chief foreign correspondent richard engel went all the way to cyprus to report on questions surrounding paul manafort s finances. late today a spokesperson for mr. manafort responded to nbc s reporting saying in part that all the accounts held by mr. manafort were legitimate and established for lawful ends. as for the ones shut down by manafort in 2012, mr. manafort has no specific recollection of this but understands from others that the accounts were, in fact, shut down together just prior to the mid-june 2012 government takeover of cyprus popular bank following the collapse of the country s banks. that s what they re saying. joining us is richard engel. thank you for being with us tonight. really appreciate it. absolutely. how are you? i m good. tell me, what kind of investigation is this? you mention you describe it as a treasury department
manafort s accounts raised suspicions. in 2012, the internal auditing system at laiki bank flagged some of the accounts for possible money laundering according to the banking sources who also said when the bank asked for more information, manafort chose to close the accounts. without answering the questions. chief foreign correspondent richard engel went all the way to cyprus to report on questions surrounding paul manafort s finances. late today a spokesperson for mr. manafort responded to nbc s reporting saying in part that all the accounts held by mr. manafort were legitimate and established for lawful ends. as for the ones shut down by manafort in 2012, mr. manafort has no specific recollection of this but understands from others that the accounts were, in fact, shut down together just prior to the mid-june 2012 government takeover of cyprus popular bank following the collapse of the country s banks.
without answering the questions. chief foreign correspondent richard engel went all the way to cyprus to report on questions surrounding paul manafort s finances. late today a spokesperson for mr. manafort responded to nbc s reporting saying in part that all the accounts held by mr. manafort were legitimate and established for lawful ends. as for the ones shut down by manafort in 2012, mr. manafort has no specific recollection of this but understands from others that the accounts were, in fact, shut down together just prior to the mid-june 2012 government takeover of cyprus popular bank following the collapse of the country s banks. that s what they re saying. joining us is richard engel. thank you for being with us tonight. really appreciate it. absolutely. how are you? i m good. tell me, what kind of investigation is this?
case today. they re also prosecuting off the top of my head, also prosecuting deutsche bank and its russian money laundering scandal. proving to be a key line of inquiry when it comes to his former campaign chairman, paul manafort. and deutsche bank his biggest lender. the office is also the office that prosecuted the number two official at a russian state-owned bank valued veb. we talked about this last night. the new york branch of this russian bank, the guy the number two guy in charge there was at the same time he was working at that bank also secretly a russian spy. working at this bank in new york as his cover story but really he appears to have been an agent of russian intelligence. and we know that because pete barrara s office prosecuted for it. we now know that the director of that bank, the gentleman on the right here is the guy who inexplicably met with the president s son-in-law, with
the office is also the office that prosecuted the number two official at a russian state-owned bank valued veb. we talked about this last night. the new york branch of this russian bank, the guy the number two guy in charge there was at the same time he was working at that bank also secretly a russian spy. working at this bank in new york as his cover story but really he appears to have been an agent of russian intelligence. and we know that because preet bharara s office prosecuted for it. we now know that the director of that bank, the gentleman on the right here is the guy who inexplicably met with the president s son-in-law, with jared kushner in a meeting not disclosed until yesterday s new york times. we can fill in a few more details on that meeting or on the man who met with jared kushner. this head of this russian-owned russian