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Hacked/leaked emails of corrupt Russian lawyer makes BigLaw look terrible

https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-hacked-e-mails-take-...
Razzmatazz Headpube
  08/13/18
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Razzmatazz Headpube
  08/13/18
I’m confused. What did he actually do besides lawyer? Nothin...
chocolate fragrant ladyboy
  08/13/18
you mean besides stealing hermitage capital corporate docs t...
Razzmatazz Headpube
  08/13/18
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vivacious ultramarine dilemma scourge upon the earth
  08/14/18
i think a Hogan Lovells partner uses the term "value a...
Razzmatazz Headpube
  08/14/18
LJL if you believe Bill Browder's "corporate docs"...
chocolate fragrant ladyboy
  08/14/18
It wasn't illegal to make up foreign judgments against a com...
Razzmatazz Headpube
  08/14/18
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Razzmatazz Headpube
  08/17/18
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Nofapping internal respiration
  08/18/18
The judgements were real. No crime committed.
chocolate fragrant ladyboy
  08/18/18
You’re such a fucking Russian plant
Brindle talking principal's office
  08/17/18
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Tan Stage Old Irish Cottage
  08/17/18
His shtick has blossomed, he’s a top poaster
Razzmatazz Headpube
  08/17/18
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Razzmatazz Headpube
  08/14/18
This article would generate a 200 poast thread in pre-4chan ...
Razzmatazz Headpube
  08/17/18
you should leave and see how many poasts it racks up on quor...
aphrodisiac goyim pit
  08/17/18
I started it. Poast a reason I should care.
Brindle talking principal's office
  08/17/18
In April 2014, Olena Tyshchenko—a Ukranian lawyer, mother of...
Razzmatazz Headpube
  08/17/18
“There’s going to be a dead body in the isolation cell, don’...
Razzmatazz Headpube
  08/17/18
thta's because we were mostly law students and junior ass-so...
sepia locale
  08/17/18
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Razzmatazz Headpube
  08/17/18
give me teh highlights
Adulterous Home
  08/17/18
Is your shtick still ultra anxious biglaw associate waiting ...
Razzmatazz Headpube
  08/17/18
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Razzmatazz Headpube
  08/18/18
well it is so no surprises there
Histrionic buff immigrant
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Date: August 13th, 2018 10:10 PM
Author: Razzmatazz Headpube

https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-hacked-e-mails-take-us-inside-the-billionaires-club-around-vladimir-putin

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36612404)



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Date: August 13th, 2018 10:47 PM
Author: Razzmatazz Headpube



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36612656)



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Date: August 13th, 2018 10:51 PM
Author: chocolate fragrant ladyboy

I’m confused. What did he actually do besides lawyer? Nothing? Oh what corruption.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36612678)



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Date: August 13th, 2018 11:02 PM
Author: Razzmatazz Headpube

you mean besides stealing hermitage capital corporate docs to facilitate the theft of $230 million from the Russian treasury and then getting Magnitsky kilt and helping Kazakh authorities steal billions by, among other things, torturing a Ukrainian lawyer?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36612738)



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Date: August 14th, 2018 6:40 AM
Author: vivacious ultramarine dilemma scourge upon the earth



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36613919)



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Date: August 14th, 2018 6:44 AM
Author: Razzmatazz Headpube

i think a Hogan Lovells partner uses the term "value add" to explain this in the story

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36613926)



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Date: August 14th, 2018 7:43 AM
Author: chocolate fragrant ladyboy

LJL if you believe Bill Browder's "corporate docs" were stolen. He was in on the tax "scam" but decided to rat out his partners after they had a falling out. More importantly the "tax scam" wasnt illegal under Russian law at the time so the only crime is in the minds of Western pigs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36614032)



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Date: August 14th, 2018 11:17 PM
Author: Razzmatazz Headpube

It wasn't illegal to make up foreign judgments against a company and then submit fabricated proof of such judgments to the Russian tax authorities for the purposes of claiming $1 billion in rebates from the government?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36618548)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 4:15 PM
Author: Razzmatazz Headpube



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36634430)



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Date: August 18th, 2018 9:56 AM
Author: Nofapping internal respiration



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36637997)



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Date: August 18th, 2018 10:05 AM
Author: chocolate fragrant ladyboy

The judgements were real. No crime committed.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36638025)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 4:16 PM
Author: Brindle talking principal's office

You’re such a fucking Russian plant

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36634438)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 4:17 PM
Author: Tan Stage Old Irish Cottage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36634440)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 4:31 PM
Author: Razzmatazz Headpube

His shtick has blossomed, he’s a top poaster

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36634544)



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Date: August 14th, 2018 6:38 AM
Author: Razzmatazz Headpube



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36613911)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 6:48 PM
Author: Razzmatazz Headpube

This article would generate a 200 poast thread in pre-4chan invasion xo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36635378)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 6:49 PM
Author: aphrodisiac goyim pit

you should leave and see how many poasts it racks up on quora

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36635384)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 6:50 PM
Author: Brindle talking principal's office

I started it. Poast a reason I should care.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36635386)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 6:54 PM
Author: Razzmatazz Headpube

In April 2014, Olena Tyshchenko—a Ukranian lawyer, mother of four, and key witness in the U.K.’s biggest ever fraud case—emailed a senior partner at the London office of one of the world’s largest law firms, Hogan Lovells.

Her email detailed a string of allegations against the firm and one of its clients, a preeminent Kazakh bank. Her accusations were grave: that she had been arrested in Russia on false pretenses, visited in isolation cells by lawyers acting against her to give “false evidence,” kept in illegal custody, and forcefully taken to Kazakhstan.

“I was released only after I signed the agreement [to cooperate as a witness] written by Hogan Lovells,” she wrote in the furious email. “This you all understand looks bad and illegal.”

The email, and all of the serious allegations of witness intimidation and contamination, arrived soon afterward after being forwarded through a middleman into the inbox of Pavlov, one of the people present in the cell—according to a transcript produced by Kazakh authorities and emailed to Pavlov—where Tyshchenko claims she was interrogated, without a lawyer, under armed guard.

The case in question was that of Mukhtar Ablyazov, a Kazakh banker and political rival of the country’s president. Ablyazov was accused of a multibillion-pound fraud against BTA Bank (in which he was once the largest shareholder, but which was subsequently nationalized) but had protested that his prosecution was politically motivated. After the bank was nationalized in 2009, Ablyazov fled Kazakhstan and later received political asylum in the U.K. Multiple human-rights groups had spoken out against his attempted extradition.

Ablyazov’s legal case, aspects of which are still ongoing, has involved dozens of hearings in U.K. and French courts, and is one of the largest and most lucrative ever seen in Western Europe, with the Financial Times reporting that more than 50 solicitors and 32 barristers—including eight queen’s counsels or prominent lawyers—have worked on the case since 2012.

BTA alleges Ablyazov misappropriated up to $6 billion in bank funds and assets, and the bank has spent over five years pursuing him in the U.K. courts through numerous sets of high-stakes proceedings.

“The investigators managed to follow Tyshchenko across London and into France, as she visited Ablyazov in his ‘hideaway’—a villa near Cannes.”

Ablyazov was granted political asylum in the U.K. but fled the country in 2012 to France after being held in of contempt of court related to seizure of funds and disclosing information relating to the case. Civil proceedings relating to seizing his assets continued in his absence.

One such High Court hearing, in July 2013, was attended by Olena Tyshchenko, a confidante and legal adviser to Ablyazov. As she left the U.K. court, she was photographed by private investigators working for Diligence, a security firm founded by former MI5 and CIA staff, hired by Hogan Lovells—photos that were then passed to and published by the U.K. press.

The investigators managed to follow Tyshchenko across London and into France, as she visited Ablyazov in his “hideaway”—a villa near Cannes. He was arrested by French authorities in connection to his alleged bank fraud in an armed raid soon afterward, and the story of how he was tracked down—along with some of the surveillance photos—leaked to the press.

Ablyazov, though, was not the only one to be arrested. Tyshchenko herself was arrested by Russian authorities and kept in custody for four months, until she agreed to be a cooperative witness for BTA as well as for Russian and Kazakh authorities.

The emails of Pavlov shed light on months of correspondence between Kazakh authorities, Pavlov, and one of the world’s most respected law firms—from which Trump later hired his own lawyer Ty Cobb, who was not directly involved in this case.

The cache shows the peril faced by people, like Tyshchenko, who get caught in the wheels in battles between oligarchs and autocrats, even when they are ostensibly being fought through Western courts. Documents in the email cache show Pavlov was present during an extended interrogation of an obviously traumatized Tyshchenko by both Russian and Kazakh Interior Ministry officials in prison in Moscow during November 2013.

Tyshchenko in Prison

A transcript of the interrogation was sent to Pavlov by the Kazakhstan prosecutor’s office and has been professionally translated and reviewed by The Daily Beast.

The documents confirm the close involvement of Kazakh authorities in Ablyazov’s case—which Amnesty International has repeatedly warned would suggest political motivation for the extradition request.

Early in the transcript, the Kazakh prosecutor explains to Tyshchenko he will not interview her with her lawyer present. “The lawyers will be [here] shortly, you will consult with them whether you wish to or not,” he says. “I will explain why I will not be interrogating you in their presence.”

Soon afterward, he tells Tyshchenko, “They [Kazakhstan] don’t want there to be any kinds of false rumours about your being pressured or any kind of illegal activities.”

She interrupts: “When there are three armed men with me and I’m handcuffed?”

He responds: “This is only common procedure which is not dictated by us, it’s dictated by the law. Because we have you here and you consider yourself a law-abiding citizen. But there are some people who do not share this opinion. Sometimes they will attempt to escape.”

During the lengthy exchanges, Tyshchenko speaks of her anguish at her situation, especially at being separated from her children, with little opportunity to speak to them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36635422)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 6:57 PM
Author: Razzmatazz Headpube

“There’s going to be a dead body in the isolation cell, don’t you understand? I can’t take it anymore,” she tells her captors.

Soon afterward, in December 2013, Tyshchenko agreed to sign an agreement drafted by Hogan Lovells to cooperate with BTA Bank in its actions against Ablyazov, including turning over evidence in the U.K. and France, and ceasing all association with Ablyazov, documentation in the email cache shows.

The agreement included a promise to “waive any entitlement to claim legal professional privilege.” In exchange, Tyshchenko herself would be freed from the threat of prosecution.

The final deal, signed by Tyshchenko, was sent by Pavlov to Hogan Lovells on Dec. 20. It was accompanied by a handwritten note from Tyshchenko to Hogan Lovells partner Chris Hardman.

“I fully understand the meaning of the said agreement and its statements and consequences of its signing,” she states, also confirming she had enough time to “receive relevant professional advice” before signing.

Within days of its signing, Hardman was flying to Moscow to meet with Tyshchenko, discussing the meeting with Pavlov and inviting him to sit in. “If not, do you have any thoughts on how to get the best out of her?” he asks.

Hardman’s professional profile at Hogan Lovells prominently advertises his role in the BTA case.

“His work on the BTA Bank matter, for instance, has been universally lauded and has been described as ‘extraordinary litigation on a large scale’ and ‘the most ground-breaking recent case by common consensus,’” it states.

Tyshchenko’s cooperation with authorities secured her release from detention and resulted in a large handover of documents and evidence to BTA, its lawyers, and Russian and Kazakh authorities.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36635455)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 6:52 PM
Author: sepia locale

thta's because we were mostly law students and junior ass-sociates who didn't have jack shit to do now I have to work bro get off my (white and) case

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36635400)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 7:59 PM
Author: Razzmatazz Headpube



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36635885)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 8:00 PM
Author: Adulterous Home

give me teh highlights

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36635893)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 8:14 PM
Author: Razzmatazz Headpube

Is your shtick still ultra anxious biglaw associate waiting for the axe

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36635955)



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Date: August 18th, 2018 9:50 AM
Author: Razzmatazz Headpube



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36637978)



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Date: August 18th, 2018 9:55 AM
Author: Histrionic buff immigrant

well it is so no surprises there

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36637996)



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Date: August 18th, 2018 4:40 PM
Author: Razzmatazz Headpube



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36640040)



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Date: September 14th, 2018 5:28 PM
Author: Razzmatazz Headpube



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051388&forum_id=2#36809486)