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[Another trail to pursue?: "...the Kislins are quite generous
donors to American politicians."]
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From: Stefan Lemieszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Alumina & Russian Mafia & American Politicians - Kislin -Chorny -
Public-i -1Dec99
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 11:22:29 -0800
Organization: Look Communications - http://www.look.ca
Further to Ukraine's privatization of ZAP (Zaporizhia Alumina
Plant) and MAP (Mykolaiv Alumina Plant) and their ties to
organized crime figures, fugitives such as Marc Rich, and
mob-linked businessmen such as Chorny (Chornoi; Chorney;
Chornoy), Knut Royce from the Center for Public Integrity
provides additional links between the Russian mafia and American
politicians.
Readers have previously encountered the Brighton Beach Russian
Mafia Don, Vyacheslav "Yaponchik" Ivankov. Less known is
Ivankov's gang "member/associate" Semyon (Sam) Kislin, an
immigrant from Odesa, Ukraine who is well known among the Russian
Jewish community in South Brooklyn. According to FBI reports,
Kislin's New York commodities firm laundering millions of dollars
and Kislin himself co-sponsored a U.S. visa for Anton Malevsky (a
contract killer and head of one of the most bloodthirsty Mafiya
familias, Moscow's Izmaylovo gang).
Knut Royce writes:
"A 1996 Interpol report claims that Kislins firm, Trans
Commodities, Inc., was used by two reputed mobsters from
Uzbekistan, Lev and Mikhail Chernoy, for fraud and embezzlement.
And a confidential 1994 FBI intelligence report on the Brooklyn,
N.Y., mob organization headed by Vyacheslav Ivankov, the
imprisoned godfather of Russian organized crime in the United
States, lists Kislin as a member/associate of Ivankovs gang.
It claims that his company co-sponsored a Russian crime boss and
contract killer for a U.S. visa and asserts that he was a close
associate of the late notorious arms smuggler Babeck Seroush,
who later settled in Russia."
[ . . . ]
Because nothing critical of Kislin has appeared in the U.S.
press, New Yorkers, especially politicians and the Russian-Jewish
émigré community in Brooklyn, view him as a prosperous
commodities trader who is a generous supporter of the United
Jewish Appeal and of the state of Israel. He has contributed
hundreds of thousands of dollars to the UJA, according to
published accounts, and donated $1.5 million to build a college
library in Shaar Hanegev in Israel.
But in Russia some of the major newspapers, including Rossiyskaya
Gazeta, which is owned by the government, have cast him in a
darker light. Gazeta claims that Semyon Kislin and the Chernoy
brothers formed Trans Commodities in 1990 as an early vehicle for
the takeover of the metals industry as it was being privatized.
[ . . . ]
According to Russian authorities, the Chernoys in the early 1990s
defrauded the Russian Central Bank of more than $100 million
through an elaborate scam involving dozens of fictitious
companies. The brothers then used the funds as seed money as they
and a London-based holding company, Trans World Group, through a
maze of offshore companies and alliances, rapidly gained control
of Russias aluminum industry and acquired a large stake in the
processing and distribution of other metals and petroleum
products.
Kislin said Mikhail Chernoy tried to enlist him as cover or
legitimate front in the plan to grab control of the aluminum
industry, but that he declined. I said is not for me, Kislin
said. I cannot do with aluminum because aluminum is a very
dangerous business (in Russia). Indeed, what followed has been
dubbed The Aluminum Wars by the Russian press, as many
businessmen, most of whom opposed the Chernoy takeover, were
killed.
Kislin said that the brothers obtained licenses to buy the
aluminum for $10 and sell it for $1,500 by bribing top Russian
officials. The corruption is unbelievable, he said.
Royce also points out that the Kislins are quite generous donors
to American politicians.
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