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Russian Direct Investment Fund, whose CEO Kirill Dmitriev met with Erik Prince in the Seychelles? RDIF is a subsidiary of VEB Bank, whose CEO met with Jared Kushner in Dec 2016.
Recall, then-Trump transition team member Anthony Scaramucci also met with Russian Direct Investment Fund [RDIF] CEO Kirill Dmitriev at Davos, one week after Erik Prince's Seychelles' meeting with Dmitriev.
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ICYMI: When it was founded, RDIF’s International Advisory Board included, among others, Leon Black, co-founder & CEO of Apollo, which loaned Jared Kushner's family business $500M in 2017 and whose largest investor is the Qatar Investment Authority.
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