Former Moscow region official accused of $200 MILLION fraud extradited to Russia

Published time: 3 Jan, 2019 23:34

France has extradited the former Moscow regional finance minister to Russia. The once high-ranking official and his American wife stand accused of embezzling billions of rubles from the regional budget.
The French law enforcement “have complied with the extradition request,” the Russian Prosecutor General's office said in a statement, adding that the former official, identified as Aleksey Kuznetsov, arrived to Russia on January 3, accompanied by the Russian Interpol agents and the officers of the Federal Penal Correction Service.

Kuznetsov's case dates back to 2010, when he was charged with 10 counts of fraud, 3 counts of embezzlement, as well as with legalization of criminal assets. The damage his criminal actions inflicted to the Moscow region government, local housing and utility services as well as some local businesses amounted to an astonishing 14 billion rubles ($200mn).

According to the prosecutors, he committed his crimes together with his wife, a US citizen called Janna Bullock. She was sentenced to 11 years in prison in absentia in Russia over complicity in Kuznetsov's crimes in January 2018. However, her whereabouts are unknown at the moment. It is also unclear if she and Kuznetsov got divorced since then.

The former finance minister, who had also served as the regional government's deputy head, had already fled Russia by the time he faced the charges, so the Russian authorities put him on an international wanted list. He was eventually arrested three years later in France. France's financial prosecutor also opened a separate case against Kuznetsov and Bullock over legalization of his illegally obtained assets in France.

As part of the investigation, assets belonging to the couple in France and Switzerland that were believed to be purchased with criminal money were seized. The list includes hotels Crystal and Pralong in France, an apartment in Paris, two apartments in Switzerland, a villa in Saint-Tropez, as well as 27 paintings and eight sculptures, 10 Rolls-Royce, Mercedes and Bentley cars and a yacht. The assets were then sold to repay the victims, according to TASS.

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office praised the work of its French colleagues by saying that “timely cooperation” with Paris allowed it to “break down the barriers” in this case. It also said that it also “gives particular importance to international cooperation.”

The Chuvash people (Chuvash: чăваш; Russian: чуваши) are a Turkic ethnic group, native to an area stretching from the Volga Region to Siberia. Most of them live in the Republic of Chuvashia and surrounding areas, although Chuvash communities may be found throughout the Russian Federation.

There are rival schools of thought on the origin of the Chuvash people. One is that they originated from a mixing between the Turkic Sabir tribes of Volga Bulgaria and also according to some researches with local Finno-Ugric populations.
According to another theory, the Chuvash may be descended from the Volga Bulgars.

Today Chuvash people are Eastern Orthodox Christians and belong to the Russian Orthodox Church.

Čuvaši u Rusiji i Gagauzi u Moldaviji su jedini turkijski narodi koji su primili pravoslavlje.
Šteta što Rusiji to nije uspjelo sa Tatarima i Baškirima.
Ipak, kroz sovjetski 20. vijek islam je kod njih skoro potpuno ugašen, a rusifikacija napredovala.

šteta je što Rusi nisu evangelizirali cijelu srednju Aziju, bio bi to danas značajan bazen za imigraciju cijeloj Rusiji i Europi.

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šteta je što Rusi nisu evangelizirali cijelu srednju Aziju, bio bi to danas značajan bazen za imigraciju cijeloj Rusiji i Europi.

Rusi dobili vojnu bazu u Venezueli. Otok pored kopna, pola-pola sa njihovom armijom. Za svoje strateške bombardere, nosače nuklearnih glava.

Amerikanci nešto srali kako troše novac na gluposti dok im narod gladuje, Rusi im spustili. Nekulturno od zemlje čije pola vojnog proračuna može nahraniti čitavu Južnu Ameriku da takve gluposti priča.

A jel si bio u nekom drugom gradu osim Moskve? Ne možeš da sudiš Rusiju po Moskvi. Moskva i St.Peterburg i ostatak Rusije su dve vrlo različite države.

Dao sam konstataciju na bbc-ev post o tvrdnjama amera, Rusija i Moskva prica za sebe u smislu svega kontra od onoga sto zapad godinama plasira, Moskva kao glavni grad je centar svega i daleko da gradjani Moskve imaju najbolji standard i vecu platežnu moć od ostatka federacije

Da, bio sam, 1997. u Moskvi i Voronježu, 2004. u Moskvi, Sant Peterburgu i Nižnji Novogrodu, 2016. u Moskvi i Rostovu na Doni i sada samo u Moskvi, inace od supruge đed je Rus iz Lipecka koji je 1946 ostao u Beogradu a i ona je godinu studija provela u Moskvi, tako da Rusija i ja nismo na "ti"

Pence Asked Merkel to Provoke Russia by Sending Warships to Crimea

By Patrick Donahue and Jennifer Jacobs
March 7, 2019, 6:34 PM GMT+1 Updated on March 8, 2019, 4:00 AM GMT+1

The U.S. leaned on German Chancellor Angela Merkel last month to conduct a naval maneuver in Russia’s backyard aimed at provoking President Vladimir Putin, according to three people familiar with the talks.

At a Feb. 16 meeting at the Munich Security Conference, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence urged Merkel to send German warships through a narrow channel between the Crimean peninsula and mainland Russia to show Putin that Western powers won’t surrender their access to those waters, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The German leader refused, they said, citing reservations from Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. A spokesman for the chancellor declined to comment.

The two-mile (three kilometer) wide Kerch Strait is a critical flashpoint as Putin looks to consolidate his control over the Crimean peninsula and eastern Ukraine in defiance of sanctions from the European Union and the U.S.

Merkel had indicated she was willing, in coordination with the French, to send a convoy through the waterway as a one-time maneuver but Poroshenko said that wasn’t enough to solve his problem -- he wants to ensure the strait is open permanently, the people said. France also refused to take part, judging the idea as an unnecessary provocation, according to another official who declined to be identified.

Zadnjih 15 godina opet enormno ulažu u vojsku.

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