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highplainsdem

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Fri Jul 21, 2017, 10:08 AM Jul 2017

Ex Trump associates helped fugitive Kazakhs in visa scheme

Source: McClatchy

Two former associates of Donald Trump helped a family of wealthy Kazakh fugitives make extensive investments in the United States, some aimed at helping family members obtain legal residency here, a McClatchy investigation shows.

Felix Sater, an ex-con and one-time senior adviser in the Trump Organization, helped the Trump family scout deals in Russia. He led an effort that began in 2012 to assist the stepchildren of Viktor Khrapunov, who that year had been placed on an international detention request list by the global police agency Interpol.

Khrapunov is the former Kazakh energy minister and ex-mayor of Almaty, that nation’s most populous city. He fled to Switzerland a decade ago, after Kazakhstan’s leaders accused him and his wife of stealing government funds. They are now accused in civil lawsuits of laundering money through luxury properties, including Trump-branded condos in the Soho neighborhood New York.

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Several key people in Trump’s orbit did business with the Kazakh clan, including the law firm of Trump campaign surrogate Rudy Giuliani and the Bayrock Group, which developed Trump-branded projects in New York, Florida and Arizona and was founded by Tevik Arif, a politically-connected former Soviet official from Kazakhstan.

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Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article162789803.html

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Ex Trump associates helped fugitive Kazakhs in visa scheme (Original Post) highplainsdem Jul 2017 OP
Criminals helping criminals dalton99a Jul 2017 #1
whow. Trumps sewer gets stinkier every day. But that is the nature of a sewer. riversedge Jul 2017 #2
republican cesspool overflowing with crooks and traitors Achilleaze Jul 2017 #3
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