Yulia Tymoshenko warned us about Paul Manafort years ago.
In a civil complaint, the former Ukrainian prime minister accused Manafort—who would go on to chair Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign—of conspiring with Ukrainian and Russian partners to launder dirty money through “a labyrinth of shell companies” in the U.S.
These companies, it claims, “were solely used for purposes of furthering the unlawful objectives” of people like Dmytro Firtash, a Ukrainian businessman indicted in 2009 for U.S. racketeering and money laundering, and Russian crime boss Semyon Mogilevich, who made the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list for suspected fraud, racketeering, and money laundering.
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Source: Reason.com
