Trump’s Soviet pimp crime partner Arif a major donor to Chabad

(Editor’s note: For more on Trump, Arif, and Sater, see Part IV of my Trump series.)

By Compromat.group
Dec. 19, 2019 Anno Domini
Translated from the Russian

He is the owner of the Bayrock Group, which Donald Trump and Felix Sater used to launder money and finance. When Trump was unable to secure funding for his projects from other sources, due to numerous bankruptcies and debts, he turned to his friend Arif. Arif was born in the USSR and worked for the USSR Ministry of Trade for 17 years before finding his niche as a member of a crime syndicate. Arif is a major donor to Felix Sater’s home synagogue in Port Washington.

In 2010, Arif was arrested aboard the $ 60 million luxury yacht Savarona. On board, the authorities found underage girls from Russia and Ukraine who were used to sexually serve wealthy clients at prices ranging from $3,000 to $10,000. A year later, Arif was acquitted by a Turkish court along with six other defendants. Four, however, were convicted, but with a suspended sentence. Bloomberg reported that those arrested included Russian, Kyrgyz and Kazakh businessmen and government officials. The Israeli press revealed that among those arrested on the yacht were Kazakh-Israeli billionaire Alexander Mashkevich (a member of the World Jewish Congress), Russian-Jewish businessman Telman Ismailov and senior assistant to the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov.

The Israeli press wrote about Arif: “The investigation began several months before the police raid on the yacht. The Turkish police received information about a criminal organization engaged in human trafficking and extortion. The organization is headed, according to information, by Turkish tycoon Tevfik Arif, a business partner of Donald Trump and owner of a metal production plant in Kazakhstan and many other enterprises in the United States and Great Britain. Arif, who received the name “David” from his people, was born in Kazakhstan and has been living in Turkey since 1994.

Police monitored his organization for two months, documented the facts with video cameras, tapped telephones and hacked e-mail and bank accounts. Investigation materials show that Arif’s organization provided escort services to businessmen. Young women, some of whom were minors (according to the investigation, one of the businessmen was especially fond of 13-14 year olds, and the head of the organization supplied girls to clients), were brought from Russia and Ukraine through modeling agencies. ” Mashkevich denied that he was on the yacht during the search, but Turkish law enforcement officials claim that they have evidence, in the form of receipts, with which Mashkevich paid for the yacht rental in advance within five days.

But the most interesting thing is that this particular yacht was chartered by Doddy Al-Fayet and Princess Diana for their romantic voyages, which once again proves the fact that they were under the control of Chabad and the Mossad. And even more interestingly, the first owner of this yacht was the first president of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Mashkevich, through his Eurasian Group and Bayrock LLC, finances Trump’s real estate projects.

After his arrest on Arif’s yacht in the company of underage girls, Mashkevich was awarded a Torah scroll at the Chabad Russian Center of South Florida.

Sex scandals: Alexander Mashkevich and Telman Ismailov on Ataturk’s yacht

Turkish newspapers and television are bursting with indignation, the Turkish public is in shock, and the police are seriously afraid of riots: the country has spread the news that a historical landmark, the personal yacht of the founder of the state, Mustafa Kemal Pasha Ataturk, has turned … into a floating brothel.

Last Tuesday, in a lazy afternoon, several dozen members of a special detachment of the Turkish police suddenly landed on the deck of the Savarona. The raid, as reported by the police department of the Mediterranean port city of Göcek, on the roadstead of which the yacht was at that time, was carried out as part of an operation to combat pimping and prostitution. And in fact – together with Tevfik Arif and his very high-ranking guests, ten girls, as they say, “model appearance”, citizens of Russia and Ukraine, fell into the hands of the law enforcement officers, and only two of them were 18 years old – the rest were much younger …

There is also no reason to argue about their duties on board: despite the daytime, all passengers at the time of their arrest were in their cabins, in beds with the mentioned girls. And they themselves did not at all deny that they were on the yacht not as guests of a hospitable host, but as personnel hired through various modeling agencies. According to preliminary data of the Turkish police, a night of close communication with them cost the invitees to “rest” in the amount of three to ten thousand dollars.

Tevfik Arif, better known in the post-Soviet space as Tofik Arifov, was the first in the field of view of Turkish law enforcement agencies, and then of publications from this country. According to the extremely scarce information that occasionally leaks into the press, he has a very “interesting” past.

According to the media and the Internet, in the late 80s and early 90s of the last century, an Uzbek businessman of Turkish origin was considered one of the pillars of the criminal world. Allegedly, it was Tofik who was the “godfather” of the notorious founders of the Trans World Group, brothers Lev and Mikhail Chernykh.

They also say that he actively helped the formation of the “Eurasian troika” headed by Alexander Mashkevich, who allegedly in gratitude for the services rendered made a lot of efforts so that in the mid-90s Mr. Arifov acquired a passport of a citizen of Kazakhstan more reliable for entrepreneurial activity.

By the early 2000s, the roads of Tofik Arifov and the Cherny brothers diverged in different directions, but the Turkish-Uzbek-Kazakh multi-billionaire never interrupted contacts with Alexander Mashkevich.

From publications in the Russian press, it is known that Alexander Antonovich was usually listed among the guests of honor at events organized by Tofik Arifov. This was the case, for example, in 2005, when Arif presented another hotel of the Rixos chain in the Turkish town of Belek, which he co-owns, according to some sources, along with one of the candidates for the Nobel Prize from Kazakhstan.

Accordingly, when information appeared in the Turkish media about the detention in the framework of the case of organizing a brothel aboard the landmark for Turkey yacht Tofig Arif, it became obvious that very soon Aleksandr Mashkevich would be “spotted” in the growing scandal.

And so it happened.

According to media reports, orgies were organized on the yacht, in which underage girls from Russia and Ukraine took part. Among those implicated in the scandal, the Turkish press names Russian businessman Telman Ismailov, Kazakh billionaire Alexander Mashkevich, as well as a man who introduced himself as “an assistant to the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan” …

The Turkish newspaper “Hurriyet” claims that Mashkevich paid for the lease of the vessel for five days. Among the suspects in the sexual scandal on the yacht is an adviser to the Kazakh prime minister, designated in this message by the initials PS. A night with a young priestess of love cost each of the participants in the orgy in the amount of $3,000 to $10,000, the article says.

The newspaper “Yediot Ahronot” continues to cover the “Turkish sex scandal” involving the president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC), Kazakh tycoon and holder of Israeli citizenship, Alexander Mashkevich. On October 8, this publication reported, citing anonymous sources “connected” with the incident, that Mashkevich not only paid for the rental of Kemal Ataturk’s historic yacht “Savarona” to hold orgies there, but was allegedly even detained on board by the Turkish police.

He immediately hired a large Turkish law firm and was soon released on bail, the newspaper said. However, it is noted that this information has not yet received official confirmation. Those close to Mashkevich do not comment on these messages in any way, but the World Jewish Congress (WJC) allegedly demanded explanations from him regarding such publications. And anonymous sources in the VEK told reporters that if it turns out that Mashkevich is really involved in a sex scandal, he will have to leave all official posts.

“Yediot Ahronot” adds that, according to Turkish media reports, on the yacht “Savarona”, along with prostitutes from Ukraine and Russia, prominent businessmen and even politicians from the post-Soviet space were detained. Among them were allegedly the Russian billionaire Telman Ismailov and a certain “assistant to the head of the government of Kazakhstan.”

The raid on Ataturk’s yacht has already caused a powerful political scandal in Turkey. “I gave the necessary orders to ban the lease of a yacht,” Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Shimsek said in connection with the incident. According to him, now the yacht should be transferred to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture.

“If the company does not agree with the refusal to lease, we will go to court to revoke the license,” he added.

A member of the Turkish parliament, Mehmet Sevigen, demanded that the Ministry of Culture immediately return the status of a museum to the yacht.

“The scandal with prostitutes on the yacht is a blatant desecration of the memory of Ataturk,” the indignant parliamentarian concluded.

In the meantime, as already mentioned, this roundup caused a political scandal in Turkey, comparable only to a 12-point earthquake. Brothels in this Muslim country are somehow banned, but the fact that Kemal Ataturk’s personal yacht was turned into a brothel turned this whole story into a powerful time bomb.

It is known that the Turks are taught to honour the name of the founder of the state from an early age: the name of Ataturk is a kind of icon for Turkey, no less sacred than the name of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was for the Soviet Union. So now the Turkish authorities, who have come to their senses, are trying to show their indignation and desire immediately, right on the spot, to sort it out and punish all those involved.

Trump’s business partner Tevfik Arif turns Ataturk’s yacht into a brothel

Turkish police have detained a yacht lessee that once belonged to the founder of the state, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The current interim owner of the $60 million ship is accused of organizing a brothel for the rich, The Daily Mail writes. It turns out that sex orgies were held on his yacht, in which underage girls from Russia and Ukraine took part. The millionaire himself, according to some reports, in the past was an ordinary Soviet employee in the Ministry of Trade.

The 57-year-old New York real estate tycoon Tevfik Arif was in custody. Moreover, according to some reports, the yacht’s lessee introduced himself as a “Kazakh businessman”, and a man who identified himself as “an assistant to the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan” was detained along with him, “Diapazon” reports.

The police raid on the yacht Savarona was arranged last Tuesday as part of an operation to combat pimping and prostitution. At that moment, the ship was in the roadstead of the Mediterranean port of Gocek. Together with the millionaire, 10 alleged prostitutes from Russia and Ukraine fell into the hands of the police. All of them were very young girls—models, and only two of them came of age.

The girls were recruited to work on the ship through foreign modeling agencies.

According to police, the clients of the “floating brothel” were the most demanding and wealthy lovers of sex without obligations, who laid out three to 10 thousand dollars per night on board a 137-meter yacht, Infox.ru reports.

The luxury ship has 16 rooms, a gangway with 282 golden steps, a cinema room, a Turkish bath and a helicopter landing pad. Moreover, the yacht Savarona has a rich history: in the last century it was the floating residence of the first ruler of the Republic of Turkey—the legendary Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The President used it until his death in 1938.

According to Bloomberg, prominent businessmen and officials from Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan were detained during the police raid.

According to the head of the police special forces, whose fighters suddenly landed from a helicopter on the deck of the yacht at lunchtime, all the guests at that moment were caught in their beds. Moreover, the police found dozens of condoms in each issue. In the evening, Arif gave his first testimony at the Belek police station.

According to Arif’s lawyer Engin Agyuzlu, his client simply fell victim to a smear campaign. He also expressed confidence that the millionaire will be able to defend his good name in any independent court.

It is known that Tevfik Arif has business ties with Donald Trump through his company Bayrock Group, which, in particular, built the 46-storey Trump SoHo hotel and restaurant complex and Trump International Hotel in New York.

According to Real Estate Weekly, Tevfik Arif was born in the USSR, on the territory of modern Kazakhstan. For 17 years he worked in the Ministry of Trade of the Soviet Union.

In 2001, Arif creates his own company Bayrock Group. He currently owns a luxurious three-story mansion worth $6-million in New York. It is located in Port Washington (Long Island).

The yacht “Savarona” was built in 1931 by the American engineer William Francis Gibbs and sailed in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean for 7 years, after which in 1938 she was bought by the Turkish government and transferred to the founder of the republic Ataturk. Meetings of the government cabinet, receptions of leaders of foreign countries were held here. And after the death of Ataturk, the ship was transferred to the maritime administration. In 1989 it was rented by Kahraman Sadykoglu for 49 years.

Soviet tycoon arrested in Turkey for turning Ataturk’s yacht into a floating brothel with Russian models

Turkish police have detained a yacht lessee that once belonged to the founder of the state, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The current interim owner of the $60-million ship is accused of organizing a brothel for the rich, The Daily Mail writes. It turns out that sex orgies were held on his yacht, in which underage girls from Russia and Ukraine took part. The millionaire himself, according to some reports, in the past was an ordinary Soviet employee in the Ministry of Trade.

The 57-year-old New York real estate tycoon Tevfik Arif was in custody. Moreover, according to some reports, the yacht’s lessee introduced himself as a “Kazakh businessman”, and a man who identified himself as “an assistant to the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan” was detained along with him, “Diapazon” reports.

The police raid on the yacht Savarona was arranged last Tuesday as part of an operation to combat pimping and prostitution. At that moment, the ship was in the roadstead of the Mediterranean port of Gocek. Together with the millionaire, 10 alleged prostitutes from Russia and Ukraine fell into the hands of the police. All of them were very young female models, and only two of them reached the age of majority (18 years old).

The girls were recruited to work on the ship through foreign modeling agencies.