(MOSCOW) — A Ukrainian lawmaker has published a document that he said ties Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, to attempts to hide a $750,000 payment from a pro-Russia political party.
Jason Maloni, a spokesman for Manafort, calls the allegations “baseless” and says they should be “summarily dismissed.”
Serhiy Leshchenko published Tuesday a 2009 invoice purportedly signed by Manafort that shows a $750,000 payment for 501 computers to a company called Davis Manafort. The money came from a Belize-registered offshore company via a bank in the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan.
The Associated Press was unable to independently verify the authenticity of …read more
Source: Time