The allegations of Alexander Torshin’s links with organized crime and money laundering in Spain first sounded in 2014 after authorities of Spain detained ten people in Mallorca on suspicion of swindling, among whom there were Romanov along with his wife.
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On August 21, 2013 Torshin narrowly escaped arrest when he was tipped off to a raid that nabbed his fellow thug Alexandre Romanov. #MOB
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Some interesting tweets from Torshin on Nov 2016
FTR if you see people posting these tweets of his saying they are from the 2016 election they are wrong. He was an election observer for the 2012 election which was Kline Preston's idea.
🙄
And uh, Looks like Butina has a sister (maybe, translation is sort of weird).
If that is in fact her sister, could she be up to the same tricks as Maria? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
This dude is WAY into flea markets which I found odd, I guess even mobsters need a hobby. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This pretty much confirms that the pic above with Butina and the other gal is indeed her sister. Curiouser and curioser.
A few interesting tweets from December 2016
Two featuring
Traitorbacher "I know him."
Scott Walker "We have met."
January 2017
February 2017
Sure looks like that's a personal autograph by @realDonaldTrump
March 2017
That same picture of the Butina sisters appear again also an interaction with Artem Klyushin.
Nothing much in April
Few in May 2017
First one where he threatens a twitter user for pointing out his obvious mob ties.
Second one, I just found amusing :P
Nothing in June
July 2017
Strange Mooch tweet
Interaction with Maria Katasonova
He compared Butina to fellow 🍯Spy Anna Chapman.
Boy these spies just flock to Torshin don't they? Must be his winning personality. 🧐
1.Yulia Alferova
2.Maria Butina
3.Maria Katasonova
Aug/Sep/Oct meh
November 2017
Torshin is a necrophiliac I guess. 😂
Nothing in Dec
January 2018
Another interaction with Katasonova congratulating him for his wife's birthday.
"Our" 🧐
February 2018
Torshin get's a bit touchy when you mention the FBI investigation 😂
Nothing really interesting Mar/April/May/June
July 2018
One more interaction with Katasonova.
Never mentioned Maria Butina's arrest at all, just went about his life like nothing happened. Shows you how much they care about their "assests"
Since I started with Nov 2016, I'm just going to work backwards from then.
Oct 2016
"Other pilgrims came from the Lower 48 and Russia. Among Russian guests was Alexander P. Torshin Also among the pilgrims were Archbishop Justinian, the Russian Orthodox church's leader"
This appears to be Natalia Astsaturova
His Press secretary
@/Astsaturova_N
facebook.com/astsaturova
August 2016
Not sure what a "fart" cap is 😂 but there's that "alpha" word again.
Torshin didn't like the story that named him "El Padrino." or The Godfather of the Russian Mob laundering machine.
July 2016
April/May 2016
Cue Sarah McLachlan
🎵I will remember you🎵
January/February 2016
Here Torshin is with Serbian pro-Russian Minister Nenad Popović at the National Prayer Breakfast in Feb 4th 2016.
He likes his offshore tax havens as well.
balkaninsight.com/en/article/par…
"My "private" trip to the US"
Butina writes Torshin that Trump is a member of the NRA and is welcome to cooperation with Russia.
December 2015
More pics from his 2010 Alaska trip.
Fluffing Trump and the NRA as usual.
October 2015
A visit to Dimitry Simes of the Center for National Interest, the man that set up and hosted Trump's Mayflower speech personally introduced Jared Kushner to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Torshin attended the annual Dartmouth Conference XX in Washington 10/28/2015
What is that you might ask?
With
@/v_tretyakov
facebook.com/vitaly.tretyak…
Gissa Gutchel (didn't see SM for him)
September 2015
August 2015
"I saw him (Trump) in Nashville"
Also maybe Torshin should ask Dotard's ex-wives, multiple Pornstars he's paid off, or countless Women of all ages that he's sexually assaulted about those "traditional family values" of his.
July 2015
Butina Was present for Scott Walkers Presidential announcement in Wisconsin
Torshin doesn't mention the FreedomFest in Vegas where Butina asks Trump about sanctions so I'll just add put her picture/video here.
“I know Putin, and I’ll tell you what, we get along with Putin,”
"I believe I would get along very nicely with Putin, okay? And I mean where we have the strength. I don’t think you’d need the sanctions.”
June 2015
Maria Butina authors a piece for...wait for it.
Dimitri Simes/The Center for National Interest political magazine.
I wonder if that's the piece Torshin had him personally sign a few months later in October during his trip to Washington. 🤔
nationalinterest.org/feature/the-be…
Always see those white flowers...cough*steganography*cough
There goes Artem and one more of his 2010 Alaska trip.
April 2015
Here is that now famous NRA convention picture between Butin/Torshin and their bud Scott Walker, where he reportedly greeted them in Russian ^^
Torshin didn't tweet it oddly, so just got the Butina one.
He also posted this dropbox containing a lot more pics from the convention.
dropbox.com/sh/1mwbd8j5h7t…
March 2015
Lots of interactions with Yulia Alferova but not much after this month.
Seems like Yulia ditched not only Artem in 2015 but Torshin.
"Good luck in the experiment." 🤔🤔🤔🤔
What was going on around that time? We now know that on March 24th Butina was emailing her "boyfriend" Paul Erickson about her "Diplomacy" plan.
Vladimir Pozner is propagandist mentioned, he served in the disinformation department of the Soviet KGB.
The funder was Konstantin Nikolaev who we then learned was in business with the Rotenberg's (Putin's closest allies).
Jan/Feb 2015
Isn't that nice... He remember her birthday.
He also mentions Chapman in comparison to Butina.
"You have upstaged Anna Chapman!" Torshin wrote.
More on the FBI's OP Ghost Stories investigation here.
fbi.gov/news/stories/o…
2014
Guy in the first is Alexander Zaldostanov, leader of the motorcycle club Night Wolves with close ties to the Russian Orthodox Church, and promotes nationalist ideals.
Not much interesting most the year, he didn't even tweet about the NRA convention in Indianapolis in April so I'll use a few of Butina's
Leaving this here for now.
The "Private trip" to Vegas was for the annual Shot Show held from Jan 19-22.
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