LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “The charges against Paul J. Manafort and an associate involve allegations of tax fraud in the United States, but anticorruption groups in Kiev say that Mr. Manafort profited from financial wrongdoing in their country and that it cost the Ukrainian people dearly…
The indictment, unsealed in Washington, on Monday [10-30-17] accused Mr. Manafort of laundering $18 million and his associate, Rick W. Gates, an additional $3 million, taking advantage of a tangled skein of offshore companies and American real estate and home improvement deals.
Mr. Manafort and Mr. Gates pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Ukrainian prosecutors and courts have not pursued charges against Mr. Manafort. Unless they do that, Mr. Yurchyshyn said, it will not be possible for Ukraine’s government to claim assets in the United States possibly related to money laundered from Ukraine…
The federal indictment did not allege that Mr. Manafort had violated Ukrainian law.”
-Andrew E. Kramer, “Charges Against Paul Manafort Resonate in Ukraine,” The New York Times online, Oct. 31, 2017