Spain's Robert Mueller takes on the Russian mob

Fascinating article! Looks like there are concurrent international investigations that are turning up the same naughty gangsters!

Grinda’s investigations have targeted Russian banker Alexander Torshin, who has been described by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., as “the conservatives’ favorite Russian.” Spanish authorities sought to arrest Torshin during a planned visit to Spain in 2013 on suspicion that he was laundering money through a Mallorca hotel that he secretly owned from afar; possibly tipped off, Torshin didn’t show in Spain, and Grinda says he’s no longer pursuing the case. But in the years since, Torshin has been making headlines in the U.S. He was scheduled to meet privately with President Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington last year, but the meeting was called off when someone in the administration flagged Torshin as a figure with “baggage.” (Torshin has strongly denied ties to Russian organized crime.) In November, news broke that Torshin had attempted to engineer a meeting between then-candidate Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. And this week, McClatchy DC reported that the FBI is investigating whether Torshin donated money to financially support the Trump campaign in 2016, funneling his contributions through the National Rifle Association, which reported spending $30 million to back Trump. It is illegal for foreign nationals to give money to influence a U.S. election. The NRA did not respond to a request for comment.

and

Last year, Grinda and his team sent warrants to Austria to extradite Ukrainian billionaire Dmytro Firtash to Spain — again on money-laundering charges — activities that, oddly, came to light during a raid in Málaga **when a mobster lawyer began literally eating a document, quickly retrieved from his mouth by police. **Firtash made his fortune in the natural gas industry and, according to U.S. diplomatic cables posted by WikiLeaks, has admitted to fronting for Mogilevich. The businessman, who a decade ago partnered with Manafort in an unsuccessful effort to purchase a New York hotel, successfully fought extradition, but he is also being sought by the Department of Justice in a separate investigation involving allegations of bribery of government officials in India.

hmmm

“It started,” says mafia expert Walter Kegö of the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm, “when Putin was deputy mayor of St. Petersburg and used mafia groups to buy property and launder money.” And in the years since Putin rose to president of Russia, he says, it’s continued. Kegö believes the majority of the mafias’ money-making activities take place in Russia and Eastern Europe, but they turn to “Spain, the U.S., Israel, the U.K., and the rest of Europe” to invest it and clean it up. “We’re talking a lot of money, a lot of billions,” he adds.

damn

Last year, when Grinda and his fellow prosecutor Juan Carrau sent off a 488-page report to Moscow’s head prosecutor, naming more names of Russian officials and detailing their suspected criminal activities, there was retaliation. Not only did the Moscow prosecutor do nothing with the information, but soon thereafter a Spanish lawyer began accusing Grinda of being a pedophile, a story picked up exclusively by questionable internet sites in Spain.

If all the Robert Mueller's joined forces, they could end all organized crime and corruption in a week!

Roberto Mulero

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-- spokesperson for Spanish Robert Mueller

Fucking brilliant!!!

Bet Team Grinda and Team Mueller have been communicating. No wonder Nunes and co are panicking.

His name? Roberto Molinero.

Interpol is going to have a hell of a time soon.

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 96%. (I'm a bot)

"The Russian mafia," Grinda explains in his Madrid office - where shelves, dotted with a few Russian stacking dolls, are thick with boxed files with names like Ivanov and Petrov - "First appeared in Spain in the '90s, after the fall of the Soviet Union." Escape from Siberian winds wasn't the sole impetus: "They weren't just looking for sun, they were looking for anonymity." And, he says, for quite a few years they found it.

Another mafia expert, author and investigative reporter Roberto Saviano, speculates that Britain itself, a mecca for Russian billionaires - and where the BBC show "McMafia," about Russian mobsters, is a huge hit - has become the most corrupt place on the planet.

"Spain is becoming increasingly ambitious and aggressive in its investigation of [Russian] crime networks," wrote Galeotti, noting that a Spanish judge issued a request for "International arrest warrants" for several senior Russian officials for alleged involvement in Russian mafia groups.

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Wake up world. There is a global conspiracy to turn the world into a Mafia State. A team of Oligarchs are trying to weaken you all with propaganda that causes discord. The people of the Americas, Europe, Former Soviet States, Russia, and elsewhere are also under this attack!

https://investigaterussia.org/what-putin-wants <- Here, if you watch a video, you see a man talking about how Putin, A.K.A. the Russian Mafia's bitch, extorted every rich oligarch in Russia on their behalf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_mafia In 2009, Russian mafia groups had been said to reach over 50 countries and, in 2010, had up to 300,000 members.[33] According to recordings released in 2015, Alexander Litvinenko, shortly before he was assassinated, claimed that Semion Mogilevich has had a "good relationship" with Vladimir Putin since the 1990s http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/07/vladimir_putin_has_a_plan_for_destroying_the_west_and_it_looks_a_lot_like.html | http://www.news.com.au/world/europe/1990s-manifesto-outlining-russias-plans-is-starting-to-come-true/news-story/343a27c71077b87668f1aa783d03032c | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics <- See how much has already come true.

One thing these sources don't talk about is how much the Russian Mafia, the most cunning and powerful mafia in the world would benefit from a global mafia state. They're the ones who really pull the strings in Moscow and now... the world.

Radioactive poisoning likely.

So...

Roberto Müeller?

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So Russia is everywhere ?

I don't think that's going to go well for Spain's Robert Mueller...

:/