Posted on 11/17/2022 11:28:16 AM PST by dennisw
These people are not oligarchs per se, but they're people who sit in positions that have some kind of authority over important cash flows - particularly in the oil and gas business,' such as firms Gazprom, Lukoil, Novatek or Gazprombank.
'The sanctions have been devastating for Russia... as a result the pie has been seriously diminished, and a lot of people want to keep their own personal cash flow at the level they had before the war started.
'And so everyone is looking around to redistribute pieces of the pie.
Bill Browder, who once ran Russia's largest foreign investment fund, believes spate of deaths among the country's elite were 'all murders' Said 'viper's nest' are fighting to maintain their wealth under crippling sanctions
'It's greedy b*****ds fighting over money and getting killed,' he told MailOnline
Russian oligarchs are butchering each other in a vicious fight over wealth sparked by Western sanctions crippling the economy, Bill Browder has told MailOnline.
Mr Browder – who ran Russia's largest foreign investment firm until he fell foul of Putin and is now dubbed his 'number one enemy' – believes a spate of 'suicides' and suspicious deaths among the country's elites are 'all murders'.
Though he did not name names, recent deaths include Ivan Pechorin, 39, director of the Far East and Arctic Development Corporation who 'fell overboard' from his yacht in September; Pavel Pchelnikov, 52, a PR manager for the Russian Railways shot dead in his Moscow apartment the same month; and Alexander Tyulakov, 61, a senior Gazprom executive found hanged at his house, also in Moscow.
Speaking on Wednesday at the Henry Jackson Society ahead of the annual Magnitsky Human Rights Awards, Mr Browder said: 'What you have going on is this viper's nest of fighting over a
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Shocked.
Is there any such thing as a “mystery death” in Russia?
Biden’s oligarchs (Biden, Pelosi, Sam The Sham Bankman-Fried) versus Ukrainian oligarchs versus Russian oligarchs. What a mess!!
I wish our oligarchs would start killing each other.
Well damn, except for the Russian mafia style killings and such, can’t be any worse than the FTX-DEMs-Ukraine scandal huh? /s
You worry too much about Russian oligarchs and not enough about the ones that pose the biggest threat to freedom and conservatism in the West, namely the media barons, techno and industrial barons.
If only our oligarchs would do the same.
“You worry too much about Russian oligarchs”
Their antics are more interesting than the idiots and scum you mention. Plus there is shooting war going on there.
All park benches have been removed.
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