Report: Ukrainian Official Funded $10 Million Parnas Loan Amid Trump Access

Lev Parnas leaves after his arraignment in the Southern District of New York court on October 23, 2019. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ex-Giuliani friend Lev Parnas received significant financial help for a project he was working on from a Ukrainian official who attended the 2017 inauguration and met with President Trump, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Former Ukraine tax chief Roman Nasirov reportedly helped fund a $10 million loan Parnas received for a real estate project that the South Florida businessman was attempting to undertake.

That project ultimately failed, and culminated in a lawsuit in which Parnas has demanded reimbursement from a developer for, among other things, the cost of Cadillac Escalades leased for the aborted project.

It’s unclear how much Nasirov contributed to the loan. He did not return multiple requests for comment from TPM.

But the tax official — who was indicted in 2018 on embezzlement charges in Ukraine — managed to gain access to both the Trump inauguration and to the President himself.

Parnas attorney Joseph Bondy tweeted a video of Nasirov briefly meeting Trump at Mar-a-Lago in December 2016.

Weeks later, Nasirov was photographed at Trump’s inauguration, wearing large aviator sunglasses with a blue, fur-lined, Ukraine-branded coat.

After fighting off the embezzlement charges in Ukraine, Nasirov launched a presidential campaign in the country’s 2019 election. He finished last.

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  1. Lev’s tiara is beginning to tarnish. That’s why caution is always the right advice when people like him are wriggling on the hook.

  2. You know who isn’t in 217 selfies, 61 videos, 49 audios, and 187 text chats plotting international criminal schemes with Lev Parnas and being introduced to money-laundering post-Soviet mafioso?

    Hillary Clinton.

  3. After fighting off the embezzlement charges in Ukraine, Nasirov launched a presidential campaign in the country’s 2019 election. He finished last.

    It’s not important whether you win or lose, it’s how you run the race.

    His Mom still loves him.

  4. This.

  5. So what did he do with money? How much is in the GOPs pockets? He knows and he’s telling.

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