Deripaska threatens Manafort with "legal consequences"

The representative of businessman Oleg Deripaska threatened the “legal consequences” of the ex-head of the election headquarters of Donald Trump Polom Manafort. “As for Mr. Manafort, the results of his manipulations with Oleg Deripaska’s investments will have obvious legal consequences,” the oligarch representative quotes .

The day before, it became known about the multimillion -dollar loan issued by Deripaska Manafort. The press secretary of Deripaski assured that he “carried out all business contacts with someone and everywhere in the world exclusively in the interests of his business.” According to the representative of Deripaska, the American NBC News television channel released the story of Manafort to "support hysteria and contribute to the development of conspiracy theory by Russia, the investigation of which is to a dead end."

The representative of the businessman assured that Deripaska had previously proposed testimony in the Congress in order to "bring the truth into this discussion (about the relations of Manafort with the billionaire. - Ed.)" And did not ask, as claimed, about immunity.

On Saturday, NBC Newsannounced citing financial documents drawn up in Cyprus and Kaiman Islands that Oguster Management Ltd., owned by Deripaska, gave a loan of $ 26 million to Yiakora Ventures LTD, related to Manafort. Documents received by the channel also confirm that the company Deripaska allocated $ 7 million on a loan of $ 7 million with a different structure of Manafort, Loav Advisers Ltd, which was already known. The total known volume of Deripaska transactions with Manafort reaches $ 60 million.

In March, Associated Press reported that Manafort worked for Deripaska, promoting the interests of the Kremlin . It was claimed that in June 2005 the political strategist proposed assisting in influencing politics, business and coverage of events in the USA, Europe and post-Soviet countries. The contract acted at least from 2006 to 2009. The annual payment for it was $ 10 million. The agency noted that this fact "contradicts the statements of the Trump administration and Manafort itself, that he never worked in the interests of Russia."

Manafort confirmed that he worked for Deripaska in several countries, but emphasized that this cooperation had nothing to do with politics.

The oligarch himself, in response, published an open letter in The Washington Post, which accused AP of spreading a lie, noting that he had never made any contacts with Manafort in order to “hide or promote” Russian interests in the United States.

In May, The New York Times wrote about Deripaska’s proposal to testify in Congress of Manafort in exchange for immunity. It was claimed that the congressmen rejected the proposal, as they considered that the guarantees of immunity are placed by the FBI of the FBI for a criminal investigation of Russian presidential election intervention.

On August 9, the FBI searched the case of Russian interference in the elections in one of the houses of Manafort and seized a large number of documents. The day before the search, Manafort at a meeting with the employees of the Congress Intelligence Committee told them about the meeting of the son of Trump with Russian lawyer Natalya Veselnitskaya in June last year, in which he took part, and also provided his notes made during the meeting.

Manafort left the post of chief of staff of Trump in August 2016, after The New York Times found out that he was one of the key advice of Viktor Yanukovych , a cursory ex-president of Ukraine. It was claimed that in the so-called barn book the Ukrainian Party of Regions found records of unregistered payments Manafort in 2007-2012 $ 12.7 million in cash. At the same time, the political strategist himself assured that "he had never received a single illegal payment."