I took it here, but not here

The investigation of the United States discovered the connection of the political strategist Trump Paul Manafort with Yanukovych

On July 25, in Alexandria, Virginia, the process of 69-year-old political strategist Paul Manafort should begin. Two years ago, he headed the election headquarters of the current president Donald Trump for five months, but resigned after the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine discovered manuscript records in the “ex-president of Yanukovych) in the“ ex-president of Yanukovych), indicating the payment of manifors from 2007 to 2012 $ 12.7 million in cash.

Personally, Manafort did not sign in the receipt of these amounts and said that he did not receive a single “left” payment in cash. But the special prosecutor Robert Müller, who is investigating Russia's intervention in the American elections and the alleged conspiracy of Trumpists with the Kremlin, brought Manafort liable for concealing the money earned abroad.

According to prosecutors, the earnings of Manafort in Ukraine were not limited to this. However, lawyer Kevin Dauning says that three years ago her client talked with representatives of the FBI regarding his work in Ukraine and their finances and that those Manafort did not bring any accusations. But it was a long time ago. Now the FBI has a mountain of financial documents.

It is curious that the investigation received a considerable part of them, thanks to the help of the agency of the AR, the four employees of which met in April last year with a group of prosecutors and investigators to discuss the work of Manafort. Among other things, the journalists were curious whether the interrogators found something useful in a warehouse in Virginia, where Manafort kept his business papers for 30 years. It turned out that the inquiry officers did not have a concept about this warehouse. So after meeting with AP, they came there with the order for the search.

They received this order on the basis of a request to the court, which is now lying in front of me. According to the author, the investigator of the FBI, whose name was smeared, in July 2014, Manafort showed during interrogation that he worked in Ukraine not only for the Party of Regions, but also on the Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, and his Russian colleague Oleg Deripaska.

According to this document, from 2006 to 2014, Ukrainians paid certain amounts of Manafort and his partner Rick Gates through Cyprus banks. Money entered either their corporations and bank accounts in the United States, or directly to those who sold them any goods or provided some services.

In the petition, for example, more than 49 thousand dollars are mentioned for the rental of villas in Italy, on which manifors rested; more than 360 thousand dollars paid by the carpet store in Alexandria; More than 395 thousand - gardeners and more than 760 thousand - stores of men's clothing.

According to the FBI, in total, Manafort earned tens of millions of dollars in Ukraine.

The rumors that Manafort with Gates allegedly helped Yanukovych and his close associates to withdraw money abroad, in the declassified documents there are no close ones, although they tell them about Ukrainian corruption.

The FBI quoted above the petition says that Gates was ordered to open bank accounts in Cyprus for the head of the apparatus Yanukovych Boris Kolesnikov, but explained by the fact that it would simply be more convenient to pay them with the manfort service through them.

Manafort was also engaged in business in Ukraine, in particular, with the "gas king" Dmitry Firtash, with which they started the reconstruction of the famous New York Hotel "Drake". The project with the estimated value of $ 850 million has not been carried out.

In addition, in the documents extracted by the FBI from the warehouse in Virginia, it was indicated that Deripaska has been to John Hannah, LLC, which was owned by Manafort and his wife.

In the same year, the Cyprus company Deripaska Surf Horizon filed a New York Supreme Court to Manafort and Gates, accusing them of assigning almost 19 million dollars received a decade ago for the implementation of projects in Ukraine. It is unclear whether the above 10 million was included in this amount. While the New York court froze the Deripaska’s lawsuit before the end of the criminal processes of Manafort.

Until the end of June, Manafort had the hope that the Virgin Judge Thomas Ellis, appointed 30 years ago by Reagan and in 2004, refused to deport Skorobogach Alexander Konanyin to Russia, who was accused of the embezzlement of millions of dollars in the embezzlement of the All -Russian Exchange Bank, would simply close the matter.

Manafort petitioned this for a long time and, finally, on June 27 read the decision of Ellis. The judge began for health, saying that “even blind” could see that the special prosecutor Müller attracted Manafort only in order to force him to give material on Trump or other employees of his headquarters. But he graduated from Ellis with a tray, noting that although such prosecutorial methods are disgusted by him, “there is nothing unusual or illegal in them, so there is no reason to close the case.

Even earlier, the Washington Judge Amy Berman-Jacks refused to close the Manafort case, who will preside in his second process, which begins on September 17. According to a number of experts, Müller started two processes against Manafort at once in order to double his lawsuit and force him to surrender. This is how the accomplice of Manafort, Rick Gates, who has long pleaded guilty and collaborating with Müller, explains his surrender.

Manafort appeared on the Washington scene in the 1970s and worked for presidents of the Republic of Gerald Ford, Reagan and Bush Sr., but then his star in the United States was somewhat faded, and he was forced to engage abroad, consulting the authoritarian rulers Zaire and the Philippines, as well as the leader of the Angolian rebel organization of the Unit Savimbi.

The political strategist flashing in the costumes sewn to order, occupied the VIP screge at the Yankis New York stadium and rested in his own house in prestigious Hamptons on Long Island, but in 2004 his affairs were not brilliant. The horse’s farm, which he owned with his wife in Florida, was going to describe the bank for debts, and the house in Virginia had to be laid for a quarter of a million dollars.

The affairs of Manafort went in the way after he hired to the Donbass oligarch Rinat Akhmetov to PR himself and his business imperia. According to people who worked with Manafort in Ukraine, Akhmetov introduced him to Viktor Yanukovych.

The American was instructed to ennoble the image of Yanukovych. As the then American ambassador to Ukraine John Hearbst put it in a secret dispatch, it was a “total transformation”.

Manafort made Yanukovych better comb yourself, not to spread in the thought of the tree in public speeches and use the rhetorical techniques of the Manafort mentor, the republican political strategist Lee Etaoter.

It is said that Manafort forced the leadership of the Party of Regions to act on television in the costs taken from Hugo Boss and made sure that they later handed them to the party headquarters. “He tried to control everything,” recalls the former party activist Taras Chornovil. “How will people represent the party, what words they will use, their makeup and stylists.” And the victory of Yanukovych in the 2010 elections was evidence that Manafort methods are effective.

Along the way, Manafort and his assistants met in Washington with employees of the State Department and other influential people, convincing them that Yanukovych is a pro -Western democrat who is ready to cooperate with NATO and go to convergence with the United States.

Manafort, however, did not register in the USA as a “foreign agent” and is now paying for it. Two famous Washington PR companies that worked with them-Mercury LLC, associated with the Republicans and the Podesta Group related to the Democrats-registered as lobbyists, but not as “foreign agents”. As they explain, they were assured that they were not paid by foreign governments, but by the non -profit “European Center for Modern Ukraine”, which, according to Müller, was actually controlled by Yanukovych.

Subsequently, Manafort used another PR company, whose name is not called in court documents, and its owners are encoded as D1 and D2. Manafort and his Kyiv employee of the Russian Konstantin Kilimnik was recently attracted for the fact that they allegedly tried to influence D1 and D2, which are potential witnesses in one of the affairs of Manafort.

However, in mid-June, a document that called this company, the Fact-Based Communications Media, appeared, which was based in London and already managed to burn out, named its owners-journalists Alan Friedman and Ekarta Seiger. The document also called members of the "Habsburg group" of former European politicians hired by manifors in order to PR in the West Ukraine under Yanukovych. In this regard, the former Austrian Chancellor Alfred Guzenbauer and the former Prime Minister Italy Romano Prodi are mentioned. The document was quickly removed from the database and replaced by a stopped option.

As the Memorandum of Manafort, who was recently presented to the court, was presented to the court, the task of the former European politicians hired by him was to distract attention from the sentence issued in Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, to prevent sanctions against Kyiv and depict Yanukovych’s course in a profitable light.

Well, now let's listen to what will open on the process.