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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRussian state oil company CEO offered Carter Page + allies a cut of huge deal if sanctions lifted
(from January 2017 - just a reminder/addition to the MOUNTAIN of damning evidence against the Trump Mafia)
A dossier with unverified claims about President Donald Trump's ties to Russia contained allegations that Igor Sechin, the CEO of Russia's state oil company, offered former Trump ally Carter Page and his associates the brokerage of a 19% stake in the company in exchange for the lifting of US sanctions on Russia.
The dossier says the offer was made in July, when Page was in Moscow giving a speech at the Higher Economic School. The claim was sourced to "a trusted compatriot and close associate" of Sechin, according to the dossier's author, former British spy Christopher Steele.
"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 the brokerage of 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."
. . .
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 it.
Page, for his part, was "noncommittal" in his response to Sechin's requests that the US lift the sanctions, the dossier said. But he signaled that doing so would be Trump's intention if he won the election, and he expressed interest in Sechin's offer, according to the document.
The dossier says the offer was made in July, when Page was in Moscow giving a speech at the Higher Economic School. The claim was sourced to "a trusted compatriot and close associate" of Sechin, according to the dossier's author, former British spy Christopher Steele.
"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 the brokerage of 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."
. . .
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 it.
Page, for his part, was "noncommittal" in his response to Sechin's requests that the US lift the sanctions, the dossier said. But he signaled that doing so would be Trump's intention if he won the election, and he expressed interest in Sechin's offer, according to the document.
http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-trump-russia-igor-sechin-dossier-2017-1
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Russian state oil company CEO offered Carter Page + allies a cut of huge deal if sanctions lifted (Original Post)
CousinIT
Mar 2017
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Wounded Bear
(58,721 posts)2. Carter Page denied this on Chris Hayes's show tonight...
so it must be true.
Response to CousinIT (Original post)
moondust This message was self-deleted by its author.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)5. YUGE K&R
dchill
(38,546 posts)6. I've wondered for weeks...
Why everyone isn't talking about this.
Rosneft.
Billions.
Follow the money.
yardwork
(61,712 posts)7. This.
joet67
(624 posts)8. Wow. So it surely is treason, right? You have no idea how badly I want at least some of them
to actually be convicted of treason, if all we suspect is true.