Oligarchs Yelena Baturina and Vladimir Yevtushenkov weren’t among the new targets — even though they have similarities to other newly sanctioned businesspeople.
Yevtushenkov has acknowledged meeting Hunter Biden at the Ritz-Carlton in Manhattan in March 2012 and laptop records indicate they met again in January 2013 in DC before looking at a commercial real estate development the next day in northern Virginia.
“He made it very clear to me that, you know … ‘I think it would be good to have a good relationship with this guy … maybe he can do a favor for us and we can do a favor for him,’” the source continued. “It was a complete quid pro quo that he was going in for.” Vladimir Yevtushenkov courted Hunter Biden while his vice-president father helped lead the Obama administration’s efforts to “reset” relations with the Kremlin.MTS ultimately settled the Uzbekistan corruption case with the Trump Justice Department in 2019 and paid an . The NYSE froze trading of shares in the company last year after the invasion of Ukraine.
The scope of Baturina and Yevtushenkov’s eventual US property investments is unclear, as is the share of proceeds that may have been shared with Hunter.of most of Baturina’s $3.5 million onto other entities co-held by Hunter Biden and Archer, but Archer said he was unsure of what the money was for and the ultimate disposition remains murky.
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