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the mistaken alert triggered paddick among many hawaiians who scramble to find shelter the emergency management agency there to confirm it was a false alarm patty culhane looks at how the mistake happened. u.s. president donald trump and north korea's leader kim jong un have been trading claims about who has the bigger nuclear button so you might expect the u.s. state of hawaii in the middle of the pacific would be on edge i was the first place they're going to drop a bomb it's crazy you know living here it's awesome but the same time you know feeling you know like secure all the time that might explain why when this alert was sent out to every cell phone on the island people panicked the warning a ballistic missile was coming seek shelter this is not a drill so people just are it's starting around time to get into that room so there was a sense of oh girls are eating and some kids are crying and nobody really knew what to do people on twitter found out about ten minutes later from emergency officials and politicians it was
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a false alarm those not on twitter had to wait much longer before a correction was sent out thirty eight terrifying minutes how could this happen in the first place the explanation itself is baffling it was a procedure that occurs at the change of shift when they go through to make sure that the system is working and employing pushed along but that's right officials say one person pushed one wrong button the government says it will investigate but for the people who live through this panic that's little comfort i just ironic and we went to this author place. that was it people are just running on this story they were all desperately. that was not funny at all the guy had one job right and he messed up so all that's crazy a false alarm in the face of an actual threat making the people of hawaii realize they might not be ready for the real thing pedicle hain al-jazeera washington.
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less than a thousand dollars for the reshoots revelation has highlighted gender pay disparities in hollywood. those are the headlines on al-jazeera the all of god is up next thank you very much for watching. i. the president on the run the city of corruption was amazing. billions stolen al-jazeera is investigative unit has obtained a cache of secret files sounds like an agreement between a criminal boss is going to sign it with your blood and nation roll but with the help of western banks. to use london as a safe haven it's
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a kind of business and we reveal how ukraine is being robbed for a second time under the nose of the oil storage fees we simply didn't have confirmation and this looks like confirmation the proceeds go to an oligarch in hiding amount fueling a war forged by russian separatists in ukraine just shows the way these guys do business the genius of it read the first three or you don't have enough trouble in the me out of time of. information you've presented is what i call the pipe from which dirty money from russia ukraine and other countries all flow through. the south hopefully is kind of cool stuff and light on his knowledge he pulls chunks of says the kings. during the uprising kiev's musicians headed to
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independence square alongside thousands of protestors among them was all for trade tatiana's a chip stuck to the foam on the phone book it was a pull out there in the feeling you. get table while i play alice so much oh yeah the euro left their actual nationality for me from the case tune the cute kid had no national this while my book. i. think the president had refused to sign an agreement to bring ukraine closer to europe the goal of revolution was not only striving towards the end it god was also to how the set play and the fair rules of the game and the evolution was against corruption. the three months kiev's independence square became a battlefield over a hundred people lost their lives. i now then one
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february night ukraine's president began to move house. i president viktor yushchenko vege fled his country with help from russian special forces he was flown by helicopter to moscow i i was overly complex and the wishful will behappen that they are for his death in the subash little for the launch i. doubt for tatyana ukraine's leaders like villains in a comic opera. will cry in the risky pistols in the uk on. to fuck to show. the day should run away from the country sentai ukrainian treasury and its accounts had a few thousand dollars so the point is that entire treasury was dropped.
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thank you. soon after the revolution ukraine's people discovered how their president had been living. of socialism isn't that iraq is not that we should look me down to give the . extent to sort of absurdity of corruption was amazing it's a six story log cabin i think the biggest loan company in the world set in front the amazing est. if you can award it you know how to get around it in a day. last . fall behind still. i had a question and one piece in the. only little bit of bush.
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previously the palace was he didn't from view even on satellite maps. but now a nationalist group runs guy did tools of this monument to corruption. mr booker a city of ninety one that's four dollars when these nollywood for a liver see you receive green this was sundin's all the month of the month bush was up what they lived. in the ninos to make new stuff from up with them bunch the swaddle ski blues store like you need to. know this is just sort some sort of it. stanley. scorpios daughter for drugs. she said do we. get this. it does not. get called when you study call in as
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a muslim have sex which you will sort of. course and then visit you today but of course we're not a what. of the team or. no men that are. super cute yet but the amount of important suppose is thought this is the money. the power is still god's secrecy them with the name of it's real owner yeah so within the v.a. q young which are in a coma she did not keep money on his name even though she's main homes. spend the last years of she's life in ukraine it was registered on the charity fund not on the in goshen stuff behind the charity the dizzying web of companies based in tax havens around the world.
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i'm will jordan i've come to kiev ukrainian capital. al-jazeera as investigative unit has obtained a drive filled with hundreds of documents about yana covert his network. bank statements contracts and e-mails from twenty eleven through the revolution until twenty fifteen. they place viktor yushchenko vage the ultimate eastern european all agog at the helm of a global corruption network. this investigation is about how that network still operates today and through one crooked contract we see how all the dogs do business often with the unwitting assistance of western banks we've called it the quick pace deal. unbelievable. it sounds like an agreement between
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criminal busts it kind of sided with your blood. by most estimates yet a code which stole billions ukrainian investigators traced and froze one point five billion a cyprus based company called quick pace limited told one hundred sixty million dollars of that in cash and forms but prosecutors froze this money because it's stolen it can't be legally bought nor sold them straight it's just it's the point of this is attached to a country that. as a lawyer i read this document or that or said that it's not illegal i wouldn't expect any court to enforce it. just shows the way. these guys do business i mean the genius of it really. the quick pace deal involved
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to all agog sigrid to buy the company and its one hundred sixty million in frozen assets from a mysterious. contract is unsigned but our evidence indicates the deal went ahead they treat quick pace like buying a bankrupt company and agree a knock down price of just thirty million dollars. they throw in a private jets as part of the payment this is really interesting discovery this is distressed debt basically you get these companies in the city of london who if someone refused to pay their debt they buy it for you know twenty pay on the pound and then do their utmost to get it back and make a profit on it. the oligarchs would make a clean up one hundred thirty million dollars profit they believe they can unfreeze the assets or as they call it remove the arrest and pocket the money. they just need to persuade a judge to lift the freeze. and
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. if you have influence of the courts which you do in a corrupt jurisdiction like ukraine you can then use that influence to try and release the assets and make your money out of it. as a majority of judges you claim they are themselves the corruption they asked those accorded to garnett walk out of watch. we've got that evidence that establishes which all of dogs are trying to make illicit profits from the quick pace deal. as we've shown this to investigators including john benton the former head of the international corruption unit at britain's national crime agency these are really really complex investigations you've got to go through thousands and thousands and thousands. options it's following the money and working out essentially the route the money takes.
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it appears the quick pace limited was part of a massive embezzle minton money laundering network under the yana covert regime. is it legal to be trading frozen assets what's very planning for them moving it's a criminal offense all ideas are frozen yes exist think it's the proceeds of crime it's like trading in stolen goods that have been taken by the place you know put in a cash in the getaway car and yet. all documents revealed by one in the quick face deal is alexander i want to show who operates behind offshore company fastow trading limited fuel typical ukrainian oligarch. oligarchy is a term that most people didn't know twenty years ago it's kind of come out of the
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russian system that of the russian privatization program these are extremely rich people. just with the old enough horses is a flamboyant oligarchy like spending money on expensive things like the old. he sponsored the miss ukraine contest and partied with the stars coming around us and paris hilton john claude van down. a nation coat like a lot of ukrainians made money in the gas business. and. i started to produce. in ukraine actually at the. biggest company that too was sold. thirty years ago. on a shank i was seeking asylum in europe and agreed to be interviewed because he believed it would help clear his name but first we didn't say that we knew about
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the secret quick pace deal he was happy to talk about his famous friends. you know donald trump you know she's doing a course in competition. and which also she was no longer of this compassed miss universe can in one of these and most mentioned there was a relationship was. all documented revealed by a two in the quick pace deal pavel folks his company do which is to international incorporated. is a real estate tycoon who featured in a russian business program. team at pfizer combine you must see to see mean you should not only d.t. could be by shifting his skin lost on these e.q. folks promotes a hard man image you'll go boom boom boom the city in the world of. like
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by a one folks is friends with now u.s. president donald trump has negotiated with him several times since two thousand and four but never completed a deal to build a trump hotel in moscow. president putin has all not forks for his contribution to the russian economy focus on several prestigious properties in the russian capital. he built this complex in partnership with the powerful son in law of former russian president boris yeltsin. another parno was a cosmic businessman latest sentenced to jail over a multi billion dollar fraud. he's a tough boss. the ocean going that number one is logical go to them do it in one quarter to the. you know when did you put hear the whistle go to luke we need you to do good in asia a lot of political new doc i never got to coordinate with. syria which
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discuss. it but i'm going to start recording. mr and mrs fox publish social media snaps with a high profile jeweler and his wife. jacob arab zero was jailed for two years in two thousand and eight in a us money laundering case. folks socializes with influential politicians a russian m.p. from president putin's posse now a senior banker the mayor of ukraine's second city kharkiv left in a wheelchair after a mafia style assassination attempt. what's interesting about him is the extent to which he shows that the separation between ukraine and russia coming into skin-deep the elites of both ukraine and russia for that is basically the same country the money flows backwards and forwards the business deals going backwards and forwards. a recent leak of offshore company
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documents the panama papers establishes folks at the helm of a huge global business empire. it begins with his offshore company which is their international incorporated registered instead kitson eavis. it has holdings in companies all over the globe in directly in golden eagle trust in new jersey. owned by billionaire v.j. maleo today facing extradition to india on fraud charges which he denies another link mining in tanzania and cameroon to palm oil billionaires in malaysia even state run pharmaceuticals in cuba where they all operate as a kind of transnational clan have their lawyers and sundress that have the money and. it's an international structure which they've created since the fall of the soviet union which is very very resilient and very hard to penetrate. since the
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collapse of the soviet union a quarter century ago ukraine's been caught between russia and the west. of the twenty fourteen revolution a pro western governments been in place. when you look at it's launched a war on corruption floored by a national anti corruption bureau built on american and european money. but it may have folded up still mobile and open it. on this and it also thought. that in the moment it got the funding to move it was one of the bureaus well known for arresting low level judges and civil servants and counting out that cash on camera. but it hasn't gotten any high level convictions to to be able to. put in the. deed to the police it shows that he was or wasn't his motion which was a platoon in which it wasn't going to go in which a militia shamus
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a petunia. it appears that the revolution that toppled on a coach did not remove the oligarchs who served him across the pond in modern books both of shows of the process that would push and post. at the disco put i'm going to do this this. but that's ok in the screening you said the but it's not suppose she did. at the foot. by a one in the quick pace deal alexander i want to show is on the run in western europe with his riches. the ukraine government says he swindled them out of a hundred million dollars on a gas deal on a shango says the president told him to bribe m.p.'s and has now turned against him . yeah more to do in a hurry and that's what. europe. actually
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does with cases political motivation case. when you say you're against corruption there but you pay bribes you've been corrupt. and i've been told corrupt i did just so actually what the president say and in the whole country. that is not the other way there is a lot of we. want to go is the anti corruption bureau's most wanted fugitive. they're hunting him for the gas window. they raided his office in march twenty sixth dean even had his mother arrested in madrid during that raid we understand they picked up a copy of our document the quick pace deal. despite this they seem to be doing little to bring the oligarchs involved to justice. misters so this is can businessmen a foursome who could get it to some. over all of the corners of the. justice then
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you would do it. for you mrs and them do what it is to. buy it to have all folks a man whose business empire bounced the globe. we traced some of his property assets. this is folks is a social media stock regularly in london the photographer always takes pictures in the same place the market belgravia neighborhood near the spanish embassy. and at home sweet home. we located the building property records show it was purchased in twenty twelve for twenty five million pounds or around forty million dollars by another company based in the british virgin islands called latina associates limited. using a mortgage from barclays bank. the panama papers leak reveals that latina associates is owned by mrs folks and mr folks whose company to which is the
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international. london is a favorite destination for many oligarchs their money. on the international front of juice and. we don't just turn. to professional services that can be hijacked you used. we also have all the trimmings so you might want to spend money . in london you buy anything you buy yourself a mansion it comes into you buy yourself a lot of fun out of the base you buy yourself a yacht a lot but. this building in central london houses a company called chesterfield group. it's what's called a company formation agent a crucial tool for any oligarchs such as pavel folks. for a small fee they'll set up a company for you and you can remain anonymous it can be off shore with an address that's not yours the name's direct it won't be you the name secretary won't be you
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you simply control it in the background or you will know many cutouts protect your identity. if anyone ever comes to ask the question is for throw their hands up in the air and say i don't know i was just nominee director and i was this just a field group. and i came to ask you some questions about how both looks as effectively have these cut out characters then depersonalize and distance the money from any of the real perpetrators of the situation we mailed in cool to you but you didn't respond you can create a company in the next thirteen pounds and it takes you i've done it out in the in minutes alone. no one checks the information that you provide literally and there are three hundred fifty thousand companies cray. to buy company formation agents in the u.k. actually here. this office
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chesterfield group a closely linked to folks. just a fields building is owned by a company based in the british virgin islands gober a group bought in twenty fifteen for around five million dollars with a buckley's mortgage. gerbera group is owned by fox his company to just an international just a field has branches in cyprus i love my island the bahamas and of course london in many cases dorchester international is the named director. if you could a company formation agent register that company formation agent is fully companies see you there. media really suspicious huge huge a lot about. just the field appears to be a captive company formation agent in other words creating companies for its owner. expects perfect sense i mean if i was not up to that i mean your own company
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foolish as you want to sell them to you makes give them a. christmas present and get his a london company or the bank out. in part two we confront alexander on a shankar one of the buyers of quick pace. there is like kind of business that you can buy cheap in the car tool to fix the program to make the money. and we reveal the man believed to be the seller of the frozen assets. the is unbalanced and an inch is a vengeful person a principled and ruthless. as thousands of seek refuge in bangladesh a new group is taking shape fighting the government to me and my only because they refuse to give us the basic rights as citizens for the first time
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and via text message it told residents to seek shelter against the supposed impending attack the emergency management agency later confirmed it was a false alarm and that is investigating the case. you know i know firsthand that what happened today was totally unacceptable and many in our community was deeply affected by this and i'm sorry we are working to evaluate everything in the sequence of today's activities to make sure that we are prepared and the procedures are change so that a single person will not be able to make an error that triggers another false alarm. another news at least eighty three countries have been affected by a cell monella outbreak at one of the world's largest daily firms french dairy giant lect alice says twelve million boxes of powdered baby milk are being recalled
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more than thirty children have been poisoned in france a lot of the victims group says hundreds of lawsuits have been filed the french government has closed the factory until further notice. it's very security forces have used tear gas to break up a protest against the detention of a palestinian teenager supporters of sixteen year old family had been marching in the occupied west bank demanding her release she was detained last month when a video of her slapping israeli soldiers went viral lawyers say are could face jail time if she's convicted of the charges a serial killer may be behind the rape and murder of a young girl that's led to massive protests in pakistan that's according to the home minister of punjab province seven year old saying i'm sorry was found dead in a garbage dump on tuesday. the military in the democratic republic of congo has launched an operation against an armed group it blames for the killing of fifteen tanzania and un peacekeepers last month troops are targeting members of the allied
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democratic forces near the town of benny in north keep the province. those are the headlines on al-jazeera but do stay with us as al-jazeera investigates the all the gotts continues next. i'm. in part one hell former ukrainian president viktor yushchenko stole billions one point five billion dollars was frozen we have obtained documents that expose a plot in twenty fifteen to steal again one hundred sixty million dollars of that money is held in a company called quick pace limited. is involved to all of dogs pavel folks and alexander on a shank are planning to buy quick pacers frozen assets at a knockdown price. and. it sounds like an agreement between
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a criminal boss you can assign it to is your blood. now we reveal where the stolen money is destined and the identity of the reclusive third all agog believed to be selling the frozen assets. of an inch is a vengeful person unprincipled and ruthless. the story about documents takes us back to the heyday of the corruption of ukraine's former president. deep into one network of his offshore companies. that traces the path of hundreds of millions of dollars out of ukraine from twenty eleven to his a scape in twenty forty. three foreign bank accounts and into the pockets of young covert and his cronies. as ukraine came into town and to not to those who want. it has been essentially
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looted by its elites again and again and again and didn't tactics they use are essentially always identical. faceless lawyers accountants and bankers helped pass hundreds of millions of dollars around the network. some as loans referenced redistribution of means some as payments for building materials oh mellotron ics some for cars motorbikes even park a flooring. the philosophy of money launderers is to create a situation where the money has moved to so many different companies in so many different countries and in so many different accounts thereby effectively laundering it because nobody has the resources to figure it out. while he was still in power the young courage network used quick pace to launder money sometimes moving relatively small amounts fire complex with the help of western banks.
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one document showed a payment of four point four million dollars made by quick pace from its nominal home as a cyprus registered company. the money was held in a quick pace account in vienna with austria as mine all bank. it was wired to an account in frankfurt with commerce back. on to do each a bank in new york. it ended up at bolton international bank in latvia the account of a shell company foxtrot networks limited folks strong like quick pace is registered in cyprus. none of the banks appear to have raised a red flag what's called a suspicious activity report. it's very easy for a bank to throw out a suspicious activity is actually present but the trouble is who's digesting this this is sent to your courts and the answer is in many cases nobody. the documents
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linking quick pace to folks trying networks in turn link quick days to one of the world's highest profile money laundering scandals it was discovered by russian accountants surrogate magnitsky he was working for an investment firm based in my. and run by bill browder. surrogates opposed it he was then arrested tortured and killed in prison. the russian government says magnitsky died of natural causes and accuses browder of the fraud browder claims russian officials stole two hundred thirty million dollars in state funds huge quarter billion dollar russian government embezzlement synonymous with justice and corruption in russia frightening reminder of how quickly money can disappear. all documents reveal that folk strong networks had been wired money by quick pace in march twenty fourth. we
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then discovered that folks strong was owned by one of the companies at the heart of the magnitsky affair final limited. final limited is one of the central. parts of the apparatus like the. spigot on the i. final is effectively a nominee company that is the director for a number of very crucial. points in this money laundering network. both quick pace and the company it would money to folks trying networks are registered in cyprus. which ukrainians funnel their money offshore to cyprus and then on boards beyond and then bring it back again so it looks like foreign investments you can't really tell it lends it. in the quick pace deal another side first company prone to service limited is named as the seller of the one hundred sixty million dollars in frozen assets. but prone to service is just to cut out
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a nominee shareholder it owns the assets on paper but the real owner is hiding behind it. christina cyrus is the name secretary of prone to service the cyprus by. and offshore expert. cyrus refused our request for an interview or to divulge the name of the person behind produce service but we tracked it down in a secretly recorded conversation she confirmed to that quick pace had been sold. looking at a company quick pace that's because i remember it was a person and it was an act that. the cyprus company registry shows quick pace was transferred to one of the couple books says many companies and the more property holdings with the help of his company formation agent just
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a feel. the leaked documents also provide evidence that the quick pace deal was done or at least that is first phase began. books apparently made a payment from a london bank a transfer two million dollars from barclays canary wharf ga back in new york was used to move from money they passed it to an offshore company with an account in latvia and a mystery owner the money went through no red flags. western banks have had a hard time making money over the last few years so when somebody shows up and says i like to set up an account with one hundred million dollars then you have to look for a pretty good reason not to set up that account. other documents in the leak lead us to a british village north of london under british law or those type of company that
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allows foreigners to avoid tax and scrutiny it's called a limited liability partnership. companies for it some people call them get away cars for corrupt money i have heard them better described as on the plate. one of the companies is registered here this is the official office of a company worth hundreds of millions of dollars resources l.l.b. . according to bank statements leaked to us finkel made three hundred twenty eight million dollars in just six months of twenty fifteen. but in public accounts filed with u.k. authorities can call claimed it made less than seven thousand it looks like fraud so we came to ask about it. the managers of the address of the registered office had refused our request for an interview. one
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is well jeweled my work without is there are. we doing a an investigation into. ukraine. this hard future office has registered over fifteen hundred companies so the people who work here just run a post box service. with the director secretary and address all being proxies finding out who really owns a company can be almost impossible. if you own something in your own name then you can just look on the company register on the property register and said that you got all of his house. but if i own that house in a company of british and if my british company is owned by that's a separate company that my cypriot companies are owned by let's say panamanian company and if my plan you cup is owned by a nevus company. then if you want to find out who owns this house you have to go to every one of those jurisdictions and asked them. who owns that company.
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hello. hello i wanted to ask about a couple of companies. simcoe resources. finkle resources features in the files. it's know many directors were also involved in the magnitsky scandal. a lot being citizen called your event and signs the papers for fin co is just a cutout for the person who really owns and controls the company. another director is stan goren again a cutout whose name is regularly used as a front man by money launderers these name directors may be paid for the nominee role but are likely ignorant of any fraud. information you've presented is what i call the pipe this is the pipe through which dirty money from russia ukraine and
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other countries in that part of the world all flow through is wrong effectively part of the same criminal operation. the pipeline leads to moscow. as well as the links with the magnitsky affair the documents feature hundreds of emails from lawyers based in. s. so concerned to conceal the name of that client they write in cryptic language. good evening. february twenty sixth twenty fifteen foot the bill going to top shelf . technical close read the book and give a positive review of the. council decision of three floors to leave in force the decision of wanting to flows. sincerely is it agreed with my supervisor. who is the supervisor. we found the answer buried deep
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in a key document. a loan agreement shows quick pace was used to put up collateral by a company called vet media invest in order to borrow huge funds in october twenty fifth. veteran belongs to surrogate kitchen co known as the baby faced gas king of ukraine by age twenty seven he was worth four hundred million dollars. from a presidency on a code which apparently treated him like a wallet gave cash to the president whenever he needed it. he was given control of a chunk of the gas tray he made a lot of money for himself and then he cut back most of it and to his political patrons which was in a coma for winter just sun. there's more evidence pointing to
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a chain coas the cellar. a lawyer called boris gets off appears in the e-mails. russian business records show he's director of united media holdings. united media used to belong to surrogate kitchen co. co was just businessmen but i can say a very talented corrupt judge because he used. the very tricky schemes very unusual schemes to steal one. today he's in hiding in moscow wanted in ukraine sanctioned in the u.s. and europe. his office is in a skyscraper complex developed by pavel fixes companies. two of his former drivers told us more about him. kuching to his boys asking when we will arrive if you don't answer immediately you'll be fired. it was the worst job i ever had.
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he swears he screams at his employees he fires two to three people every month is very inadequate. the drivers are worried that they'll be in danger if their former boss finds out they've been talking to us. he is unbalanced and an engine he's a vengeful person unprincipled and ruthless. goes only given three interviews to journalists one was even golan off. at the end you know which in that you'll only buy you and i lived in this relief the interest real real and not covered in the mean yeah i'm a. yes i assume you know the whole. damn near gusher style i keep the scoop on what you deserve apologies. and you'll spoil just. by the boston thing you are going to want to focus your affair almost i need
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you don't wish to have the news from you know. we tracked down check your using information from his former chauffeurs. is guarded by alpha group former counterterrorism special forces. they are fought in wars and have state medals they are armed with rubber bullets. just before seven am the guards receive information that he's coming they get in position. there are five cars eighteen people in the convoy. the cars of fitted and signal blockers with two hundred mi to range. the convoy includes a security could go travels in the second bullet proof. as a mobile ambulance with a medic. as a fourth vehicle blocking the entrance to the complex. and a fifth sweep
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a car. to change at an argument with some chechen guys in a restaurant after that stepped up a security. pitching to rush is out glimpsed for a split second before he's inside. the building. is staff bring his things and the drivers park and white. we often drive into the ministry of economic development the ministry of natural resources the national space agency. also the russian presidential administration. state gas for gazprom. state oil for rosneft. state funded d.t.b. bank. i'm just going to. do a couple of these to take us to school.
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i'm going to do this should i don't think. is there its own you were speaking of there was more of this to sri when you stress that i want to. ukraine spy agency reports that he's helping the russian side in the conflict in ukraine. he's running some of the biggest coal oil and gas companies in annexed crimea and areas controlled by russian separatists almost all as far as all of. us talk sure and i just i mean you know all guns billions kind of nodes. in most countries you have the government of criminals businessman in russia all of those distinctions practically disappear. it's the interest of fresh to destroy ukraine from inside it's against the interest of friendly. for ukraine to succeed and i'm to corruption.
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through the quick pace deal we've uncovered approach to profit from the billions stolen by the clan surrounding former prime ukrainian. didn't think to yana kovac. a baby faced billionaire used dozens of lawyers seemingly to turn frozen assets into clean money. or evidence was confirmed by one of the buyers of quick face. was one of the businessman trumpeter riggs government. that it was a check. for on a shank or buying assets stolen in a grand corruption case is just another day at the office. because like kind of business that you can buy cheap credit card to.
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do things the program to make the money is about to come when i revealed that we had the quake based document on a shank owed to ny did the deal went ahead. it was like normal business but this one has not happened yet we didn't buy they didn't know they wanted to sell us assets which was already frozen they gave us a very good discount but then with chick closely on course a local one for the record. they may not yet have made money but our evidence directly contradicts on the shank his account that the deal did not go ahead official documents record a change of ownership of quick pace a lawyer in cyprus said the sale had happened. something that i remember was in prison not for closing. ukraine's anti corruption bureau also confirmed for sale. and he shouldn't be missed just so this is can businessmen of folks who can do to.
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so never happen never have. to. will know it was one hundred dollars on all those iraq over whose lives are at the offices of ukraine's under. corruption bureau a powerful politician with his entourage has arrived to complain. to. be a warm up what was this was what is a bit and wondering what you're going want on the global what that could mean on the slow boat there goes under what do you mean on your watch list but will the question come up is a millionaire politician had just learned that he was under investigation you. know when you go off and greece you go to some would call him or one of which is when you don't. really need that one guy you know the argument all streamed live on national television this is ukraine's corruption
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a shi'ite wealthy politicians versus not the whole of netscape the young new anti corruption prosecutor is going to doesn't put into place almost all show so to say but also boyish chambliss go to south american diplomat you either live. or bush does a national in the what this would. sort of call it cued was. brought to quote what you know the great. younger walmart you don't read your friday we're witnessing all traditional corrupt system will join up and try to do everything possible to destroy this new agency or you know move toward office won't. actually that the secu bought up this cork. in the wood don't kill automata it is not. in the but a that. the anti corruption bureau is drowning in paperwork and it's case against ana shango is falling apart what chances do you think there are of seeing strong.
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to god on the go we will shoot. one signal more session. so what chance do you think there is that you will ever go to prison. i don't know if. like we see in ukraine that nobody is sure. ukraine's under corruption chiefs console themselves by saying they've seized on a shrinkers private jet. but i. think what's up with this but has issued the opposite. of the look at the us but it has a but high school. but even that appears to be an illusion. we tracked down the jets sitting at luton airport in the u.k. . it was sold in march last year for twenty five million dollars today it's for charter to the super rich costing around thirty thousand dollars an
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hour. today sees one of your private jets known as a book there is no this is not a crummy zero year. for its people now the poorest in europe the ukrainian tragedy plays on. as one chapter out at the time i don i had built up on a you'll. get home i'll show you a real man a puppet in a kind of war if there was still a book on the soul of what the no i don't want our stay war. it was a new show see what you and i had to delete show pollution in cars and that in turn to push the lid to the clean water but. alexander on
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a shango has now been granted asylum in spain. folks is stepping up his investments in ukraine buying gas companies and possibly a bank. surrogate house london lawyers working to overturn his. actions and unfreeze is money everyone gets away because if you look at the amount of money that stolen in developing countries globally for a year is estimated as a trillion dollars with a t. how much for comfort out of every thousand dollars that stolen twenty five sets. caught. him it cuts into last night that it will cap and i should be focused on unusual upcoming cannibals. not the book called the passion my bond issues that katie wants is more cost plus had asked janet and bashful the. man.
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hello winter propose returning once again to turkey in the caucasus with snow showing in the forecast attention buckers been around for five years for a few days it's on the radar once more but south of that and this is not really much of a hint of of winter in iraq but it's by does temperatures twenty one degrees above what it should be it's a bit showery in breezy on the coast of lebanon by routes sixteen degrees but less sherry less breezy and slightly warmer on monday but is not much in it to be honest have the winds change out of knox by docs time to time brought the snow down through as a barrage on to northern iraq on lance who took his time as well such as that's fairly quiet twenty one city but the breeze picking up down the gulf not immediately obvious on sunday twenty five in dyer har and in riyadh not by this time the generally is quiet weather there's no obvious sign of
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a very strong breeze but i think we've got a few something of a northerly curate and the cattle now it's dry as she is most of north and central africa and in fact until you get to the line that expect to be wet at this time of the year still there he's running just catching zombie intensity it's really wet in madagascar the northern boundary gasket once again for the most part south of that it looks lovely. an attack on a refugee camp in syria russian forces are being blamed our people seeking sanctuary from war remain in the line of fire.

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