It seems indicted Republican “informant” and Russian asset Alex Smirnov and disgraced former President Trump have some friends in common, as the Guardian reports Smirnov was paid $600,000 by Texas company Economic Transformation Technologies in 2020 – the same year he filed his false report to the FBI – and ETT’s UK branch is co-owned by Pakistani-American investor Shahal Khan who has partnered with Trump on a number of projects. Also listed as an adviser on ETT’s American website is Farooq Arjomand, a former chairman and current board member of Damac Properties in Dubai, the company holding the license for the Trump International Gold Club in the gilded emirate.
It’s not clear what the hell ETT does, as its website makes it sound like NXIVM or some shit. “ETT set up the chess board to bring in top notch executives from those sectors to help implement its vision of love and social impact to improve the quality of human existence through the application of ‘new age’ technologies,” whatever the fuck that means. Surely we can look forward to the Senate Judiciary Committee hauling Condon and his buddies in to explain themselves.