Russian company that paid Flynn deemed 'unsuitable' by Pentagon
Source: McClatchy Washington Bureau
18 MAR 2017 AT 07:22 ET
WASHINGTON — A Russian air cargo carrier that paid former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn more than $11,000 had been blacklisted without warning by the Pentagon months before he became Donald Trump's top campaign adviser on military matters, according to documents obtained by McClatchy.
Documents released Thursday by Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform omitted an important piece of information: At the time that the U.S. affiliate of Russian cargo airline Volga-Dnepr paid Flynn $11,250 in August 2015, the Russian company had been frozen out by the Pentagon since February that year and was trying to learn why.
"Unsuitable for use," is how a U.S. Transportation Command email in May 2015 characterized the air cargo carrier. One possible explanation in the heavily redacted documents obtained by McClatchy: Volga-Dnepr in December 2014 ferried two Su-30MK2 attack aircraft to Da Nang, Vietnam, on behalf of Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport.
The Russian defense company was one of 23 —including some in China and Turkey — hit by U.S. sanctions in September 2015 for alleged violations of treaties that banned the spread of missile technologies.
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