Rinat Akhmetshin, a Soviet military officer turned Washington lobbyist, deposited large, round-number amounts of cash in the months preceding and following the 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
— Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew - Feb 6, 2019
One of the payments to Rinat Akhmetshin came from a ”veteran Republican operator with ties to the Trump campaign” 💣 Who is it? #MuellerKnowsEverything
The New York Times described Akhmetshin as a "master of dark arts.". He’s able to find kompromat (compromising information) by “obtaining email records, information from spyware and other data that appeared to be drawn from Russian hackers.”
Was Akhmetshin the one behind Guccifer 2.0 — the hacker who stole emails from the DNC and Hillary? Is that why he was at the Trump Tower Meeting? Does he have dirt on Trump?
From BuzzFeed
Documents reviewed by BuzzFeed News show that Rinat Akhmetshin, a Soviet military officer turned Washington lobbyist, deposited large, round-number amounts of cash in the months preceding and following the meeting, where a Russian lawyer offered senior Trump campaign officials dirt on Hillary Clinton.
The lobbyist also received a large payment that bank investigators deemed suspicious from Denis Katsyv, whose company Prevezon Holdings was accused by the US Justice Department of laundering the proceeds of a $230 million Russian tax fraud.
As part of that inquiry, banks were asked to pull financial information on the [Trump Tower] meeting attendees, and investigators at Wells Fargo handed over documents on Akhmetshin to the US Treasury in 2017.
Those records were passed to Mueller's team, but Peter Carr, a spokesperson for the special counsel, declined to say whether the transactions are under investigation. Congressional investigators also requested the financial information from the Treasury Department.
Just last month, Natalya Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer with whom Akhmetshin attended the meeting, was accused by US authorities of secretly coordinating with the Russian government while defending Katsyv in a money laundering case in New York.
Katsyv, the son of a powerful Russian figure, backed a lobbying campaign by Akhmetshin and Veselnitskaya against the Magnitsky Act, a US law imposing sanctions on a group of Russians officials connected to the suspected $230 million fraud.
$192,000 #SecretPayments #BuyAmerican
In the months before and after the meeting with the Trump campaign, documents show that Akhmetshin made unexplained cash deposits totaling $40,000, and received a wire transfer of $100,000 directly from Katsyv along with $52,000 from a foundation funded by Katsyv and other wealthy Russians to try to undermine that law. Bankers examining the lobbyist’s accounts flagged these transactions for a variety of reasons, including the inability to explain them, their overseas origin, and a suspicion that they showed Akhmetshin had violated federal lobbying law.
$500,000 #SecretPayments #BuyAmerican
A half-million dollars of payments to that nonprofit, the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation, have also come under scrutiny. Wired by Katsyv and other backers, the payments came two months before the Trump Tower meeting. Investigators at Bank of America, where the foundation held an account, cited the transactions as potential evidence of corruption and bribery in the bid to overturn the sanctions law, and provided them to Treasury, documents show. Mueller is investigating the foundation, Bloomberg reported.
Trump Dumpster 🔥
Beyond his work with Katsyv and Veselnitskaya, investigators discovered that Akhmetshin had received large, mostly unexplained wire transfers from companies in Latvia and Panama, and payments from longtime American political insiders, one of whom is a veteran Republican operator with ties to the Trump campaign.
June 9, 2016 Trump Tower Russia Meeting Refresher
Michael Cohen and Sam Nunberg said Trump knew about the meeting. Cohen went farther and said Trump “Individual-1″ APPROVED the meeting
