Briton 314 Posted October 26, 2019 Author Share Posted October 26, 2019 56 minutes ago, pete said: Mafia?? Wrong island. ? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete 2,499 Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 4 hours ago, Briton said: Wrong island. ? Cyprus enforces Russian mafia law - Hoofdinhoud Met dank overgenomen van EUobserver (EUOBSERVER), gepubliceerd op dinsdag 1 december 2015, 17:53. Auteur: Andrew Rettman Cyprus is helping Russian officials to hush up a mafia scam and to hunt down the people who exposed it. Its justice ministry, last week, invited Russian sleuths to conduct a joint raid with Cypriot police on the offices, in Nicosia, of lawyers acting on behalf of Bill Browder. Browder is the former employer of Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian auditor who, in 2007, uncovered a huge tax embezzlement scam by Russian officials acting in league with an organised crime syndicate, the Kluyev Group. When Magnitsky went public, his office was raided, he was jailed, and later killed in prison. The stolen money was never recovered. Browder has campaigned for EU sanctions against the killers and for member states to seize the money, which was, in part, laundered in European banks. Back in 2012, he gave 133 pages of documents, seen by this website, to Cyprus' anti-corruption agency, Mokas, showing that the Kluyev gang moved $31 million of the funds out of Russia via Cypriot banks: Alpha Bank; Cyprus Popular Bank; FBME Bank; Privatbank International; and Komercbanka. Mokas never recovered the funds. Instead, in an echo of events in Moscow in 2007, Cypriot police, on Friday (29 November), together with two Russian investigators, Sergei Petryashov and Artem Ranchenkov, snatched Hermitage Fund documents and interrogated its lawyers. EUobserver contacted the Cypriot foreign ministry for a comment on Monday. It said on Tuesday afternoon: “Your questions have been forwarded to the competent authorities … and we will forward to you their reply when we have it.” This website understands Cyprus granted the request for legal assistance in relation to Russia’s prosecution of Magnitsky, posthumously, and Browder, in absentia, for fraud. The prosecution has been ridiculed, not least by the EU, as an attempt to conceal the tax embezzlement. The EU foreign service, in 2013, spoke of “unconvicing evidence” and called it “a disturbing message to those who fight corruption in Russia.” The UK, by contrast, denied similar requests for legal assistance. Other EU states, such as Luxembourg, also froze stolen funds. Friend of Russia Cyprus is often described by EU diplomats as a “friend of Russia.” Also in November, it extradited to Russia Natalia Konovalova, a former employee of Yukos Oil, the energy firm seized by the Kremlin when its then owner, Mikheil Khodorkovsky, tried to enter politics. The Cypriot president, Nicos Anastasiades was the only EU leader at Russia’s WWII parade in Moscow in May. He says the EU should lift Russia sanctions and recently let Russian warships use Cypriot ports. Meanwhile, Cyprus’ appetite for dodgy Russian money was exposed by German intelligence during the 2012 talks on its EU bailout. The BND intelligence service compiled a report, leaked to German media, showing that Russian oligarchs and organised crime chiefs held deposits worth $26 billion (€25 billion) in Cypriot banks. The figure is roughly equivalent to Cyprus’ annual GDP. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briton 314 Posted October 27, 2019 Author Share Posted October 27, 2019 6 hours ago, pete said: Cyprus enforces Russian mafia law - Hoofdinhoud Met dank overgenomen van EUobserver (EUOBSERVER), gepubliceerd op dinsdag 1 december 2015, 17:53. Auteur: Andrew Rettman Cyprus is helping Russian officials to hush up a mafia scam and to hunt down the people who exposed it. Its justice ministry, last week, invited Russian sleuths to conduct a joint raid with Cypriot police on the offices, in Nicosia, of lawyers acting on behalf of Bill Browder. Browder is the former employer of Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian auditor who, in 2007, uncovered a huge tax embezzlement scam by Russian officials acting in league with an organised crime syndicate, the Kluyev Group. When Magnitsky went public, his office was raided, he was jailed, and later killed in prison. The stolen money was never recovered. Browder has campaigned for EU sanctions against the killers and for member states to seize the money, which was, in part, laundered in European banks. Back in 2012, he gave 133 pages of documents, seen by this website, to Cyprus' anti-corruption agency, Mokas, showing that the Kluyev gang moved $31 million of the funds out of Russia via Cypriot banks: Alpha Bank; Cyprus Popular Bank; FBME Bank; Privatbank International; and Komercbanka. Mokas never recovered the funds. Instead, in an echo of events in Moscow in 2007, Cypriot police, on Friday (29 November), together with two Russian investigators, Sergei Petryashov and Artem Ranchenkov, snatched Hermitage Fund documents and interrogated its lawyers. EUobserver contacted the Cypriot foreign ministry for a comment on Monday. It said on Tuesday afternoon: “Your questions have been forwarded to the competent authorities … and we will forward to you their reply when we have it.” This website understands Cyprus granted the request for legal assistance in relation to Russia’s prosecution of Magnitsky, posthumously, and Browder, in absentia, for fraud. The prosecution has been ridiculed, not least by the EU, as an attempt to conceal the tax embezzlement. The EU foreign service, in 2013, spoke of “unconvicing evidence” and called it “a disturbing message to those who fight corruption in Russia.” The UK, by contrast, denied similar requests for legal assistance. Other EU states, such as Luxembourg, also froze stolen funds. Friend of Russia Cyprus is often described by EU diplomats as a “friend of Russia.” Also in November, it extradited to Russia Natalia Konovalova, a former employee of Yukos Oil, the energy firm seized by the Kremlin when its then owner, Mikheil Khodorkovsky, tried to enter politics. The Cypriot president, Nicos Anastasiades was the only EU leader at Russia’s WWII parade in Moscow in May. He says the EU should lift Russia sanctions and recently let Russian warships use Cypriot ports. Meanwhile, Cyprus’ appetite for dodgy Russian money was exposed by German intelligence during the 2012 talks on its EU bailout. The BND intelligence service compiled a report, leaked to German media, showing that Russian oligarchs and organised crime chiefs held deposits worth $26 billion (€25 billion) in Cypriot banks. The figure is roughly equivalent to Cyprus’ annual GDP. Ah the 'Russian Mafia'. Surprised I hadn't seen this story. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briton 314 Posted October 27, 2019 Author Share Posted October 27, 2019 22 hours ago, compo said: Forget the rest our job is to keep winning and forget about rankings Who made you the judge of what we should or should not take an interest in? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott7 5,172 Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 22 hours ago, Briton said: Who made you the judge of what we should or should not take an interest in? No one. compo is only expressing his opinion. I share his sentiment but I concede that the coefficient booster posters are right. I just want celtic to lose every game no matter that my foot gets shot in the process. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briton 314 Posted October 28, 2019 Author Share Posted October 28, 2019 3 minutes ago, Scott7 said: No one. compo is only expressing his opinion. I share his sentiment but I concede that the coefficient booster posters are right. I just want celtic to lose every game no matter that my foot gets shot in the process. Yes but it's Rangers' feet that matter. Saying that it's fair enough to want Celtic to lose every game*; I'm not saying we should want them to win as it is in some way advantageous to the club. Actually only history can show how Scottish teams results have affected others. I find it very interesting; it's even possible that Rangers getting to the final of the Europa could work out advantageous to the other side long term and vice versa. *The coefficient tables give you a lot more teams that you can want to lose every game, although probably not with the same fervour. ? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briton 314 Posted November 8, 2019 Author Share Posted November 8, 2019 Another great night for Scotland as we move above Serbia and Greece into 16th place but those pesky Cypriots are keeping us out of 15th place as APOEL won again. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 4,808 Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 It's a pity Glasgow City Womens team don't contribute. A sort of independent/original XI have come a long way and are in the last eight of the womens CL. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 4,808 Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 (edited) Useful Co-efficient Links The first features Rangers and the second is the redoubtable Bert Kassie's fantastic website. https://www.football-coefficient.eu/team/322-rangers-fc/ https://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/ Edited November 8, 2019 by buster. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinker 868 Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 1 minute ago, buster. said: Useful Co-efficient Links https://www.football-coefficient.eu/team/322-rangers-fc/ https://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/ This is a good one too: https://www.footballseeding.com/ 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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