EXCLUSIVE: A company newly sanctioned by the U.S. over Alexei Navalny’s poisoning attack is tied to the money laundering network that Natalia Veselnitskya tried to cover up at the 2016 Trump Tower meeting, according to records obtained by The Daily Beast trib.al/3gxJpgR
Vladimir Putin was desperate to play down the international corruption probes that began when Sergei Magnitsky uncovered a $230 million fraud. After exposing the massive theft of state money, Magnitsky ended up dead in a Russian prison cell. trib.al/3gxJpgR
Now, that dark money network can be linked to the murderous chemical weapons program run by Russia’s notorious intelligence services trib.al/3gxJpgR
In response to the attempted murder of Putin nemesis Alexis Navalny, the Biden administration said it was sanctioning a German chemicals company called Riol-Chemie because of its “activities in support of Russia’s weapons of mass destruction programs” trib.al/3gxJpgR
Investigative files compiled by the authorities in Lithuania—and reviewed by The Daily Beast—show that Riol-Chemie received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a British Virgin Islands-registered company accused of laundering some of the Magnitsky money trib.al/3gxJpgR
“This clearly shows why Putin has become unhinged because of the Magnitsky investigation,” said Bill Browder, who has led the anti-corruption campaign in the name of his former lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.

Read the full exclusive by @NicoHines here: trib.al/3gxJpgR

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