Trump Jr Met With Subject Of Congressional Inquiry On Russian Money Laundering: Report
On Tuesday the identity of the eighth individual in the Trump Jr. Russia meeting was Ike Kaveladze’s, an American-based employee of a Russian real estate company.
And now we learn that Kaveladze was the subject of a 2000 Congressional report on Russian money laundering.
According to The Washington Post, “In 2000, Kaveladze’s actions as the head of a Delaware company called International Business Creations were the subject of a government investigation into how Russians and other foreigners were able to launder large amounts of money through U.S. banks.”
The report’s findings remarked on how easy it is for foreigners to use shell companies to open bank accounts in the United States and launder money through the US financial system.
Kaveladze was the subject of that inquiry.
The Washington Post went on to report that “Kaveladze opened 236 bank accounts in the U.S. for corporations formed in Delaware on behalf of mostly Russian brokers. Kaveladze told officers of two U.S. banks that he had conducted investigations of the Russian companies for which he opened accounts. However, he told GAO investigators that was not truthful.”
Watch the video here:
.@PostRoz breaks on @MSNBC: Kaveladze was the subject of a 2000 congressional rpt abt how easy it is for Russians to use banks to launder $$ pic.twitter.com/B5G1JLufaC
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 18, 2017
Read the full Washington Post report here.
[image via Twitter screenshot]
