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Aug 28, 2018 • 23 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
🌳#GolfCourses🌳

The Ultimate Status Symbol for Money Laundering Oligarchs Here and Abroad.
Russian super-rich build their own golf courses
Their penchant for super-yachts and owning football clubs is well known but Russia's tycoons are now shopping for a new rather larger status symbol: their own custom-built golf course.
telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…
Metals tycoon Deripaska is ahead of the curve. He already has an exclusive £18.5 million Jack Nicklaus-designed championship course in Moscow. The initial membership fee is a cool £185,000 & the club says it is extremely picky about who it allows to join.
telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…
Vladimir Potanin, who made his money from Russia's vast nickel reserves, is also in the process of building a course, as is Elena Baturina, Russia's richest woman.
telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…
Andrei Komarov, a senator in Russia's upper house of parliament whose wealth comes from steel pipes, who seems to be the most committed. He is ploughing £370 million into a chain of golf clubs in three Russian regions.
telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…
Eric Trump said family golf courses attracted Russian funding.

Eric Trump said 3 years ago the Trump Org had “all the funding we need out of RU” for its golf course projects, according to an author recounting the 2014 meeting with Trump and his son.
theguardian.com/us-news/2017/m…
Trump’s Russian Laundromat

How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the White House.

Likewise Golf courses.
newrepublic.com/article/143586…
Purchasing a golf course is a way to make 💰 look legitimate without banks or regulators scrutiny. It’s also a good way to evade so-called “capital controls,” which limit, the amount of money Chinese citizens can transfer out of the country.
wired.com/story/if-trump…
it’s not what Donald Trump or Michael Cohen did in any single transaction that raises red flags—it’s how they conducted business day in and day out. The layers of shell companies, the contracts involving pseudonyms, the law firm cut-outs to make deals.
wired.com/story/if-trump…
SARS Reports were triggered by odd withdrawals and payments by the Russian embassy around the time of the US election, and are the subject of part of Mueller’s probe.
Money laundering is a huge—literally physically huge—problem: Illicit drug sales in the US alone are estimated at around $60B to $100B a year, which translates, into about 20M physical pounds of currency, far too much to be moved easily or spent easily.
wired.com/story/if-trump…
“Real estate is a big issue for money laundering and has been for a long time,”. “If you’ve got a condo or a shopping center or a golf course, the money has already been placed, it’s already been layered, it’s the final stage—integrated/legitimate.
wired.com/story/if-trump…
Purchasing a golf course is a way to make 💰 look legitimate without banks or regulators scrutiny. It’s also a good way to evade so-called “capital controls,” which limit, the amount of money Chinese citizens can transfer out of the country.
wired.com/story/if-trump…
“Parking” illicit gains from corrupt regimes, including Russia or China, in luxury real estate in the West is a common pattern because it historically holds value &, if you’re the buyer, you only trigger taxes by selling, not with the initial transaction.
wired.com/story/if-trump…
Donald Trump’s three European golf courses have long looked like money pits, with not a single one recording an annual profit from 2014 to 2016. But things may be turning around for the clubs, whose collective revenues nearly doubled in 2017
forbes.com/sites/danalexa…
Trump & the Agalarovs have an affinity for building opulent golf courses, a concept relatively novel in RU.

This is worth considering in light of questions raised about the possible RU sources of funding for Trump’s golf courses during the recession.
themoscowproject.org/explainers/oli…
Trump bought the property for more than $60M, he then spent a reported 150M£ remaking the site now known as Trump Turnberry, adding a new course, rehabbing an old one, and fixing up the lodgings. The question is where did Trump get the funding?
newyorker.com/news-desk/swam…
Trump Organization has worked with some truly questionable business associates, that it has run afoul of anti-money-laundering laws, and that its most high-profile business expansion—a line of three- and four-star hotels—has all but collapsed.
newyorker.com/news-desk/swam…
Trump’s Dirty Money
Russian money saved Trump when his projects were on the verge of collapse. Will it now be the cause of his political demise?
ips-dc.org/trumps-dirty-m…
Trump was compromised by Russian spies when he went to Moscow in 1987 and has been used by the Kremlin for DECADES, bombshell new book claims
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6…
🌳#GolfCourses🌳

The Trump Organization announced a plan to build an entire town in rural Scotland, with a kitsch design that blends American suburbia with Scottish oil country. The price was $200 million, but where the Trumps will get that cash is a mystery.
📌💰💦
qz.com/1341021/where-…
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❄️THE POLAR SILK ROAD❄️

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📌Goal: The Northern Sea Route (which is a key template of Moscow’s Arctic strategies) as an “important component” of

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orientalreview.org/2018/08/20/rus…
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globaltimes.cn/content/111471…
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🌏Trump’s Indonesia Project🌎

AND

China’s BELT and ROAD INITIATIVE

Trump Indonesia project latest stop on China’s Belt and Road

H/T @weRtroydavis
japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/1…
A billion-dollar Indonesian real estate development with ties to U.S. President Donald Trump has become the latest project in China’s globe-spanning Belt and Road infrastructure project — just as Washington and Beijing are tussling over trade.
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japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/1…
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