US Banks Closed Accounts Tied to Former Trump Business Partner Aras Agalarov

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US financial institutions recently closed bank accounts tied to Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov, President Donald Trump’s former business partner, due in part to suspicious transactions that occurred just after the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, which Agalarov helped organize.

Union Bank and other unidentified institutions closed accounts used by Agalarov’s development company, the Crocus Group, after BuzzFeed reported in September on suspicious activity by the accounts, according to a Russian news report from Friday and confirmed to Mother Jones by Agalarov’s US lawyer, Scott Balber. BuzzFeed‘s articles describe suspicious movement of funds from Russian accounts to US accounts in the weeks after the June 9, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower in which a Russian lawyer offered dirt on Hillary Clinton, as well as transactions a few weeks after Trump’s surprise election win on November 8, 2016.

The Russian publication, RBC, reported that the Crocus Group received a letter from Union Bank asking about suspicious transactions within 10 days of a September 21 BuzzFeed article.

The BuzzFeed reports about Agalarov’s accounts were among a series of articles citing confidential suspicious transaction reports related Russian interference in the 2016 election. The appearance of the sensitive information led to the Justice Department arrest of Natalie Edwards, a senior adviser at the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, on October 17 for illegally leaking confidential reports on financial transactions.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/us-banks-closed-accounts-tied-to-former-trump-business-partner-aras-agalarov/

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1. This story has so many other stories attached to it....some of us were discussing it

over the week-end....I just hope they are not using Natalie Edwards as a scapegoat - BTW - where is Mnuchin - US Treasury - oh ya....

The event Mnuchin still plans to attend — a gathering of the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center in Riyadh — would include participation by Saudi …10/19/18

and then we have this - 9/19/18

https://www.thedailybeast.com/steven-mnuchin-accidentally-sanctioned-putin-oligarch-oleg-deripaska

Mnuchin stepped in it..oops!!!

and then from Bloomberg last April...

Apr 23, 2018 · Rusal petitioned to be removed from the sanctions list and Treasury granted the extension while it considers the appeal, according to a statement from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. “Rusal has felt the impact of U.S. sanctions because of its entanglement with Oleg Deripaska, but the U.S. government is not targeting the hardworking people who depend on Rusal

It is very interesting MJ using RBC....there is so much - Mnuchin, Deripaska, sanctions, Crocus, Agalarov, T rump....follow the money.....