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Clinton donors in the Panama Papers

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==The IPO specialist and the Clinton Foundation==
Frank Giustra, a Vancouver mining magnate, appears in the Panama Papers. Giustra frequently travels with Bill Clinton and has loaned him Clinton 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><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.<ref>https://archive.is/o/ruXkv/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-clintons-a-luxury-jet-and-their-100-million-donor/2015/05/03/688051d0-ecef-11e4-8abc-d6aa3bad79dd_story.html could </ref> 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]
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