Sources: Ukraine has paid off the lawyer trump for organizing the meeting with Poroshenko

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Источники: Украина заплатила юристу Трампа за организацию встречи с Порошенко

Personal lawyer Donald trump Michael Cohen has secretly got at least 400 thousand dollars for the organization of negotiations of the President of Ukraine Poroshenko with trump, according to sources in Kiev, close to the people involved in this story.

The payment was arranged by intermediaries, acting on behalf of Petro Poroshenko, the sources said. While Cohen has not been registered in the United States as the person representing the interests of Ukraine, as required by U.S. law.

The meeting between the two leaders was held at the White house in June of last year.

Soon after the return of Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian anti-corruption the home office stopped the investigation of former head of the electoral headquarters of the trump Paul Manafort.

In the administration Poroshenko these statements are called blatant lies.

A senior Ukrainian security services in the Administration of the President of Ukraine told about what happened before Poroshenko’s visit to Washington.

Cohen was invited because a U.S. registered lobbyists of the Ukrainian and the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington could not arrange Petro Poroshenko anything, except a brief photo trump.

Petro Poroshenko was needed the meeting, which can be represented as “negotiations”.

As told to this senior official, Poroshenko has decided to establish an informal channel of access to Trump.

The task was entrusted to the former assistant to the President, who asked for assistance loyal to the President Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada.

That, in turn, used their personal contacts in the Jewish charity organization Chabad of Port Washington, was in new York.

This chain eventually led to Michael Cohen, a lawyer and confidant of President trump. Cohen paid 400 thousand dollars.

However, there is no reason to assume that Donald trump knew about this payment.

Another source in Kiev told the same details about the meeting, with the difference that, according to him, Cohen eventually received 600 thousand dollars.

Received confirmation and information submitted at the time a us lawyer Michael Avenatti studying Finance, Michael Cohen.

Avenatti represents the interests of a porn actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against trump.

According to Avenatti, the Bank, in which Cohen was the account sent to the Ministry of Finance reports on suspicious transactions (Suspicious Activity Reports), which demonstrated that Cohen received money from individuals or organisations representing the interests of Ukraine.

We spoke with Cohen and the two Ukrainians, who allegedly established an informal channel for their President. All three denied that this was the place.

A senior Ukrainian security services also said that Cohen helped Felix Sutter — developer sentenced to 12 months in jail for drunken fight in a restaurant in Manhattan and a former one-time business partner of trump.

Reference: Felix Sutter (Shapirovskii) was born in Moscow. When he was a child, his family emigrated to Israel and then to USA. Of the criminal activities Suter and how he crossed paths with trump in 2016, wrote the British press.

Suter’s lawyer denied these charges.

As reported in June last year, President Poroshenko, going to a meeting with trump, did not know how much time to give him the US President.

In the schedule the White house reported only that it will be put into the Oval office, when trump will hold a meeting with your employees.

It has been agreed through official channels. Michael Cohen has paid to Poroshenko have had more time than a few awkward minutes exchanging pleasantries and handshakes, said a senior source.

However, the negotiations continued until late at night on the eve of that day, which was scheduled visit.

“Dirty deal”

The Ukrainian side was unhappy, the source said, because Cohen took “hundreds of thousands of dollars” for something that he didn’t seem able to provide.

Until the very last moment the Ukrainian President was not sure that I will not be in a humiliating situation.

“People from the inner circle Poroshenko was amazed at how dirty was this whole deal [with Cohen]”, — told a source in Kiev.

Poroshenko desperately wanted to meet with trump because of what happened during the presidential election campaign in the United States.

In August 2016, the New York Times published a document which allegedly testified to the fact that the head of the electoral headquarters of the trump Paul Manafort received millions of dollars from persons who represent the Russian interests in Ukraine.

It was a statement of “black accounting” Pro-Russian Party of regions, hired Manafort when he was a political consultant in Ukraine.

These statements, presumably, came from the National anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine, to investigate the activities of Manafort.

After the publication of these documents by Paul Manafort was forced to resign as head of the election headquarters.

Several Ukrainian sources said that this leakage occurred with the consent of Poroshenko, because he was convinced that the election victory of Hillary Clinton.

If this is true, it was a catastrophic mistake: Ukraine supported in the American elections the losing candidate. Regardless, how did this leak, it caused damage to the winner, Donald Trump.

Ukraine was then at war with Russian-backed separatists and could not afford to get the enemy in the face of the American President.

Therefore, Poroshenko, apparently, felt relieved when he, smiling broadly welcomed in the oval office Donald trump.

Poroshenko boasted that he met with the American President earlier than did the Russian leader.

“We will have a fantastic program. It is very important that my appointment as the Ukrainian President in the White house before meeting Putin, for all were armed with information that no one leave the chance to the injustice”, — said in Washington the Ukrainian leader.

“I never had such a powerful visit,” he added.

Poroshenko held a triumphant press conference in front of the North portico of the White house.

A week after returning Poroshenko in Kiev the Ukrainian National anti-corruption Bureau announced that it had terminated the investigation in respect of Manafort.

Officials in Kiev told me then that “black accounting” of the Party of regions there are no receipts of Manafort in earning money.

And in any case, he added, Manafort is a US citizen, and the law allowed the Bureau to conduct an investigation only against Ukrainians.

The charges against Manufactu in USA

  • conspiracy to commit money laundering, false statements, concealment of assets abroad — all of these charges relate to his work in Ukraine and presented spectaculorum Muller (Manafort rejects them);
  • fraud and tax evasion — presented by Mueller and later in Virginia (these charges Manafort also rejects).

The Ukrainian authorities not to close the case of Manafort, but it was transferred from the National anti-corruption Bureau to the Prosecutor’s office, where it was shelved.

Last week in Kiev in charge of the case Prosecutor Sergey Gorbatyuk told me: “We have not received direct instructions to close the case of Monforte, but as the investigation progresses, it is clear that our bosses trying to stop him”.

Review of the press service of the presidential administration of Ukraine

“Blatant lies, slander and forgery. So we see the disinformation that the meeting of President of Ukraine and the President of the United States was supposedly arranged for the money. The summit Ukraine — the United States in June 2017 was organized only via official diplomatic channels, including the Embassy of Ukraine in the United States.

We believe that the blatant misinformation that has been distributed, is part of fake campaign aimed at discrediting the Ukrainian-American relations, as well as attack personally the President of Ukraine and the USA.

Given that our review that this information is not true, have been ignored in the preparation of this article, we demand its refutation. If this does not happen, we reserve the right to seek redress in court.”

None of our sources claims that during the meeting in the oval office, trump asked Poroshenko to stop the investigation against Manafort. But if in fact there was another communication channel if it was used by Michael Cohen in order to tell the Ukrainian authorities which they are expected to do?

Perhaps he did not need.

A source in Kiev claims that Poroshenko has made Trump a “gift” — arranged so that in Ukraine has not been found any more evidence or testimony that could be transferred to U.S. prosecutors investigating possible collusion of the election headquarters trump with Russia.

According to another source, Poroshenko understand that failure to do actually would be to spit in Trump’s face.

According to a report prepared by one of the staff of Western intelligence, surrounded by Poroshenko is believed to have signed with trump sort of “nonaggression Pact”.

Citing an unnamed “high-ranking and well-informed” intelligence sources, the sequence of events described in the report as follows.

As soon as the tramp won the election, according to the report, the Ukrainian authorities ceased to “actively investigate” the charges against Manafort. National anti-corruption Bureau has ceased to communicate with us prosecutors — these responsibilities were transferred to one of the senior staff of the presidential administration of Ukraine.

The report States that upon returning from Washington in August or September 2017, Poroshenko has decided to cease cooperation with the American investigation against Manafort. However, the corresponding order he gave until November 2017.

American authorities learned about the decree, after it was cancelled two visits senior assistant Poroshenko in the United States, where in November and December, he was supposed to meet with Mueller and CIA Director.

According to the report, “the element of mutual understanding” between Poroshenko and trump was the fact that Ukraine agreed to buy American coal, but also signed a contract for the supply of U.S. locomotives in the amount of $ 1 billion.

At the same time, the report said, in Ukraine there is a private manufacturer of locomotives and its own coal mines. So both of these transactions can be understood only as the purchase of the Ukrainian President’s support of Washington.

In March, the administration trump announced with great symbolic value of the deal for the supply Ukraine 210 anti-tank missiles “javelin”.

Even under President Obama, the US did not sell Ukraine weapons.

Known in Kiev politician — former member of Cabinet, now retired, told me that he didn’t like how the government dealt with the case of Manafort, but Ukraine is forced to fight for their own survival.

“Of course, I am in favour of the country’s rule of law, he said. But at the same time I am a patriot of his country.”

According to him, he maintains contact with his former subordinates, and he knows a lot of details about Cohen organized the informal channel of communication with trump.

He argues that if the Ukrainians will be convinced that on the issue of the case of Manafort actually lies corrupt deal, it could put an end to the support in the United States.

The security service of Ukraine also prepared in the case of Manafort own secret report.

It was discovered that “black accounting” was not the only one — there were three, and in fact Manafort paid several million dollars more than the amount that appears in the indictment (Manafort denies any wrongful action on its part).

This information shared with me by a senior police officer familiar with the report of the SBU. According to him, this document has not been submitted to the American authorities.

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