Moreover, it is undisputed that the NRA and the Trump Campaign used the same buyer, placing advertisements on television and social media. It is assumed by that that they coordinated their campaigns to elect Trump.
VTB is a large Russian bank closely allied to Putin that agreed to finance Trump Tower Moscow. VTB bank was and still is a U.S. sanctioned entity. Although bank officials have recently tried to deny the seriousness of the endeavor, after Michael Cohen and Felix Sater had obtained a licensing agreement to build the property, this happened:
When you go through the simple search mechanism at the Office of Foreign Asset Control's website and search for the name "VTB," you get many responses, all of them sanctioned. Here is a screengrab:
Two days later, Sater told Cohen that their invitations and visas were being arranged by VTB Bank, and that Kostin, the bank’s powerful president and chairman, would meet Cohen in Moscow. Key to getting VTB on board was the former GRU spy; Sater told congressional and special counsel investigators that the former spy said he had a source at VTB Bank who would support the deal.
A search of the same OFAC website for the name "Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps" turns up another large list of sanctioned entities. That's important because the people the Trump Organization dealt with in building a hotel in Baku, Azerbaijan were associated with that group.
The assumption in all of these crimes is that Trump or somebody in the Trump Organization did the most simple due diligence to determine if they were doing business with sanctioned individuals or entities. For the hotel in Baku, there is the assumption that Trump or somebody in the Trump Organization knew where the money was coming from to complete this giant building:
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