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===Pinchuk kidnapping in 1996===
===Pinchuk kidnapping in 1996===
In the summer of 1996 Pinchuk was kidnapped. There is a version that Pavel Lazarenko was involved. Lazarenko was a friend of then father-in-law of Pinchuk - Vladimir Arshava and the reason was the breakdown in the family of Victor Pinchuk and his wife Elena Arshava. Pinchuk-controlled “Credit Bank” paid the kidnappers $ 5 million in ransom.
In the summer of 1996 Pinchuk was kidnapped. There is a version that Pavel Lazarenko was involved. Lazarenko was a friend of then father-in-law of Pinchuk - Vladimir Arshava and the reason was the breakdown in the family of Victor Pinchuk and his wife Elena Arshava. Pinchuk-controlled “Credit Bank” paid the kidnappers $ 5 million in ransom.
===Greg Craig and the [[Obama admninistration]]===
Greg Craig represented President [[Ronald Reagan]]'s attempted [[assassin]], John Hinckley Jr., and won a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity. Reagan's press secretary, James Brady, was seriously maimed, crippled for life, and died as a result of his injuries 33 years later. A police officer, [[Secret Service]] agent, and President Reagan were all shot in the attempt. Hinckley remains free today. On January 20, 2009, [[President Barack Obama]] appointed Craig White House Counsel.
On April 11, 2019, [[Greg Craig]], [[Obama]]’s former White House Counsel and a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, was indicted for lying about and concealing his work in Ukraine. Craig, who reportedly worked closely with [[Paul Manafort]], was paid more than $4 million to produce an “independent” report justifying Ukraine's trial and conviction of the former [[prime minister]], [[Yulia Tymoshenko]]. Notably, Craig's name was not included in the “Black Ledger” leak from [[Leshchenko]] and [[Sytnyk]].
The indictment notes that “a wealthy private [[Ukrainian]]” [[oligarch]] was fully funding the report. In a [[YouTube]] video, Greg Craig publicly stated that “it was Doug Schoen who brought this project to me, and he told me he was acting on behalf of [[Victor Pinchuk]],<ref>[https://themarketswork.com/2018/03/11/victor-pinchuk-the-clintons-endless-connections/ Victor Pinchuk, the Clintons & Endless Connections], by Jeff Carlson, March 11, 2018.</ref> who was a pro-western, Ukrainian businessman who helped to fund the project.”
“The Firm understood that its work was to be largely funded by Victor Pinchuk,” [[Skadden]] wrote in recent [[FARA]] filings.
Pinchuk put out a statement on Jan. 21, denying any financial involvement:
“Mr. Pinchuk was not the source of any funds used to pay fees of Skadden in producing their report into the trial and conviction of Yulia Tymoshenko. He was in no way responsible for those costs. Neither Mr. Pinchuk nor companies affiliated with him have ever been a client of Skadden. Mr. Pinchuk and his team had no role in the work done by Skadden, including in the preparation or dissemination of the Skadden report.”
Victor Pinchuk is the founder of Interpipe, a steel pipe manufacturer. He owns Credit Dnipro Bank, several ferroalloy plants and a [[media]] empire. He is also married to Elena Pinchuk, the daughter of former Ukrainian President [[Leonid Kuchma]].<ref>https://ukr-leaks.com/en/Profiles/victor-pinchuk</ref>
Pinchuk has been accused of [[profit]]ing immensely from the purchase of state-owned assets at severely below-[[market]] prices through [[political]] favoritism.
Between April 4 and April 12, 2016 of the [[Obama administration]], Ukrainian Parliamentarian Olga Bielkov had four meetings, with Samuel Charap (International Institute for Strategic Studies), Liz Zentos ([[National Security Council]]), Michael Kimmage ([[State Department]]), and [[David Kramer]] (McCain Institute).
[[FARA]] documents filed by [[lobbyist]] Doug Schoen showed that he was paid $40,000 a month by Victor Pinchuk (page 5)–in part to arrange these meetings.
Schoen attempted to arrange another 72 meetings with [[congress]]men and [[media]] (page 10). It is unknown how many of these meetings, if any, took place.
Schoen also helped Pinchuk establish ties with the [[Clinton Foundation]]. The ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' reported on March 19, 2015, how Schoen connected Pinchuk with senior Clinton State Department staffers in order to pressure former Ukrainian [[President Yanukovych]] to release Yulia Tymoshenko–a political rival of Yanukovych–from jail. And the relationship between Pinchuk and the Clintons continued. According to the ''Kyiv Post'':
{{quotebox-float|“Clinton and her husband [[Bill Clinton|Bill, the 42nd U.S. president]], have been paid speakers at the annual YES and other Pinchuk events. They describe themselves as friends of Pinchuk, who is known internationally as a businessman and philanthropist.”}}
Although exact numbers are not clear, reports filed by the Clinton Foundation indicate that as much as $25 million of Pinchuk's donations went to the Clinton organization.
Pinchuk also has ties to [[Serhiy Leshchenko]], the Ukrainian member of parliament who leaked the information on Paul Manafort. Leshchenko had been a frequent speaker at the Ukrainian Breakfast, a traditional private event held at [[Davos]], [[Switzerland]] and hosted by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and has also been pictured with Pinchuk at multiple other events.
===Crowdstrike===
===Crowdstrike===