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#Qatar #Rosneft #Cohen #TrumpRussia #QIA #TrumpTowerTreason A BOMB. A timeline based on open sources in English, Russian etc. 💥🔥⚡️⚡️‼️🔴 @WendySiegelman @grantstern @bfry1981 @dcpoll @peterjukes @lukeharding1968 @AHamiltonSpirit @ushadrons @TrickFreee @J_amesp

1. NOV 8, 2016, TUESDAY, DOHA, QATAR. #Exxon CEO #Tillerson meets @Qatar’s #EmirAlThani behind the closed doors. The subject of negotiations is unknown. lookup.t-mobile.com/index.php?orig…

2. NOVEMBER 9, WEDNESDAY, WASHINGTON D.C. #Trump is officially President-Elect.

3. DECEMBER 5, MONDAY, MOSCOW Rosneft issues $9.4bn (RBL 600bn) in domestic rouble 5-year bond.
reuters.com/article/us-rus…
rbc.ru/finances/05/12…

3.1. Note: On December 15, the Bank of Russia adds the domestic rouble 5-year bonds issued by Rosneft on December 5th into the Lombard list so they can serve as collateral for Central Bank loans.

3.2. Note: According to some sources, Russian banks on credit lines from the state-owned Central Bank of Russia buy these bonds. Central Bank’s assets coincidentally spiked by RBL 240 bn. Experts comment that the bonds proceeds might later finance the buyback of Rosneft shares

3.3.Note (finding foreign investors is problematic due to the sanctions) or that Rosneft then transferred its bond sale proceeds to the same banks, and they gave this money to the so-called investment fund…to buy shares of Rosneft.

nakedcapitalism.com/2016/12/the-st…

4. DEC 5. LONDON QHG Trading LLP, a U.K-registered limited liability partnership, is founded in London. As of January 2017, it is owned by Glencore Energy UK and Qatar Holding LLC. *
beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/OC4149…

4.1. QHG Holding LLP, a U.K.-registered limited liability partnership, is founded in London.

beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/OC4149…

4.2. As of January 2017, it is owned by Glencore Energy UK, Qatar Holding LLC* and QHG Cayman Ltd.*
QHC Investments LLP is founded by QHG Holding LLP on the same day.
beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/OC4149…

4.3. As of January 2017, it is owned by QHG Holding (99%) and Qatar Holding LLC* (a subsidiary of QIA) (0.01%). Supposedly, QHC Investments is formed to find financing.
*Qatar Holding LLC only signs up on December 30, 2016.

5. DEC 5. SINGAPORE. QHC Investments LLP founds a QHG Shares Pte. Pte**, a Singaporean joint venture between Glencore and Qatar, according to documents lodged with Singapore financial regulators.

5.1. QHC Investment LLP holds a 100% stake in QHG Shares Pte. Pte.**
vedomosti.ru/business/artic…
**QHG Shares Pte. Pte (former to Catalpa PTE ) is currently renamed to QHG Oil Ventures Pte.

5.2. QHC Shares shares an address in Singapore with Intertust, Dutch law company owned by Blackstone Group: 77 Robinson Rd, #13-00, Singapore 068896.***

webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache…

5.3. ***later QHG OIL VENTURES PTE changes address to Glencore’s address in Singapore: 1 Temasek ave, #34-01, Millenia Tower, Singapore.
uen.gov.sg/ueninternet/fa…

6. DECEMBER 6, TUESDAY NEW YORK
#Trump interviews #Tillerson for the position of Secretary of State. The interview comes after Trump’s aides said the President-elect had settled on four finalists.
fortune.com/2016/12/05/don…

7. DEC 7, WEDNESDAY, MOSCOW. Putin and Sechin announce on TV that Rosneft (the market value as of December 7 $58.6bn) sells 19.5% stake ($10.5bn euro according to TASS and Putin, a discrepancy tass.com/economy/917512) to QHG Shares Pte. with the following funding distribution:

7.1.QIA –2.5bn Euro, Glencore – 300mn Euro of its own equity – $324mn ($0.3bn) - an indirect 0.54 % stake, Intesa (supposedly) –5.2bn Euro (3.7bn Euro)* Unidentified source** (possibly Gazprombank and VBRR)*– Euro2.2 bn (less than 3.7bn Euro)* *according to the RBC

7.2. **shareholders loan, i.e. Glencore and QIA, according to Vedomosti
rosneft.com/press/releases…

7.3.1. CONTRADICTIONS:
The distribution--QIA and Glencore. "The consortium becoming the Rosneft shareholder was created by Qatar’s sovereign fund and Glencore trading company. Each of consortium members has 50%," Sechin said. tass.com/economy/917512

7.3.2. The rest of $7.4 bn funding source. Intesa’s loan, if it existed at all, was fully financed by Russian state banks (possibly, VTB, VBRR, Gazprombank and Rosneft’s pocket bank, see below.)

7.3.3. Dates of money transfer. Putin: “When will the money come to the Russian budget?” Sechin: “I am sure that the high standards of our investors and Rosneft’s transition to a new dividend payment system...

7.3.3...., which the Government has approved at 35%, will definitely improve the company’s capitalization, including the state-owned stake. We estimate the state-owned stake after the transaction at approximately 80bn rubles ($1.3bn.)” No date is specified.

7.3.4. Asked by Putin when the state budget was going to get the money earned from the sale, Sechin said that it was going to come from Rosneft cashflow and from credit finance, organized by one of Europe's largest banks.
reuters.com/article/us-rus…

7.3.5. Putin: We know that Rosneftegaz, which will ultimately transfer the money to the budget, has considerable ruble resources. First, we should use these funds...

7.3.5 and second, we should work jointly with the Finance Ministry and the Central Bank to plan a system of measures for currency conversion that would prevent market hikes.

7.3.6. The secrecy of the deal: the industry and business press was only informed about the deal on December. There were no leaks on any details until then. Bloomberg, Reuters, FT and Russian Vedomosti did not have any information beforehand.

7.3.7. TASS informed that “Rosneftegaz and a consortium incorporating the QIA and Glencore signed an agreement for the sale of 19.5% of Rosneft stake for 692bln rubles ($10.94bln)...

7.3.7. A total of 710.8bn rubles ($11.24bn, 10.4bn Euro), including 18bn rubles ($284.64mn) worth of extra dividends of Rosneftgaz were transferred to the Russian budget.”
google.com.mx/amp/tass.com/e…

8. DEC 8, THURSDAY. MOSCOW. #CarterPage, an early advisor to Trump and a former analyst for #Gazprom, arrives in Moscow with a private business visit till Dec 13.

8.1. Vedomosti reports his meetings with the Rosneft top managers as “signaling a new moment for energy-based rapprochement of relations between the US and Russia.”
nytimes.com/2016/12/08/wor…

8.2. DECEMBER 12, MONDAY, MOSCOW, #CarterPage gives a talk at the news agency “Rossiya Segodnya” and shows a slide that names #RexTillerson as the State Secretary. (Tillerson is not yet confirmed by Trump.)

9. DEC 12, DOHA, QATAR. The chief executive of QIA, Sheikh Abdullah bin Mohamed bin Saud al-Thani, delivered the message to U.S. officials including Charles Rivkin, U.S. assistant secretary of state for economic and business affairs...
reuters.com/article/us-qat…

9.1... it will invest $10bn in infrastructure projects inside the United States in an apparent boost to the economic plans of president-elect Donald Trump. No time frame was given for the investment.

9.2. Both the QIA, one of the world's largest sovereign funds, and a spokesman for the U.S. embassy in Qatar declined to comment.

9.3. This sum is reported by Reuters, RT, and many other sources but is not covered in the press release by the US Embassy following the meeting.
qa.usembassy.gov/u-s-and-qatar-…

10. DEC 13, TUESDAY. MOSCOW—DOHA. #Putin telephoned the Emir of #Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad #AlThani, to discuss “bilateral relations. Specifically, they emphasized the importance of the recent agreement by the QIA to buy a 19.5 % stake in Rosneft together with...

10.1. ... Swiss oil trader Glencore.”

en.kremlin.ru/events/preside…

11. DEC 13, WASHINGTON. Trump’s transition team announces Tillerson’s nomination as a Secretary of State.

12. DEC 15, WED. SINGAPORE. QHG Shares Pte. Pte. gave Russian state-owned bank VTB Rosneft shares as collateral for a bridge loan of 692.4bn roubles ($11.69bn), according to a document lodged with Singapore's Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority...

12.1. according to VTB bank company records seen by Reuters. Asked about VTB providing the loan, a Glencore spokesman said: "This was an intermediate step as part of the process leading up to the closure of the transaction." Qatar's sovereign fund, the QIA, declined to comment...

12.2. ..as did VTB. Rosneft would not confirm the existence of the loan, but said the deal was structured to avoid causing volatility on the Russian foreign exchange market.

12.3. A Kremlin spokesman said he could not confirm if the loan was made or not, but said it should not be seen as part of the financing for the Rosneft deal.

tass.com/economy/925693

reuters.com/article/us-rus…

12.4. DEC 15. MOSCOW. Rosneft informed the press that Rosneftegaz should transfer funds from the transaction to the federal budget. * It is also said that the hard currency will be transferred to Rosneft for the settlement of foreign debts and foreign purchases/investments...

12.4.... while 600 bn roubles recently raised by Rosneftegas will be paid into the state budget.

*Glencore only confirmed the completion of the settlements on 3 January 2017 and Rosneftegas confirmed it on 4 January. See below.

rosneft.com/press/releases…

13. DEC 15. ROME. The CEO of Intesa Carlo Messina told reporters that his bank did not fund the deal but was simply an adviser to the privatization on behalf of the controlling entity of Rosneft, which is not subject to any sanction or embargo, not a creditor or loan syndicator.

13.1. This statement has later disappeared from most websites.

ft.com/content/f28e6c…

13.2. dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/…

bondsloans.com/news/article/1…

14. DEC 16, THUR. NEW YORK—ROME. Intesa Sanpaolo SpA has agreed to pay a $235mn fine to the New York State Department of Financial Services for sanctions and anti-money laundering violations dating back a decade or more.

14.1. The violations include severe compliance failures over several years stemming from deficiencies in the implementation and oversight of its transaction monitoring system.

14.2. In addition, an investigation by DFS found that the Bank deliberately concealed information from bank examiners.
dfs.ny.gov/about/press/pr…

16. DEC 16. CAYMAN ISLANDS—LONDON. QHG Cayman Ltd., a company registered in the corporate services office of offshore law firm Walkers in the Cayman Islands...

16.1. is appointed as a designated member of the limited partnership QHG Holding, according to the records at U.K. Companies House, and a second owner of QHC Shares.

16.2. The Cayman Islands status offers a neutral platform in a stable legal system, tax advantages, and strict privacy laws.

caymancompass.com/2017/01/31/cay…

17. Address of Walkers Global in Cayman Islands is the same as Intertust. (but was later changed at Walkers website.) 27 Hospital Road, George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, KY1 9008.

beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/IXhrj…

sec.gov/Archives/edgar…

18. DEC 16. MOSCOW

The Bank of Russia added $9.4bn (RBL 600bn) in domestic rouble 5-year bond issued by Rosneft on December 5 into the lombard list of the Central Bank so they can serve as collateral for Central Bank loans.

18.1. Experts believe that the funds can be used to transfer the privatization money into the state budget.

rusletter.com/articles/vtb_h…

rbc.ru/business/20/12…

18.2. QHG Shares Pte. transfers the loan to the state holding company Rosneftegaz (owner of the Russian state’s stake in Rosneft.) Due to the change of the exchange rate the value of the deal drops by 30bn roubles.

rbc.ru/economics/14/1…

19. DEC 16. TOKYO. During their visit to Japan, Sechin reports to Putin that Euro10.5 bn (710.8 bn roubles, based on the Central Bank exchange rate as of December 6) was transferred into the budget by Rosneftegaz.

19.1. The sum includes the additional dividends from Rosneftegaz in the sum of 18.4 bn roubles.

uk.reuters.com/article/uk-rus…\

rbc.ru/economics/16/1…

20. DEC 18, SUN. On December 18, ExxonMobil successfully lobbied against a bill that would have made it harder for Trump to lift sanctions against Russia.

21. The bill, known as the STAND for Ukraine Act, if converted into law for five years Obama’s measures punishing Russia for annexing Crimea. The Senate left town on December 19, 2016, without acting on the bill, making it easier for Trump to end the sanctions.

22. DECEMBER 20, TUESDAY. MOSCOW—ROME. Intesa confirms its statement as of December 16, denying its funding the deal. The source of the funds in the state budget is unclear.

rbc.ru/business/20/12…

23. DECEMBER 21, TUESDAY, USA. The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) gave ExxonMobil a permit to export natural gas from its Golden Pass LNG facility (joint venture with Qatar) located in Sabine Pass. ferc.gov/CalendarFiles/…

24. DEC 22, THUR, MOSCOW. The loan agreement ends. VTB cedes the shares and the loan agreement to Rosneftegaz, the Russian state holding company owner of 69 % stake in Rosneft. *

reuters.com/article/us-rus…

24.1. The document states the termination was needed to clear the way for a separate loan, issued by Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo. Rosneftegaz reportedly pays the proceeds in the sum of 692.4bn rbls (EU10.2bn)+the dividends. $1.3bn to the state budget. note discrepancy in dates

25. DECEMBER 23, FRIDAY, MOSCOW
Deputy CEO of VTB Group, Head of VTB International Riccardo Orcel states that “Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo advising the state-owned vendor, Rosneftegaz. Intesa is now deciding whether to help fund the acquisition.”
vtbcapital.com/corporate-comm…

25. JANUARY 3, TUESDAY, LONDON, Glencore announces the completion of the deal. There is no official announcement from QIA.

otp.investis.com/clients/uk/gle…

25. JANUARY 3, 2017. TUESDAY. LONDON. Glencore announces the completion of the deal. There is no official announcement from QIA.
otp.investis.com/clients/uk/gle…

26. JAN 3, ROME. Intesa gets a 19.5 % stake in Rosneft ($10.2 bn) as collateral for the loan. reuters.com/article/us-gle…

26.1. There is no record in the documents found by Reuters that the money loaned to VTB was repaid to it. It is possible that this transaction took place in a different jurisdiction so was not reported to the Singapore authorities.

reuters.com/article/us-rus…

27. Other sources show that the loan paid by Intesa’s financing is 5.2bn Euro only and other money raised by special purpose vehicle (SPV.)

28. JANUARY 4, WEDNESDAY, MOSCOW. Rosneftegaz announces the completion of the deal on privatization.
rosneft.ru/upload/site1/d…
rbc.ru/business/04/01…

29. JAN 4, DOHA. Robert Hager, president of the chamber’s #Qatar branch of the American Chamber of Commerce, announces that the US is considering a renewed bilateral relationship with Doha, stating that Qatar is going to have “a unique position in the Trump administration.

29.1. This administration knows Doha very well. US President Donald Trump himself visited Doha and toured The Pearl-Qatar a few years ago. His National Security Adviser Lieutenant General Michael Flynn also worked in Doha…

29.2. Similarly, many of the generals and members of the Trump cabinet have been in Qatar at some point in their lives. So, it is going to be a much different environment."
uschamber.com/press-release/…
qatar-tribune.com/news-details/i…

30. JANUARY 17, DAVOS, SWITZERLAND, #Scaramucci, aide to Trump and founder of SkyBridge Capital, the only unofficial representative of Trump’s team at the forum in Davos discussed possible joint investments in a meeting in Davos with Kirill Dmitriev...
tass.com/economy/925424

30.1. ...head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, a $10bn state-run investment vehicle, sanctioned by the US in 2015. This was the first public contact between the Trump administration and Kremlin-backed business.

30.2. Scaramucci said he’s long known Dmitriev and worked with him to set up the business delegation as a private citizen. In his TASS interview, Scaramucci said that sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine crisis have not succeeded.

bloomberg.com/politics/artic…

31.#QIA is a partner of the #RDIF since May 2014. (QIA offered $2bn in financing through Qatar Holding at the time, though only $500mn in investments have since materialized.

31.1. In July 2016, QIA bought a 24.99 % stake in St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo International Airport for around 239mn Euro with the help of the RDIF.)

thediplomat.com/2017/02/how-ro…

32. JANUARY 26, THURSDAY. MOSCOW. Putin met with QIA CEO Abdullah Al Thani, Glencore’s Glasenberg and Intesa Sanpaolo SpA CEO Carlo Messina. The meeting was attended by Rosneft CEO and Chairman of the Management Board Igor Sechin.
en.kremlin.ru/events/preside…

33. JANUARY 28, SATURDAY. WASHINGTON—MOSCOW. Putin and Trump have an hour-long phone conversation.

nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/…

34. JANUARY 29, SUNDAY. NEW YORK. Andrey Artemenko, a member of Ukraine's parliament, a former member of a far-right Radical Party, with close ties in Qatar, met with Trump’s personal lawyer #MichaelCohen and former Trump advisor and Bayrock manager #FelixSater in New York...

34.1. to discuss Artemenko's proposal for solving the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The meeting was organized by Sater, who knew Cohen through his work with the Trump Organization and was introduced to Artemenko by a mutual friend named Yan Aronov.

34.2. The plan involved lifting sanctions on Russia and allowing Moscow to lease Crimea for either 50 or 100 years, and Russia withdrawing its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.

34.3. Cohen then allegedly "hand-delivered" the plan in a sealed envelope to Michael Flynn’s office.
nytimes.com/2017/02/19/us/…

34.3.1. READ ABOUT #MICHAELCOHEN 30 years+ ties with former USSR OG, politicians, etc.

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35. FEB 10, 2017. #Trump speaks on the phone with #Qatar’s Emir Al-Thani. Emir also holds a telephonic conversation with Tillerson.
whitehouse.gov/the-press-offi…
qatarliving.com/forum/news/pos…

36. March 7, 2017. New ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods announced $20 bn investment in the expansion along the Gulf Coast in Texas and Louisiana. Trump followed up with 5 congratulatory tweets and a video praising Exxon, pinned to the top of his Tweeter account.

36.1. The White House posted a press release copying almost word-for-word a paragraph from the Exxon press release.

37.MARCH 9, 2017. Putin met new ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Russia's energy minister, Alexander Novak, and Rosneft head Igor Sechin attended the meeting. The meeting was not reported on the official Kremlin website.

38. March 20, 2017. US: The House Intelligence Committee starts working. On the same day, Italy's Financial Security Committee (FSC), a government body which includes officials from the finance, foreign and justice ministries, the central bank...

38.1. finance police and anti-mafia prosecutors, found no sanctions violations and approved a 5.2bn euro loan made in January by bank Intesa SanPaolo to finance the privatization of a stake in Rosneft, after checking to ensure the deal did not breach sanctions.

38.2. FSC investigated the sanctioned VTB’s role but concluded that the bridge loan arrangement did not make the transaction illegal. According to FSC, VTB provided a bridge loan while the buyers waited for the money from Intesa.

google.com.mx/amp/uk.mobile.…

39. March 27, 2017. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Qatari Defense Minister Khalid bin Mohammed al-Attiyah met at the Pentagon.
defense.gov/News/Article/A…

40. APRIL 10, MOSCOW. Putin awarded state medals to executives with the QIA, Glencore and Intesa Sanpaolo.

reuters.com/article/us-rus…

publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/…

41. April 12, Moscow. Tillerson had five-hour long talk with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, followed by two-hour meeting with Putin and Lavrov behind the closed doors. Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov did not disclose the details...

41.1. ...Sit-down with Putin was not on Tillerson’s original itinerary for this week’s visit to Moscow. Later that day, Lavrov told TASS journalists that the reason for American allegations against Russia is the pressure on the US government from the opponents of Donald Trump.

41.2.... He stressed that the Russian authorities understand that the problems between the two countries are caused by the process of forming of an “international affairs approach” in the new American government.
denmark.mid.ru/en_GB/web/denm…

42. APRIL15, MOSCOW. The Foreign Minister of Qatar Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani met with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. They agreed on holding an independent investigation into the chemical attacks that took place in Khan Sheikhoun in Syria...

42.1. Note: Qatar did not react to the recent US bombing attacks until this meeting.
m.gulf-times.com/story/544567/Q…

43. April 18, Moscow. The meeting of the Russia-Qatar intergovernmental commission will be held on April 25, Russian Deputy Minister of Energy told reporters.
tass.com/politics/941846

44. APRIL 22, 2017. DOHA. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis met with Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Defense Minister Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah in Doha.
defense.gov/News/News-Rele….

45. APRIL 25, DOHA. During the intergovernmental meeting in Doha, the Russian Energy Minister Novak said, that cooperation between the RDIF and the QIA is growing. tass.com/economy/943060

46. April 25, 2017. Texas. DOE issued an order authorizing Golden Pass Products LLC (Golden Pass, a 70-30% Qatar Petroleum—Exxon joint venture) to export domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries that do not have a free trade agreement (FTA) with the US.

46.1. Golden Pass is authorized to export LNG up to the equivalent of 808bn cubic feet (Bcf) per year (2.21 Bcf/day) of natural gas to any non-FTA country not prohibited by U.S. law or policy from the Golden Pass Terminal near Sabine Pass, in Jefferson County, Texas.

46.2. *The authorization from DOE was pending from at least February 2013.

bakermckenzie.co.jp/e/material/dl/…

energy.gov/fe/downloads/g…

47. MAY 1. Lavrov spoke by phone with Tillerson at the latter’s request.

48. MAY 10. Lavrov, Russian ambassador Kislyak, Tillerson and Trump met at the White House.
cnn.com/2017/05/10/pol…

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