Klein Ltd

Klein, which gave Sea Change $23 million in 2010 and 2011 – about 40 percent of the group’s funding during those years – has no website and, by agreement with the host government, does not have to disclose its donors. Lachlan Markey of the Washington Free Beacon reports Klein is run by “executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving member of President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle.” Klein Ltd., which works out of a law firm in Bermuda known as Wakefield Quin, appears to have only two employees – Nicholas Hoskins, a hedge fund manager heavily invested in Russian oil and gas with other business interests that connect him to Roseneft, and Marlies Smith, a corporate administrator.