-Caveat Lector- : In congressional hearings (Apr97), U.S. Congressman Dan Burton : identified Vadim Rabinovich as Grigori Loutchansky's key lieutenant : in Ukraine. It appears that Vadim Rabinovich's business partner in : Nordex, Grigori Loutchansky, is busy in many countries in addition to : Ukraine, including Russia, Latvia, Austria, Israel, USA, UK, Canada, : Iraq, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Hungary, and now Bulgaria. : The Transitions article below also links Loutchansky to Mikhail Cherny : (aka Chorny, Cherney, Chornoi) whom we came across in the Fortune : article that included the takeover of the alumina/aluminum industry in : Ukraine by oligarchs like Berezovsky. Loutchansky is the self-described : "outstanding Jewish businessman" who attends fundraisers for : Clinton/Gore, contributes to Israeli politicians like Netanyahu and : Sharansky, has ties to Viktor Chernomyrdin and the KGB, delivers Scud : missiles to Iraq, and deals in nuclear materials, arms, drug : trafficking, : gold, money-laundering, etc. Loutchansky has ties to other mafia : oligarchs : like Sergei Mikhailov, Semyon Mogilevich, etc. And Loutchansky has the : distinction of being the sole subject of a two-day meeting of Interpol : involving 11 nations. Loutchansky had earlier served a two-year prison : term for embezzlement. Loutchansky also has ties to "Israeli citizen : Leonid Borisovich Wolf, who is considered a member of a professional : organized criminal group, which is suspected of carrying out contract : killings in the Odesa, Kyiv, and Dnipropetrovsk regions" according to : the SBU. : Not only do the governments of Ukraine and Bulgaria have ties to the : Russian Mafia, but they have ties to the same Russian Mafia organized : crime familia. : Stefan Lemieszewski : ============================================================= : http://www.tol.cz/week.html#bul : Transitions Online : 11 - 17 September 2000 : Russian Mafia Strikes Back in Bulgaria : by Polia Tchakarova : SOFIA -- The presence of the Russian mafia in Bulgaria has taken a new : twist in the past two weeks, as accusations and confessions continue to : suggest mafia links to the Bulgarian government. : The latest scandal began when the widely read Bulgarian Trud daily : newspaper reported last week that the Russian mafia gave $80,000 to a : foundation run by Prime Minister Ivan Kostov's wife, Yelena Kostova. : Kostova admitted the paper's report was true, but said she didn't see : any : harm in taking money from the mafia. The scandal further intensified : when : Russian businessman Grigory Luchansky the same man who transferred : money to Kostova's fund told Trud that every month he has been giving : nearly : half a million dollars to the ruling Union of Democratic Forces party. : Kostova has presided as the chairwoman of the Future for Bulgarian : Foundation for the past four years. The paper claimed on 7 September it : had : discovered a bank document from 4 April 1997 that proves that a company : that : the Bulgarian National Security Services (NSS) has said is connected to : the : Russian mafia transferred the money to the foundation. A day after the : report : appeared in Trud, Kostova admitted that the money had been transferred : from : Pordeks, Luchansky's Bulgaria-based company. She said that the money was : used for charitable purposes and that there was nothing wrong with : spending : allegedly dirty money on good causes. Kostova's statement shocked : parliamentarians from both ruling and opposition parties. Prime Minister : Kostov : reportedly responded only by saying, "Don't mess with my wife," and by : calling : the accusations another attempt to destabilize the country, Trud : reported. : According to the NSS, the money can be traced back to the Russian mafia. : NSS Gen. Atanas : Atanasov has connected Luchansky to the notorious Russian tycoon Mikhail : Cherny, who is : believed by international crime fighting organizations to be strongly : linked to the Russian mafia. : Last month, the Bulgarian government last month expelled Cherny from the : country and barred : him from re-entering for 10 years in what it called an attempt to clean : up the country and its : reputation. : So far, however, authorities have failed to make a decision about the : paper's charges, and : General Prosecutor Nestor Nestorov said he has not yet ordered an : investigation. Bulgarian : President Petar Stoyanov was visiting the United States when the scandal : broke. Upon his return : he did not make any attempts to defend the Kostovs, but appealed to the : prime minister for a : public explanation. : The scandal has sparked public outrage from those who voted for the : democratic forces, and the : opposition is using the momentum to renew its fight against the : government in preparation for July : 2001 parliamentary elections. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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