Ivanka Trump’s business partner busted in Russian money laundering scheme
It looks like Donald Trump Jr may not be the only one of Donald Trump’s children who ends up being taken down by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. A newly uncovered money laundering scheme, run through Scotland of all places, has connected a business partner and “dear friend” of Ivanka Trump to money laundered from Russia.
This turns out to be a continuation of a months-old story first raised by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and others. It centered around a mysterious hotel being built by the Trump Organization and its business partners in the wrong part of town in Baku, Azerbaijan. The unfinished hotel was so obviously a fraud that it wasn’t even near any accessible roads. Ivanka Trump had made a point of traveling to the construction site and had even posted pictures of herself on-site, in an effort to make the project look legitimate. But the entire thing was suspected of having been nothing more than a front for money laundering, and it never opened. Now proof has finally arrived.
According to The Guardian, The Trump Organization’s business partner on the phony hotel, Anar Mammadov, has been caught up in the Russian money laundering scheme that was being randomly funneled through Scotland to try to avoid suspicion (link). Mammadov and Ivanka Trump were so closely connected on the phony hotel scam that at one point he posted a photo of the two of them on Instagram, referring to her as his “dear friend.”
This alone doesn’t prove outright that Ivanka Trump and the Trump Organization were the recipients of laundered Russian money, but it is the only logical explanation for why they were willing to get involved with a construction project that they knew to be a fraud just by looking at it. If Robert Mueller is true to form, he’s probably already quietly three steps ahead of the media on this story.
