the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. that makes the reported involvement of vtb bank in this deal really on the nose important. it s also a very importanting part of the story, because it means that vtb bank is now the first second, third, fourth, fourth russian bank to go streaking naked across this trump-russia scandal. one is interesting. two a fluke. three interesting. but four of them. it s vprtb bank now the project that the president was apparently pursuing well into his presidential campaign, before now it wasn t the vtb bank, it was the veb bank, another gigantic bank, met with whose handpicked chief executive met jared kushner during the presidential transition, which kushner never reported until it made its way into the press. veb is also the bank that had a rank of russian spies out of the new york city office.