"An accused money launderer representing a Kremlin-friendly oligarch has been reportedly identified as the eighth person at a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. last June.
Irakly Kaveladze was a guest of Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya when she visited Trump and other campaign members in Trump Tower last year, Trump’s lawyer told CNN. The meeting was proposed by billionaire Russian real-estate developer Aras Agalarov.
The billionaire is friendly with President Donald Trump, having hosted his Miss Universe 2013 pageant in Moscow and discussed real-estate deals with Trump.
Paul Manafort Former campaign chairman
Donald Trump Jr. Eldest son
Jared Kushner Son-in-law, senior adviser
Natalia Veselnitskaya Russian lawyer
Anatoli Samochornov Translator
Rinat Akhmetshin Russian-American lobbyist
Irakly Kaveladze Associate of Russian businessman
Rob Goldstone Music producer, publicist
President Trump’s latest explanation for the June 2016
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/06/us/politics/trump-tower-russia-meeting.html
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"The eight visitors included Rob Goldstone, the manager of Agalarov’s pop-star son who reached out to Trump; Veselnitskaya, the lawyer with ties to Russian officials who lobbied the U.S. on behalf of Kremlin interests; her translator, Anatoli Samochornov; Veselnitskaya’s D.C.-based lobbyist, Rinat Akhmetshin, who was once accused of an international hacking conspiracy; and Kaveladze."
"Kaveladze was the president of International Business Creations, a Delaware corporation.
Between 1991 and 2000, IBC and sister corporation Euro-American moved $1.4 billion from Eastern Europe through U.S. banks and back to Europe, the Government Accountability Office found in 2000.
Kaveladze was not named in the report, but he was reportedly identified as its accused figure.
“What I see here is another Russian witch hunt in the United States,'' Kaveladze told the New York Times in 2000 about the allegations.
IBC and Euro-American “created corporations for Russian brokers and established bank accounts for those corporations,” GAO said.
The bank accounts were opened at Citibank and the Bank of New York."
"Approximately 2,000 corporations were formed for Russian brokers, GAO found, and 236 bank accounts were opened at Citi and BONY. An employee of Euro-American told GAO the firm created about 10 corporations at a time for Russian brokers, sometimes making up names for the companies. (Euro-American charged a fee of $350 for each company it incorporated.)
“The president of IBC told us that the bank accounts were formed to move money out of Russia,” the GAO report reads, apparently referring to Kaveladze. "
"Kaveladze denied any wrongdoing. He later said he was the victim of an anti-Russian campaign."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-jr-met-russian-accused-of-laundering-14-billion-dollars
P
aul
Manafort
Former campaign
chairman
Donald
Trump Jr.
Eldest son
Jared
Kushner
Son-in-law,
senior adviser
Natalia
Veselnitskaya
Russian
lawyer
Anatoli
Samochornov
Translator
Rinat
Akhmetshin
Russian-American
lobbyist
Irakly Kaveladze
Associate of
Russian
businessman
Rob
Goldstone
Music producer,
publicist
Paul
Manafort
Former campaign
chairman
Donald
Trump Jr.
Eldest son
Jared
Kushner
Son-in-law,
senior adviser
Natalia
Veselnitskaya
Russian
lawyer
Anatoli
Samochornov
Translator
Rinat
Akhmetshin
Russian-American
lobbyist
Irakly Kaveladze
Associate of
Russian
businessman
Rob
Goldstone
Music producer,
publicist
Paul
Manafort
Former campaign
chairman
Donald
Trump Jr.
Eldest son
Jared
Kushner
Son-in-law,
senior adviser
Natalia
Veselnitskaya
Russian
lawyer
Anatoli
Samochornov
Translator
Rinat
Akhmetshin
Russian-American
lobbyist
Irakly Kaveladze
Associate of
Russian
businessman
Rob
Goldstone
Music producer,
publicist
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