Russian Firm Sues Over French Far-Right Leader’s $11M Loan
An obscure Russian company is suing the French far-right leader’s political party to recover an $11 million loan, the investigative website Open Media reported Monday, citing court documents.
Marine Le Pen’s party took out 9.4 million euros ($10.8 million at the time) from the Moscow-based First Czech-Russian Bank in 2014. Two years later, the bank lost its license and the loan was sold to a little-known Russian company called Konti.
Konti, which Open Media says is a Moscow-based car rental agency, transferred the right to claim the loan to another Russian company, Aviazapchast. Aviazapchast reportedly sells Russian aircraft navigation equipment and spare parts in Asia and Africa, as well as special metals for India’s and Syria’s aerospace and aviation industries.
Aviazapchast has filed an arbitration complaint against Le Pen’s National Rally party with a Russian court in December 2019.
The first hearing in the case to recover the $11-million loan from Le Pen’s party is scheduled for June 2, 2020.
The German Marshall Fund reported in 2018 that Aviazapchast, including its sole shareholder Valery Zakharenkov, has links to Russian intelligence services. The U.S.-based nonprofit said at the time that the loan’s value was roughly equal to that of Aviazapchast’s pre-tax profit in 2016.
“This may indicate that this action could have come at the behest of state actors or the originally arranging network,” the German Marshall Fund said.
(c) The Moscow Times
Let’s cut the crap. Putin didn’t get the result he wanted when he “loaned” LePen the money, now he wants it back. Plus he doesn’t need LePen anymore, he has Macaroni.
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Slight correction: Putin has his cronies do his dirty work for him. When he needs something (Olympic stadiums, bridges in occupied territories, mercenaries or political loans) he squeezes them so there are no ties to the fascist State. Then he (and RT) can go around saying, “The Russian government was not involved.” Isn’t that what mafia bosses do?
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Yeah, but nobody believes a word he says, not on here anyway.
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Good point. It made me think of the TV series “90-day Fiance'”. Season 4 has this god-awful lady from Moscow that is as unreasonable and delusional as most Moskali. I have never yelled at my TV so much, lmao…
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I never watch TV, so I don’t get the chance to yell at it. LMAO
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Did you ever get that Firestick to work?
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Never got one, seems Amazon Prime is not available in Ukraine anyway.
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You don’t need Amazon Prime, just a service host. I watched the Super Bowl last night on the BBC (6,000 miles away) so there were no commercials. 🙂
Check this out…
https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-live-tv-streaming-services
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That is quite unusual F1! Why is that? What do you have instead?
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Netflix, and quite a few channels, that are built in to my Samsung TV.
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This should open the eyes of any frog who votes for Le Pen’s mafia financed party. Or, do they even care that they are a Ruskie lap dog?
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