Former Trump Adviser Named in DOJ Russian Media Probe
RIA Novosti via ReutersFormer Trump campaign adviser Dimitri Simes has been charged with violating U.S. sanctions and laundering money, according to Simes’ indictments released Thursday.Simes, 76, is accused of participating in a “scheme to violate U.S. sanctions for the benefit of sanctioned Russian broadcaster Channel One Russia and to launder funds obtained from that scheme.” Simes, along with his wife Anastasia, 55, reportedly received “over $1 million, a personal car and driver, a stipend for an apartment in Moscow, Russia, and a team of ten employees from Channel One Russia.”Both were charged with “one count of conspiracy to violate (International Emergency Economic Powers Act), one count of violating IEEPA and one count of conspiracy to commit international money laundering,” in the first indictment. However, the FBI added, “They remain at large and are believed to be in Russia.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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