Drawing from a German media report, The New York Daily News reveals Deutsche Bank is taking a closer look at what appear to be suspicious transactions connected to Jared Kushner.
The bank has informed a national finance supervisor about the transactions and will also inform special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian election meddling, Manager Magazin, part of the Der Spiegel group, reported Friday.
Reports about Mueller’s interactions with the German bank first appeared in December, when German newspaper Handelsblatt said he had subpoenaed information from the institution that has offices in New York but is based in Frankfurt.
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Sources close to the AFP and Wall Street Journal said respectively afterward the subpoenas could be tied to former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort and disgraced national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about his contacts with Russians, and Manafort faces money laundering charges from Mueller.
Trump's lawyer insisted at the time the subpoenas were not for the president's records, even though Trump owes Deutsche Bank somewhere between $130 and $300 million. Deutsche has been under Department of Justice investigation itself for allegedly turning a blind eye to Russian money laundering.
Kushner Companies has done major business with Deutsche Bank, including a $285 million loan in 2016 related to its property in the former New York Times building in Manhattan.
Kushner’s interactions with the bank were also the subject of a subpoena from federal Brooklyn prosecutors believed to be unrelated to the Russia investigation, according to reports last month.
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Former Trump adviser Steven Bannon also said in “Fire and Fury” the Russia investigation “goes through Deutsche Bank and all the Kushner s--t.”
Deutsche Bank looking at 'suspicious' Kushner transactions: report (NY Daily News)