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Kyrgyzstan|politics|March 22, 2017 / 11:59 AM
Ex Trump campaign chairman laundered payments from Yanukovych party using offshore accounts in Belize and Kyrgyzstan: media

AKIPRESS.COM - A Ukrainian lawmaker released new financial documents March 21 allegedly showing that a former campaign chairman for U.S. President Donald Trump laundered payments from the party of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych using offshore accounts in Belize and Kyrgyzstan, media reports say.

On Monday, FBI director James Comey confirmed for the first time that his agency was investigating alleged Russian interference in the election.

On Tuesday, lawmaker Serhiy Leshchenko, a former investigative journalist, published an invoice purportedly signed by Mr Manafort that showed a $750,000 payment for a shipment of computers to a firm called Davis Manafort. The funds reportedly came from an offshore company in Belize via a bank in Kyrgyzstan, reports BBC.

Mr Leshchenko said the contract was a cover for payments to Mr Manafort for his consulting services to Mr Yanukovych's Party of Regions. Leshchenko said the amount and date of the payment matched one of the entries on the so-called Black Ledgers (handwritten accounting books alleged to belong to the Party of Regions), where Mr Manafort's name was mentioned.

Mr Manafort's spokesman Jason Maloni described the latest allegations as "baseless", saying they should be "summarily dismissed".

Lawmaker Serhiy Leshchenko said he had evidence that former campaign chairman Paul Manafort had tried to hide a payment of $750,000 by a pro-Russian party in 2009.

Mr Manafort was an adviser to Ukraine's ex-President Viktor Yanukovych. But he denies receiving any cash payments. He was forced to resign as Mr Trump's campaign chairman in August 2016 over revelations about his ties to Mr Yanukovych. Mr Manafort is one of a number of the presidential associates currently under scrutiny for possible contacts with Russia during the US presidential campaign.

President Yanukovych was ousted during mass street protests in Ukraine in 2014.

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