Report: Wikileaks' Syria Docs Exclude Email On $2B Transfer To Russian Bank

[DonViejo]

Wikileaks in 2012 published emails from Syrian government officials obtained by hackers, but the website did not include an email noting that the Syrian regime transferred more than $2 billion to a state-owned Russian bank, according to a Daily Dot report published on Friday.

Wikileaks denied that it purposefully excluded the record from the trove of emails it published, and the transparency group threatened retribution against reporters at the Daily Dot if they continued to report on the document.

The Daily Dot obtained U.S. court records from an unnamed source about hackers' success in breaking into the Syrian government's networks and obtaining emails about bank transactions. And "most of the emails found their way into a WikiLeaks database," according to The Daily Dot. But the outlet reported that some documents about bank transfers never made it to Wikileaks' website:

But one set of emails in particular didn’t make it into the cache of documents published by WikiLeaks in July 2012 as “The Syria Files,” despite the fact that the hackers themselves were ecstatic at their discovery. The correspondence, which WikiLeaks has denied withholding, describes “more than” €2 billion ($2.4 billion, at current exchange rates) moving from the Central Bank of Syria to Russia’s VTB Bank.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/wikileaks-syria-russia-bank-email-missing

[Sunlei]

1. $2.4 billion, at current exchange rates) moving from the Central Bank of Syria to Russia’s VTB Bank.

[Thinkingabout]

2. Yep, Putin appreciated the deposit. Maybe Putin thinks Trump could get his loans

Repaid by the US government.

[pampango]

3. Russia gets a naval base in Syria and Syria sends $2.5 billion to Russia.

No wonder Trump respects Putin's ability to strike a great deal.

No wonder Russia is so willing to intervene in Syria on behalf of Assad.

[Rex]

4. Extortion or a bribe?

[Xipe Totec]

5. More importantly, who was Wikileaks protecting? Their Russian benefactors? nt