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active meas doc sez 19% of sanctions lift $ would be paid out to djt? more ppl?=qz jul 2017<a href="https://qz.com/1034589/exxonmobil-made-illegal-deals-with-russia-when-secretary-of-state-rex-tillerson-ran-the-company">https://qz.com/1034589/exxonmobil-made-illegal-deals-with-russia-when-secretary-of-state-rex-tillerson-ran-the-company</a>
when Rex Tillerson ran ExxonMobil, he made his name making deals in Russia, which in turn made Donald Trump’s decision to appoint him as secretary of State contentious. Skepticism about Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian state and its connections to the highest levels of the Trump administration dogged his confirmation hearings.
Now, it turns out at least some of those Russia deals made while he was CEO broke US law. The sanctions cops at the US Treasury Department have levied a fine of $2 million (pdf) on ExxonMobil for violating sanctions put in place to punish Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014.
That fine is, of course, a tiny drop in the ocean of Exxon’s petroleum profits of $7.8 billion last year. The violations hinge on some awkward timing. The US issued an executive order in March 2014, forbidding “the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services” from someone on the sanctions list. Igor Sechin, a Putin crony who earned the moniker “Darth Vader” for his forbidding style, was added to that list in April. In May, ExxonMobil signed a series of agreements with Sechin, who was acting in his capacity as the president of Rosneft, the Russian state oil firm.
This was a no-no. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which enforces sanctions, called the deal an “egregious case” that showed “reckless disregard” for US sanctions.
In a statement issued today, Exxon said the action is “fundamentally unfair,” and that it would file a legal challenge to overturn OFAC’s judgement.
Exxon said that the sanctions were aimed at Sechin’s personal wealth, not at Rosneft; it notes that a British oil company’s American CEO was allowed to attend board meetings with Sechin and that White House officials described the sanctions as an effort to target individuals, not companies. OFAC, on the other hand, said in its statement that it doesn’t recognize “an exception or carve-out for the professional conduct of designated or blocked persons,” and that the only thing that matters is the letter of the law.
OFAC also noted that “ExxonMobil’s senior-most executives knew of Sechin’s status as [a sanctioned individual] when they dealt in the blocked services of Sechin.” ExxonMobil’s senior-most executive at that time was Tillerson.
The next month, Tillerson was asked about sanctions by the Associated Press and said “there has been no impact on any of our business activities in Russia to this point, nor has there been any discernible impact on the relationship. The organizations continue to work business as usual.”
Rosneft was crucial to Exxon. In 2011, Exxon had begun working with the Russian firm in a $600 million deal to exploit Russian shale oil reserves. That represented an important gain in Exxon’s long-running battle to replenish its oil reserves, the key to the long-term survival of its business. The 2014 sanctions were a big obstacle to its success.
Three years later, during his confirmation hearing, Tillerson told senators that “to my knowledge, Exxon never directly lobbied against sanctions.” Politifact rated this statement “mostly false,” since Exxon had in fact paid a lobby group to lobby on the issue and Tillerson had spoken publicly of making Exxon’s opposition to sanctions known “at the highest levels.”
==Rachel Maddow pinpoints the root of all evils: The fossil fuel industryBy Jill Dougherty October 3, 2019 Jill Dougherty is a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington and a Centennial fellow at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She covered the White House and State Department for CNN and served for nine years as CNN’s Moscow bureau chief.
Fulminating comes easy to Rachel Maddow. What sets her apart from other serial fulminators is that she does it with facts — and sardonic wit.
Her new book, “Blowout,” takes on the fossil fuel industry or, as one person she cites puts it, the “excrement of the devil.” This is not — and who would expect it from Maddow? — an “on the one hand, on the other hand” type of journalistic endeavor. She states her thesis at the outset: The oil and gas industry “is the most consequential, the most lucrative, the most powerful, and the least-well-governed major industry in the history of mankind.”
At its heart, this book is a tale of two countries, the United States and Russia, and how, as Maddow sees it — individually and together — they have been warped by a rapacious fossil fuel industry. In her view, almost everything comes back, in the end, to the industry. It’s the “key ingredient in the global chaos and democratic downturn we’re now living through,” she says. The industry is so rich, so “ginormous,” so intertwined with every aspect of our lives and the lives of everyone on Earth that, if you follow the dots, it explains how almost everything in the world works — ultimately, she warns, it will “fatally injure the whole freaking planet.”
The book’s title is a technical term for that horrifying moment when, if pressure in an oil or gas well builds and control systems fail, the fuel races back up to the rig and explodes in a fireball. “Blowout” reads like Maddow’s MSNBC monologues, piling outrage on top of outrage, peppered with breathless asides warning of Armageddon: “Hey, in the quest for American energy independence, maybe a few of us have to take one for the team — line up your pets, line up your eighth graders.” You can almost see that finger jab as she drives home the point.

Maddow’s tale ties together fracking in Oklahoma, Russian “sleeper” spies, the debauched son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, “earthquake swarms,” poisoned pets, the hacker Guccifer, Moammar Gaddafi’s death, a secessionist movement in Texas, but wait, there’s more! Fossil fuels are the world’s cheap high, an international addiction, Maddow argues, creating “such large, up-front, sweat-free gains for connected elites that no one wants to do anything else but chase the oil jackpot.”
One of her most outrageous examples is Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, wayward son of Equatorial Guinea’s president-for-life Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. Ensconced in a $30 million mansion in Malibu, Calif., he owned houses around the world, a fleet of luxury cars and a massive yacht, and liked to treat his girlfriends to an afternoon of shopping, giving them $80,000 in $100 bills, forked over from a Nike shoe box stuffed with cash. Oil, you see, had been discovered off the coast, and as a result, a Global Witness report showed, the tiny nation’s oil revenue soared from just $2.1 million in 1993 to $3.9 billion in 2007. Meanwhile, the report said, 77 percent of the population lived in poverty.
In tracing the industry and its impact on our lives, Maddow begins at the beginning, in 1859, with the discovery of “rock oil” and, a few years later, John D. Rockefeller’s founding of Standard Oil. She takes the story up to today’s inventions — hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling — that have revolutionized extraction and helped launch America on its road to “energy independence.”
An inseparable part of America’s fossil fuel history, Maddow points out, are the federal and state tax breaks for the industry, what she calls the “longest running welfare program in the nation’s history.” This spawned a symbiotic relationship, as the fossil fuel industry began to feed on the body politic, eventually creating its own “corporate shadow foreign policy.”
The ultimate victims, Maddow says, continue to be average Americans across the country, in thrall to an industry that gives them jobs but threatens their health, even their lives, all the while undermining democracy.
Russia, without strong democratic institutions, comes off even worse, beset with “the Resource Curse” — abundant energy resources that create enormous cashflows but that crowd out more stable and diversified roads to economic development. The result: “poor governance and high corruption [that result in] devastating economic, health and environmental consequences at the local level, and high incidences of conflict and war.”

The culprit, as Maddow sees it, is President Vladimir Putin. Early in his presidency he targeted energy resources as the path to return Russia to its rightful place on the world stage after the ignominious demise of the Soviet Union. That was a worthy goal, and during the George W. Bush administration, when relations with America were more hopeful, Putin calculated that Russia could become an important energy supplier to the United States.
It didn’t end up that way. Putin’s efforts to restore Russia, Maddow writes, “no longer depend on capacity and know-how. They depend on cheating. Putin and his minions cheat at the financial markets. They cheat at the Olympics. They cheat at their own fake democracy. They cheat other people out of their democracies.”
Maddow devotes a large section of “Blowout” to Russia, but it’s not what you might expect from an American writing about America’s nemesis. Yes, there’s an entire chapter devoted to Russian “illegals” — undercover intelligence agents living in the United States as Americans, including Anna Chapman, “billed as a modern seductress worthy of Mata Hari.” And there’s Rex Tillerson, former head of ExxonMobil, who signed a strategic alliance deal between his company and the Russian energy giant Rosneft, and who went on to become President Trump’s secretary of state. And there’s Igor Sechin, head of Rosneft and a member of Putin’s inner circle, described with Maddow’s inimitable style: “When Sechin did smile, he looked like a fairy-tale ogre who had just swallowed a small tasty child.”
Her description of Carter Page, foreign policy adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump, is a close second: “The wheels in Page’s head didn’t turn with a great deal of velocity, but they exhibited real stamina.”
But Maddow goes deeper, deftly describing the sad truth that Russia and its citizens paid a steep price for Putin’s overreliance on energy: “Now in his twentieth year running the show, Vladimir Putin presides over a metaphysical unforced error: the tragic scuppering of one of the potentially great nations in the world.”
Maddow’s sources include some of the best writers on contemporary Russia, including Masha Gessen, Mikhail Zygar, Karen Dawisha, Nina Khrushcheva and Anna Nemtsova. She includes a quote from the world leader who probably knows Putin better than anyone, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in East Germany and speaks Russian: “I understand why he has to do this — to prove he’s a man. He’s afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful politics or economy. All they have is this.”
There are a lot of bad guys in this book. But there are a few good ones, too. Like Austin Holland, head seismologist for the Oklahoma Geological Survey, who, under great pressure from the industry and its supporters to stop his research, found that disposal of wastewater from fracking was, indeed, linked to an astounding increase in earthquakes in the state. Eventually, he left his position and headed for New Mexico and a job with the U.S. Geological Survey.
The real heroes, Maddow says, are the teachers, students and parents in Oklahoma, fed up with the fracking and the earthquakes — more than 100 measuring a magnitude of 3.0 or higher in the state in February 2016 alone — and the tax breaks for the oil and gas industry, even as spending per student plummeted by 24 percent over eight years. Thanks to their protests, the state legislature eventually raised taxes on the industry and put more controls on wastewater.
Maddow doesn’t think the fossil fuel industry is going away anytime soon, although she says it will eventually: “Coal is dead. As dead as whale oil and kerosene and every other fuel source we once believed we couldn’t live without. Oil and gas are dead, too — only they don’t look sick yet.”
The world, she says, must figure out how to get along without them. And, although it seems hard to believe after more than 350 pages of horrors that the industry has inflicted on the environment and geopolitics around the world, Maddow claims that “this is a doable, winnable fight here at home.”
In “Blowout,” just like in her MSNBC monologues, Maddow doesn’t shy away from hyperbole: “Democracy either wins this one or disappears.” But we readers have to ask ourselves — is it really hyperbole?
Blowout
Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on EarthBy Rachel Maddow
Crown.406 pp. $30collusion?<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 29.5px;">Steele’s memo labeled “Company Intelligence Report” or CIR 112, according to the Alfa complaint against Simpson, “specifically discusses the Plaintiffs. Its title, by itself, is defamatory: ‘RUSSIA/US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: KREMIN-ALPHA [sic] GROUP CO-OPERATION.’ CIR 112 suggests that Alfa and its executives, including the Plaintiffs, ‘cooperated’ in an alleged Kremlin-orchestrated campaign to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.”<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 29.5px;">The Alfa complaint goes on to cite CIR 112 alleging the “‘current closeness’ of an ‘Alpha Group/PUTIN relationship,’ including that ‘[s]ignificant favors continue to be done in both directions’ and that ‘FRIDMAN and AVEN [are] still giving informal advice to PUTIN, especially on the US.’”<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 29.5px;">The Dossier, as cited in the Alfa complaint, then went on to allege that in the 1990s a former employee of the group who now works closely with Putin got his start by delivering “large amounts of illicit cash to the Russian president, at that time deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg” and by 2016 was serving as an intermediary between Alfa and Putin.<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 29.5px;">“The allegations are false,” says the Alfa complaint. “And their defamatory nature is clear: CIR 112 alleges that, in the 1990s, Alfa (a member of ‘Alpha Group’) and three of its largest beneficial owners purportedly engaged in actions of criminal bribery of Vladimir Putin, a public official, to secure favorable business treatment.” <p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 29.5px;">In fact, the alleged purveyor of cash to Putin, Oleg Govorun, did not join Alfa officially until after Putin left the St. Petersburg mayor’s office. But, interestingly, Govorun, currently head of Putin's directorate for social and economic cooperation with the Commonwealth of Independent States, is on the new sanctions list from the Treasury.<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 29.5px;">Why would Mueller include a reference to the complaint against Fusion GPS in the van der Zwaan sentencing memo?<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 29.5px;">
<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 29.5px;">Khan, who ranked number 11 on the 2017 Forbes list of Russian billionaires, makes an interesting contrast with the bookish, wholesome-looking van der Zwaan, who, according to his lawyers, is desperate to get home to his pregnant wife in Britain. A 2008 U.S. embassy memo from Moscow published by WikiLeaks provided a description of Khan, known as one of Russia’s most ruthless businessmen, by a British oil executive named Tim Summers, who went on a hunting trip with him:<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 29.5px;">
<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 29.5px;">“Khan had shown up for the trip with not just his girl friend (Khan is married) but also with six prostitutes. They had flown out to Khan’s hunting lodge, which Summers said was like a Four Seasons hotel in the middle of nowhere. At dinner that evening, Khan had told a stunned Summers that The Godfather was his favorite movie, that he watched it every few months, and that he considered it a ‘manual for life.’ Khan had also come to dinner armed with a chrome-plated pistol.”<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 29.5px;">
<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 29.5px;">Khan and Mikhail Fridman, both originally from Ukraine, created the Alfa Group in 1989, along with Alexei Kuzmichev, and were later joined by Petr Aven. The group included Alfa Bank, one of the largest private banks in Russia with branches worldwide, a 50 percent stake in the oil giant TNK-BP and Alfa-Eko, which exported oil and was headed by Khan. According to a report from the research firm Stratfor in 2007, available on WikiLeaks, Aven was known to be an especially close personal friend of Rosneft chief Igor Sechin, a key Putin ally (PDF).<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 29.5px;">
<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 29.5px;">And the Alfa Group and Sechin have worked closely in the oil business. In 2013, Rosneft purchased Alfa’s stake in TNK-BP for $27.7 billion, and Alfa invested the proceeds in a new consortium, LetterOne, an international investment business, focusing on energy, technology, and health.<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 29.5px;">
<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 29.5px;">Despite their well-established ties to Putin—Aven’s friendship with Putin, as he openly acknowledges, goes back to the early 1990s—the Alfa Group billionaires have thus far avoided Western sanctions by maintaining a careful balance between meeting Kremlin requirements and maintaining a favorable public image in the West. Alfa Bank notably pulled out of Crimea after Russia’s 2014 annexation of the region, which it publicly opposed, and it was the only large Russian bank to be exempted from sanctions.
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Igor Ivanovich Sechin (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language" style=" background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Russian</a>: Игорь Иванович Сечин, born 7 September 1960 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad" class="mw-redirect" title="Leningrad" style=" background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Leningrad</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union" style=" background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Soviet Union</a>) is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" title="Russia" style=" background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Russian</a> official, considered a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_groups_during_Vladimir_Putin%27s_presidency" class="mw-redirect" title="Political groups during Vladimir Putin's presidency" style=" background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">close ally and "de facto deputy" of Vladimir Putin</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sechin#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[2]</a> Sechin is often described as one of Putin's most conservative counselors and the leader of the Kremlin's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siloviki" class="mw-redirect" title="Siloviki" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Siloviki</a> faction, a lobby gathering former security services agents.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sechin#cite_note-3" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a> Until 21 May 2012, he served as Deputy Prime Minister of Russia in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin" style=" background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Vladimir Putin</a>'s cabinet and he is currently the Executive Chairman of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosneft" title="Rosneft" style=" background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Rosneft</a>, the Russian state oil company.

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Igor Sechin graduated from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_State_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Leningrad State University" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Leningrad State University</a> in 1984 as a linguist, fluent in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Portuguese</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" title="French language" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">French</a>. In the 1980s, Sechin worked in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique" title="Mozambique" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mozambique</a>. He was officially a Soviet interpreter. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sechin#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a> From 1991 to 1996, he worked at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg_City_Administration" title="Saint Petersburg City Administration" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">St. Petersburg mayor's office</a>, and became a chief of staff of the first deputy mayor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Vladimir Putin</a> in 1994.

From 1996 to 1997, Sechin served as a deputy of Vladimir Putin, who worked in the presidential property management department. From 1997 to 1998, Sechin was the chief of the general department of the main control directorate attached to the president, led by Putin. In August 1999, he was appointed head of the secretariat of the prime minister of Russia, Putin. From 24 November 1999 until 11 January 2000, Sechin was the first deputy chief of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_presidential_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian presidential administration" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Russian presidential administration</a>.

Between 31 December 1999 and May 2008 he was deputy chief of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_presidential_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian presidential administration" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Putin's administration</a>. In May 2008, he was appointed by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev" title="Dmitry Medvedev" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Dmitry Medvedev</a> as a deputy prime minister in a move considered as a demotion.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sechin#cite_note-5" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a>According to Stratfor, "Sechin acts as boss of Russia’s gigantic state oil company Rosneft and commands the loyalty of the FSB. Thus, he represents the FSB’s hand in Russia’s energy sector."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sechin#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">[6]</a>

Since 27 July 2004 Sechin has been the successful and influential chairman of the board of directors of JSC <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosneft" title="Rosneft" style=" background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Rosneft</a>, which swallowed up the assets of jailed tycoon Khodorkovsky's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukos" title="Yukos" style=" background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Yukos</a>. He has additionally been president of Rosneft since May 2012. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khodorkovsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Khodorkovsky" style=" background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Khodorkovsky</a> has accused Igor Sechin of plotting to have him arrested and plundering his oil company: "The second as well as the first case were organised by Igor Sechin. He orchestrated the first case against me out of greed and the second out of cowardice." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sechin#cite_note-7" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[7]</a> In 2008 Mr. Sechin allegedly blocked the replacement of the AAR consortium with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazprom" title="Gazprom" style=" background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Gazprom</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNK-BP" title="TNK-BP" style=" background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">TNK-BP</a> joint venture.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sechin#cite_note-8" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a>

In 2008 Igor Sechin was involved with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP" title="BP" style=" background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">BP</a> oil company and did private negotiations with BP CEO.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sechin#cite_note-9" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[9]</a> In 2008 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Hugo Chávez" style=" background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Hugo Chávez</a> said that the idea for Venezuelan nuclear energy program came from Sechin. Sechin negotiated deals on weapons and nuclear technology deliveries to Venezuela.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sechin#cite_note-10" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[10]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sechin#cite_note-11" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[11]</a> In July 2009 Sechin negotiated deals with Cuba that brought Russia into deep-water drilling in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico" title="Gulf of Mexico" style=" background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Gulf of Mexico</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sechin#cite_note-12" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">[12]</a>

Sechin also presides over the Board of Directors of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Shipbuilding_Corporation" title="United Shipbuilding Corporation" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">United Shipbuilding Corporation</a>, and helped with negotiations with France over the purchase of four <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral_class_amphibious_assault_ship" class="mw-redirect" title="Mistral class amphibious assault ship" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mistral-class ships</a>. Sechin argued that two ships should be constructed in Russia and two in France, as opposed to the initial offer that only one be constructed in Russia.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sechin#cite_note-osw.waw.pl-13" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">[13]</a>Piotr Żochowski, of the Polish Center for Eastern Studies, argued that "it cannot be ruled out that Sechin's stance on this issue results from his personal financial involvement in the St Petersburg shipbuilding industry".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sechin#cite_note-osw.waw.pl-13" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">[13]</a>

On March 20, 2014 the United States government <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individuals_sanctioned_during_the_2014_pro-Russian_unrest_in_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="List of individuals sanctioned during the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine" style=" background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">sanctioned Sechin</a> in response to the Russian government's role in the ongoing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_pro-Russian_unrest_in_Ukraine" title="2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine" style=" background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">unrest in Ukraine</a>. The sanctions include a travel ban to the United States, freezing of all assets of Sechin in the United States and a ban on business transactions between American citizens and corporations and Sechin and businesses he owns.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sechin#cite_note-14" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[14]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sechin#cite_note-15" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[15]</a>

In December 2014, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNBC" title="CNBC" style=" background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">CNBC</a> article noted that Sechin is "widely believed to be Russia's second-most powerful person" after President Putin.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sechin#cite_note-DPeleschuk-16" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">[16]</a>

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Igor Sechin is married, and has a daughter, Inga. Inga married Dmitry Ustinov, son of former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor_General_of_Russia" title="Prosecutor General of Russia" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Prosecutor General</a> and current Plenipotentiary Envoy to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Federal_District" title="Southern Federal District" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Southern Federal District</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Ustinov" title="Vladimir Ustinov" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Vladimir Ustinov</a>, in 2003. Inga and Dmitry had a son in 2005.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]

After the demotion of Vladimir Ustinov in 2006, Sechin reportedly arranged the appointment of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bastrykin" title="Alexander Bastrykin" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Alexander Bastrykin</a>, another ally of his, as Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor General's Office in 2007 in order to retain his influence.

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A dossier with unverified claims about President Donald Trump's ties to Russia contained allegations that Igor Sechin, the CEO of Russia's state oil company, offered former Trump ally Carter Page and his associates the brokerage of a 19% stake in the company in exchange for the lifting of US sanctions on Russia.

The dossier says the offer was made in July, when <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-advisers-public-comments-ties-to-moscow-stir-unease-in-both-parties/2016/08/05/2e8722fa-5815-11e6-9aee-8075993d73a2_story.html" style=" text-decoration: none;">Page was in Moscow</a> giving a speech at the Higher Economic School. The claim was sourced to "a trusted compatriot and close associate" of Sechin, according to the dossier's author, former British spy Christopher Steele.

"Sechin's associate said that the Rosneft president was so keen to lift personal and corporate western sanctions imposed on the company, that he offered Page and his associates the brokerage of up to a 19 per cent (privatised) stake in Rosneft," the dossier said. "In return, Page had expressed interest and confirmed that were Trump elected US president, then sanctions on Russia would be lifted."

Four months before the intelligence community briefed Trump, then-President Barack Obama, then-Vice President Joe Biden, and the nation's top lawmakers on the dossier's claims — most of which have not been independently verified but are being investigated by US intelligence agencies — a US intelligence source <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-s-intel-officials-probe-ties-between-trump-adviser-and-kremlin-175046002.html" style=" text-decoration: none;">told Yahoo's Michael Isikoff</a> that Sechin met with Page during Page's three-day trip to Moscow. Sechin, the source told Yahoo, raised the issue of the US lifting sanctions on Russia under Trump.

Page was an <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/media/a-transcript-of-donald-trumps-meeting-with-the-washington-post-editorial-bo" style=" text-decoration: none;">early foreign-policy adviser</a> to the Trump campaign. He took a "<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2016/09/26/trumps-russia-adviser-speaks-out-calls-accusations-complete-garbage/?utm_term=.1f9d5bf7092d" style=" text-decoration: none;">leave of absence</a>" in September after news broke of his July trip to Moscow, and the campaign later denied that he had ever worked with it.

Page, for his part, was "noncommittal" in his response to Sechin's requests that the US lift the sanctions, the dossier said. But he signaled that doing so would be Trump's intention if he won the election, and he expressed interest in Sechin's offer, according to the document.

In a recent interview with <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-sets-a-bar-for-russia-and-china-1484360380" style=" text-decoration: none;">The Wall Street Journal</a>, Trump suggested the sanctions could be lifted if Moscow proved to be a useful ally. "If you get along and if Russia is really helping us," Trump asked, "why would anybody have sanctions if somebody’s doing some really great things?”

Page has criticized the US sanctions on Russia as "<a href="http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/10/02/2015/new-slaves-global-edition-russia-iran-and-segregation-world-economy" style=" text-decoration: none;">sanctimonious expressions of moral superiority</a>." He praised Sechin in a May 2014 blog post <a href="http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/02/05/2014/man-overboard-black-sea-cobbling-together-latest-coalition-willing-ukraine" style=" text-decoration: none;">for his "accomplishments</a>" in advancing US-Russia relations. A US official serving in Russia while Page worked at Merrill Lynch in Moscow told Isikoff that Page "was pretty much a brazen apologist for anything Moscow did."

Page is also believed to have met with senior Kremlin internal affairs official Igor Diveykin while he was in Moscow last July, according to Isikoff's intelligence sources. The dossier separately claimed that Diveykin — whom US officials believe was responsible for the intelligence collected by Russia about the US election — met with Page and hinted that the Kremlin <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/russians-say-they-have-compromising-information-on-trump-2017-1" target="_blank" style=" text-decoration: none;">possessed compromising information about Trump</a>.

It is unclear whether Isikoff's reporting is related to the dossier, which has been circulating among top intelligence officials, lawmakers, and journalists since mid-2016.

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After mid-October, the dossier said, Sechin predicted that it would no longer be possible for Trump to win the presidency, so he "put feelers out to other business and political contacts" to purchase a stake in Rosneft.

Rosneft then scrambled to find a foreign investor, holding talks with more than 30 potential buyers from Europe, the US, Asia, and the Middle East. The company signed a deal on December 7 to sell 19.5% of shares, or roughly $11 billion, to the multinational commodity trader Glencore Plc and Qatar's state-owned wealth fund. Qatar's sovereign wealth fund is Glencore's largest shareholder.

The "11th hour deal" was "so last minute," <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/08/kremlin-says-glencore-qatari-fund-to-buy-195-pct-stake-in-rosneft.html" style=" text-decoration: none;">Reuters reported</a>, "that it appeared it would not close in time to meet the government's deadline for booking money in the budget from the sale."

The purchase amounted to the biggest foreign investment in Russia since US sanctions took effect in 2014. It showed that "there are some forces in the world that are ready to help Russia to circumvent the [West's] sanction regime," <a href="https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2017/1/2/Qatars-big-oil-deal-with-Moscow" style=" text-decoration: none;">said</a> <a href="https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2017/1/2/Qatars-big-oil-deal-with-Moscow" style=" text-decoration: none;">Lilia Shevtsova</a>, an associate fellow in the Russia and Eurasia program at Chatham House.

"In Russia we have a marriage between power and business, and that is why all important economic deals need approval and the endorsement of the authorities," Shevtsova said. "This was a very serious commercial deal that hardly could have succeeded without the direct involvement of the Kremlin."

The privatization deal was funded by Gazprombank, whose parent company is the state-owned Russian energy giant Gazprom.

Page holds investments in Gazprom, though he claimed <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/r/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2016/09/26/Editorial-Opinion/Graphics/2016.09.25_FBI_letter.pdf?tid=a_inl" style=" text-decoration: none;">in a letter to FBI Director James Comey</a> in September that he sold his stake in the company "at a loss." His website says he served as an adviser "on key transactions" for the state-owned energy giant before setting up his energy investment fund, Global Energy Capital, in 2008 <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/the-mystery-of-trumps-man-in-moscow-214283" style=" text-decoration: none;">with former Gazprom executive</a> Sergei Yatsenko.

There is no evidence that Carter played any role in the Rosneft deal. But <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/world/europe/carter-page-donald-trump-moscow-russia.html" style=" text-decoration: none;">he was back in Moscow on December 8</a> — one day after the deal was signed — to "meet with some of the top managers" of Rosneft, he <a href="http://tass.ru/ekonomika/3866013" style=" text-decoration: none;">told reporters at the time</a>. Page denied meeting with Sechin, Rosneft's CEO, during that trip but said it would have been "a great honor" if he had.

The Rosneft deal, Page added, was "a good example of how American private companies are unfortunately limited to a great degree due to the influence of sanctions." He said the US and Russia had entered "a new era" of relations but that it was still "too early" to discuss whether Trump would be easing or lifting sanctions on Moscow.

Page's extensive business ties to state-owned Russian companies were investigated by <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-advisers-russia-investigation-2017-1" style=" text-decoration: none;">a counterintelligence task force</a> set up last year by the CIA. The investigation, which is reportedly ongoing, has examined whether Russia was funneling money into Trump's presidential campaign — and, if it was, who was serving as the liaison between the Trump team and the Kremlin.

The dossier claims that Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort asked Page to be the liaison. That claim has not been verified. Manafort served <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/michael-cohen-trump-2017-1" style=" text-decoration: none;">as a top adviser</a> to a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine from 2004 to 2012 and emerged as a central figure in both the dossier and the intelligence community's early inquiries into Trump's ties to Russia.

Editor's note: This article originally stated that Carter and his associates were offered a 19% stake in Rosneft. They were allegedly offered the brokerage of the 19% stake, whose purchase by the QIA and Glencore was ultimately facilitated by Gazprombank.

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