The Uranium Deal Part 2

This business deal is about as complex and corrupt as they come so let’s continue.
All deals for mineral assets from Kazakhstan had to have the approval of the president, Nazarbayev but this would not be a problem for Giustra and his shell company. The reason, Giustra and Clinton were tight (some say joined at the hip) and Clinton’s relationship with Nazarbayev went back to 1994. The skids were greased and it was full steam ahead. The major Uranium players would be ignored only they didn’t know they were playing against a stacked deck.
Both Clinton and Giustra vehemently denied that they used their influence with the Kazakh government. In fact Clinton even said that the president did not have to approve the deal which was totally false. Did he lie or was he just ignorant? You be the judge. This was proven to be false when execs for the fledging uranium company affirmed that the Kazakh government had to approve the deal, which of course they did.
Thus Giustra and his shell company UrAsia acquired the mining rights to the uranium fields and quickly brokered a merger with a legitimate mining company, Uranium One, and transferred all the assets to it. But this proved to be more difficult that they thought. The Kazakh government had to approve all transfer of mineral assets and this approval was not forthcoming.
Enter Hillary Clinton! A 2009 video on an unrelated matter has a Kazakh official saying Hillary pressured Kazakh to approve the deal. Hillary was a senator from NY at the time. Both Hillary and Bill threatened that American aid to Kazakh would be with held unless the deal was approved. At the time Hillary sat on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
To sweeten the deal, Bill nominated Nazarbayev to head up the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Making him head of OSCE was like putting Iran in charge of the Atomic Energy Commission. But Bill made it happen.
Shortly there after the assets were transferred and a few months later Giustra made a $31.1 million donation to the Clinton Foundation. This was the first of many donations he would make after securing other lucrative mineral rights deal.
After the dust settled and the aforemention company UrAsia went public making all the key players filthy rich, UrAsia merged with Uranium One with UrAsia left in control. Giustra and his cronies then began acquiring uranium assets in the United States since they were a Canadian company and such deals were common.
Enter the Russians. The bought a stake in UrAsia and I will describe this in the next part.
End of Part 2.