is under full control of the zionazis. They are not allowed to take a leak without kosher permission. Ever live in Hollywood/Beverley Hills? That’s modern Sweden.
10 to 1 those “Swedes” are a front for Jewish mafia/zionazi interests.
Interesting story and not implausible. I’m sure some of you remember that Turchynov destroyed SBU files on Mogilevich when he was SBU chief in 2005. Here is an article about it, which mentions the relationship between Firtash and Mogilevich:
New and conflicting details emerge over Mogilevich’s alleged involvement in nation
One WikiLeaks cable, released on Nov. 29 by Russian Reporter magazine, linked Mogilevich to RosUkrEnergo, co-owned by Ukrainian gas tycoon Dmytro Firtash and Russian state energy firm Gazprom.
Another cable authored by former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor, dated Dec. 10, 2008, reports links between Firtash – who has ties to President Viktor Yanukovych’s inner circle – and Mogilevich. The brief quotes Firtash as saying that he “needed and received permission from Mogilevich when he established various businesses.”
According to Andrey Fursov, Firtash is closely tied to British intelligence and the same applies to Mogilevich, who has been working with Western intelligence for decades. Therefore his role in Ukraine is rarely discussed. One of the few people who continues raise this issue is Scott Rickard: US foreign aid agencies paid for Kiev street violence – ex-US agent
Rickard mentioned at the end of this interview that Rinat Akhmetov is sort of Mogilevich’s protégé: Scott Rickard on ANCreport the Oligarchs of the West and Russia Full interview
google the name and read his wiki bio.
Semjon Mogilevitj
Since the link doesn’t work try this: https://web.archive.org/web/20121003052951/http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/new-and-conflicting-details-emerge-over-mogilevich-92521.html#
@Daniel Rich
I don’t think you can expect journalistic expressions and good English in a mail from somebody who is not an Englishspeaker. Do you know how difficult the language is for many of us?
The contract was meant to be secret, but apparently it isn’t anymore. I think most people understand that. I do.
@anonymous
The articles are about a gas deal in Ukraine. When focus moves from the strange deal to the position of the peculiar Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt, that is a change of focus. Go after the politicians, not the people. That is good advice for most countries, including the USA and all of the EU.
@вот так
Sweden is a colony, that is true, I agree wholeheartedly. So are all countries in Western Europa. However, Sweden and Russia have had peace for more than 200 years, that is what I learned in school. Let such old Kings wars rest. Most people don’t understand them today, they have moved on.
The gas deal is the issue here. I want to know the names of all the owners of the company and the names of the buraucrats who signed the deal. I want to know how big the scandal is. If not the people of Ukraine, then som intellectuals in Novorossiya, Russia or elsewhere can enlighten us. All the citizens of Ukraine have been looted for decades. The time of the oligarchs must come to an end. Corruption must end.
Interesting. I Wikipedia’d (yes, I know) Firtash and it footnotes the Kiev Post as well as the Georgian Daily in stating ” According to documents uncovered during the United States diplomatic cables leak in 2010, Firtash told U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor of needing permission from alleged Russian crime boss Semyon Mogilevich to do business in Ukraine during the lawless 1990s.[43] The same documents suggest that Firtash also claimed to be friends with President Viktor Yushchenko.[44] Firtash denied the remarks.[43] Allegedly,Gazprom, a Russian natural-gas extraction company, had asked Mogilevich to oversee natural-gas deliveries from Russia to Ukraine via gas intermediaryRosUkrEnergo. All parties deny connections with Mogilevich.[43] Other cables said Firtash and Mogilevich were linked through ostensible offshore company vehicles either by joint ownership through former spouses or through Firtash heading companies in which Mogilevich’s former spouse was the shareholder.[45]It was also suspected that Raiffeisen Bank, an Austrian-based bank, was a front to legitimize RosUkrEnergo.[45]”
There’s a whole lot more, too, none of which I can keep straight — these oligarchs are something else! Oh, and he was apparently arrested in Austria on March 13, 2014 At. Our. Request. Hmmmm. He of course claims trumped-up charges — but given that he’s also reputed to have been behind Tymochenko’s sentencing, it would certainly suggest that we were after him.
Semion Mogilevich, his ally and associate, states Wikipedia, is believed by European and United States federal law enforcement agencies to be the “boss of bosses” of most Russian Mafia syndicates in the world” and has been described by the FBI as “the most dangerous mobster in the world.” His, erm, escapades are fascinating and we’ve apparently been trying to catch him for years, so his involvement in this deal is also quite interesting.
Speaking of money, if I lived in D.C. and could rabble rouse, I think I’d print copies of this, put it on a front and back page flyer if possible, and hold signs outside the IMF picketing that evil organization for bailing out the PrivatBank of scumbag and reputed mastermind of the Odessa massacre/funder of the Azov Battalion Ihor Kholomoisky:
http://johnhelmer.net/?p=11035#more-11035
Perhaps Kholomoisky’s fat laughing mug and some photos of the Azovs in their finest black and Das Reich SS Wolfsangel armband livery would send the message as to what the IMF is really bailing out? All those PrivatBanks burned down by the Donbass rebels and vans lent to Right Sector to use for mayhem across the country don’t pay for themselves…
Of course, all of this assumes free speech is still permitted in the District of Criminals. What do ya’ll think?
Semjon Mogilevitj is one of the
worlds brutal crime bosses.
The Oligarchs in Ukraine are owned
by him. Quite a few of them have
direct ties to him, his name has
come up regularly. These people did
not become billionaires overnight
through investment and building.
They siphon off what they can for
personal gain. I thought Russian Oligarchs were bad but this whole
Ukraine situation as unearthed these creatures hiding in the dark.
Must reading for a start.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semion_Mogilevich
American Kulak,
It’s late and I’m tired but I seem to remember that the rights to free speech, free assembly and petition of grievances got seriously abridged by Bush-Cheney re: individual protesters (and/or their T-shirts), the NYPD re: anti-Iraq-War protests and the Republican Party and the cops wherever in MN they held their convention. I couldn’t tell you which happened first (brains too fried), but the precedent was set for any protest anywhere; at this point, not only did Obama have troops protesting for gay marriage at the White House arrested, tried and convicted, but people against even the Keystone XL pipeline are considered by the PTB to be terrorists! So would you pay a bit of a price for exercising your constitutional right? I can’t imagine you wouldn’t! Unless, of course, you were a corporation…
Dear Saker,
I do know your crazy busy, but can I please ask you to explain what this really would look if as much were true? All this secretive Noise until your like wtf, whateverthedate so many years from now, makes no dog gone since to me whatsoever! I read today the request of the rebel force THE PEOPLE in Ukraine want basically a public proclamation from public (government) officials to honor the oaths they promised or death. You know, what more can a citizen really ask for? In the civil war in our country president Lincoln was a wise man, in recognizing the power of the media. Although I do think fear put into victims by these war demons could actually prevent them form trying to reach out due to their fear of being in the moment. We are not in this war zone. Could we ever recognize that what is actually going on? I can’t. Doesn’t mean its just not so, because some people refuse to believe it. I can’t believe people were quartered and foliated, ever! Doesn’t mean it never happened. I’m sadden to my very soul that no one wants to look this way. You have you seen these fucking monsters, they look capable of doing things only comprehensible in nightmares. Please help make since of this please. Thank you and be blessed!
Dear Nora,
I want to thank you so much for the book recommendations. They have truly helped me out tremendously, more than I can express in my research, you rock ma’am! Thanks!
@ BOT TAK: Respect for your contributions on this site, but the term zionazis makes this site almost unquotable for mainstream.
Of course there will be some involvement of some influential bankers who might be zionist etc. The term Anglozionists is really strong enough. Personally I prefer the term ´neocons´, unless there is a clear and directing zionist influence in the particular topic. I think it is really not always that important to every time point out the similarities between zionism and fascism.
Better, provide a link to an objective article documenting zionist influence in Sweden (Personally I am at least as disgusted by the radical feminist infiltration of the nordic countries).
Sorry, Saker to bring this up, but these terms can start leading their own life, while becoming commonplace among commentators.
This site is becoming more and more influential, and many new viewers from W Europe and the US will be turned off immediately by this kind of phrasing.
I´l put it another way: If I would ever think to put the word ´zionazi´ in a comment on a Dutch news site, I can be CERTAIN it will not be placed, as well as that my following comments would be scrutinized to the extreme, unless I would be blocked immediately…
And then I would not have any say at all!
Perhaps the wisdom of anonymous posting and broadcasting policy is becoming clearer.
This blog with others is an embryonic form of distributed shared intelligence with tangental relationship to state structures.
The “hegemon” is neither hegemonic nor homogenous.
Greenwald is proprietorial reflecting an ideological immersion which replicates the “problem”.
Others are seeking ways to circumvent this.
The what has relevance, but the why more relevance.
Security is a process not a state, and its underpinning is utility.
This utility is at least partially undermined by use of communication with correlated metadata – the old rules of cut-off still have relevance.
Google through Blogger.com is monitoring this site etc but this is not necessarily a disadvantage.
A good tool in propaganda is changing the meaning of words and the subliminal connotations of them.
This has already been achieved in the areas of “oligarchs”, at least in some regions.
There is a large body of communications where the opponents confess to being “neo-conservatives” – an oxymoron, as well as being an attempt to rule the waves.
As a respondent suggests why not use the term neo-conservative in descriptions of related activities – including PNAC and its offshoots?
This would also give opportunities to create splits or affect greater welding in the ranks of the opponent, both having utility.
This term could then be rolled-out.
I suspect this is tied in to the conditions for the IMF ‘loans’ which will be up for looting by the politically connected. These ‘loans’ require Ukraine to be intact, i.e. no separation of the south-east. There are numerous possible shale gas fields in Ukraine, particularly in the Donetsk region in the east and Crimea / Sea of Azov. So the south east contains not only the current wealth of Ukraine, but also the majority of the potential future wealth. Is there any surprise that the US / Ukie oligarchs are unhappy about this wealth slipping from their hands?
Anonymous 03:52
It is interesting that Mogilevich is based in Moscow. I noticed multiple private flights, sometimes the same aircraft weekly, between Moscow, Kiev and Tel Aviv that had me puzzled. It stuck me that this could be oligarchs on the move, but if the person(s) was/were Ukrainian, why the Moscow connection? A Moscow based don makes sense. Of course, all of this is pure speculation.
Lucky McGriff,
You’re very welcome. Aren’t they great? ;~) Do read that TNC piece also — it’ll open your eyes too! I thought I knew a lot about that stuff but I had no idea either.
@BobS:
Consider this: person A has a blog, person B writes comments in this blog.
The story you related was you being person B, subject to censorship of some person A.
Obviously, you do not like censorship.
Why then do you ask this blog’s person A (saker) to impose censorship — only now on himself?
Could not agree more with BobS, 27 June, 2014 06:15. Even Saker has asked we curtail this ethnic calumny (which I pointed out a few days ago re AP is completely inaccurate). “Neocon” is much better. As BobS says, this kind of stuff makes this invaluable, blog unquotable elsewhere (Asia Times for example).
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@ 27 June, 2014 13:19
What I say is just a ´translation´ issue. Translation ´within´ a language.
W Europeans who are not actively seeking for truth think most of the troubles in Ukraine have ended since the election of porky: no news is coming out anymore. They still talk about ´Russian agression´.
The Sakers blog is a very important tool to provide insight and reveal hidden information. Today my comment in a Dutch paper about the phosphorus attacks was blocked. Probably because I used the term ´nazis´.
The Saker has written some articles about Dieudonne and the quenelle.
In our country this is framed as a ´hidden´ nazi salut, and as much as I argued (nazis generally don´t hide their symbols), there is NO WAY to get though to these people. I have given that up, even people much smarter than me can´t do it.
In Europe, zionist lobbies are very actively trying to make ´anti-semitism´ a much worse crime than racism (racism is for blacks). And VERY symbolic, just like thah gay.
Most people just eat the shit they are fed.
So I´m just saying some terminology is totally toxic in some parts of the world, people are programmed to reject this.
Knowing this, one should have a very good reason to use this terminology. After all: this blog, but also our comments, is to communicate to a wider audience; not to preach to ourselves…
My suggestion: some quality reference articles, neutral terminology with links when needed. (the Saker has written quite a few- but not always easy to find).
Personally, I have no problems with the terminology, but I´m somewhat more educated, being a 9 month reader here.
BobS said…27 June, 2014 06:15
So you zionazi web sayanim, having given up your quest to try and force the Saker into dropping his Anglo-Zionist term, have now decided to try and censor the commenters.
Incidentally, for those unaware, this is a standard way zionazi web sayanim work to disrupt a site. They work to turn it into an argument over meaningless things like what terms to use, while at the same time push people to use zionazi “friendly” language that hides or otherwise minimizes the role of Israel and the zionist Jewish oligarchy in the current totalitarian mess called “the west”.
Mikhail II said…27 June, 2014 13:43
This zionazi web sayanim has a history on this site trying to censor it for Israelo-American interests.
For reference, a site where a great many of these web sayanim hang out.
http://justthetalk.com/
If вот так is referring to me, rather than BobS, I am a Catholic from a very old-line Maryland family (1640’s), distantly related to the Calvert family of Lord Baltimore. I’m moderately fluent in Russian, courtesy of the U.S. Army, 50 years ago. I’ve occasionally sent Saker Russian poetry from the ex-pat magazine Chayka, published in Maryland, some not bad, including recent ones about the Ukraine by Yevtushenko. My purpose is entirely to help keep Saker’s invaluable blog more generally acceptable, since it’s being quoted widely. I hold no brief for Israel — why should I ? Although I’ve read some interesting posts by вот так, my general impression is that he’s simply scum, who in a decent society would be called out, and horsewhipped if he refused.
@ BOT TAK:
´So you zionazi web sayanim, having given up your quest to try and force the Saker into dropping his Anglo-Zionist term, have now decided to try and censor the commenters.´
Of course not possible to prove here, but I am definitely not a hasbara/ sanayim/ likud/ zionist etc. I would not even do that for lots of money.
And when did I ever try to ´force´ the saker into dropping the term Anglozionists? Until a few weeks ago, I posted anonymous anyway.
If you read my comment again you will see that I don´t disagree with any of the content of your post; I´m just making a polite suggestion (+ some examples) that a more neutral terminology might make this blog, with vital information for many people in the west more accessible. Without ANY holding back of ANY information or opinion!
I myself have used the term ´zionazis´ in the past (around the time of the Gaza massacre), but got always accused as ´anti-semite´ and DEFINITELY did not get my point across.
Did you ever experience using terms people in your environment think of as racist are useful in other ways than to turn people off?