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Watch: America's Mobster PresidentNew Evidence in Dutch Documentary of Trump's International Money Laundering Circles
The follow-the-money film reveals connections between Trump associates and an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud.
Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet -- Sep 27, 2017
President Trumps Manhattan properties and business partners, including former Soviet Union-connected oligarchs, were involved in a larger international money-laundering scheme involving upward of $1 billion, according to Dutch filmmakers whose third installment in an investigative series aired on public TV in Holland Wednesday.
We wanted to know in depth how money was transferred from Kazakhstan to the United States and how this could relate to Donald Trump, the Trump Organization and Trumps real estate, said Sander Rietveld, director of The Dubious Friends of Donald Trump, Part III: The Multibillion-Dollar Fraud, broadcast on Zembla, a program of the VARA Broadcasting Association.
The documentary was produced based on a three-month collaboration between Zembla, The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)known for the Panama Papers, and McClatchy newspaper's Washington bureau (including Kevin Hall, who won a Pulitzer Prize for the Panama papers).
We investigated hundreds of company records, court documents in the U.S., Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Belize, etc., and interviewed dozens of sources, he said. The result is a follow-the-money documentary revealing the connections between several people in Trumps orbit and an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud. Also the pivotal role of the Netherlands as an offshore haven gets attention. With Dutch help, Kazakh oligarchs allegedly were able to divert and launder huge amounts of money.
One of the international financiers profiled went to court in the Netherlands on Tuesday to stop the documentary from airing on public TV, but lost, ...........
We wanted to know in depth how money was transferred from Kazakhstan to the United States and how this could relate to Donald Trump, the Trump Organization and Trumps real estate, said Sander Rietveld, director of The Dubious Friends of Donald Trump, Part III: The Multibillion-Dollar Fraud, broadcast on Zembla, a program of the VARA Broadcasting Association.
The documentary was produced based on a three-month collaboration between Zembla, The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)known for the Panama Papers, and McClatchy newspaper's Washington bureau (including Kevin Hall, who won a Pulitzer Prize for the Panama papers).
We investigated hundreds of company records, court documents in the U.S., Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Belize, etc., and interviewed dozens of sources, he said. The result is a follow-the-money documentary revealing the connections between several people in Trumps orbit and an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud. Also the pivotal role of the Netherlands as an offshore haven gets attention. With Dutch help, Kazakh oligarchs allegedly were able to divert and launder huge amounts of money.
One of the international financiers profiled went to court in the Netherlands on Tuesday to stop the documentary from airing on public TV, but lost, ...........
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