Craig Murray - Opposition leader tortured
with drugs
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This deal was negotiated between Gulnara Karimova and Alisher Usmanov,
... Some sort of Alisher Usmanov/Gulnara Karimova alliance is
Karimov’s first choice ...
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Usmanov colludes with Karimov. Opponents get put in prison, tortured et
cetera. It all sounds fairly normal with a bandit state. I doubt that
Mr Murray will be going there again having told the truth.
The face is the mirror of the soul. It tells the truth.
Alisher
Usmanov, Arsenal's new oligarch
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Alisher Usmanov has a reputation as a hard man of business even among
Russia’s oligarchs and once acknowledged that shares were his
favourite possession.
Rated
Russia’s 18th richest man and worth an estimated $5.5
billion, the metals and mining mogul has shown no previous interest in
football. His only prominent involvement in sport until now has been as
president of the Russian and European fencing associations. But Mr
Usmanov has been building up a media empire in Russia, with Kremlin
approval, and may see a stake in Arsenal as a way to boost audiences by
screening matches to football-crazy fans.
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Got rich in steel, moving into the media and the football industry. A
lot of new money is going to sport. For love? I seriously doubt it.
Alisher Usmanov from ukwatch.net
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Alisher Usmanov, potential Arsenal chairman, is a Vicious Thug,
Criminal, Racketeer, Heroin Trafficker and Accused Rapist.
I thought I should make my views on Alisher Usmanov quite plain to you. You are unlikely to see much plain talking on Usmanov elsewhere in the media because he has already used his billions and his lawyers in a pre-emptive strike. They have written to all major UK newspapers, including the latter:
“Mr Usmanov was imprisoned for various offences under the old Soviet regime. We wish to make it clear our client did not commit any of the offences with which he was charged. He was fully pardoned after President Mikhail Gorbachev took office. All references to these matters have now been expunged from police records . . . Mr Usmanov does not have any criminal record.”
Let me
make it quite clear that Alisher Usmanov is a criminal. He was in no
sense a political prisoner, but a gangster and racketeer who rightly
did six years in jail. The lawyers cunningly evoke "Gorbachev", a name
respected in the West, to make us think that justice prevailed. That is
completely untrue.
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Mr Murray tells it like it is again.
The
Jewish Chronicle
Seems to think Usmanov is a Jew. They should know.
Old-fashioned
capitalist with a love of ballet
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"Usmanov's business partners include the former politician Lord Owen,
who said yesterday: "Alisher is an Uzbek but educated in Russia, which
makes him less ..."
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You need a long spoon to sup with the Devil as Owen might find out. The
Telegraph does mention his previous.
Bloggerheads
- Alisher Usmanov Arsenal
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Secondly, you may note some blurring on that second screen grab; this
is necessary because Alisher
Usmanov has unleashed his legal attack dogs.
Craig's post about Usmanov's background has been removed pending legal advice, and if you've linked to the item or repeated it, you or your site host can probably expect a threatening letter.
I'm going to repeat a (partially censored) segment of Craig's article here, to provide some much-needed context for those who missed it:
You are unlikely to see much plain talking on Usmanov elsewhere in the media because he has already used his billions and his lawyers in a pre-emptive strike. They have written to all major UK newspapers, including the latter:
"Mr Usmanov was imprisoned for various offences under the old Soviet regime. We wish to make it clear our client did not commit any of the offences with which he was charged. He was fully pardoned after President Mikhail Gorbachev took office. All references to these matters have now been expunged from police records . . . Mr Usmanov does not have any criminal record."
And, as
former ambassador to Uzbekistan, we can expect Craig to be
reliably-informed when it comes to such matters.
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So Usmanov has been leaning. He has the money to do it. Alisher
Usmanov's Wikipedia entry has been dealt with.
Kremlin
creeps closer to media domination?
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Metals magnate Alisher Usmanov has acquired ZAO Kommersant Publishing
House for allegedly $200 million. Several sources suggest that the
Kremlin might be behind the deal....... The newspaper, with a
daily print run of about 115.000 copies, has so far kept its critical
position in news coverage that involved the Kremlin,......
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Usmanov is persona grata with Vladimir for the moment. Being a KGB
wallah he knows how to deal with evil.
Guardian
Unlimited -Hard man of Russia
The Graun hints just
barely at his track record. The Graun calls itself unlimited but shuts
up when lawyers lean.
Craig
Murray censored for attacking Alisher Usmanov
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You may have noticed that the post regarding the less-than-salubrious
nature of Alisher Usmanov has disappeared.....
Pending legal advice.... In the meantime, it is always now somewhere on
the web. If you know where to look, you'll probably find it.
Cheers
Clive - webhost
Clive, being a helpful soul suggests:-
http://google.com/search?q=cache:www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2007/09/alisher_usmanov.html
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You don't have to believe everything you read on the Net.
Alisher
Usmanov and
Farhad Moshiri buy 14.58% of Arsenal
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Gazprom went on to buy up Russia’s two large independent
national newspapers. The last significant remaining one, Kommersant,
was bought personally last November by the sinister Uzbek oligarch
Alisher Usmanov, chairman of Gazprominvest Holdings.
The
Editor-in-Chief was immediately sacked while the defence correspondent,
Igor Safronov, mysteriously fell to his death from a window three
months later.
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Dead journo means no pension payments. It goes straight to the bottom
line and concentrates the minds of the rest.
Goonerboy
- Craig Murray on Alisher Usmanov - not nice reading
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Craig Murray...... talks about the growing reliance of the UK on
Russian energy.... Putin signed an agreement with Turkmenistan to
expand a pipeline and massively increase the transit of Central Asian
gas through Russia.
Key to this triumph has been Alisher Usmanov and his Gazprominvest Holdings. This subsidiary is the channel for massive slush funds. In November 2004, for example, a payment of £44million to Gulnara, the daughter of President Karimov of Uzbekistan, secured that country’s gas contracts for Gazprom from under the noses of the US.....
Usmanov
has become close to former German Chancellor Schröder through
the Nordstream project. Analysts believe this has sparked a determined
drive by the Schroeder’s political allies to persuade the EU
to remove sanctions against Uzbekistan. [ Money talks? -
Editor ].... These sanctions were imposed following the
Andijan massacre in which 700 pro-democracy demonstrators were killed
by Karimov’s troops in May 2005.
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Mr Murray is definitely not going back to Uzbekistan or the Foreign
Office for that matter.
6. Article
- Usmanov`s Big Game - News From Russia
8.
Alisher Usmanov moves on Arsenal - Telegraph
15. RUSNET
:: Encyclopedia :: U :: Usmanov, Alisher
17. Alisher
Usmanov
18. Alisher
Usmanov vs. Lakshmi Mittal - Kommersant Moscow
19. IGNATOV
& COMPANY GROUP Usmanov Alisher
20. Russian
billionaire
Alisher Usmanov becomes co-owner of Arsenal FC
Usmanov Is A Convicted Blackmailer Buying Into Facebook
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People who flirt on Facebook – and why else join – may be less than enamoured
by the fact that a $200 million stake has been bought by a company of which
the biggest shareholder is a major criminal convicted of … blackmail.
Gangster and racketeer Alisher Usmanov was jailed in the Soviet Union when he finally overreached himself and attempted to blackmail a Jewish KGB officer. [ Unconfirmed - Ed. ]
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-indirectly-obtains-a-colorful-backer [ Facebook indirectly obtains a colorful backer ] After the fall of the Soviet Union, Alisher Usmanov was pardoned by his croney President Karimov of Uzbekistan, perhaps the World’s most vicious dictator. Karimov runs a gangster state and political opponents have been boiled alive.
I was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan and I will swear to these facts on oath before any court.
Usmanov became a billionaire oligarch in the gangster takeover of Russia’s “privatised” mineral assets. He is close to Putin, and has been used by him to buy up and neutralise much of the little remaining independent media in Russia. Usmanov does this in his own name or as Chairman of GazpromInvestHolding. Independent journalists have died in mysterious accidents following Usmanov takeovers.
For a blackmailer who is a key tool in Putin’s increasingly authoritarian regime, to have a share in Facebook is totally unacceptable. Perhaps someone might start a Facebook group against it?
Usmanov uses lawyers to close down blogs who carry these facts. His lawyers, Schillings, will assert a number of lies in response:
Schillings Lie 1 Usmanov was a political prisoner
UNTRUE He was a gangster convicted of blackmail. There was no political
element. (It has been hinted to me that anti-Semitism might have formed part
of the motive, but without supporting evidence for that theory I think it was
just greed).
Schillings Lie 2 Usmanov received a full pardon from
President Gorbachev
UNTRUE He was pardoned by President Karimov of Uzbekistan after the fall of
the Soviet Union. Gorbachev greatly dislikes Usmanov
Schillings Lie 3 He was convicted because he took the rap
for a friend
UNTRUE Usmanov only started using this line when I revealed he was not a
political prisoner but a racketeer. Nobody else ever mentioned such a theory
to me.
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Craig Murray is a
rather sound sort of chap who knows what he is talking about.
The Richest Jews In The World alleges that Usmanov is not a Jew but is
married to one.
Godlike
Productions - here is a list names of Jews who rob
Russia ...
Usmanov is fingered as a Jew. The source might be right but is not particularly credible.
Oligarchs
The oligarchs are the men who stole 85% of Russia's assets when
the USSR fell. It is alleged that one was not a Jew. I have never found him.
Usmanov keeps ugly company. These are some of them.
