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Alptekin, the now-indicted business associate of Flynn and Bijan Kian, in 2008 had a business deal "with financing from Putin-chaired VEB Bank" [whose CEO met with Kushner in Dec 2016 and whose subsidiary is RDIF, the CEO of which, Kirill Dmitriev, met with Erik Prince].
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Bijan Kian is seeking files re Mike Flynn's contacts with RDIF CEO Kirill Dmitriev [who in Jan 2017 met with Erik Prince in the Seychelles and Scaramucci at DAVOS]. Flynn likely made contact with Dmitriev through his now-indicted associate, Ekim Alptekin.
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Flynn’s now-indicted associate Alptekin in 2008 had a business deal funded by Russia's VEB Bank [whose CEO met with Kushner in Dec 2016]. Putin personally approved the loan. RDIF [whose CEO Dmitriev met with Erik Prince] is a subsidiary of VEB.
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Mar 2018: "Mueller has evidence that a secret meeting in Seychelles was an effort to establish a Kremlin back channel [and] was set up in advance so that a Trump transition representative could meet with a Moscow emissary."
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Recall: Mueller cooperating witness Nader contradicted Erik Prince's claim that the Emiratis introduced him to Putin envoy Kirill Dmitriev in Seychelles. It seems Erik Prince already knew Dmitriev, who we now know is close with Putin's family.
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Dec 2016: Foresman, who has close ties to Sergei Gorkov, CEO of Russia's VEB Bank [parent company of RDIF], met with Gorkov, who met with Jared Kushner the same month.
Jan 2017: Per Trump inaugural committee emails, Foresman met with Mike Flynn.
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Jan 2017: Per Trump inaugural committee emails, Foresman met with Mike Flynn.
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In this Nov 21, 2016 piece [HT @WendySiegelman], Kirill Dmitriev praised Mike Flynn for "his willingness to have open dialogue with Russia" and declined to say if the Russian fund [RDIF, a subsidiary of VEB] had plans to do business with Trump Org.
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If what Bijan Kian alleges is true – that Mike Flynn met with head of RDIF [a subsidiary of VEB Bank], Kirill Dmitriev – Flynn will be the third known member of Trump's transition team to have met with the head of the Russian sovereign wealth fund.
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Dec 2016: Jared Kushner, Mike Flynn and Kislyak talked about arranging a meeting between a representative of Trump [Erik Prince] and a “Russian contact” [Kirill Dmitriev] in a third country [Seychelles], according to the anonymous letter.
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In addition to the Seychelles meeting, Jared Kushner's friend Rick Gerson was also present weeks before when Trump officials, Kushner, Flynn, & Bannon, had a covert meeting with Prince MBZ, Nader, & UAE Amb Otaiba at a Four Seasons hotel in NY.
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Days after the Seychelles meeting, while at Davos [where he met with Trump official Scaramucci], Putin envoy Kirill Dmitriev [head of VEB Bank subsidiary, RDIF] sent a 2-page memo summarizing the Seychelles meeting to "Kushner's Guy" Rick Gerson.
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