Twelfth Bough

The Magnitsky Act (subject of our last post) turned out to be very useful in seizing assets, just as intended by Team Death Cult. A great tool, Very Handy, depending on who wields it. Let's peek at the OFAC list. Here's one example from  12/11/2023 . Ajmal Rahmani, his father Mir Rahman Rahmani, and roughly four dozen related companies were added to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list.  The same day, 12/11/23, Kabul Now reports a detailed story:  US sanctions Afghan political family at the heart of decades of corruption . We learn that OFAC sanctions former speaker of Afghan parliament and his son on charges of transnational corruption and embezzlement . ( TCOs. Know thy enemy. ) They are barred from making financial transactions, and their assets are subject to confiscation. The Rahmani family was one of the largest contractors of the US Army and the former government of Afghanistan. During the two decades of international involvement in Afghanistan, the Rahma...

Others have no doubt linked Alexiei Navalny, Bill Browder, and the Magnitsky Act. Nevertheless, there are a few nodes in this long, drawn-out death-cult unravelling saga that I must document; and Browder is one of them.  Bill Browder came on the radar here fourteen years ago. S. 1039: Symbolizing and Evoking Serious Concerns About Russian Badness He was obviously deeply entrenched and able to direct powerful political resources. Recap: At that time we learned that Browder teamed up with various people in congress to punish Putin's Russia because   Bill's  good friend and colleague who no one ever heard of before, Sergei Magnitsky (an accountant, NOT a lawyer as almost always reported), died in prison under suspicious circumstances.  [We looked into Magnitsky's death in detail here .  Also see: dead friends of Bill , where we noted that Edmund Safra, Edourd Stern, and Sergei Magnitsky -- all close associates of Bill Browder -- died under suspicious circumstances...