Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016, now has been tied to a corruption case making its way through the court system in Switzerland.
Details from the Swiss case show "a direct attempt to enlist a foreign country’s law-enforcement official as a virtual double-agent"
Details of the explosive case have been published by investigative reporters for the Tribune de Genève and Tages-Anzeiger newspapers in Switzerland. The officer, identified only as Victor K., traveled to Moscow—against the expressed wishes of his superiors—where he spoke to Natalia Veselnitskaya, the lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner at Trump Tower.
The meeting was reportedly set up by Russian Deputy Attorney General Saak Albertovich Karapetyan—from the same rogue department that was apparently responsible for offering intel on Hillary Clinton to be shared at the Trump Tower meeting and the Kremlin’s further plots to influence U.S. politics.
If Veselnitskaya met with Victor K. on behalf of the Russian deputy attorney general, as the Swiss case claims, that clearly would debunk the Russian government's claim they've never heard of her and her claims she is not attached to the Russian government.
More on the Swiss case:
The interest of Veselnitskaya and the Russian prosecutor general’s office is likely to be linked back to a $230 million tax fraud that was uncovered by Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who was working for Bill Browder, whose Hermitage Capital had major investments in Russia. After discovering the massive financial crime that could be linked back to the Russian government, Magnitsky was arrested, beaten, and allowed to die in a Russian jail cell.
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A large portion of those stolen funds are believed to have made their way into the Swiss banking sector, sparking investigations by Swiss authorities, including its federal police and the Swiss prosecutor’s office, both of which worked closely with K.
Alexander Perepilichnyy, a Russian businessman living near London, had tipped off Magnitsky about the role played by Switzerland in the international scam. A few weeks before he was due to give evidence at a hearing in Lausanne, he died suddenly while he was out running.
British detectives initially concluded there was nothing suspicious about the sudden collapse of the 44-year-old whistleblower—despite his own fears that he would be assassinated. A later toxicology investigation found traces of the deadly Gelsemium elegans flower, which is a known weapon of Chinese and Russian contract killers.
The Swiss court investigating K. heard that Veselnitskaya had raised the question of the Magnitsky case with him during that Moscow meeting. Swiss accounts linked to the fraud are still frozen.
Donald Trump Jr., who was promised dirt on Hillary Clinton when he accepted the meeting with Veselnitskaya, has said since that Veselnitskaya wanted to discuss Russian adoptions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin banned U.S. adoption of Russian children in retaliation for sanctions implemented by the Magnitsky Act. Experts say adoption is code for sanctions, a top Putin priority.
Full story: Trump Tower Russian Lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, Exposed in Swiss Corruption Case (Daily Beast)