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Manafort Was in Debt to Pro-Russia Interests, Cyprus Records Show
Financial records filed last year in the secretive tax haven of Cyprus, where Paul J. Manafort kept bank accounts during his years working in Ukraine and investing with a Russian oligarch, indicate that he had been in debt to pro-Russia interests by as much as $17 million before he joined Donald J. Trumps presidential campaign in March 2016.
The money appears to have been owed by shell companies connected to Mr. Manaforts business activities in Ukraine when he worked as a consultant to the pro-Russia Party of Regions. The Cyprus documents obtained by The New York Times include audited financial statements for the companies, which were part of a complex web of more than a dozen entities that transferred millions of dollars among them in the form of loans, payments and fees.
The records, which include details for numerous loans, were certified as accurate by an accounting firm as of December 2015, several months before Mr. Manafort joined the Trump campaign, and were filed with Cyprus government authorities in 2016. The notion of indebtedness on the part of Mr. Manafort also aligns with assertions made in a court complaint filed in Virginia in 2015 by the Russian oligarch, Oleg V. Deripaska, who claimed Mr. Manafort and his partners owed him $19 million related to a failed investment in a Ukrainian cable television business.
After The Times shared some of the documents with representatives of Mr. Manafort, a spokesman, Jason Maloni, did not dispute that the debts might have existed at one time. But he maintained that the Cyprus records were stale and do not purport to reflect any current financial arrangements.
More: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/paul-manafort-russia-trump.html?_r=1
Follow the money, eh?
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)This administration is like no other. Horrible for us. I give the Orange one two years max to hold office.
malaise
(269,157 posts)The money laundering will get all of them - wait for Groper Don the Con's tax returns
Can Mueller get Trump's tax returns, "audit" be damned?
he can
malaise
(269,157 posts)who wanted to head the Defense department help him out?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)republican "values" are cesspool quality.
Why do republicans piss on American values like honesty, integrity, honor, and loyalty to the USA?