Uranium One

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Uranium One

logo
legal form Corporation
founding December 2005
Seat Toronto
management Chris Sattler ( CEO )
Vadim Jivov (President)
sales $ 530.4 million
Branch Mining
Website http://www.uranium1.com/
Status 2011

Uranium One is a uranium and metal mining company that is a subsidiary of Uranium One Holding NV, which in turn is a subsidiary of the Russian state corporation Rosatom. Uranium One was listed on the Toronto and Johannesburg stock exchanges under the symbol SXR . Uranium was mined in Canada , South Africa , Australia , Kazakhstan and the USA . By 2013, Uranium One controlled 20 percent of uranium mining in the United States. In 2013 this mining company was taken over by the Russian state-owned company Rosatom .

history

Uranium One was in December 2005 through the merger of Aflease Gold and Uranium Resources of South Africa and the Canadian Southern Cross Resources Inc . On February 12, 2007, it was announced that Uranium One had acquired its competitor UrAsia Energy in a share swap . UrAsia Energy was owned by Canadian businessman Frank Giustra . Giustra signed the purchase of three mines in 2005 in Kazakhstan with the help of Bill Clinton in negotiations with the authoritarian ruler Nursultan Nazarbayev . For Kazakhstan, Clinton's visit was a propaganda success. A few months later, Giustra donated $ 31.3 million to the Clinton Foundation .

Uranium One then became Uranium One Inc., the second largest producer of uranium worldwide (after Cameco ), which had a capitalization on the stock market of around 3.8 billion euros. In the share swap, UrAsia Energy shareholders received 0.45 Uranium One shares for each UrAsia share, equivalent to the equivalent of 7.05 Canadian dollars at the closing price on February 9th.

Uranium One acquired several uranium mines in the United States.

The company was gradually acquired by the Russian Atomic Energy Agency Rosatom ( Federal Agency for Atomic Energy of Russia ) between 2009 and 2013 . The acquisition was approved by the Commission on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), in which the United States Department of State , headed by Hillary Clinton , was instrumental; The Ministry of Finance was in charge of this process. This purchase made Rosatom one of the largest uranium producers in the world.

Rosatom finally ended trading in its shares in Toronto in February 2015.

The New York Times reported Uranium One in a big story in April 2015. Two allegations were made in the article. First: As US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton did not prevent Russia from gaining access to 20% of US uranium deposits in 2010. With the takeover of Uranium One, Russia came one step closer to its goal of controlling a large part of the world's uranium production. Second, the Clinton Foundation received several million dollars from the company behind this deal. Many of these donations were not disclosed by the Clinton Foundation, contrary to its own commitment.

FBI investigation

In December 2017, it became known that US Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors had requested information from FBI agents about the Uranium-One investigation. From them it emerged that the Federal Police FBI had been informed about corrupt connections before the Uranium One sales were approved and bribes were also proven. The bribes totaling around two million dollars flowed with the approval of high-ranking officials in Russia who shared in the profits. Agents used a shop steward in the Russian nuclear industry to collect financial files, keep secret records and intercept emails from 2009 onwards. The FBI investigation led to the indictment of Vadim Mikerin, the head of JSC Techsnabexport, who runs Techsnabexport's (TENEX) US business. He was sentenced to 48 months in prison in December 2015.

At the end of 2017, the judicial committee in the US Senate investigated why the Uranium One deal was approved despite the illegal background.

On January 12, 2018, the US Department of Justice published indictments to begin an investigation into the long-smoldering Uranium One case.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Uranium One Inc. ( Memento from September 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://www.nuklearforum.ch/de/aktuell/e-bulletin/uranium-one-mit-handelsgesellschaft-der-schweiz
  3. ↑ Template: dead link /! ... nourl  ( page no longer available ) [1]
  4. ↑ Billion takeover: New uranium giant emerges - n-tv.de. In: n-tv.de. February 12, 2007, accessed November 14, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Glenn Kessler: The 'dossier' and the uranium deal: A guide to the latest allegations. In: washingtonpost.com. October 29, 2017, accessed November 14, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Clemens Wergin: Does Hillary Clinton stumble upon millions from abroad? April 24, 2015. Retrieved November 14, 2017 .
  7. ↑ FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow
  8. ↑ FBI informant: Moscow smuggled millions of US dollars into the Clinton Foundation
  9. ↑ Senate Judiciary opens probe into Obama-era Russian nuclear bribery case
  10. ↑ https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-obama-speaks-1508274468
  11. ↑ http://www.newsweek.com/clinton-russia-uranium-deal-689321
  12. ↑ https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-president-maryland-based-transportation-company-indicted-11-counts-related-foreign