Admin correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly described a longtime Trump associate as the former chairman of Economic Transformation Technologies. A previous version of the headline also presented an assumption about the $600K payment to Smirnov as fact.
From Raw Story:
The Guardian reported that business filings and court documents show Smirnov, who has been accused of lying to investigators about the president and his son Hunter Biden, was paid $600,000 in 2020 by a company called Economic Transformation Technologies (ETT), and the indictment shows that same year he started lying to the FBI about the Bidens.
So - here’s a fun little fact about “Economic Transformation Technologies”: ETT, a company who’s true function is “murky”:
Condon, Arjomand and Khan registered ETT Investment Holding Limited in the UK on 6 March 2020. Khan, an investor who purchased the Plaza hotel in 2018, and Arjomand have ties to Donald Trump through Trump associates and Damac, a major Middle East developer that has partnered with Trump for a decade. Arjomand, Khan and Condon owned 34%, 33% and 33% of ETT Investment Holding Limited respectively, according to UK business filings. No other information on the UK company is readily available.
The former Damac chairman Hussain Sajwani is also close to Trump and has been described as his friend in multiple news reports. Trump has called the billionaire a “friend” and a “great man”, and his family “the most beautiful people”.
Sajwani attended Trump’s 2016 inauguration, and Trump’s sons Donald Jr and Eric Trump attended the 2017 ribbon-cutting of the Trump International golf club in Dubai, licensed by Damac in 2014. Sajwani and his family also attended a party in 2017 at Mar-a-Lago. Trump’s sons would go on to attend Sajwani’s daughter’s wedding in 2018.
More:
The American ETT, then called Pandora Venture Capital Corp, was first registered in Florida in 2014 by a Wisconsin resident, Boris Nayflish, according to Florida business filings. Ukrainian American Nayflish is the ex-husband of Smirnov’s current partner, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
So we have a UK subsidiary of a shady U.S. operation that was started in late 2014, a few months before Trump announced his candidacy (June of 2015), by the ex-husband of an agent for the Kremlin’s (Smirnov) current partner (both born Ukranian), being set up — once again, at a politically volatile moment, in Trump’s final year, when they feared Biden, by Saudi business associates of Trump — paying that agent for the Kremlin, $600,000 “in exchange” for an “investment” that reads like a flickering, neon sign for money laundering — a few months before he starts spreading Kremlin-created lies to Republicans against Biden. I wouldn’t be surprised if, with a bit of research, there were some nefarious, anti-Clinton attacks in 2015/16 that ended up being linked to the U.S. version of ETT.
I’ll just be blunt, here about how this all reads: ETT looks like a Front, created for laundering “foreign” cash and Kremlin-originated attacks for Trump’s campaign - from the time right before Trump decided he was running for president, in June of 2015….and then re-jiggered as an attack-machine against Biden at the start of 2020, with Trump’s Saudi connections and using an agent for the Kremlin (Smirnov).
I suggest reading the full Guardian article, as there are a lot of very shady elements here; as I’m pressed for time at the moment, I just thought the story should be shared.