Trump's lawyer was suspected of receiving $ 500 thousand from a businessman from Putin's entourage

In the United States, lawyer Michael Avenatti, who represents the interests of porn actresses Stormy Daniels in court litigation with US President Donald Trump, accused his defender of receiving a large amount of money from an influential Russian entrepreneur associated with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“After a thorough investigation, we found that Mr. Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen received approximately $ 500 thousand,” Avenatti wrote on his microblog on Twitter. The lawyer added that this money was received immediately after the 2016 presidential election, at which Donald Trump won.

According to Avenatti, half a million dollars to the lawyer transferred the leadership of the company that belongs to the "Russian oligarch from the near circle of Vladimir Putin."

Avenatti hinted that some of the "Russian" money in the amount of 130 thousand dollars could be paid to his client - the pornsezvezt Stephanie Clifford (Stormy Daniels) for non -disclosure of information about her intimate connection with the head of the White House. It was Cohen who passed this money to the porn actress.

In another tweet, Michael Aenatti gave a link to the document with brief results of the investigation. However, then this report became unavailable.

Earlier it was reported that an investigation is being conducted against Cohen. He is suspected of banking frauds and involvement in the so -called "Russian case", which studies the degree of Kremlin’s intervention in the American presidential election in 2016. Investigators, in particular, are interested in financial relations between Cohen and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg. In one case, it was about the fact that Vekselberg's cousin transferred a donation of 300 thousand dollars to the Trump fund.

We also note that in contacts with people from Trump’s entourage suspected Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska . The press wrote, in particular, that the head of the Trump’s campaign headquarters Paul Manafort received $ 60 million from Deripaska.