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Usmanov owns 32% of Digital Sky Technologies which in turn has investments in Zynga, Groupon, Facebook, Airbnb and has strong ties to Goldman Sachs. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Sky_Technologies, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov)

If your allegations are true... I'm sorry, I can't finish this sentence.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you...

And the Borgias helped the Renaissance flourish.

The similarity is striking: Nobel donated his prizes to combat his bad conscious about the horrible "side effects" of his invention, the dynamite. I would not be surprised if Millner has a similar motivation. If so, he should be open about it up front (like Nobel was).

There is not support in the referenced Wikipedia article (or its talk page) for the strong allegation which directly precedes it.

You don't say.