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Related: About this forumRevealed: The Explosive Secret Recording That Shows How Russia Tried To Funnel Millions To Salvini
Source: BuzzFeed News
Revealed: The Explosive Secret Recording That Shows How Russia Tried To Funnel Millions To The European Trump
A close aide to Italy's deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini held covert talks to pump Russian oil money to his far-right party. BuzzFeed News has the tape.
Alberto Nardelli
BuzzFeed News Europe Editor
Posted on July 10, 2019, at 6:00 a.m. ET
Six men sat down for a business meeting on the morning of October 18 last year, amid the hubbub and marble-columned opulence of Moscows iconic Metropol Hotel, to discuss plans for a great alliance.
A century earlier, the grand institution was the scene of events that helped change the face of Europe and the world: Czarist forces fought from inside the hotel as they tried and failed to hold the Bolsheviks back from the Kremlin in 1917, and it was here, in suite 217, that the first Soviet Constitution was drafted after the revolution succeeded.
The six men three Russians, three Italians gathered beneath the spectacular painted glass ceiling in the hotel lobby last October had their eyes on history too. Their nominal purpose was an oil deal; their real goal was to undermine liberal democracies and shape a new, nationalist Europe aligned with Moscow.
BuzzFeed News has obtained an explosive audio recording of the Metropol meeting in which a close aide of Europes most powerful far-right leader Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini and the other five men can be heard negotiating the terms of a deal to covertly channel tens of millions of dollars of Russian oil money to Salvinis Lega party.
The recording reveals the elaborate lengths the two sides were willing to go to conceal the fact that the true beneficiary of the deal would be Salvinis party a breach of Italian electoral law, which bans political parties from accepting large foreign donations despite the comfort with which he and Europes other far-right leaders publicly parade their pro-Kremlin political sympathies.
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A close aide to Italy's deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini held covert talks to pump Russian oil money to his far-right party. BuzzFeed News has the tape.
Alberto Nardelli
BuzzFeed News Europe Editor
Posted on July 10, 2019, at 6:00 a.m. ET
Six men sat down for a business meeting on the morning of October 18 last year, amid the hubbub and marble-columned opulence of Moscows iconic Metropol Hotel, to discuss plans for a great alliance.
A century earlier, the grand institution was the scene of events that helped change the face of Europe and the world: Czarist forces fought from inside the hotel as they tried and failed to hold the Bolsheviks back from the Kremlin in 1917, and it was here, in suite 217, that the first Soviet Constitution was drafted after the revolution succeeded.
The six men three Russians, three Italians gathered beneath the spectacular painted glass ceiling in the hotel lobby last October had their eyes on history too. Their nominal purpose was an oil deal; their real goal was to undermine liberal democracies and shape a new, nationalist Europe aligned with Moscow.
BuzzFeed News has obtained an explosive audio recording of the Metropol meeting in which a close aide of Europes most powerful far-right leader Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini and the other five men can be heard negotiating the terms of a deal to covertly channel tens of millions of dollars of Russian oil money to Salvinis Lega party.
The recording reveals the elaborate lengths the two sides were willing to go to conceal the fact that the true beneficiary of the deal would be Salvinis party a breach of Italian electoral law, which bans political parties from accepting large foreign donations despite the comfort with which he and Europes other far-right leaders publicly parade their pro-Kremlin political sympathies.
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Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/albertonardelli/salvini-russia-oil-deal-secret-recording
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Revealed: The Explosive Secret Recording That Shows How Russia Tried To Funnel Millions To Salvini (Original Post)
Eugene
Jul 2019
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sinkingfeeling
(51,469 posts)1. Why do I think we'll all have to learn Russian? The US is no longer
leading the fight for democracy, but is aiding and abetting the Russian takeover.
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)2. How to kill democracy in 15 minutes or less
They are nothing but hired hitmen to kill democracy. The "joked" about gulags to re-educate
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/buzzfeednews/transcript-lega-russia-oil-deal-meeting
IT2: if you have any gulag, we can send you some from Italy. The gulag. Gulag. Its a joke, but if you have a gulag, we send you a lot of people.
IT?: For reeducation.
IT?: Rehab.
RU?: Rehabilitation.
IT?: Mental rehabilitation.
IT2: if you have any gulag, we can send you some from Italy. The gulag. Gulag. Its a joke, but if you have a gulag, we send you a lot of people.
IT?: For reeducation.
IT?: Rehab.
RU?: Rehabilitation.
IT?: Mental rehabilitation.