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Clinton donors in the Panama Papers

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Frank Giustra, a Vancouver mining magnate, appears in the Panama Papers. Giustra frequently travels with Bill Clinton and has loaned him his private jet 26 times. He established the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership in [[Canada]], where tax law does not require nonprofits to disclose their donors, and bundles donations for the Clinton Foundation.<ref>https://archive.is/o/ruXkv/https://harpers.org/blog/2015/11/shaky-foundations/ </ref> Giustra ran UrAsia Energy, registered May 2005 in the British [[Virgin Islands]] to produce [[uranium]] in [[Kazakhstan]] and [[Kyrgyzstan]].<ref>https://archive.is/o/ruXkv/www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article72215012.html </ref> President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev met with Clinton and Giustra in 2005 in Almaty.<ref>https://archive.is/o/ruXkv/https://books.google.com/books?id=i2W4CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT316 </ref> Giustra's proposed uranium venture cleared Kazackh [[bureaucracy]] two days later; Moukhtar Dzhakishev, president of the state-owned uranium agency Kazatomprom, said that Nazarbayev signed off on it personally. UrAsia signed a deal to buy into three mines with Kazatomprom for $450 million,<ref> https://archive.is/o/ruXkv/www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html could not be loaded because:
net::ERR_CACHE_MISS </ref>[8] <ref>https://archive.is/o/ruXkv/www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html </ref> "turning an unknown shell company into one of the world's largest uranium producers".[7] A year later Giustra made a $32.7 million donation to the Clinton Foundation.[9] Dzhakishev later traveled to the Clinton home in Chappaqua, N.Y. to discuss proposed Kazakh investment in Westinghouse, a United States supplier of [[nuclear]] [[technology]].[7]
In 2007 Uranium One bought UrAsia for $3.1 billion; the share price had gone from ten cents to $7.05 in two years.[7] Rosatom, the Russian atomic energy agency, began buying stock in Uranium One, and in 2010 had reached 51% ownership. Since uranium is a strategic asset, several officials in the US and Canada had to sign off on the ownership change, including Hillary Clinton.[8] Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 by Renaissance Capital to give a speech the same month.[10]
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