CEO of Russia's state oil company offered Trump adviser, allies a stake if sanctions were lifted

[kpete]

An unverified dossier with claims about President Donald Trump's ties to Russia contained allegations that the CEO of Russia's state oil company, Igor Sechin, offered former Trump ally Carter Page and his associates a 19% stake in the company in exchange for the lifting of US sanctions on Russia.

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"Sechin's associate said that the Rosneft president was so keen to lift personal and corporate western sanctions imposed on the company, that he offered Page and his associates ... up to a 19 per cent (privatised) stake in Rosneft," the dossier said. "In return, Page had expressed interest and confirmed that were Trump elected US president, then sanctions on Russia would be lifted."

Four months before the intelligence community briefed Trump, President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and the nation's top lawmakers on the dossier's claims, a US intelligence source told Yahoo's Michael Isikoff that Sechin met with Page during Page's three-day trip to Moscow. Sechin, the source told Yahoo, raised the issue of the US lifting sanctions on Russia under Trump.

Page was an early foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign. He took a "leave of absence" in September after news broke of his July trip to Moscow, and the campaign later denied that he had ever worked with them.


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http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-trump-russia-igor-sechin-dossier-2017-1

[bullimiami]

1. "Just short of Bribery"

[randome]

2. Is being offered something like this and not reporting it a crime in itself?

Inquiring minds want to know.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)[/center][/font][hr]

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Sell out your country for a 19% stake.

So many folks turnin over in their graves, it will measure on the Richter scale.