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Facebook or houses. this paradise papers leak driving the stories about wilbur ross and apple taxes, is also revealing something brand new about milner's facebook money, came directly from putin-run company. over $900 million routed from kremlin's gazprom oil company to another company in virgin islands that bought most of his company. don't need to be expert to know you don't get that kind of money from putin's companies without at least keeping in touch. he's met with number two, specifically on tech issues. same putin official that met with zuckerberg in person in 2012.

Russian funds but wasn't reliant or formally depend on them. why lawyers are sometimes annoying. questions are as always, why are rur forms so wrong so often? and when you update them, out all the countries in the world, why are they so often linked to russia? questions for mark are building. did you have evidence milner's money linked back to the kremlin or did you prefer not to know? did he know he talked tech with putin's prime minister just like you did? and would you take it again? do you think still it's quote best investor for facebook. and mark do you think if you ignore these issues a...

You've got more money and yuri, a piece of facebook. >> a tech reporter introducing mark and yuri, first bought a stake in 2009. mark touted milner's global perspective and decided this was best partner for facebook. >> when we were thinking about doing this, had optionality to pick the partner that would be best for us, find the terms that made the most sense for us. lot of the investments and portfolio that yuri and dst have were attractive for us in terms of insight and understanding they have in the space. >> didn't just have understanding of the space but money that could be tied up for y...

Dressed up for that meeting and brought the man who serves as prime minister a t-shirt. that's nice. this isn't in the news today because of facebook's vaunted transparency, or because of the probes into russian collusion, only in the news tonight because of a giant pretty much unrelated leak of law firm's files. milner is downplaying this, he says he was quote, not aware that putin's company backed this. and facebook says sold years ago and reject the idea they failed in due diligence. even if true, don't address the problem to national security. could be ignorant or willfully blind but he kn...