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"...One of those loans to Russian financial/banking conglomerate The Alfa
Group of Companies contained $292 million to pay for Brown and Root's
contract to refurbish a Siberian oil field owned by the Russian Tyumen
Oil Company. The Alfa Group completed its 51% acquisition of Tyumen
Oil in what was allegedly a rigged bidding process in 1998. An
official Russian government report claimed that the Alfa Group's top
executives, oligarchs Mikhail Fridman and Pyotr Aven "allegedly
participated in the transit of drugs from Southeast Asia through
Russia and into Europe."

These same executives, Fridman and Aven, who reportedly smuggled the
heroin in connection with Russia's Solntsevo mob family were the same
ones who applied for the EXIM loans that Halliburton's lobbying later
safely secured. As a result Brown and Root's work in Alfa Tyumen oil
fields could continue - and expand.

After describing how organized criminal interests in the Alfa Group
had allegedly stolen the oil field by fraud, the CPI story, using
official reports from the FSB (the Russian equivalent of the FBI),
oil companies such as BP-Amoco, former CIA and KGB officers and press
accounts then established a solid link to Alfa Tyumen and the
transportation of heroin.

In 1995 sacks of heroin disguised as sugar were stolen from a rail
container leased by Alfa Echo and sold in the Siberian town of
Khabarovsk. A problem arose when many residents of the town became
"intoxicated" or "poisoned." The CPI story also stated, "The FSB
report said that within days of the incident, Ministry of Internal
Affairs (MVD) agents conducted raids of Alfa Eko buildings and found
'drugs and other compromising documentation.'

"Both reports claim that Alfa Bank has laundered drug funds from
Russian and Colombian drug cartels..."



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