Mueller Investigating Manafort For $40 Million In ‘Suspicious’ Transactions
The noose around Paul Manafort’s neck is tightening.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has no plan to ease the pressure on President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Mueller’s team of investigators are reviewing $40 million in “suspicious” financial transactions by entities controlled by Manafort, BuzzFeed News is reporting.
The shady financial transactions were originally picked up in a previous investigation to track international kleptocracy which Mueller’s team has resurrected.
The investigators are interested in Manafort’s work for the pro-Russia president of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych.
“Eight banks filed 23 “suspicious activity reports” between 2004 and 2014, which includes the years that Manafort and his consulting company, Davis Manafort Partners, worked for Yanukovych. These reports, reviewed by BuzzFeed News, show that between October 2008 and July 2013, Manafort’s personal and business accounts received about $30 million from banks in offshore havens such as Cyprus, Kyrgyzstan, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines,” BuzzFeed reported.
Read the full BuzzFeed News report here.
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