WaEx: Russia wants to charge former Ambassador Michael McFaul and several U.S. intelligence officials with financial crimes, Russian officials revealed Tuesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin broached the topic during his summit with President Trump, when he offered to allow Special Counsel Robert Mueller to attend the questioning of Russian spies accused of conducting cyberattacks against the Democratic Party in 2016.
In exchange, Putin’s team wants to question McFaul and at least three National Security Agency officials in connection to a case involving Bill Browder, a hedge fund manager who has led an international effort to impose sanctions on Russian officials implicated in human rights abuses.
“We’re ready to send another request to the U.S. authorities to grant us permission to question these very employees of the U.S. intelligence agencies, as well as a number of other U.S. government officials and businessmen, in order to charge them for the crimes committed by Browder,” said Alexander Kurennoy, head of the Russia’s Office of Prosecutor General’s Mass Media Department, per the state-run Sputnik News.
Browder has been a gadfly for Putin’s team for years, dating back to his tenure as a high-profile investor in state-owned companies. Those clashes continued until Russian officials barred him from the country and shut down his investment company, a series of steps that culminated in Russian officials using his then-destroyed company to apply for a $230 million tax refund. One of Browder’s attorneys, Sergei Magnitsky, uncovered the fraud, only to be arrested and then to die in Russian government custody in 2009.
(…) “They never paid any taxes, neither in Russia nor in the United States, and yet the money escaped the country,” Putin said in Helsinki. “So we have a solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers accompanied and guided these transactions.”
A little more on that here:
Russia wants to question Christopher Steele, Michael McFaul, top politicians for aiding Bill Browder.
Russia’s prosecutor general will demand interviews with American congressmen, security services staff, and other high-profile individuals as it seeks to involve the US in its investigation into convicted financier Bill Browder.
Moscow accuses Browder of illegally taking $1.5 billion out of Russia and fabricating evidence that led to the passing of the sanctions-imposing Magnitsky Act. As part of the investigation, the prosecutor general wants to speak to ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele, author of the notorious Trump dossier, and former ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul, who campaigned on behalf of Browder.
Other persons of interest on what Russia said was an incomplete list included David Kramer, former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and president of think tank Freedom House, and the billionaire Ziff brothers, who are described as “Browder’s long-standing partners in crime.”
Listen……..hear that?……the worm is turning. The phony democrat dossier is about to blow up in their faces.
Bada-bing Bada-boom
Hey Mueller
“You built this.”
The new way to fight the Cold War.
My Wednesday morning soothiness….
Does the ‘no intent’ defense work in Russia?
Burner
Well, Putin *did* invite Mueller over to attend the hearings over there…
…maybe Putin can arrest Mueller then!
while your at it ask hillary about her laundered 400 million in campaign contributions.
if only we had an independent media in this country.
Wasn’t Browder the guy that laundered that $400 mill to the Hildabeast?
Who can you trust?? Thanks to Mueller, the DOJ, the FBI and the IRS we can’t trust the American government and now we find we can’t even trust the Russians. What’s this world coming to???
Oh wow. You should didn’t see this coming now, did you?
This clears up why the Media was so freaked out that Trump and Putin spoke ALONE(!) for two hours!!
(like no President ever did that before….)
Since President Trump (Man I Love Saying That!) has wholeheartedly agreed with me on so many issues, and I approve of this “joint effort” of questioning each others citizens, I have no doubt that President Trump (MILST!) will agree with this operation and make all the necessary preparations (orders, subpoenas, etc) to ensure this happens very soon (like just prior to the elections).
Have to wonder IF this was a topic of discussion during that two hour private meeting.
Speaking of that, the RATS are trying to hang the interpreter…
VILE.
MAGA2016
KAG2020
Tit for Tat. Who didn’t see this coming?
Don’t we have an extradition treaty with Russia?
Wouldn’t that be funny if when Trump said to Hitlery “Because you’d be in jail” he meant a Russian jail!!!