Panama Read Papers

[krimster2]

One of the interesting characters whose name turned up in the Panama Papers was a Russian Cello player named Sergei Roldugin, who just happens to be a very close personal friend of Vladimir Putin.

The Panama Papers showed that twice in 2010, Roldugin’s offshore Panama account received money from Dagestani mega-oligarch “Suleiman Kerimov" who has a net worth of $6.9 billion—once for a sum of 4 billion rubles (about $132 million at the 2010 exchange rate), and a second time for $200 million.

Apparently, in 2010, Suleiman Kerimov was engaged in infighting with Mukhu Aliyev, the then-president of Dagestan. Aliyev, who initiated the dispute, sought to subjugate or destroy Kerimov, putting Kerimov in an incredibly vulnerable position. However, the tables turned rather quickly. Kerimov began saying publicly that he would replace the president of Dagestan, and he lobbied for Magomedsalam Magomedov to accede to the post. Shortly thereafter, Magomedov was made head of the republic. Both these events and the transfers of money from Kerimov to Roldugin all took place within a period of a few months.

This payment transfer to Putin’s “trusted friend” Sergei Roldugin clearly shows that Suleiman Kerimov paid Putin to replace his enemy with someone much more friendly and easier for him to “manage, allowing him to keep and expand his wealth, through the “usual means”.   It also illustrates how corruption functions at Putin’s level and gives an insight into Putin’s vast wealth, or as Trump says, “Putin is a smart guy”

Good thing that they'll be working together to help the poor and down-trodden

[JayH]

Maltese  journalist Daphne Caruana Galicia, who was the author of corruption investigations within the framework of the Panama Papers project was murdered in car bomb explosion


Anti-corruption blogger killed by huge bomb in Malta
VALLETTA (Reuters) - Daphne Caruana Galizia, Malta’s best-known investigative journalist, was killed on Monday when a powerful bomb blew up her car, police said, in a case that stunned the small Mediterranean island.


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-malta-carbomb/anti-corruption-blogger-killed-by-huge-bomb-in-malta-idUSKBN1CL2A5