NEW: Federal investigators are looking at a series of international bank transactions following the planners and participants of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting #MoneyTrail buzzfeednews.com/article/anthon…
The investigators are focused on two bursts of financial transactions — one shortly after the meeting and the other after the 2016 election — involving the family of Aras Agalarov, a Russian billionaire real estate developer with ties to both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump
11 days after the Trump Tower meeting — the same day Paul Manafort became Trump’s campaign chief — a company controlled by Agalarov wired more than $19.5 million to his own account at a bank in New York.
Shortly after Trump’s election, an account in New Jersey controlled by Agalarov’s son, pop singer Emin Agalarov, and two of his friends began receiving $1.2 million from the Agalarov family bank in Russia.
The account had been virtually dormant since the summer of 2015.
The account had been virtually dormant since the summer of 2015.
That account then sent money to a company run by Irakly “Ike” Kaveladze, who was the Agalarovs’ representative at the meeting. That company then sent money to a company run by Rob Goldstone, who is Emin Agalarov’s publicist and first proposed the Trump Tower meeting.
At some point before July 24, 2017, about two weeks after @nytimes first reported on the meeting, Goldstone left for Bangkok. While there, he made a series of 37 ATM withdrawals totaling about $8,400.
Prosecutors have not charged the Agalarovs, Kaveladze, or Goldstone with any wrongdoing and representatives for all of them have characterized suspicions over these transactions as unfounded. #MoneyTrail buzzfeednews.com/article/anthon…
