The Sex Worker and Putins Shady Billionaire Buddy Who Could Hold Keys to the Russia Investigation

[DonViejo]

Nastya Rybka’ is a truly shameless self-promoter, but her allegations of high-level corruption in Russia involving a former Manafort client are, well, tantalizing.

ANNA NEMTSOVA
02.12.18 9:50 AM ET

MOSCOW—In Russia, 50-year-old Oleg Deripaska is known as the winner of some brutal crime wars that left him a billionaire aluminum magnate and President Vladimir Putin’s favorite industrialist.

When it comes to the Trump-Russia collusion investigation, Deripaska, whose fortune is estimated at $5.1 billion, has attracted a lot of attention because of his links to former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.

According to a report in The Washington Post last September, Manafort owes Deripaska $19 million and, only two weeks before Trump accepted the nomination as the Republican presidential candidate in July 2016, offered to brief Deripaska on the U.S. race.

Last May, Deripaska allegedly offered to cooperate with the congressional investigations of Russian meddling, in which Manafort is a leading suspect. But the committees would not grant him full immunity out of concern, at the time, that it might muddy the Department of Justice investigations.

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[lindysalsagal]

1. OK I hope this is true but I can't bring myself to read it all or get my head around it...