in 2008, a small U.S. airline was taken over by a group of Russian investors. Two were later convic

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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
@OCCRP
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Nov 27, 2020
NEW: Starting in 2008, a small U.S. airline was taken over by a group of Russian investors. Two were later convicted of running an organized crime ring out of Trump Tower.

But Monarch Air’s unusual past didn’t stop it winning U.S. gov’t contracts 🛩️

https://occrp.org/en/investigations/flight-of-the-monarch-us-govt-contracted-airline-once-owned-by-russian-criminals… 1/

Flight of the Monarch: US Gov't Contracted Airline Once Owned by Russian Criminals - OCCRP
occrp.org

The two convicted investors, Anatoly Golubchik and Vadim Trincher, were sentenced to five years in jail in 2014 for running a “large-scale sports book” used to launder $100 million.

Golubchik was allegedly an "enforcer" for infamous Russian gang boss Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov. 2/

Today, the son of Trincher and Golubchik's business partner owns Monarch Air.

Despite these ties to organized crime, Monarch and another linked airline have won millions of $$$ in sensitive U.S. gov’t contracts -- including flying people in the witness protection program. 3/

“The negligence is startling,” says Gary Kalman, director of @transparencyUSA.

“Airlines with a history of criminal affiliation contracted by the government to transport protected witnesses is something we'd expect to see in a spy novel, not in a news report.” 4/
2:27 PM · Nov 27, 2020

Olga Lautman
@OlgaNYC1211
Golubchik also owned trump properties in Sunny Isles and worked with Mogilevich

Also artemenko (Manafort, derkach, Telizhenko associate) is friends w Gitman

[marble falls]

1. How does this happen without continuing payoffs?

[soothsayer]

2. Right?