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Paul Manafort was paid at least $28.5m by Russian oligarchs through Ukraine
The BBC has learned details of an internal Ukrainian investigation which found that Paul Manafort was paid at least $28.5m, far more than the $12.5m reported last year.
That sum is said to have come from one of the "black money" funds run by the Party of the Regions in Ukraine, where Manafort was a political consultant.
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We have been told that Ukraine’s domestic intelligence service, the SBU, infiltrated Manafort’s operation at the time he was working for Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovytch, who was deposed in 2014.
An internal report stated that Manafort was paid $600,000 a month over four years, reaching a total of $28.5 [million].
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-41805324
That sum is said to have come from one of the "black money" funds run by the Party of the Regions in Ukraine, where Manafort was a political consultant.
...
We have been told that Ukraine’s domestic intelligence service, the SBU, infiltrated Manafort’s operation at the time he was working for Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovytch, who was deposed in 2014.
An internal report stated that Manafort was paid $600,000 a month over four years, reaching a total of $28.5 [million].
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-41805324