On Sunday, 12 December 1999 13:30:00 UTC+5:30, Stefan Lemieszewski wrote:

Background Note:

It wasn’t that long ago that political figures such as Hillary Clinton,
in her speech in Lviv, Ukraine, warned the world of the plight of the women forced into prostitution and slavery. Also some time ago, ABC aired a PrimeTime
segment  "Girls for Sale" describing the prostitution rings in Israel importing East European women/girls for their sex trade.

Recent articles on YBM Magnex International reveal how the above is
just one example of a small piece in a much larger pie -- a pie which comes full circle connecting the Russian Mafia with Western politicians, executives at brokerage houses and consultants/analysts. The circle is completed when the dirty money eventually needs to be laundered and illegal business has
to expand into legitimate sectors in search of other profits.

Although based in Pennsylvania, YBM's main operating subsidiary was
based in Budapest, Hungary. Most of the company's sales were in Russia, Ukraine and other former East Bloc countries. On May 13, 1998, 60 agents
from the FBI and IRS raided YBM's company headquarters and the Ontario Securities Commission halted trade in its shares freezing CDN $900 million
in YBM stock certificates. According to Vancouver Sun reporter David Baines, documents indicated that "the founders of YBM and its subsidiary companies are alleged to be high-ranking members of Russia's most notorious mafia gangs."

Jacob Bogatin, YBM's president and CEO, was one of the largest shareholders. 
Others include Semyon, Titania and Mila Mogilevich.  According to
a May 1995 FBI report,  Mogilevich is a high-ranking member of the
Russian mafia. The report says: "Semion (note: Russian names are often spelled variously when translated to English) Mogilevich runs an extensive prostitution operation out of the Black and White Nightclubs in Prague
and  Budapest. Foreign law enforcement agencies have documented Mogilevich's prostitution operation as the centrepiece of his operations in Europe.
... to facilitate travel or residency in

furtherance of criminal activities. Many of Semion Mogilevich's lieutenants and Mogilevich himself hold Israeli citizenship and carry Israeli passports." Israel protects criminals intentionally or inadvertently by not having extradition treaties. There were allegations that YBM shareholders Anatoly Kulachenko and Alexei Alexandrov had criminal convictions in Ukraine.

"CTK National News Wire (A Czech news agency) reported that members
of two Russian gangs -- Solntsovskaya, based in Moscow, and Solomonskaya, operating in Ukraine and Israel -- had met in the U Holubu restaurant in Prague on May 31, 1995 to celebrate the birthday of a high-ranking gang member." Czech police raided the meeting after receiving a tip that Mogilevich,
described as boss of one of the gangs was to be murdered. Refrigerating
vans were parked outside the restaurant for removing dead bodies.

Semyon Mogilevich does have interesting connections. Articles on the
recent RCMP raids in Ontario of a few dozen alleged Russian Mafia members (e.g. Yury Dinaburgsky, Arkady Kaplan) point out the role of Vyacheslav
Sliva in setting up the Russian Mafia in Ontario. He is the brother-in-law
to Vyacheslav Ivankov (currently in prison) based in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach who set up Russian mafia cells in USA.. Ivankov was a business partner of Semyon Mogilevich, who has ties with other Russian Mafia such as Sergei Mikhailov (currently running for election to the Russian Duma) and Boris Birshtein. There is an excellent ground-breaking article about Mogilevich written by Robert I. Friedman, titled "The Most Dangerous Mobster in the World" (Village Voice;

http://www.villagevoice.com/features/9821/friedman.shtml  ). As
a result of that article, Friedman had an assassination contract put out
on his head. Mogilevich also had business dealings with Grigori

Loutchansky (Nordex) who has the distinction of being the sole subject
of a two-day meeting of Interpol involving 11 nations. The Jerusalem Post reported Loutchansky as a head of the Russian Mafia. Russian Mobster Loutchansky
(who describes himself as an “outstanding Jewish businessman”) also attended
DNC fundraisers in the USA for Bill Clinton (husband of Hillary who was speaking publicly against women being forced into prostitution; referred
to above) and Al Gore. It was also widely reported that Mogilevich was
in the centre of the $15 billion money laundering investigation at the
Bank of New York, that involved its Senior Vice President, Natasha Gurfinkel Kagalovsky (whose husband Konstantin was Russia’s first official representative
to the IMF and is now an executive in Yukos Oil controlled by “oligarch” Mikhail Khordokovsky, whose Menatep bank had dealings with BoNY and is
now defunct). Also involved in the BoNY investigation was a key Swiss-Israeli shareholder, Bruce Rappaport, the Ambassador to Russia from the country
of Antigua and Barbuda. Rappaport and BoNY were joint partners in his Swiss bank that did a lot of business with Russia.

When YBM Magnex went belly up, a $900 million TSE flop, the lawsuits
began, including charges made by the Ontario Securities Commission against YBM’s directors, such as the former premier of Ontario, David Peterson (G&M; 2Nov99; http://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/ROB/19991102/UYBMMN.html).

who is now a partner at a blue-chip Toronto law firm Cassels Brock
& Blackwell.

Additional background information is available by the investigative
research analyst, Adrian du Plessis, at:

http://www.imagen.net/howenow

Recently, Sandra Rubin at National Post has undertaken a series of articles about Mogilevich and YBM, including her fluff interview with Mogilevich below.

Stefan Lemieszewski

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www.nationalpost.com

National Post

November 20, 1999

My meeting with the most

dangerous man in Russia

Semyon Mogilyevitch came to the Moscow

Marriott with his henchmen to explain that the

world's police forces who are hunting him have

got it all wrong -- he's been terribly wronged

Sandra Rubin

National Post

Semyon Mogilyevitch has a maxim he is fond of repeating.

"Where there is hesitation, hesitate." In other words, if you

have even the slightest reservation about doing

something, don't do it. At the moment, the matter at hand is

coffee. It is midway through what is turning into a long

interview on a drizzly Moscow afternoon and the six of us are

sitting around a conference table at the Marriott hotel

putting in orders for coffee or tea.

But Mr. Mogilyevitch shakes his head "nyet," putting one hand up in

the universal gesture meaning keep away. He has been talking and

smoking almost non-stop for more than an hour and a half, and has

taken not a sip from the sealed bottle of Russian mineral water in

front of him. But he wants nothing. He turns to the translator, sitting
on

his left, and grunts a brief explanation. "This is an American hotel.
He

does not eat or drink in the house of the enemy."

For Mr. Mogilyevitch, 54, the possibility of being poisoned at the

hands of a foreign power is not as far-fetched as one might think.
He

is, after all, the man that U.S., British and Israeli intelligence
say has

been the head of the brutal Red Mafia for almost a decade -- an

organization said to deal in arms, heroin, nuclear waste, prostitution,

stolen art, large-scale extortion and contract killing.

For at least five years Mr. Mogilyevitch used Canada as part of his

criminal empire, according to the U.S. Justice Department,

laundering hundreds of millions of dollars through YBM Magnex

International Inc., an industrial magnet manufacturer incorporated
in

Alberta and traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The company

collapsed last year after an FBI raid on its Philadelphia headquarters

revealed Mr. Mogilyevitch's involvement. His name has also

surfaced in connection with the recent Bank of New York

money-laundering scandal, involving up to $10-billion (US) in

questionable transfers from Russia.

The Red Mafia, while numbering just several hundred people, is

said to be far-reaching, efficient and sophisticated, ranging from

high-tech and financial specialists to foot soldiers who cut their
teeth

on the battlefields of Afghanistan. Their trademark is torture, and
they

terrify competing crime groups such as the Italian-American mafia.

He certainly terrifies average Russians; in Moscow they call him "The

Grave." U.S. intelligence sources say his organization is so powerful

that it poses a threat to the stability of entire nations, particularly
in

Eastern Europe, and even to NATO.

Yet there are indications his power may be in flux. In a sweeping

interview with the National Post, in which he veered from cold scorn

to the verge of tears, Mr. Mogilyevitch said he is being hunted down

by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and that his life as he

knew it is over.

He says he was effectively driven from his base of operations in

Budapest because FBI pressure on business associates made it

impossible for him to continue working there. He claims many of his

friends are deserting him because they don't want trouble. He

worries constantly about being kidnapped and poisoned. His

nine-year-old son is being taunted by schoolmates and his wife

wants a divorce.

Life these days is no bowl of caviar.

The road to a face-to-face meeting with Mr. Mogilyevitch was not

without moments of dark apprehension.

Jules Kroll, the renowned international investigator, once told me

that, given what I had written about Mr. Mogilyevitch and YBM, it

would be extremely dangerous, foolhardy even, to go to Eastern

Europe in search of further interviews. "They kill journalists like
you

over there," he said.

Mr. Mogilyevitch agreed to the interview, but in order to get my visa
I

was forced to write him -- supplying my home address, my birth date

and my passport number -- so that he could write a letter supporting

the application. I not only got the visa but, curiously, it was a

diplomatic one. He also requested I submit a few clippings about

YBM. I scrambled to find two that mentioned him barely at all but was

subsequently told by the RCMP that he probably has a file on me

thicker than my file on him, including all the YBM articles.

Three days before I left Toronto, someone involved with YBM called

the National Post and pleaded with one of my bosses not to send

me, saying he had a terrible feeling about the trip. I was never told

who made the call, which could have come from someone close to

Mr. Mogilyevitch. A Canadian intelligence officer, speaking on deep

background, told me to be "very, very careful" and offered

interrogation tips: "Take control of the situation. Choose the venue,

insist that it be a very public place like a hotel, bring along a driver,

a translator -- involve as many different people as you can. Prepare

an alternate line of questioning in case the individual in question

becomes agitated. Do not under any circumstances go anywhere

alone with this individual."

In the end, Mr. Mogilyevitch himself suggested we meet at my hotel.

He moves amid extremely tight security and arrived flanked by three

men: his translator, his Moscow lawyer and a New York-based

Russian journalist who acted as the go-between. His armed

bodyguards had presumably been posted around the cavernous

lobby earlier in the afternoon and were now indistinguishable from

hotel guests lounging on sofas, walking quietly across the thick

carpet, or gliding up to their rooms in glass elevators.

My translator tried to refuse the three-day assignment when she

found out who was to be interviewed. In the end, she agreed to take

the job but only if she were not required to translate the actual

meeting. I was instructed to introduce her as my assistant. "Please

understand," she said nervously in my hotel room 10 minutes before

he was due to arrive, "I have to live here after you go home."

A stocky man with a cruel, heavy face, YBM's Godfather stuck out

his hand perfunctorily when we were introduced. He avoided eye

contact and said nothing. He is round, but not very cuddly. After a

brief moment of awkwardness in which neither of us said a thing and

each wondered who would break the rapidly gathering social ice, I

led the way up the beige marble staircase toward the meeting room.

At the top, I looked back to make sure my guests were with me. But

Mr Mogilyevitch, his translator and lawyer had vanished. "Just keep

walking," the go-between instructed. "They will be along in a few

minutes." This, I was told later, was a security precaution to foil
a

possible kidnapping attempt.

Mr. Mogilyevitch insists he is "not the mobster or the monster" that

people have been led to believe. He insists that for the past five

years he has made his living selling grain. "Just grain, not

marijuana," he shrugs, and only within the former eastern-bloc

countries. He later admits he is involved in some other businesses

in Russia "but if I tell you what they are I am afraid the FBI will

descend on them to look for dead bodies, nuclear weapons and

drugs."

He denies any involvement in organized crime -- but his ring may tell

a different story. Russian crime lords, like cardinals in the Catholic

Church, wear symbolic rings on their right hands. The bigger the

ring, the more powerful the wearer. Mr. Mogilyevitch wears a gold

one with a large black stone at the centre. His translator and his

lawyer also wear rings, but theirs are noticeably smaller.

Anyway, there is no question who is the boss. The entourage is

subtly but unmistakably centred on Mr. Mogilyevitch, formal in a blue

pinstripe suit and navy tie. His translator, clad all in black and

wearing a watch set on London time, looked like he could have

stepped off an L.A. movie set, and appeared carefully selected to

put a North American at ease. His lawyer, a thin man in a nondescript

brown suit, shifted restlessly in his seat but spoke not a word in
the

two and a half hours we sat together in the windowless room. Even

this faceless place made the Russians wary. At one point one of Mr

Mogilyevitch's entourage looked up and eyed the hotel sprinkler

system suspiciously, concluding that it was a camera. He did not

disable it; he seemed to take spy cameras for granted.

My "assistant" sat by my side, but pointedly took not a single note.

She absolutely refused to discuss anything afterward.

Mr. Mogilyevitch claims the allegations against him were cooked up

and promoted by two rogue ex-FBI agents who set out to make a

name for themselves as specialists in Eastern European organized

crime so that they could write a book. He insists he is a simple

businessman, and that much of what is in his secret FBI file is wrong,

but was taken as gospel by British, Israeli and even Canadian

intelligence and repeated in their reports word for word. He says

matter-of-factly that he has complete copies of all his classified
files

"in full colour," a feat he doesn't appear to appreciate might be

difficult for an ordinary businessman. He offers to mail them to me
so

I can see the duplication, right down to the misspelling of his name.

 (As of yesterday, they hadn't arrived.)

Pieces of the Western world's intelligence reports on Semyon

Mogilyevitch have surfaced and the contents are unquestionably

chilling: He has bought up much of Hungary's armaments industry

quite legally -- posing a threat to the stability of Eastern Europe
and

potentially to Nato security: He is said to have sold ground-to-air

missiles and armoured troop carriers to Iran. He is also said to have

bought a bankrupt airline in a former central soviet republic to haul

heroin out of the Golden Triangle. His organization reputedly controls

everything that goes in and out of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.

According to intelligence reports, he will even arrange the illegal

dumping of nuclear waste around Chernobyl with the help of corrupt

anti-contamination officials in the area. It is also claimed Mr.

Mogilyevitch traffics in stolen art, gems and museum-quality

treasures such as Faberge eggs, and that his henchmen torture

businessmen who balk at paying extortion.

Asked how so many world intelligence services could have come to

the same mistaken conclusions about him, Mr. Mogilyevitch's

translator hesitates, sighs heavily, then poses the question.

Mr. Mogilyevitch drops his head, shaking it in apparent disgust. This

is not a reaction one wishes to elicit from a man with his reputation.

For at least 15 seconds all we hear is his "tsk, tsk, tsk," over and

over and over again. Was he buying time? Did he disapprove of the

question?

Finally, he answers: It all goes back to "some low-life FBI agent who

pretended he was an expert on Russian matters and made up a file

of people who were supposedly 'known' to Russian authorities. It

was just made up."

Yet in a conversation riddled with contradictions and statements that

sometimes strained credulity, one thing emerged as quite genuine:

Mr. Mogilyevitch's world is getting smaller and more uncomfortable

as the FBI chases him in his tradition bases of operations.

"What do you think," he says, his voice becoming thick with

emotion, "I wouldn't say my life has changed -- it has disappeared.

Myson comes home from school with bruises all over his body. He

has been fighting with everyone who calls him the son of a killer,
the

son of that guy involved in drugs." The man opposite me -- a

murderer, drug runner, money launderer and general ne'er-do-well,

according to half the police forces in the world -- flushed crimson.
All

at once his eyes were swimming with tears.

"Nobody wants to go in business with me, not because they don't

trust me, but because they're afraid of problems if they are publicly

allied with me. They say, 'We like you but you have to understand

that we don't want problems with our own business.'

"My wife wants to divorce me because she is thinking of the future of

the child. She understands nothing good will come of all this. I would

say 70% of my friends are keeping their distance, so the Americans

are doing this thing very well."

When he talks, he rarely makes eye contact but rather stares straight

ahead or looks down at the glass ashtray in front of him, prodding

the growing mound of cigarette butts. "I used to smoke True

because it expressed what was inside me," he says suddenly,

lighting another in a steady stream of German-made Davidoff

cigarettes. "But I switched brands because I found out there is no

such thing as 'true' in America."

Semyon Mogilyevitch was born in Kiev, his mother a podiatrist and

his father the manager of a large state-owned printing company. He

says he was discriminated against in Ukraine because he was

Jewish, although his family appears to have been affluent. After

graduating with an economics degree from the University of Lvov, he

held a series of government jobs. "I was always the most important

person, the one in charge," he says with odd pride, "I was never just

a regular person."

He moved to Moscow in 1985 and two years later became one of

the first Gorbachev-era businessmen allowed to make a private

investment: He and six fellow investors ran all the food and retail

concessions at Moscow's main airport. Intelligence reports say the

man dubbed "The Brainy Don" was already making his first millions

in those years by fleecing fellow Jews fleeing the Soviet Union. He

is said to have promised to sell their art and other family treasures

and forward them the money, only to keep everything for himself.

He moved to Budapest in 1990 after marrying a Hungarian and,

intelligence sources say, ran his growing criminal empire under the

protection of a corrupt Hungarian police official until the man was

fired this year at the U.S. government's insistence.

But Mr. Mogilyevitch says the reason he left was that the FBI made it

impossible for him to work there. He said the U.S. agency received

special permission from the Hungarian government this summer to

send eight agents over to question people directly.

The agents set up shop in the YBM building, where he also

apparently kept offices, although he claims he severed his direct

ties with the Canadian magnet manufacturer in 1994, and spent two

months canvassing people who worked there. "They put my picture

up on the wall of an office and called in everyone from the cook to

the girl who cleans saying, 'We are investigating this crook

Mogilyevitch who is involved in money laundering, in prostitution,
in

killings -- what do you know about him?' They would say things like,

'Tell us what that monster had for lunch. Tell us his habits, where
he

goes, who he sees. Tell us who his mistresses are.' Then they

would go to the husband and say: 'Did you know your wife is

sleeping with this bandit Mogilyevitch?' One man said he didn't

believe it because he was married to my sister. They said to him:

'This man is such a monster he sleeps with his own sister.'

"If someone was building a home for a friend of mine, the police

would come right onto the construction site and say: 'You're helping

a friend of that monster Mogilyevitch, who has killed so many

people. You are being paid with blood money. We are going to take

your license away.' They identified themselves as FBI and Hungarian

district attorneys."

Mr. Mogilyevitch remembers a camera set up across the street from

his office so the police could see his comings and goings. They

monitored his faxes and tapped all his telephone lines. "There were

more bugs in my office than in all the woods."

Tom Pickard, assistant director of the FBI's criminal investigations

division in Washington, declined to respond to Mr. Mogilyevitch's

allegations and the agency said it was not prepared even to issue a

short written statement in response.

Mr. Mogilyevitch says that now that he has left Hungary, the FBI has

turned its attention to Israel, and has been pressuring the Israel

government to revoke his citizenship. (Israel gives citizenship to

anyone claiming to be Jewish, without demanding proof, a legacy of

the Second World War when refugees arrived on its doorstep

without identity papers.)

"They are asking the Israeli authorities to find some criminal activity

they can use against me," he says scornfully. "Maybe they will find

something that proves I am not a Jew is order to take my passport

away but that would be very difficult because I am Jewish."

Mr. Mogilyevitch indicates he prides himself on his Jewish

heritage, and says he considers himself observant. While he did not

have a bar mitzvah, he has seats in synagogues in both Moscow

and Budapest. He maintains he fasted on Yom Kippur, the Day of

Atonement and the holiest day of the Jewish year,

but allowed as how he cheated a bit because he smoked, and said

he hopes that God "doesn't read the newspapers."

Mr. Mogilyevitch disdainfully dismisses reports that he made his first

millions fleecing fleeing Jews: "I have been a citizen of Israel for
10

years, and that story was first printed five or six years ago. Since
that

time not one Jew in the U.S. or Israel has stepped forward to say

they were one of my victims. But the story goes that I cheated

thousands, so how can I clear myself against that? If someone were

to step forward and make that claim, I would sue them and ask them

to provide proof." It may not occur to him that no has stepped

forward, rightly or wrongly, for fear of being tortured and killed.

Keeping his Israeli citizenship is critical for Mr. Mogilyevitch --
who

admits he would not be surprised to be indicted in the YBM

investigation -- because Israel allows virtually no extradition of
its

citizens. He says he does not spend as much time in Israel as he

would like, but in the next breath indicates he doesn't really enjoy

being there. "Too many Jews," he says, slightly contemptuously,

exhaling a long plume of smoke. Which means? "Too much arguing.

Everybody is talking all the time and their voices are so loud."

Richard Crane Jr., Mr. Mogilyevitch's U.S. lawyer, says his client's

problems are all the result of shoddy footwork by the FBI.

Mr. Crane contends that the U.S. was left scrambling to compile

intelligence reports on Eastern Europe when the Soviet Union

crumbled and, in its haste, agents confused Mr. Mogilyevitch with

Sergei Mikhailov, another alleged mob boss who was being held at

the time in a Swiss jail on money-laundering allegations.

Mr. Crane, who was head of the U.S. Justice Department's

Organized Crime Strike Force for the Western United States from

1969-1976, said from New York that he even received two phone

calls from former colleagues "in the highest authorities" in the U.S.

justice system saying published reports linking Mr. Mogilyevitch to

the money-laundering scandal at Bank of New York had not come

from them.

"There has never been anything proven against him. Heck, he has

never even been charged with anything," says Mr. Crane. "I know

how these things happen and how hard it is to set it right. In the

meantime, it's like trying to defend yourself against smoke. I'm not

trying to make Snow White out of him, but this man is not what they

say he is."

Jim Moody, deputy assistant director of the FBI until he retired in

1996, has little patience with such claims: "I personally -- personally

-- was provided with the names of Mikhailov and Mogilyevitch by the

Russian Ministry of the Interior as heads of organized crime groups."

Mr. Moody, who headed up the FBI's organized-crime program for

the last seven years of his career, adds that, "I was in organized

crime, I wasn't even in intelligence, so that kind deflates what he

says about the intelligence agency messing up."

There is "absolutely no chance at all, none whatsoever" that he is a

simple businessman as he claims, say Mr. Moody, who identified

Mr. Mogilyevitch as a crime boss before the U.S. Congress in 1996.

"He is one of the world's most important organized-crime leaders."

He is somewhat skeptical of Mr. Mogilyevitch's claim he was driven

out of Budapest by the FBI, and speculated the real reason he

moved is his involvement with YBM: "Because he is possibly

behind stock manipulations in Canada and the United States, he is

probably vulnerable in Hungary as far as prosecution goes. If he

used the telephone in committing an alleged fraud, you [the U.S.

authorities] have venue. You can go after him that way."

He says the possibility of prosecution makes Israeli citizenship

doubly important to Mr. Mogilyevitch, and reveals almost every

member of his organization holds Israeli passports. He adds that it
is

his understanding Mr. Mogilyevitch is banned from entering the U.S.,

though it is widely suspected he travels on false passports.

Mr. Mogilyevitch does not allow his picture to be taken, although

whether for fear of being identified by U.S. immigration or

kidnappers is unclear. He claims he has not been on American soil

since October, 1997, even though he has two daughters and a

granddaughter in Los Angeles. He says the family meets in

Budapest, Kiev, Moscow or other locations in Europe for reunions.

Asked how many children he has, Mr. Mogilyevitch looks up at the

ceiling, doing what appear to be elaborate calculations. "I didn't

expect a question like that to take so long to answer," I say,

breaking the silence.

"He is deciding who he wants to legitimize," the translator

volunteers. He is completely serious. The answer, when it finally

comes, is four: the two daughters in California, 27 and 19; a

16-year-old son in London and his son, 9, in Budapest. His parents

are dead, his sister and a brother are both dead as well. "I am the

most durable of them all," he says, not without some irony.

He does acknowledge that he was permanently banned from the

United Kingdom in 1995 by special order of the Home Secretary.

The ban came in 1995 following Operation Sword, an extensive

money-laundering investigation centering on Mr. Mogilyevitch's British

operations. In its final report, British intelligence called him "one
of

the world's top criminals" with a personal net worth of $100-million

 (US). He was not convicted of anything -- the British blamed
a lack of

co-operation from Moscow police -- but all his business operations

were shut down and he was permanently expelled. "Operation

Sword," he snorts disparagingly. "It turned out that their sword was

made of paper."

"I don't like England anyways, the prices are too high there. The first

47 years of my life, I didn't go to England, so I can manage quite

well without going to England for he rest of my life."

Mr. Mogilyevitch, called "Syeva" by his friends, says after his

experiences with YBM he has given up doing business in North

America. "I don't like the United States -- it is a centre for money

laundering and the mafia is there," he says with disdain. "Also, the

President is morally bankrupt and uses his office to seduce young

girls." Canada's Prime Minister has never been accused of such

things, I point out. "Yes, but your Prime Minister is ugly," he shoots

right back.

He continues to deny any link to the Bank of New York

money-laundering scandal, saying that "for the last nine years I

wasn't even living in Russia so transferring that amount of money

would have been impossible. Anyways, if there was one chance in a

million that I was involved, all the special forces -- the FBI, CIA,
MI5,

MI6, the RCMP -- would be crawling all over me. Instead, this whole

thing was like a hurricane blowing past and no one even mentions

my name any more. The newspapers said I was supposed to be

connected through this company called Benex, but no one has

proven a thing."

Mr. Mogilyevitch says he suspects the U.S. is now quietly

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