{"id":8512,"date":"2022-03-15T14:07:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T14:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2022\/03\/15\/russian-oligarch-charged-in-illegal-campaign-contributions-scheme\/"},"modified":"2022-03-15T14:07:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T14:07:06","slug":"russian-oligarch-charged-in-illegal-campaign-contributions-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2022\/03\/15\/russian-oligarch-charged-in-illegal-campaign-contributions-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian oligarch charged in illegal campaign contributions scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Washington – <\/em>A Russian oligarch has been indicted by federal prosecutors in a plan to make illegal contributions to the campaign in the 2018 elections to help boost a possible business in the marijuana industry. <\/p>\n

Justice Department accused 47-year-old Andrey Muraviev of plotting $ 1 million in political donations to federal and state candidates who could help him and his co-conspirators obtain cannabis and marijuana licenses for your future trading company. The co-conspirators in the case, Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman and Andrey Kukushkin, have already been charged with their roles in the plan. <\/p>\n

Fruman he pleaded guilty<\/span> in September, while Parnas and Kukushkin they were condemned<\/span> in October.<\/p>\n

Parnas and Fruman were business partners of Rudy Giuliani, the personal lawyer for former President Donald Trump, and helped in their efforts in Ukraine to find harmful information about President Biden’s son, Hunter, before the presidential election. 2020. Hunter Biden served on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company.<\/p>\n

Efforts in Ukraine were part of Trump’s first impeachment procedure in late 2019, during which the then president was accused of pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Mr. Biden and his son after freezing near $ 400 million in military assistance to the country.<\/p>\n

The indictment filed in the federal district court of New York and opened on Monday alleges that in the spring of 2018, Muraviev and his co-defendants decided to start a business with the goal of obtaining cannabis and marijuana licenses in the detail in the US. <\/p>\n

As part of his plan, Muraviev transferred $ 1 million from foreign bank accounts to a Fruman-controlled trading account, which was to be used to fund campaign donations before the November 2018 Florida election. Nevada and Texas, prosecutors allege. Muraviev also agreed that his money funds donations to candidates in New York and New Jersey, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n

To hide the source of Muraviev’s donations, the defendants allegedly made the contributions on behalf of Fruman and Parnas. The indictment cites two cases, in November 2018, in which the two used Muraviev’s money to make donations of $ 10,000 each to two candidates for a state office in Nevada.<\/p>\n

The contributions were allegedly intended to gain influence with candidates who could help the group obtain cannabis and marijuana licenses.<\/p>\n

Adam Laxalt, a Republican who ran for governor of Nevada in 2018, testified at the Parnas trial last year that he received a check for $ 10,000 from a company affiliated with Parnas and Fruman, but was advised that he rejected it.<\/p>\n

Muraviev is accused of making illegal political contributions as a foreign national and of conspiring to make illegal donations as a foreign national on behalf of straw donors. The Justice Department said he is believed to be in Russia and remains at large. <\/p>\n

“As expected, Russian-born Andrey Muraviev tried to influence the 2018 election by conspiring to push a million dollars of his foreign funds into candidates and campaigns,” said Damian Williams, the district attorney. South of New York. a statement. “He tried to corrupt our political system to advance his business interests. The Southern District of New York is committed to eliminating the efforts of foreigners to interfere with our election.”<\/p>\n

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