Report: Russian Financier in Erik Princes Seychelles Meeting Traced Back to Putin
Source: The Daily Beast
The Russian financier whose Seychelles meeting with Trump campaign adviser Erik Prince in January 2017 raised red flags in the ongoing Russia probe has been tied directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Financial Times reports. Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, is known to have met with Prince shortly before President Trumps inauguration, and Prince admitted to the meeting while testifying before the House Intelligence Committee late last year. But Dmitrievs links to Putin now appear to be closer than previously thought. Six sources cited by the Financial Times say Dmitrievs wife, Natalia Popova, is close friends with Putins younger daughter, Yekaterina Tikhonova, and also serves as the deputy director of her Innopraktika foundation. While Prince has maintained his brief meeting with Dmitriev was spontaneous, these new details on Dmitrievs direct links to Putin are likely to renew concerns the pairs meeting was organized to set up a secret Kremlin backchannel with the Trump administration.
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)Driving nails in his coffin.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,648 posts)I wish he would take his loser sister along with him (Betsy DeVos anti-educ. sec).
sandensea
(21,704 posts)But as Putin should know by now, princes have a way of turning into frogs.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Lock them up.