By Lucy Komisar
May 7, 2019
The OCCRP, a Bill Browder acolyte and stenographer “news organization,” just got me kicked off, GLOBAL-L, a supposedly nonpolitical journalists‘ list, because I quoted from Browder‘s 2015 deposition in US Federal Court SDNY (Southern District of NY) in the Prevezon case showing OCCRP is a Browder collaborator.
Here is the notice I just got. By the way, the is the second time. Happened a few years ago, based on my posts about Browder, OCCRP‘s Drew Sullivan also objected to. I was returned to the list after I informed the listmaster I would report this to the University of Missouri, which includes the famous Missouri School of Journalism and hosts the list. So this is the second time.
Subject: | Your removal from the GLOBAL-L list |
Date: | Tue, 7 May 2019 12:14:13 -0500 |
From: | LI******@PO.EDU |
Reply-To: | GL**************@LI***.ORG |
To: | Lucy Komisar <**@LU*********.COM> |
Tue, 7 May 2019 12:14:13
You have been removed from the GLOBAL-L list (Global Investigative
Journalism) by Ted Peterson <li********@IR*.ORG>.
Here are the posts.
Subject: | [GLOBAL-L] Bellingcat |
Date: | Tue, 7 May 2019 09:03:10 +0200 |
From: | (individual asked name not be used) |
Reply-To: | GL******@LI***.ORG |
To: | GL******@LI***.ORG |
Dear colleagues,
I’m looking to contact Bellingcat for a collaboration within a transnational investigative network that I have set up. Does anyone on here have their contact details?
Thanks in advance!
(Though the Global-L list emails are public, this individual asked that a name not be used)
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Subject: | Re: [GLOBAL-L] Bellingcat |
Date: | Tue, 7 May 2019 09:41:00 -0400 |
From: | Lucy Komisar <**@lu*********.com> |
To: | GL******@LI***.ORG |
Are you aware that Bellingcat is a rightwing Russophobic organization that presents lies as facts? I would stay far away from them. Their reputation will tarnish your work as anything they are involved with will be disbelieved by many.
LK
(I found this link later. By the late Robert Parry, the founder of Consortium News.)
Subject: | Re: [GLOBAL-L] Bellingcat |
Date: | Tue, 7 May 2019 10:03:24 -0400 |
From: | Drew Sullivan <dr**@OC***.ORG> |
Reply-To: | GL******@LI***.ORG |
To: | GL******@LI***.ORG |
Bellingcat is great and a fine choice but you will find them, like many of the best cross border collaboration projects, hugely busy with existing work. Bellingcat has reported honestly about Russia and the shooting down of MH17 by a Buk missile launcher along with many other great stories. Yes, Lucy is correct that some will attempt to tar and feather you for working with them, (and us for that matter) but most of those people are paid Russian propaganda agents or the useful idiots they empower. Russia is a place where the government has traditionally tried very, very hard to control the message — the Putin government would now like the whole world to believe as it does but you can’t fool all the people all the time.
Drew Sullivan – Editor
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
Sarajevo/Bucharest/Riga/Washington
twitter: @drewOCCRP
+387 61 139 403 (mob)
Subject: | Re: [GLOBAL-L] OCCRP |
Date: | Tue, 7 May 2019 10:33:53 -0400 |
From: | Lucy Komisar <**@LU*********.COM> |
Reply-To: | GL******@LI***.ORG |
To: | GL******@LI***.ORG |
OCCRP is a Russophobic organization that promotes the Bill Browder/Magnitsky hoax without telling readers that OCCRP is a Browder collaborator, as Browder acknowledged in his 2015 deposition in US Federal Court Southern District of New York. Here’s where OCCRP comes up in his deposition. Here’s the deposition and then excerpts relating to OCCRP. https://c1.100r.org/media/2017/10/Browder-Deposition-April-15-2015.pdf
Case 1:13-cv-06326-TPG Document 281-1 Filed 05/13/15 Page 45 of 386
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So what reporters did you rely upon
14 to connect the dots?
15 A. Bill Alpert at Barron’s in
16 New York.
17 Q. Anybody else?
18 A. Roman Onin, Novaya Gazeta. I
19 shouldn’t say I relied on them; they worked
20 with our team.
21 Q. Anybody else?
22 A. The Organized Crime and Corruption
23 Reporting Project.
20
18 A. My team conducted the
19 investigation.
20 Q. And how did they do that?
21 A. Gathering information from
22 different sources.
23 Q. What sources? What sources?
24 A. OCCRP.
25 Q. What’s that, OCCRP?
2 A. The Organized Crime and Corruption
3 Reporting Project.
4 Q. They had records?
5 A. Yes.
6 Q. Do they have records of Prevezon
7 Holdings account and UBS?
8 A. No.
19 Q. Do you know something called The
20 Journalism Development Network?
21 A. No.
22 Q. Operates OCCRP; you’re aware of
23 that?
24 A. No.
25 Q. Do you make contributions to the
2 Journalism Development Network?
3 A. No.
4 Q. Never?
5 A. Never.
6 Q. You’ve never made contributions
7 directly or indirectly to OCCRP?
8 A. No.
9 Q. How did you come to know OCCRP?
10 A. We met them — I met them, my
11 colleagues met them in the course of our work.
12 MR. CYMROT: So I’m going to mark
13 as Exhibit 18 a return of organization
14 exempt from income tax Journalism
15 Development Network, Inc.
16 (Browder Exhibit 18, document
17 Bates stamped BrowderDepo0000548
18 through ‘581 was marked for
19 identification, as of this date.)
20 BY MR. CYMROT:
21 Q. And this is for the year 2012, and
22 it shows in 2011 it received contributions of
23 $19,000. And in 2013, I’m looking at line 8
24 on the first page, received contributions of
25 $1,015,542.
(LK: the contributions to OCCRP via its US pass-through Journalism Development Network spiked massively the year that Browder invented his Magnitsky story to promote the Magnitsky Act in Congress. The OCCRP stories were part of that lobbying effort)
2 Do you have any idea how its
3 contributions jump so significantly in 2012?
4 A. No.
5 Q. And that’s not due to any
6 contributions you made?
7 A. I made no contributions.
8 Q. And Hermitage?
9 A. No contributions.
10 Q. And nobody on your team that you
11 know of?
12 A. No.
13 Q. So you have no explanation for that
14 jump in contributions?
15 A. No.
16 Q. So in 2012, the OCCRP approached
17 Denis Katsyv; you’re aware of that?
18 A. No.
19 Q. You weren’t aware of that?
20
4 Q. Unit 2009 was acquired by Prevezon
5 on November 30, 2009 for 1,231,148. Do you
6 see that?
7 A. Yes.
8 Q. Where did you get that information?
9 A. That information came from
10 Bill Alpert at Barron’s magazine.
11 Q. Do you know where he got it?
12 A. No.
13 Q. Unit 1810 was acquired on
14 November 30th for 829; did that come from
15 Bill Alpert also?
16 A. I believe so.
17 Q. How did Bill Alpert become
18 interested in Denis Katsyv?
19 A. He’s a part of the OCCRP network.
20 Q. Well, but how did Denis Katsyv come
21 to the attention of the OCCRP?
22 A. I don’t know.
23 Q. How did they come to your
24 attention?
25 A. I don’t know.
(LK: Browder’s collaborator OCCRP put together information he gave US attorney)
2 Q. Yes.
3 A. Are you sure?
4 Q. Yes. It came from the OCCRP.
5 A. So I — I don’t see it in here. Is
6 it — can you show me in here where — where
7 that statement is?
8 Q. I don’t think it’s in there.
9 A. So how did it come from me?
10 Q. It came from the OCCPR [sic] that
11 you gave to the U.S. attorney.
12 A. No. The OCCRP gave us information,
13 not the other way around.
14 Q. Yes. And then you gave it to the
15 U.S. attorney.
My email to listmaster:
Subject: | Fwd: Your removal from the GLOBAL-L list |
Date: | Tue, 7 May 2019 13:21:42 -0400 |
From: | Lucy Komisar <**@lu*********.com> |
To: | li********@IR*.ORG |
please inform me of the reason for the removal
LK
No reply yet.
Please include
and @mujschool in any twitter comments.A response from
Subject: | Re: Your removal from the GLOBAL-L list |
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Date: | Tue, 7 May 2019 14:24:32 -0400 |
From: | David Kaplan <da**********@gi**.org> |
Sincerely,
So his answer is that the organizations cited belong to GIJN and have gotten awards. That is NOT an answer. No mention of the Browder testimony that OCCRP is his collaborator. He also does not mention that he (Kaplan) was on the board of directors of OCCRP. Now, wouldn’t that be relevant! (He is no longer on the board.)
I replied
Subject: | Re: Your removal from the GLOBAL-L list |
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Date: | Tue, 7 May 2019 14:38:14 -0400 |
From: | Lucy Komisar |
To: | David Kaplan <da**********@gi**.org> |
sorry, it is. will look for more evidence and forward.
About Bellingcat fakery, sent to David Kaplan.
He would not deal with that.
This is the reason why the Panama Papers team never wrote about William Browder, the most famous Mossack Fonseca shell company owner. Because Kaplan was on the board of OCCRP in 2012, a Browder media acolyte that spent that year of his Magnitsky Act campaign writing Browder fabrications about the death of his accountant Magnitsky.
Or did Kaplan / GIJN just not notice that Browder was the most internationally prominent Panama Papers figure? They never responded to my emails of documents showing the Browder/Panama Papers connection. Never wrote about him. Now I know why!
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Drew Sullivan lands in “journalism” after US space/military+ outfit Rockwell International. Fitting.
It’s no surprise that such actors as career conman, convicted tax-evader + fraudster, Bill Browder, and criminal oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky do what they do… it’s natural.
Of concern today is the faux journalistic operations of the legacy media and such entities as the OCCRP and ICIJ which report selectively and continually fail to tell the truth about the rackets of Browder, Khodorkovsky et al. (Bellingcat is too-obvious propaganda.)
Thank you for being a rare voice for genuine investigative journalism today!
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