Originally posted by Ken Craft
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For those that are not aware Ken is part of the CFC executive.I have pointed out that Vlad has changed the reasons three times in this forum as to why the CFC did not receive the remaining 60k of FIDE sponsorship. 1) The first being that FIDE had financlal difficulties, 2) the second being that somehow Vlad would be exposed to sanctions if he crossed into the US if the CFC accepted the money, and finally and recently that the 3) CFC was not eligable for the money because they did not get required tournaments organized in time.
So far the FIDE representative Hal Bond has denied here on chesstalk that the third reaosn was the problem citing that without funds tourneys could not be organized. Furthermore Hal Bond apologized here on Chess Talk for FIDE not keeping its "campaign promises". In my opinion when an international sporting organization confers different treatment to a national sporting organization conditional on supporting an incumbent candidate this is not just a "campaign promise" but it is indeed a bribe. The reason is an international sporting organization is utilizing its assets for a campaign for a particular candidate..That is not part of the mandate for FIDE.
Therefore reasons 2 and 3 are false as per the FIDE rep Hal's postings. So the CFC exec needs to question why would Vlad posts lies about this on a public forum? So far other then trying to belittle me I have seen no coherent response from Vlad or any member of the CFC exec. about this. In view of all these lies how would we know that Vlad did not simply get this money for himself? Without an innocent explanation it looks very bad. Especially when no explanations are offered other then more lies (denial of ever having a specific deal in the first place (although the specific deal previously posted here on chesstalk and elsewhere)). or addressing questions that were not asked such as pointing out that the initial payment was properly distributed to tournament organizers.
One of the questions asked by Peter Mckillop in May of 2016 was where did the initial 20K come from FIDE or Kirsan? At a minimum if FIDE sent the money then the CFC could document that FIDE denied sending the CFC the remaining 60K as per Hal Bond's explanation. By the way I was perfectly content to accept Hal's explanation of a broken campaign promise although I did disagree with his characterization of it as a campaign promise as per above. Now with contradictory posts by Vlad I am not sure.
So to the entire CFC exec i would prefer to bring this discussion to an end and confirm to us that 1) FIDE and not Kirsan sent the initial money to the CFC and 2) FIDE confirmed it broke it's agreement to send the balance. Hopefully that is the correct explanation as was originally implied by the FIDE Rep Hal Bond as to the second point.
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