Wilbur Ross,Deripaska,Mnuchin & Blatvanick addendum

Cyclops believes Deripaska  is a shareholder in Bank of Cyprus through an offshore holding company but I do not have access to information as to control of various  shell company shareholdings listed.😎

It might be  noted that the current Vice Chairman of Bank of Cyprus is Maksim Goldman.

He succeeded Wilbur Ross in this role having served on the board under Ackerman and Ross for two years from 2014 to November 2016.

https://gb.wallmine.com/otc/bkcyf/officer/1114257/maksim-goldman

Maksim spearheaded the creation and consolidation of Rusal  for Deripaska for whom he has directly worked since 2005.Before that he worked for him through Chadbourne & Parke a New York law firm. 

"He[Goldman] also draws an impressive salary at United Company RUSAL Plc, OAO Volga and FC Ural." op. cit."

All controlled by Deripaska

I guess his position at the Bank of Cyprus and long time connection to Deripaska is just a coincidence

p.s.As an aside,while at Deutche, Ackerman was on multiple prestigious boards;commercial, academic,governmental and charitable.

He had to relinquish these following his ouster in disgrace at Deutche and his only existing gigs seem to be the Bank of Cyprus and a sinecures at Rusal..Perhaps there are some private ones elsewhere.

                                                             MNUCHIN

"DEMOCRATS WANT TO KNOW WHAT RUSSIA HAS ON STEVE MNUCHIN"

A top lawmaker wants answers on a $25 million deal the Treasury secretary struck with an oligarch linked to Oleg Deripaska.      Vanity Fair                                        https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/democrats-want-to-know-what-russia-has-on-steve-mnuchin                                                     "Jackie Speier, member of the House Intelligence Committee, sent a letter to Steve Mnuchin last week seeking information about a deal he reportedly struck in 2017 with Ukrainian billionaire Leonid Blavatnik ....an associate of Deripaska’s. ...she has “serious concerns” about Mnuchin selling his shares in RatPac-Dune Entertainment to Blavatnik for roughly $25 million," in 2017.

 Especially interesting given reports Deripaska  got a sweetheart deal from the Treasury

 Speier notes that Blavatnik and another sanctioned oligarch,Viktor Vekselberg own  Sual which “is a major shareholder” of Rusal, Deripaska’s main company. Blavatnik formerly served on Rusal’s board and one of his companies donated $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund.                                        Oh yes same board on which Bank of Cyprus deputy chairman serves.😜

//thehill.com/policy/national-security/427548-dems-demand-records-from-mnuchin-on-move-to-lift-sanctions-on

Following Mnuchin’s announcement of sanctions rollback, Senators Richard Burr[R] and Mark Warner [D] said this did “not change the fact that Mr. Deripaska, his employees, and his companies work at Vladimir Putin’s behest and operate as de facto...etc,etc 

A bipartisan majority in both the D House AND the R Senate voted to reverse  Mnuchin's decision.The only bi partisan Russki vote since Trumpfski was elected.

It fell short of the needed sixty votes in the Senate.

This story is not over!!😈

Many of Cyclops readers have been puzzled by HRH apparent obsession with Wilbur Ross and wonder why.

Some will remember predictions that he will be indicted and may die in prison.

Cyclops is not obsessed,rather he sees WR as ,well not a metaphor,but an exemplar of the Trumpfski cabinet and inner circle---entitled,self absorbed,immoral,greedy and clueless on the countries real issues.

Those of you in the USA cannot have missed his statement this morning on the missed pay of government workers.The video clip has been all over the TV and the internet.Save for Fox news of course.For others please see the video in below. Marie Antoinette must be rejoicing as the mantle for insensitivity and stupidity passes.

OR read on Huffington Post
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wilbur-ross-government-shutdown-federal-workers_us_5c49c747e4b0e1872d41be0f

Ross has had extensive business dealings with a slew of  Russian Mobsters  aka Oligarchs.

• This includes Oleg Deripaska and Rusol.
• Last week majorities in the Democratic House and the Publican Senate voted to condemn a sweetheart deal granted to Deripaskar by Steve Mnuchin[a whole other story on this winner]
• The only Oligarch given specific relief from US sanctions

In 2013 Ross in concert with one of his Managed Funds bought a controlling interest in the Bank of Cyprus.The other major shareholders are all Russian "businessmen".

One of his first acts of ownership was to appoint as Chairman the recently deposed chief executive of Deutche Bank --Josef Ackerman.

While Ackerman's was CEO Deutche, not a single US bank would lend money to the Trumpfski empire.But

• Deutche is estimated to have loaned Trump as much as $3 billion 
• Trump's financial disclosures show that $364 remains outstanding till 2024  
• To note to non bankers -that is an extra ordinary tenor.
•  Deutsche Bank received a subpoena from Robert Mueller for bank records.

During Ackerman's tenure as chief executive, Deutsche Bank engaged in a wide range of financial misconduct          re New Yorker

• Laundering $10 billion of Russian money through its offices in New York, Cyprus and Moscow.
• To date the bank had paid over $12 billion in fines & penalties  to the U.S. and the U.K.
•  Mostly relating to its Russian related business . 
• Deutsche Bank's Moscow office was run by Andrey Kostin Jr. until 2011 when he was killed in a car crash  in a northern Russian forest.

Regulators have not released the details[who,what, where to whom] of Deutche money laundering.

Watch for the Meuler report.

It is pure coincidence that the money funneled to Mannafort from Deripaska ;Victor Yanukovich thug,mobster,murderer,traitor and President of the Ukraine 2012-14;and assorted Ukrainian and Russian "businessmen",went through the Bank of Cyprus while under the control of  der alter Wilbur as he is not affectionately referred to in Lublin ,Kiev,Donetsk or Odessa.

In addition to the Bank of Cyprus stuff Wilbur 

•   Brokered the sale to a Russian oligarch, hiding money in midst of a nasty divorce,of a                Trumpfski property next to Mar a Lago.
•   Profit of $100+ million on cost of $3 million
•   Ross held a stake in a shipping company Navigator .
•   Navigator operates a lucrative partnership with Sibur,
•   A Russian gas company part-owned by Kirill Shamalov,
•   Husband of Putin’s daughter Katerina Tikhonova.

And on and on.

For more on Wilbur see blog posts

https://kingcyclops.blogspot.com/2018/01/there-has-been-flurryof-wilbur-ross.html
ttps://kingcyclops.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-unravelling-of-wilbur-ross.html

https://kingcyclops.blogspot.com/2017/06/wilbur-rossrusski-money-muellers-mob.html

PARLIAMENT WILL DECIDE

On June 13, 2016 –One week BEFORE the BREXIT vote--CYCLOPS wrote

  “THIS DEBATE has really degenerated --from a low level. But I promised to write a blog and I am a man of honour.

  First a few comments that UK/US/EUROPEAN pundits need to be apprised of: [sic on that split infinitive]

Under the UK [unwritten] CONSTITUTION:

•   On laws, taxation and executive action the People's Parliament rules,
•  NOT the people directly by   occasional mass votes. 
• From time to time the people elect their representatives to the House of Commons with the duty to represent them --not as their delegates                                                                                                                                                                                      "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays,instead of serving you,if he sacrifices it to your opinion.     Edmund Burke,Speech to the electors of Bristol.3 Nov. 1774   "   

  

                                                          

                 

             EDMUND               Great Nieces:                      BROOKE                                                 CHERYL                                        
         [ Ed:oh come on CYCLOPS !!         Cyclops: Lighten up,just trying to introduce a modicum of sexism😈                                                                                                                                                  

                   The UK is a REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY not a Plebiscitary dictatorship.”

This foundational principle of Anglo Saxon Democracy,Cyclops holds dear.

They have underpinned HRH views and preferences on the BREXIT Farrago.           

But not necessarily his analysis or predictions;which recognizes the ignorance, pettiness,narcissism and witlessness of others.

Immediately after the vote Cyclops,in almost complete disagreement with the pundocracy, predicted: 

                           Cameron [remember him] would resign

                           Teresa May would replace him not Bonking Boris

                                      https://kingcyclops.blogspot.com/2016/06/brexit- morning-after.html

                           Labour would dump Corbyn

                                    https://kingcyclops.blogspot.com/2016/06/corbyn-exeunt-stage-left.html

                            There would be swift buyers’ remorse

                            Followed by an early election

                                        Cyclops got most of that WRONG  😭

Certainly under estimated the power of cognitive dissonance and the lasting strength of great lies repeated again and again.

NOW : 
CYCLOPS’ STRATEGIC predictions will be put to the test this evening and in the days to follow

   FOR EXAMPLE

                          PREDICTIONS                 Monday, June 27, 2016

                                                    https://kingcyclops.blogspot.com/2016/06/predictions.html

Immediately after the referendum Cyclops predicted

·                     Many Members of Parliament will vote their conscience and reject the referendum

·                     The Lords are unelected but...

·                     The UK will not leave the EU

·                     The whole michigas [madness] will be reversed within a year.

·                      Looking for a bookie to take my bet.

·                     Buyers Remorse Rules

Responded to comments

·                     The UK is now in a severe constitutional crisis. 

·                     Only Putin and Trump are happy with the result

·                     UK may ask[itself] for and get a do-over

·                     It has no legal weight. 

·                     Parliament can do what it likes

              From then on CYCLOPS in one form or another consistently predicted

                     https://kingcyclops.blogspot.com/2016/12/brexit-fat-lady-is-not-singing.html

                           https://kingcyclops.blogspot.com/2017/06/brexiteers-cant-get-their-hard-on.html

                           https://kingcyclops.blogspot.com/2018/01/predictions-uksaudi-etc.html

                           https://kingcyclops.blogspot.com/2018/09/predictions.html

•       THE FAT  LADY WOULD NOT SING                                                                                                                                
•            PARLIAMENT would assert itself
•           “Brexit Means Brexit” would morph into BRINO
•            BREXIT IN NAME ONLY
•           There would be a SECOND referendum

                      BEHOLD THIS EVENING’s PARLIAMENTARY  VOTE

Come On You Spurs

Readers have had my views and predictions on Trumpfski,May and Corbyn--all gone by 2020.

But what about the IMPORTANT ONE??!!??

Will Pochetino be at White Heart Lane or Old Trafford by 2020?

The Spurs vs MU match just kicked off.

If Spurs win it will strengthen United's determination to get Pochetino.

If Spurs lose that's the end of their premiership challenge.

Cyclops will take the win

Let Pochetino  make his mind up.

Levy will take the money.

He does not understand football.

When Poch leaves, Levy should retire and arrange for Spurs to be sold to football people.

They can bring back the Sainted Harry in Tandem  with Tim Sherwood--both sacked by Levy while they produced attractive WINNING teams

Glory Hallelujah

!0 minutes in and Spurs already frittered away two chances

                                                             

Those Predictions

   Cyclops has struggled to write new predictions because they have already been made.

         However  readers are insisting.

         Particularly because of the current voting in UK Parliament and the crescendo of Trumpfski nonsense as                                    the walls close in--metaphor intended.

Enquiring minds want Cyclops views on the key issues in the Anglo Saxon World.

The future of Trumpfski and Brexit.

Well  OK .This posting will be on Brexit ; the next on Trunpfski,the Wall,Syria,Mannafort,Russia,McConnel and Ivanka.

                                                                                 BREXIT

• Apparently CYCLOPS has made prognoses and predictions about BREXIT in almost 40 posts in the last 3 years.
• HRH finds them notable by their consistency. 
• This week should validate their accuracy.                              
• The significant caveat is that CYCLOPS underestimated how long it would take to get to the Denouement.

We posted a sampling of past predictions in December 2018 under the tile:

                                                  BREXIT  PREDICTIONS  REDUX                                                                                                            https://kingcyclops.blogspot.com/2018/12/june-24-2016-day-after-referendum.html                                                                     

      

                     These included various post from June 2016 onwards

        In short Cyclops predicted:

                                                  that The Fat Lady Would Not Sing

                                                  Parliament taking over from May 

                                                  Corbyn would dissemble

                                                  A second referendum  as the only way out for the politicians

       He really did.

Read for yourself the posts over the last three years.

A sampling here:

 https://kingcyclops.blogspot.com/2019/01/as-we-said.html

                      

                                    

Hole in your Wall Dear Donald

        There is a hole in your wall dear Donald, dear Donald.

                                             There is a hole in your wall dear Donald, a hole.   

HRH cannot resist  starting with the picture below

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/test-steel-prototype-border-wall-showed-it-could-be-sawed-n956856

NBC has a government report report showing the results of a test on the preferred steel prototype currently erected in Texas.

The picture is from that test ,which required the tester to use only tools available from a local hardware store.

Cyclops has been informed that the Trumpfski White House is now seeking a Dutch Boy with VERY FAT fingers

As readers will know,since January 2017 Cyclops has been predicting that Trumpfski will not be impeached.

 Nor will he run again.

He will be removed by the men in White Coats.

Just in the last few weeks: Pledges to pull out of Syria .

                                           Reverses himself.

                                           Loses General Mattis in the process.

                                           Defence industry exec takes over.

                                           Eisenhower turns in his grave.

                                           Generals Petraeus et al do not return WH phone calls

                                           General Flynn sweetheart deal with no jail time rejected by judge.

                                           General Kelly resigns as chief of staff.

                                           Trumpfski declares "everyone wants the job"

                                           Everyone demurs so ends up with an "acting"

                                           Not a General this time.

                                           Seems Generals have peaked.

                                           Agrees to budget resolutions to fund the government.

                                           Publican senators vote for this unanimously.

                                           Trumpfski reneges. .

                                           Wants his ball -oops-wall.

                                           Gets taken to the cleaners by Nancy[a woman]Pelosi

                                           Threatens to close government and take full "ownership"

                                           Closes a third of government

                                           Blames the Democrats

                                           McConnel washes hands.

                                           Senate Publicans panic

                                           Makes robotic asinine appeal from the Oval office

                                           Senate Publicans panic more

                                           Looks truly discombobulated at the prospect of House Democratic hearings.

                                           On everything

                                           Including Ivanka,Baku and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard General

                                           Donald Jnr & Ivanka  Moscow

                                           Russian Comprimat and Golden Showers

                                           Emoluments clause

                                           Deutche Bank loans and the convenient retirement of Justice Kennedy from the Supremes

                                           This on is a doozy and a personal favourite of Cyclops.

                                           Half the attendees[another one yesterday] at the Trump Tower meeting on "adoptions"                                                                            already indicted or convicted.

                                           Jared and Donald Jnr await their turns

                                           Mueller documents beginning to leak

                                           Giuliani predicts the report will be "Horrific"

                                           Mnuchin to give testimony to Senate today

                                           Never mind the Donald  what are Mnuchin's links to the oligarchs 

                                           Lets not forget Wilbur Ross--Bank of Cyprus,Deautche Bank CEO,Mar a Lago sale and those                                                                dang oligarchs again.

                                          How does one define NEXUS?

                                           And on and on

   Faced with all this Cyclops would go crazy. 

   Trumpfski was already there when he ran.

  Cannot find a reason  to change HRH prediction.

    Watch McConnel 

                                           

AS WE SAID

                                                          AS WE SAID

March 8,2018

.htmlhttps://kingcyclops.blogspot.com/2019/01/shock-horror-trump-aide-resigns-over.html

March 8 2018    

   As I glance through a couple of years of thoughts I note several consistencies-

1.The EU is awful and in dire need of reform .

2.Enlightened self interest demands UK Remains

3. So does unenlightened

3.An element of the ruling class and parts of the population are unaware Empire Nostalgists.

4.The government is clueless in its negotiation posture

5.Labour would be no better

6.The majority of the elected parliament would clearly vote remain

7.The majority of the unelected parliament[house of lords] would clearly vote remain

8.The fat lady has not sung.

9.She never will.

10 UK may exit, but only in name only not in substance--leaving it within the market, with all of it obligations and no vote.

                                               The worst of both worlds🙈

Apparently CYCLOPS has made prognoses and predictions about BREXIT in almost 40 posts in the last 3 years.

• HRH finds them notable  by their consistency. 
• This week should validate their accuracy.                               
•  The significant caveat is that CYCLOPS underestimated how long it would take to get to the Denouement.

We posted a sampling in December 2018 under the tile: BREXIT PREDICTIONS REDUX                                                     https://kingcyclops.blogspot.com/2018/12/june-24-2016-day-after-referendum.html                                                                   These included various post from June 2016 onwards

   October 11, 2016

•  Cyclops derides the MAY government’s decision to trigger Article 50 and to begin the fuse running for exit.     
• This before defining its strategy or its objectives beyond the asinine “Brexit means Brexit|"
•  Before elections in France, Germany, Italy and Holland!      
•   She gave away her best negotiating cards by signaling the timing of the start of formal exit and      
•  Appearing to abandon a determination to stay in the European Single Market       

    November,5 2016           BREXIT -THE FAT LADY IS NOT SINGING                                                                   Cyclops doubles down on his predictions:

                                                 “..The fat lady has gone on vacation. 

                                             King Cyclops predicts Britain will stay in the single                                        market and may not even leave the EU" 

                                                                                                                                  

WE ain't leaving the EU---not Really.

          

      November 30, 2017    A Year Later     Dateline London

          Cyclops concluded with:

• In any event the UK will change its mind.
• Legitimise the about turn either through another referendum.
• One person,one vote, one time is truly Stalinist----this Jezza and the boys understand.
• Or through a series of parliamentary votes
• Or a crisis election.

                                    THE FAT LADY WILL NEVER SING.

        26 September 2018       Another Year Later      PREDICTIONS

                                        Pretty much the same just reworded:  

• The fat lady will  NOT sing.
• She will not be fooled by a Canadian /Norwegian/Swiss or Montenegrin Solution.
• Brexit will NOT mean Brexit.  
• There will be a "Peoples Vote" in one form or another.
• That's a 2nd referendum.
• This is the only remaining road to Salvation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Unless of course Brexiteers follow the logic of their own rhetoric:

• Call for Parliament to decide.
•  On a free vote by each member.
•  Each then subject to the judgment of her/his constituents.
•  A return to British Representative Democracy.
• Through the will of Parliament.