Clearance was a meeting that he took at trump tower during the transition where he hosted the head of another russian bank. Jared kushner met with the head of a russian bank called veb bank. Its a bank but really just an entity of the russian government. The leadership of veb bank is hand picked by lad peer putin and veb banks connections with russian intelligence are not subtle. Sergei gorkov is a graduate of the fsb academy which means he went to kgb grad school. Veb bank was coordination of a spy ring, that was the russian Spying Investigation where carter page was found by the fbi to have been essentially a willing target for those russian spies. At least he was a source of information for those russian spies who were looking for
americans to give them investigation to help them with their Spying Efforts against america from their home base in new york where they were ostensibly working for veb bank but really they were spies. So there was the alfa bank servers communicating with t
be the end of it. i think the sanctions on these particular banks, veb bank is one of the most substantial banks, it was on my list of banks on my legislation that i wanted to sanction. this is a bank that is definitely going to hurt the elites. it is a development bank. it s a payment agent for russian government, so that s a good one. the military bank is also where the military and financing flows through. that s a good one, too. blocking sanctions is the most significant sanctions that you can render against banks. i think there are other banks that need to be considered. sovereign jet, we had that on our list as well. this means that russia not able to raise money from the west. it s not able to trade new debt in western markets. that s very specific. i m looking forward to seeing the specific oligarchs being
country and company owned by the government of that country? this i think there s a small universe of possibility. there s three russian possibilities, three gulf possibilities and a wild card. the three russian possibilities are two banks. there s veb bank and vt bank, both described as putin slush funds. one bank was used when kushner and flynn were setting up a secret line to the kremlin, suddenly kushner met with the head of ve bank, and that may be connected to the purchase of roseneft on the market at that same exact moment in december. and so roseneft is a third possibility. there s two russian banks and roseneft is the largest oil company in the world or second largest that s russian owned. and then there are possibilities from gulf states.
vault where they would put that indictment? yeah. i knew we would get the indictment into the vault somehow. what is going on with the proceedings in washington which we now know involves a foreign country and company owned by the government of that country? this i think there s a small universe of possibility. there s three russian possibilities, three gulf possibilities and a wild card. the three russian possibilities are two banks. there s veb bank and vt bank, both described as putin slush funds. when kushner and flynn were setting up a secret line to the kremlin, suddenly kushner met with the head of ve bank, and that may be connected to the purchase of roseneft on the market at that same exact moment in december.
controversial at times. i want to go back to the web of russian connections that we showed you yesterday. we laid this out for you step by step. you would be forgiven for not knowing who all the folks are, the russians at the center of this part of the drama. we want to focus on these three putin allies. gorkov, the head of veb bank, a state-owned bank in russia. he s a graduate of the fsb academy, russia s spy school. he reportedly met with jared kushner at trump tower in december of 2016. the next one is sergey kislyak. he s the former russian ambassador to the u.s., called by some russia s spy master in the united states. he served in foreign affairs since the 1970s, first with the soviet union and then when it became the russian federation. in december 2016, he met with jared kushner, michael flynn. kushner allegedly proposed a