No one has been able to trace where those shares went.
According to allegations in the Steele Dossier, former Trump adviser Carter Page allegedly acted as the go-between between Trump and the Vladimir Putin run oil company, meeting with Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin, who proposed arranging a transfer of the shares to Trump in exchange for removing the United States economic sanctions, which were put in place under former President Barack Obama as retaliation for Putin and Russia’s annexation of Crimea and proxy war against Ukraine.
In an interview with ABC News, Page denied earlier this month that the alleged meeting with Sechin took place, and that he took part in negotiating any quid pro quo between Russia and Trump.
But political writer Alex Mohajer in his now-retracted Sunday Huffington Post piece presented evidence that at least part of that $11 billion sale — 19.5 percent of the massive oil company — was connected to a Cayman Islands company at least potentially related in some way to businesses run by Steve Schwarzman, the billionaire CEO of Blackstone Group, a major Wall Street financial management firm. (See update.)
UPDATE AND CLARIFICATION 2/14/17:
The original version of this article, based on the above-referenced Huffington Post report, used the term “linked” to describe the possible relationship between Trump friend Steve Schwarzman’s businesses and the Rosneft sale. However, the author of that Huffington Post article now says that his story has been retracted temporarily until or if a more solid link can be established. This Inquisitr article has since been modified to reflect the uncertain nature of any connection to Schwarzman, but reporting presented below also relies on other, independent sources.
http://www.inquisitr.com/3974758/donald-trump-russia-steve-schwarzman-vladimir-putin-rosneft-steele-dossier-bribe-blackstone/Memos: CEO of Russia's state oil company offered Trump adviser, allies a cut of huge deal if sanctions were lifted
Natasha Bertrand
Jan. 27, 2017, 7:06 AM
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 Page was in Moscow 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."
http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-trump-russia-igor-sechin-dossier-2017-1
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I just never realized how deep the stupid runs in this country.
