The FBI has revealed the corruption scheme of Russia in the United States associated with the Clinton Foundation

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Even before the administration of former President Barack Obama approved a controversial agreement in 2010, which resulted in Moscow gaining control over a large proportion of American uranium, the FBI received substantial evidence that representatives of the Russian nuclear industry bribed, engaged in kickbacks, extortion and money laundering for expanding its presence in US nuclear power.

Reports about it "Voice of America", with reference to the newspaper The Hill.

Citing government documents and interviews, the newspaper writes that federal agents used a confidential American witness working in the Russian nuclear industry back in 2009 to collect extensive financial records, secretly record conversations and intercept electronic correspondence.

From the materials received it followed that Moscow had compromised a US uranium transport company with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Law on Combating Corruption Abroad.

The FBI also obtained eyewitness testimony backed up by documents, from which it followed that Russian nuclear officials sent millions of dollars to the US, intended for ex-President Bill Clinton's charitable foundation during the period when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton worked at a government agency that made a favorable decision for Moscow, sources said The Hill.

The extortion scheme was carried out "with the consent of [Russian] high-level officials," who "received a portion of the proceeds" from kickbacks, one agent said in a sworn statement made a few years later, the newspaper writes.

However, instead of immediately bringing the charges to 2010, the Department of Justice continued its investigation for almost four years, effectively leaving the American public and Congress unaware of Russian nuclear corruption during the period when the Obama administration made two major decisions in favor of Putin’s commercial nuclear ambitions indicates The Hill.

The first decision was made in October 2010, when the State Department and the government departments represented in the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States approved a partial sale of a Canadian mining company. Uranium one the Russian state corporation Rosatom, thanks to which Moscow gained control over more than 20 percent of US uranium shipments

Then, in 2011, the administration authorized a subsidiary of Rosatom Tenex sell commercial uranium to US nuclear power plants in partnership with United States Enrichment Corp.

“The Russians have compromised American contractors in the nuclear industry with kickbacks and extortion using threats. All this caused well-founded concerns about national security. But none of this evidence was made public before the Obama administration made these decisions, ”a source said. The Hillwho worked on this case.

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