Manafort want to cause the Senate to question him about his work in Ukraine

The former head of the election headquarters of the President of the United States Donald trump Paul Manafort wanted for questioning in the U.S. Senate. This writes The Hill.

The head of the Senate judiciary Committee Chuck Grisly intends to call Manafort at the hearing for questioning about his work in Ukraine.

The challenge is that in the past month, Manafort registered in the Ministry of justice as a foreign agent. According to Bloomberg, he told the justice Department that while working in Ukriane received from the Party of regions $17.1 million.

According to Gresli, Manafort also questioned about his presence at the meeting, Donald trump Jr. and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in June 2016.

In 2000-ies Manafort advised the Ukrainian Party of regions, Prime Minister and subsequently of President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, has collaborated with the holding company of businessman Rinat Akhmetov’s SCM.

From March to August 2016 involved in the election campaign of the current President of the United States Donald trump.

It was mentioned in the «black accounting» of the Party of regions, which announced in August 2016. However, the NEB stated that the facts of the involvement of American political strategist Paul Manafort money regionals failed to prove.

July 9, the newspaper the New York Times, citing its own sources wrote that trump Jr. in 2016, met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya because she promised to pass the dirt on trump’s opponent in the presidential election of Democrat Hillary Clinton.

On July 11, the son of the President of the United States in his Twitter published correspondence with a PR specialist and former journalist Rob Goldstone, who acted as intermediary in arranging a meeting with Veselnitskaya. Goldstone allegedly handed him the request from the Russian singer Emin Agalarov, the son with whom trump had known since 2013.

According to CNN, spectracolor Robert Mueller that does business on the Russian intervention in elections in the United States, check the contact information of trump Jr. with Veselnitskaya.