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Former FBI Director Louis Freeh was hired by Prevezon to help negotiate its $5.9 million settlement
Former FBI Director represented Russian firm at center of major money-laundering probe
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh was hired by the Russian-owned real-estate firm Prevezon earlier this year to help the company negotiate a settlement agreement with the US government over an alleged money-laundering operation that involved an elaborate Russian tax fraud scheme that implicated high-level Kremlin officials.
That detail was disclosed in a new court document released on Thursday by Acting US Attorney Joon Kim, who wrote a memorandum seeking to enforce the settlement agreement Prevezon struck with the government back in May for roughly $5.9 million.
Prevezon is also represented by Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitsksya, who met with top Trump campaign officials last June at Trump Tower to lobby for a repeal of the Magnitsky Act. The Prevezon case garnered high-profile attention given its ties to an alleged $230 million Russian tax-fraud scheme and the Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, whose suspicious death aroused international media attention and spurred the passage of the Magnitsky Act in 2012.
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Freeh served as the director of the FBI between 1993 and 2001, and he has been known to take on controversial clients since entering the private sector in the early 2000s. In 2015, for instance, he represented an Israeli billionaire who was accused of bribing the government of Guinea for a stake in an iron mine.
More: http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-director-louis-freeh-russia-prevezon-money-laundering-2017-11
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh was hired by the Russian-owned real-estate firm Prevezon earlier this year to help the company negotiate a settlement agreement with the US government over an alleged money-laundering operation that involved an elaborate Russian tax fraud scheme that implicated high-level Kremlin officials.
That detail was disclosed in a new court document released on Thursday by Acting US Attorney Joon Kim, who wrote a memorandum seeking to enforce the settlement agreement Prevezon struck with the government back in May for roughly $5.9 million.
Prevezon is also represented by Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitsksya, who met with top Trump campaign officials last June at Trump Tower to lobby for a repeal of the Magnitsky Act. The Prevezon case garnered high-profile attention given its ties to an alleged $230 million Russian tax-fraud scheme and the Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, whose suspicious death aroused international media attention and spurred the passage of the Magnitsky Act in 2012.
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Freeh served as the director of the FBI between 1993 and 2001, and he has been known to take on controversial clients since entering the private sector in the early 2000s. In 2015, for instance, he represented an Israeli billionaire who was accused of bribing the government of Guinea for a stake in an iron mine.
More: http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-director-louis-freeh-russia-prevezon-money-laundering-2017-11
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