September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

“It is not the Yeltsin family in a literal sense: Boris Yeltsin was "thrown out" a long time ago; it is
a group that holds the real power. And Chernoi can cover its crimes and develop its business with
the help of the state.” [Le Monde: French Editorial Says Russian President Putin Unable To Effect
Changes, Counter Mafia, Corruption]
This investigation opened inroads into accounts at Menatep Bank, Runicom,
Inkombank, EuropeanUnion bank, Riggs-Valmet, Bank Rossisky-Kredit, Alpha
Bank, many of which were linked to Bush operatives and the Yeltsin Family
counterparts going as far back as 1991.
2. Nazarbayev and his Swiss accounts were being investigated by the Swiss for illegal
activities, linked to Bush Sr. and Richard Cheney in the Griffen scandal.
3. Later Mikhail Khodorkovsky would be implicated in the Bank of New York moneylaundering
scandal because of his control of Menatep Bank, but would be more
closley tied to use of the Riggs-Valmet money-laundering conduit. His imprisonment
for tax evasion would be portrayed in the U.S .press as “political” repression by the
Putin regime, and hardly a mention of the Riggs Bank connection would be
published. The Bush family remained loyal to Khodorkovsky after his arrest, with
George Bush Jr. acting on his behalf.
US President George W. Bush used a meeting Friday with Russian non-governmental groups to
express concern over the fate of the jailed founder of Russian oil firm Yukos, participants said.
"He talked about Khodorkovsky, he talked about his wife," said Maria Gaidar, head of the liberal
Russian youth movement Da (Yes), who attended the meeting with Mr Bush at the residence of
the US consul general in Saint Petersburg. "He said that … he was concerned" about the welfare
of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, she said, referring to the Yukos founder sentenced in May 2005 to
eight years in prison after conviction on tax evasion, massive fraud and embezzlement charges.
[Bush 'concern' over jailed oil baron, correspondents in St Petersburg, Herald Sun (Queensland),
July 15, 2006]
Upon his arrest, Khodorkovsky’s secretive business arrangement with the Rothschild
family was exposed, as Jacob Rothschild took over Khodorkovsky’s 26% control of
Yukos. Khodorkovsky’s seat on the board of directors for Yukos went to former
Halliburton executive Edgar Ortiz, a former Halliburton vice president during US
Vice President Dick Cheney's time as Halliburton CEO, and as President and CEO of
Halliburton, took over the relationship with the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan
Republic (SOCAR). (See Halliburton Man to Sub for Khodorkovsky, Simon
Ostrovsky, Moscow Times, April 30, 2004.)
4. Yeltsin’s accounts in UBS were being investigated by the Swiss at the same as the
1998 decision to attack the World Trade Center was made.
“There were the first names, the last names, and the accounts accessed at the Banca del Gottardo
in Lugano and at the UBS in Geneva.” [Investigation of Yeltsin's Swiss Accounts, Milan's
Corriere della Sera in Italian, 25 August 1999 (translation for personal use only) Article by Carlo
Bonini and Giuseppe D'Avanzo: "Switzerland, Credit Cards Accuse Yeltsin"]
5. Loutchansky, as shown earlier, was being investigated by the Swiss as well.
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