Mueller is looking at the Dubai deal that Trump says he turned down.
My newspaper looked at this in May 2017. I am going before the Springfield City Council and call for an investigation of Apex support of Republicans in Oregon. I will write my Congressman Peter DeFazio.
Trump was offered land in Zimbabwe, that may have belong to my kin. America has been taken over by Monopoly Players. We are mere pawns in their game. With the backing of evangelical voters, who don’t care if their president tells fifty lies a day, the Trump Players will rule the world. The Real News is being destroyed and replaced with glowing Financial Fox Commercials, disguised as news.
John Presco
- President Donald Trump rejected a business proposal from a close United Arab Emirates associate days before a Trump surrogate met an Emirati delegation and Kremlin-aligned Russian investor Kirill Dmitriev in the Seychelles.
- Trump said he turned down the proposal because he did not want to be perceived as taking advantage of the presidency.
- The Trump Organization’s name was included in several regulatory filings made by the Emirati associate’s company after the 2016 election, raising questions about why Trump rejected the $2 billion proposal in January 2017.
Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) – a sovereign wealth fund created by the Russian government to attract investors to Russia – reportedly has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his family.
He was a relatively unknown figure outside the business world before revelations arose about a meeting with members of the UAE’s ruling elite and mercenary billionaire Erik Prince in Seychelles in January 2017, just before President Donald Trump assumed office.
George Nader, a convicted child molester and adviser to the UAE’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan – often called MBZ – who attended the Seychelles gathering, has reportedly testified to a grand jury that Dmitriev met Prince in Seychelles.
The testimony came in relation to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between Trump’s election campaign team and Russian officials.
UAE investment with the RDIF
The UAE’s sovereign investment fund, Mubadala Development Company, is headed by bin Zayed and has invested alongside the Russian fund since as early as 201
Mubadala and RDIF jointly invested $2bn – $1bn each – in an initiative “to pursue opportunities in Russia”, focusing on “long-term investment opportunities”, Mubadala’s website says.
Abu Dhabi’s Department of Finance committed to investing a further $5bn in Russian infrastructure in partnership with the RDIF in 2013. Dmitriev and bin Zayed met to sign a memorandum of understanding in September of that year.
Following the billion-dollar co-investments, Dmitriev became a frequent visitor to the United Arab Emirates, reports say.
Putin connection
Dmitriev and Russian President Vladimir Putin are reportedly linked through business relationships.
Dmitriev’s wife, Natalia Popova is the deputy director of technology firm Innopraktika, which is headed by Putin’s youngster daughter, Katerina Tikhonova. Dmitriev is a member of the firm’s board.
News outlets previously quoted sources as saying that Dmitriev used his wife’s alleged personal connections to Tikhonova to advance his career.
In a statement to Al Jazeera, the RDIF said Dmitriev was a “leading private equity professional” at the time of his appointment as head of the Russian sovereign investment fund.
The RDIF also said Popova and Tikhonova were “not acquainted” when Dmitriev was appointed.
Prince, founder of controversial private military firm Blackwater, has admitted meeting Dmitriev for a drink in Seychelles in testimony to the US Congress (PDF) but denied it was in any official capacity.
The former Navy SEAL said he donated money to the Trump campaign and informally offered advice on US policy in the Middle East.
Prince told a congressional inquiry he and Dmitriev met on the recommendation of the UAE’s officials, but mostly discussed private business investments for about 30 minutes over a beer.
“They said, ‘Oh, there’s this Russian guy that’s also here to see us. Might be useful for you to meet him,’” Prince recounted the Emiratis telling him.
The conversation with Dmitriev focused on “trade matters” and possible US-Russian cooperation to defeat “Islamic terrorism”, he added.
https://www.weeklystandard.com/stephen-f-hayes/how-trumps-lies-about-russia-were-exposed
Mubadala Investment Co has acquired a minority stake in Phoenician Capital. Financial terms weren’t announced. Phoenician, of New York, is a money manager launched by John Khabbaz in 2007. Mubadala Capital, Mubadala’s financial investment arm, made the investment.
PRESS RELEASE
April 25, 2018 – New York (NY) – Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala), the Abu Dhabi-based investment company, has acquired a minority stake in the general partner of Phoenician Capital, a New York-based investment management company launched by John Khabbaz in 2007.
The investment was made through Mubadala Capital, Mubadala’s financial investment arm. The partnership includes an agreement for Mubadala Capital to invest in a fund managed by Phoenician Capital.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Prince
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mubadala_Investment_Company
http://www.apex-partners.com/mubadala-invests-in-phoenician-capital/
President Trump rarely mentions Africa, especially not in a positive light. But would he think differently about the continent if he opened a golf course there?
This week, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa said at an investors’ forum in New York that he “had offered President Trump ground to build a state-of-the-art golf course so that as he plays he can be able to see the big five,” the Associated Press reported.
Elisabeth von Pezold, née Princess of Schwarzenberg-Frauenberg
My kindred are involved in the land seizures in Zimbabwe that are being compared to South Africa, that Trump Rapture Rat has gotten involved in.
https://rosamondpress.com/2018/01/12/rise-up-ye-africans/
https://rosamondpress.com/2013/12/16/jubilee-of-the-zulu-zionists/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reform_in_Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is in breach of two arbitral awards totalling USD 240 million, after it missed a deadline to pay investors whose land was seized as part of the government’s racially motivated land reforms.
Zimbabwe has failed to pay arbitral awards worth nearly USD 240 million to a family of Swiss-German investors whose land was seized by settlers and the government on racial grounds.
The von Pezold family and their company Border Timbers won twin awards against the Zimbabwean government at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in July 2015, worth USD 230 million in damages and interest, GBP 8 million (USD 10.7 million) in legal fees and ZAR 705,000 (USD 53,000) in experts’ fees.
The government has spent the subsequent two years trying to have the award annulled by an ICSID panel, a fight that will not be decided until the middle of 2018. In the meantime, it has missed a 23 August deadline to pay the awards, with the claimants now entitled to seek enforcement, although there is no word on whether they will attempt to do so between now and the annulment hearings in April next year.
Rosamond Press 
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