visit from russian police. officer raided the offices of alexei navalny, a prominent critic of russian president vladimir putin. navalny tells cnn he called for the protest and election boycott not only because he was barred from running, but what he calls rampant corruption in the putin regime. in an exclusive interview with our matthew chance, he talks about why he believes he was barred from running for president. translator: he is scared of all real competition. we see in these elections that he only allowed those to run who do not even resist, do not even do any campaigning. when they saw that we are actually fighting for people s votes, they got scared. the famous putin s ratings, all these 86%, 70%, all of that the sociologists and political analysts love to talk about, they exist in only one scenario, when putin places the candidates he controls. but that issue of polling numbers, i think, is important,
facebook or houses. this paradise papers leak driving the stories about wilbur ross and apple taxes, is also revealing something brand new about milner s facebook money, came directly from putin-run company. over $900 million routed from kremlin s gazprom oil company to another company in virgin islands that bought most of his company. don t need to be expert to know you don t get that kind of money from putin s companies without at least keeping in touch. he s met with number two, specifically on tech issues. same putin official that met with zuckerberg in person in 2012.
russian funds but wasn t reliant or formally depend on them. why lawyers are sometimes annoying. questions are as always, why are rur forms so wrong so often? and when you update them, out all the countries in the world, why are they so often linked to russia? questions for mark are building. did you have evidence milner s money linked back to the kremlin or did you prefer not to know? did he know he talked tech with putin s prime minister just like you did? and would you take it again? do you think still it s quote best investor for facebook. and mark do you think if you ignore these issues and questions they will go away? has it ever occurred to you in socially connected world these questions might just get louder
yuri milner. you could argue there is nothing wrong with getting money from russian investor tied to the kremlin and working around putin s allies, could argue not linked to the kremlin or any legally sanctioned russian could fund things in the united states. not what kushner is argue. asserting he doesn t use russian funds for businesses. i have not relied on russian funds for my businesses. and i have been fully transparent in providing all requested information. yes, you have relied on those funds. unless kushner s lawyers told him he could deny relying on the russian funds so that everyone had listening thought he was not relying on russian money. or parsing rely, had to use some
dressed up for that meeting and brought the man who serves as prime minister a t-shirt. that s nice. this isn t in the news today because of facebook s vaunted transparency, or because of the probes into russian collusion, only in the news tonight because of a giant pretty much unrelated leak of law firm s files. milner is downplaying this, he says he was quote, not aware that putin s company backed this. and facebook says sold years ago and reject the idea they failed in due diligence. even if true, don t address the problem to national security. could be ignorant or willfully blind but he knows he s down with the kremlin.