"Suspicious" Transactions At Russian Embassy Sparked Deeper Bank Probe Than Previously Known
Source: BuzzFeed News
The former Russian ambassador received a salary payment twice as large as past years, and bankers blocked a $150,000 withdrawal.
When BuzzFeed News reported earlier this year on dozens of suspicious financial transactions by Russian diplomats living in Washington, Kremlin officials objected with ferocity. A Russian foreign ministry spokesperson denounced the news organization as a tool of the American intelligence services and insisted the transactions were purely run of the mill.
But new documents show that American bank examiners delved deeper into the embassy's financial activity than was previously known and reveal why they flagged two of the transactions as suspicious.
The first, made just 10 days after the US presidential election in 2016, was a $120,000 lump-sum check to then-ambassador Sergey Kislyak that was twice as large as any payment hed received in the previous two years.
The second, just five days after President Donald Trumps inauguration, was a blocked attempt to withdraw $150,000 in cash that a bank official feared was meant for Russians the US had just expelled from the country.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/suspicious-payments-kislyak-russia-embassy-mueller
H2O Man
(73,537 posts)ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)ffr
(22,670 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)I feel like I've heard that sum of money in that time period discussed recently, somewhere. I can't for the life of me put my finger on where.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)but, wasn't that about what Omarosa and that other person were being paid by the RNC to keep silent?
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Chakaconcarne
(2,451 posts)So "getting expelled" was just a way to give them a free flight home for cover.
erronis
(15,257 posts)ck4829
(35,076 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)criminal operations inimical to the United States of America
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)I'd like to know more about all that money that flowed into essential consultants from international businesses and pharma, etc. , too. All those big money transfers into and out of that account.
calimary
(81,265 posts)Im so glad stuff like this is being spotted and then looked into!
AllaN01Bear
(18,207 posts)wonder if the russians were paid to derail the al gore campain?
raging moderate
(4,305 posts)The odd "errors" on the ballots. The big deal they made about hanging chads. The sudden influx of carefully generic young men in Brooks Brothers suits, later shown to be GOP congressional aides, etc. The halt to the recount. The arbitrary ruling by the US Supreme Court.
wishstar
(5,269 posts)but having all the ballot irregularities was quite convenient in the scheme of being able to manipulate the close election in GWB favor.
ck4829
(35,076 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)sort this situation out!
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)So he accuses others of exactly what he's doing himself. He spoke long and hard during campaign about how the whole thing was rigged
C Moon
(12,213 posts)with Russian money, to install the likes of McConnell and Ryan.
Our country would probably be in fantastic shape if we kept our elections honest.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)and glad that they DID find something fishy going on.