Rotem Rosen left Africa Israel at about this time....
(Grassley and Freeh =LOL AFA motives)
Denis Katsyv -
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"Katsyv has been represented by ... Veselnitskaya, who met with Fusion GPS co-founder
Glenn R. Simpson who was investigating American-British ..."
en.wikipedia.org
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Later that June, Veselnitskaya screened a film by
Andrei Nekrasov at the
Newseum in Washington, D.C., that was critical of Magnitsky. She was "deeply involved in the making of
The Magnitsky Act – Behind the Scenes". .. according to
RussiaTV5, a "station whose owners are known to be close to Mr. Putin"....
Veselnitskaya represented Pyotr Katsyv's son, Denis, when
Preet Bharara, the
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York,
charged him with money laundering. Federal prosecutors accused Katsyv of using
Manhattan real estate deals to launder money stolen from Browder's
Hermitage Capital Management. The Russian government then
banned Bharara from traveling there.
...on 14 June 2016. Former U.S. ambassador to Russia
Michael McFaul testified as Veselnitskaya sat behind him.
In October 2015, Veselnitskaya traveled to Manhattan, with her clients, for a
deposition in the money laundering case. After being told, at the end of the deposition, that the counterparty would be required to reimburse her for her expenses, she billed the U.S. government $50,000, ..
.. a Swiss agent and Russia specialist from the Federal Office of Police, investigating the
Prevezon transaction from a Magnitsky Act violation, ..Moscow in December 2016 .. met Veselnitskaya. The meeting was apparently set up by Russian Deputy Attorney General Saak Albertovich Karapetyan. Because the officer, known only as Victor K., .. was later dismissed, suspected of abuse of office, violation of official secrecy and corruption. During an unauthorized flight, Karapetyan died in a helicopter crash north-east of Moscow in March 2019.
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Trump fired Bharara on 11 March 2017 and
Jeff Sessions replaced him with
Joon Kim ..during the rest of the case. In May 2017, the international money laundering case was settled with Katsyv's company, Prevezon Holdings, which was represented by
Louis Freeh, paying $6 million (without any admission of
wrongdoing). The settlement was for less than 3% of the amount prosecutors had initially sought. In November 2017, Katsyv's company Prevezon stated that it would pay the fine using money from
AFI Europe which is a subsidiary of Lev Leviev's Africa Israel Investments.
In March 2017, Senator
Chuck Grassley filed a complaint alleging...
In a 14 July 2017,..Veselnitskaya acknowledged that she was in regular contact ...with Prosecutor General
Yury Chaika "while waging a campaign against U.S. sanctions".
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