Erik Prince tells House investigators he met with Kremlin-linked banker in Seychelles

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Source: Washington Post

By Karoun Demirjian November 30 at 9:06 PM

Erik Prince, a supporter of the Trump presidential campaign and founder of the security firm Blackwater, confirmed to House investigators Thursday that he met with a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin while in the Seychelles earlier this year, according to multiple people familiar with the interview.

Under questioning, Prince told members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that he had met Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, during a secret Jan. 11 meeting in the Seychelles brokered by the United Arab Emirates as part of an apparent attempt to set up backchannel communications between then-President-elect Donald Trump and Moscow.

Dmitriev was first identified as Prince’s Russian contact in the Seychelles by the Intercept earlier this week.

The admission to investigators that he met with Dmitriev is a turnaround for Prince, who initially refused through a spokesman to identify the Russian with whom he had met, and later said he couldn’t remember his name.



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1. his punishment is to share a cell with his sister betsy devos nt

[dlwickham]

7. talk about cruel and unusual punishment

[lagomorph777]

9. Life with an uneducated "educator?"

Just kill me now.

[dlwickham]

12. she's as much of an educator as are my cats

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

2. This was known months ago...

... I guess the only detail was actually WHO he met. So is this an admission of breaking the law?

[lagomorph777]

10. Probably not yet, but a significant piece of the puzzle.

More needs to be known. What topics were discussed? Who sent Eric The Red down to the Seychelles? and so on.

[sadiegirl]

3. Is this another confirmation of the truth of the infamous dossier?

As i recall, a meeting of some Trump associate with Russians was to have taken place in the Seychelles.

[Achilleaze]

4. republican TreasonWeasels betraying America

lock them up

[keithbvadu2]

5. Prince was a SEAL. Now he works for Russia.

[lagomorph777]

11. The Seals are probably not too happy with him now.

That's one group of people I would NOT want to piss off.

[Botany]

6. "attempt to set up backchannel communications between then-President-elect Donald Trump and Moscow"

Treason

[Julian Englis]

8. The tRump radical right gang places themselves above the law and above their country

Lock him up.

[llmart]

13. Now they're all starting to sing...

They know Mueller has the goods on them. I hope all those who thought hitching their wagon to Trump would bring them wealth and power are under so much stress they are living in hell. That goes for the DeVos family.

[Sunlei]

14. why is it never enough money for some people? Made a fortune with Blackwater, should have retired.

wealth building is like a disease or addiction, can't stop eh?

[AntiFascist]

15. These meetings facilitated by Zayed also involved Flynn and Kushner...

and much of it revolves around control of oil and gas fields and pipelines in the Middle East. Bannon was also involved and you will probably find much of the basis for their "Deep State" conspiracy theories here, which is why they wished to circumvent US intelligence with their backchannel.