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A financier for one of the largest foreign investment firms in Russia says the meeting arranged between Donald Trump Jr. and Russian entities during the 2016 campaign had a quid pro quo -- repealing the U.S.-passed Magnitsky Act and the sanctions enshrined in it in exchange for a "sizable offer" to the campaign itself.
"I do know how the Russian government behaves, and this was a big ask -- to request that the possible future president of the United States, to repeal a major piece of human rights legislation, they wouldn't have gone in and said please repeal this without something in return."
Thus spoke Bill Browder, CEO and founder of Hermitage Capital Management before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Bowder is the man whose lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was arrested by Russian police when Bowder hired him to investigate why his office had been raided, and was subsequently tortured and killed by the Russian police. Why would the Russian go after this one attorney so much more brutally than most?
Bowder and Magnitsky had repeatedly exposed the endemic corruption in Russia, orchestrated and condoned by Vladimir Putin himself. In fact, the reason for the raid on Bowder's office was so the Russian Interior Ministry could seize the company's documents in order to commit fraud, effectively stealing back $230 million in taxes paid to the Russian government, from the Russian government.
While the topic of adoptions has been a repeated refrain for Trump associates in describing the agenda for the June meeting, Browder says, "Russian adoptions was really code for Russian sanctions."
"With certainty, no one was talking about adoptions at that meeting," Browden said. "They were talking about the repeal of sanctions so Russian murderers can freely travel and keep their money."
Further, the Russian intelligence community would have been "well aware of the meeting in advance" of the Trump Tower gathering, Browder told the committee.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-jr-s-meeting-with-russian-lawyer-was-about-sanctions-financier-tells-senate-panel/
"I do know how the Russian government behaves, and this was a big ask -- to request that the possible future president of the United States, to repeal a major piece of human rights legislation, they wouldn't have gone in and said please repeal this without something in return."
Thus spoke Bill Browder, CEO and founder of Hermitage Capital Management before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Bowder is the man whose lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was arrested by Russian police when Bowder hired him to investigate why his office had been raided, and was subsequently tortured and killed by the Russian police. Why would the Russian go after this one attorney so much more brutally than most?
Bowder and Magnitsky had repeatedly exposed the endemic corruption in Russia, orchestrated and condoned by Vladimir Putin himself. In fact, the reason for the raid on Bowder's office was so the Russian Interior Ministry could seize the company's documents in order to commit fraud, effectively stealing back $230 million in taxes paid to the Russian government, from the Russian government.
While the topic of adoptions has been a repeated refrain for Trump associates in describing the agenda for the June meeting, Browder says, "Russian adoptions was really code for Russian sanctions."
"With certainty, no one was talking about adoptions at that meeting," Browden said. "They were talking about the repeal of sanctions so Russian murderers can freely travel and keep their money."
Further, the Russian intelligence community would have been "well aware of the meeting in advance" of the Trump Tower gathering, Browder told the committee.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-jr-s-meeting-with-russian-lawyer-was-about-sanctions-financier-tells-senate-panel/
