Russian company complains Manafort

washington - Dark clouds get together above Paul Manafort, the former campaign leader of President Donald Trump. He was indicted by a court in New York for fraud by a Russian company, after the company had borrowed nearly $ 19 million from Manafort to invest in a Ukrainian media company.

The Russian company Surf Horizon is owned by the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, with whom Manafort has done business more often. According to the company, Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates used the money for their 'personal piggy banks. '

The fraud case came to light during the investigation by special prosecutor Robert Mueller into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Manafort is suspected in the United States of conspiracy against the US and a series of financial crimes. He has house arrest.

Manafort is accused, among other things, of having laundered foreign money to buy houses and cars. In the complaint of Surf Horizon it says that the ins and outs of Manafort and Gates in 2007 and 2008 correspond with the company with the descriptions of justice.

Manafort was Trump's campaign leader from June to August 2016. At the time, he came into the picture during Mueller's investigation into the alleged Russian interference in the presidential election. Manafort had been under scrutiny for some time, not least because he maintained contact with the same Deripaska. The businessman is in fact a confidant of the Russian president Putin.

Manafort in turn started a lawsuit against the US Department of Justice. He also accused Mueller, because he felt that the charges against him were outside Mueller's investigation and also outside his powers.