Trymand: Wife of Former Moscow Mayor Who Sent $3.5M to Hunter Has Russian Mafia Ties

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TYRMAND: "To transact business with their partner’s security firm, she needed to get JPMorgan’s approval. And she was on a watch list. OFAC, The Office of Foreign Asset Control, run by the Treasury in conjunction with the State Department, watches all of these crony oligarchs and potential criminals around the world, and her company, a construction company, she was the wife of the Moscow mayor and she made her money in construction, the State Department was well-aware of her Russian mob ties so she was on an 'associated entity' watch list because her company had a huge stake owned by Putin's bank, Sberbank, which is known as 'the Bank of Putin' in the Kremlin. So it actually took them a few more weeks to get this JPMorgan account open. They even talked about going to Morgan Stanley, the Bank of California. They eventually got it open, and for them that was a big coup. There’s a lot of e-mail traffic about partying and, you know, 'Look at how we snuck in the back door on this one.' So they knew what they were doing."