`Authorities in Cyprus handed over bank and company records to U.S. investigators late last week related to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates, just before they were indicted in the U.S.
(...in a legal filing Manafort's lawyer repeatedly kept spelling it Cypress, …no lie.)
Wilbur Ross, the Trump administration’s new commerce secretary, 'invested' and partnered with a Russian businessman with ties to Vladimir Putin while serving in his previous role as vice-chairman of the Bank of Cyprus.
Manafort's laundery. The same bank in Cyprus that Manafort used for laundering millions.
Ross was appointed vice-chairman at the bank in 2014, a post he shared with a deposit holder-turned-shareholder, Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, referred to in Russian media as a former KGB official and Putin ally.