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Interesting digging from independent journalist Scott Stedman. Reposted in entirety with permission.
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https://medium.com/@ScottMStedman/deripaskas-private-jet-newark-moscow-molde-for-secret-yacht-meeting-280494a6cb48
Deripaskas private jet: Newark-Moscow-Molde for secret yacht meeting
Konstantin Kilimnik, the Ukrainian political consultant who has ties to Russian intelligence, said the two discussed unpaid bills and current news.
By: Scott Stedman
As Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his Ukrainian business partner Konstantin Kilimnik met for a private dinner in Manhattan in August 2016, the private jet of the Russian oligarch to whom Manafort owed millions was crossing the Atlantic en route to Newark, New Jersey.
Kilimnik, who has been assessed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as having ties to Russian intelligence, wrote in an email days prior, I met today with the guy who gave you your biggest black caviar jar several years ago, in an apparent reference to Deripaskas loans to Manafort, We spent about 5 hours talking about his story, and I have several important messages from him to you, Kilimnik wrote before setting up an August 2 meeting with the Trump campaign chief
I need about two hours, Kilimnik said in the July 31 email, because it is a long caviar story to tell. Kilimnik did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
In a 52 hour time period beginning on August 2, Deripaskas private jet went from Newark, NJ minutes from the meeting location of Manafort and Kilimnik to Moscow to pick up the Russian Deputy PM, to Norway to accommodate the secret yacht meeting where US-Russian relations were discussed.
As the Manafort dinner with Kilimnik was taking place at 666 Fifth Avenue, owned by Jared Kushner, one of three private jets owned by Deripaska (call-sign M-ALAY) was en route to New Jersey from Moscow. It landed hours after the dinner concluded and took off back to Moscow the next evening. It is unclear who was aboard the jet and why the flight was chartered. A spokeswoman for Deripaska did not respond to a request for comment
Kilimnik told the Washington Post that the two discussed unpaid bills and current news, but not the presidential campaign of which Manafort was chairing. The next evening, Deripaskas plane took off from Newark en route back to Moscow. It would soon carry one of the most influential Russian political leaders Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko to secretly take him to the Russian oligarchs private yacht in Norway where the billionaire was waiting.
According to Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who first discovered the yacht video on the Instagram of Deripaskas mistress Nastya Rybka, Deripaska likely flew from his villa in Montengro to Molde on his other private jet, M-UGIC. Flight logs confirm that this plane flew from Montengro to Molde on August 5. Almost assuredly, according to Navalny, the Russian Deputy Prime Minister was on the Moscow-Molde M-ALAY flight, hours after it landed from Newark.
The secret yacht meeting uncovered by Navalny was documented by Deripaskas mistress Nastya Rybka. Rybka was jailed in Thailand for attending a sex seminar and remains behind bars for the foreseeable future. She and her associates have asked for political asylum from the United States in exchange for what she claims is evidence of collusion between the Russian government and the Trump team.
Rybka asserts that she and her group have 16+ hours of audio, video, and photographic evidence that would implicate the Russian government. If deported back to Moscow she fears for her life, telling the Washington Post, I can say something only when I will be in a safe place, sorry, because I am worried about my life.
In an interview with CNN, Rybka said that she witnessed several meetings in 2016 and 2017 between Deripaska and at least three un-named Americans. It is unclear if any Americans were on the yacht in August, 2016 though flight records strongly suggest that it is a possibility.
The newly discovered flight logs of Deripaskas private jet in August 2016 raises new questions not only about his relationship with Trumps campaign manager, but about his role as a possible facilitator between the Russian government and Trump associates.
scottstedman
(5 posts)Hey everyone, I'm the author of the article. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer!
poboy2
(2,078 posts)Lochloosa
(16,019 posts)UpInArms
(51,253 posts)eta ... Welcome to DU!
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)Do you have any idea who the "three un-named Americans are even if you can't tell us?
I have some informed guesses but don't have enough to report.
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)Thanks for taking the time to answer.
hedda_foil
(16,368 posts)So many of the pieces have been hanging out there in isolation until you connected them. Thank you for putting so much of the puzzle together.
TheBlackAdder
(28,076 posts)dalton99a
(81,073 posts)Thanks.
poboy2
(2,078 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)of Nastya Rybka and Deripaska
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10323527
watch it with subtitles.
orangecrush
(19,237 posts)Great reading!